You Li
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Everyone points AI at the CV. Why does nobody point it at the decision to apply?
I logged 47 of my own applications and checked them afterwards. Where I met the core requirement of the role I converted at 71%. Where I was stretching, 8%. My confidence score at the point of applying predicted nothing at all.That was not a writing problem. I had been using AI at the last step, polishing the CV, when the expensive mistake happened one step earlier, choosing the role. And nothing I was paying for could have told me, because none of it held my history.3 things I would like to hear from this room, whether you have job hunted recently or you are on the hiring side:What stayed manual for you? Not what was annoying, what you actually did by hand every single time.Where did you give up? Most people I ask say the tracker, around week 3.Have you ever pointed AI at the decision rather than the output? Triage before you apply, or a retro afterwards on what came back.I launched WorkstationAI here today. It tailors CVs like everything else does, but the part I built it for is the log, the triage and the retrospective, so I am genuinely trying to find out whether that loop matters to anyone but me.
Every job tool stops when you hit send. Mine keeps going.
WorkstationAI is live on SaaS Hive today. It is not a CV builder, so let me start with the part that is actually different.Your applications log themselves. Every job ad you score and every CV you tailor writes its own record. You never fill in a tracker, because that is where every tracker dies by week 3. You add one thing: what happened. Declined, interview, offer.Then you find out why. A role goes quiet after a tailored CV, you run the triage on that one application: was it a fit gap, a writing problem, or just noise? Not everything is a lesson, and knowing which is which saves you rewriting a CV that was never the issue. That runs from your first decline, no history needed.Then you see the pattern. Once 8 outcomes are logged, run the retrospective across your whole search. Which roles you actually convert. What the ones that said no had in common. Whether your own judgement at the point of applying is worth anything.A deliberate constraint on that last one: the retrospective will not run below 8 records. It tells you it does not have enough yet. A conversion rate off 3 applications is a number, not a finding, and a tool that guesses early and gets it wrong once never gets trusted again.Why I built it: I ran that retro by hand on my own 47 applications. Where I met the core requirement of the role I converted at 71%. Where I was stretching, 8%. My own confidence score at the point of applying predicted nothing at all. Months aimed at the wrong half of the market, and no tool I was paying for could have told me, because none of them held my history.The rest of the workspace is what feeds the log. Paste a job ad and a free check scores it A to F and flags scams and ghost jobs. If it scores well, tailor your CV to it, research the company, and build prep dashboards for the recruiter screen and the hiring manager round. Every one of those runs lands in your log on its own.Free to start: the job ad check, your first CV analysis, your first tailor, and the whole log, triage and retrospective. Paid items are £8 to £35, pay per use, no subscription. SAASHIVE takes 20% off any paid item until 30 September.Product page: https://saashive.com/view-product/0d98cde4-3925-4c55-90ac-77b3ca7f1e71Two asks:If you try it, an honest review. Honest, not kind. A 3 with a real reason is worth more to me than a 5.The one thing I still want to know is whether the retrospective tells you something you did not already suspect. That is the whole bet.Thanks to everyone who answered my positioning question last week. Happy to review your page in return, just point me at it.Li You
Does my page read as another CV tool? That's the one thing I need to know
I'm launching WorkstationAI on 12 August. It's for job seekers, and the claim I'm making is that most job-hunting tools stop the moment you hit send.You get a tailored CV, you send it, and then you're on your own with a spreadsheet you'll stop updating by week 3. Mine keeps going. Every job you score and every CV you tailor logs itself, you add the outcome, and the retrospective tells you what your declines had in common.My ask is one specific thing.Open my product page. Read only the tagline and the first paragraph, then stop. Which of these would you have guessed it was?A CV builderA job trackerSomething that runs the whole search and tells you what your own history meansIf you say 1 or 2, I have a positioning problem, and I'd rather find that out today than on launch day.Happy to do the same for your page, just point me at it.
Built the job-hunt workspace I wanted while running my own search
Hi all, Li You from Manchester.I spent 8 years in product roles across enterprise software, EdTech and banking. Earlier this year I found myself job hunting again, and the part that got to me was not the rejection. It was the silence.So I built the system I wanted. WorkstationAI scores a job ad before you apply, tailors your CV to it, researches the company, and preps both interview rounds. Every run logs itself, and once you have a few outcomes it runs a retrospective across your whole search.It's for job seekers who are applying to a lot of roles at once. Career changers, recent graduates, people doing this properly rather than spraying.Why I actually built it: I ran that retrospective on my own 47 applications. Where I met the core requirement of the role, I converted at 71%. Where I was stretching, 8%. My own confidence score at the point of applying predicted nothing at all. Months of effort aimed at the wrong half of the market, and no tool I was paying for could have told me that.The feedback I want most: I'm not sure my page makes the difference clear. Every CV tool sounds the same from the outside. If you look at it and think "another resume builder", tell me, because that's what I need to fix before the 12th.Happy to look at anyone else's page in return.