HireU.ai brings job discovery, résumé customization, form-filling, and recruiter tracking into one AI-guided workflow — where candidates hand off repetitive work to AI while feeling completely in control of their career.
Status
AI acts at three levels
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In practice, a single application hides more than a dozen manual steps — and each one repeats, unchanged, for every role a candidate considers.
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Choice A · High volume
More applications sent, but personalization drops with every extra one.
Choice B · High personalization
Stronger, tailored applications — at a cost of significantly more time.
Can AI remove the repetitive work without removing the candidate from the decision-making process?
Active job seekers struggle to manage the volume, personalization, and repetitive effort required to apply for relevant jobs — because no single product owns the full journey.
The goal was to reduce repetitive actions, cognitive load, and uncertainty around AI — without ever taking authorship away from the candidate. Four principles kept that goal honest.
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Recent graduates, career changers, and experienced professionals arrive with different backgrounds, but converge on the same complaint: the process takes too much time. Sumit represents that convergence.
Proto-persona
Sumit
Senior Product Designer
32
Age
9+
Years exp.
"I keep finding jobs, but applying takes forever."
"I want AI to help me, but I don't want it changing things without telling me."
"I don't want to send the same résumé everywhere."
Core need
Automation without losing control.
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What the map revealed
Reading the four quadrants together exposed the real tension: Sumit isn't asking for less effort — he's asking for less repetition. Every behavior in "Does" is a workaround for a tool that forgot her, and every worry in "Thinks" is about representation, not speed. That's why the design brief became automation without losing control: the agent could take over the mechanical work, but authorship — what employers actually see — had to stay visibly, provably his.
Mapping today's workflow against the proposed one made the opportunity obvious: reduce eighteen manual steps into a handful of reviewable decisions.
Today — search to spreadsheet
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HireU.ai — find to track
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Rather than jumping to a solution, I stress-tested narrower ideas first — each one solved a slice of the problem, but only one addressed the complete workflow.
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↺ Track feeds back into Find — the loop continues
These are the actual product screens, not mockups. Each screen is annotated with what it's doing for the candidate and why it was built that way.
Résumé — experience section (try it)
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Designed digital products for enterprise clients. enterprise SaaS products for global financial organizations.
Why this change: the job description emphasizes enterprise SaaS and financial services experience.
Approve everything and the agent stops saving time. Approve nothing and trust collapses. So every action was sorted into one of three levels before a single screen was drawn.
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The trust loop
A cycle repeated on every AI action.
For a 0→1 AI product, a flow can be easy to use and still feel unsafe. Testing had to check whether people understood and trusted the system, not just whether they could click through it.
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Test tasks
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HireU.ai — 0→1 case study, concept exploration