Frequently asked
The short version of how Atlas works, what it does with your data, and how to bend the scoring toward the roles you actually want. If a question is missing, email roy@brightline.io and we'll add it.
Getting started
What Atlas does, who it's for, and what it takes to start. Skim this first.
Atlas is for everyone. Atlas is built first for working people who've been pushed out by AI — because if there's a job you used to do well and now an algorithm does it cheaper, you shouldn't have to also do the painful search work alone. Atlas runs the disciplined sweep of the boards every night and surfaces what's actually worth your time. So you can focus on what your next stepping stone looks like.
You upload a resume. Atlas parses it into a structured profile and a set of scoring rules. Every night at 04:30 ET, an agent scans five major boards, dedupes the results, and scores each role 0–100 against your profile. You wake up to a ranked shortlist instead of a hundred open tabs.
A resume in PDF, DOCX, or text form, and a beta invite. Atlas extracts the rest: headline, role history, skills, achievements, education, and career patterns. You can edit every field before the first search runs, and you can run a search on demand as soon as your profile is in shape.
Immediately, if you want. The nightly run lands matches at 04:30 ET, but the dashboard also has a Run Search button — kick off an on-demand search any time and results arrive in a couple of minutes. Most users do one manual run after onboarding to verify scoring feels right, then let the nightly cadence carry them.
Beta and pricing
Nothing. Beta access is free while we tune scoring with real users. Beta participants keep founding pricing for life once Atlas opens to the public.
Request access at /register. We're working through the waitlist in cohorts so we can read every signal and tune scoring before each new wave. If you've already requested and haven't heard back, your spot is queued — not lost.
Your profile and saved jobs all carry forward. Beta users get founding pricing locked in for as long as they keep their account active, with no forced upgrades or feature paywalls slipped in retroactively.
Search and scoring
How matches actually get ranked, and how to bend the ranking toward what you want.
LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, Google Jobs, and ZipRecruiter. Every night. Roughly 600 raw listings dedupe into a ranked shortlist scored 0–100 against your profile and learned scoring rules.
Every role gets a 0–100 score with a per-axis breakdown: fit, seniority, scope, industry, compensation, and location. Each axis is graded against your structured profile and scoring rules, then weighted into the overall number. Open any match to see the breakdown and the model's reasoning per axis.
Yes. Rules Studio lets you read and edit the learned rules that affect ranking. Beyond that, dismissing or saving a role with a one-line reason teaches Atlas your preferences. After about five signals on a track, Atlas synthesizes persistent rules you can review, adjust, disable, or add by hand.
Yes. The nightly run keeps a passive search warm with zero effort. You'll only see roles that clear your scoring threshold, so the dashboard stays signal-rich. Most passive users check Atlas once a week and reach out only when something genuinely clears the bar.
Yes. The Run Search button on the dashboard kicks off a fresh search using your current profile and scoring rules. It's useful right after you edit a rule, change locations, or upload a new resume, since you'll see the effect of the change immediately rather than waiting for tomorrow's nightly run.
Yes. Each track stores work mode (remote, hybrid, onsite) and target metros. The search agent passes location through to every board query, and the scoring model treats out-of-area roles as hard misses unless you've also enabled remote. If you only want roles in your metro plus fully remote, that's exactly what you'll see.
Profile and resume
It parses your resume into a structured profile: headline, role history, skills, education, achievements, and career patterns. Atlas uses that profile to score roles for fit. Your resume is not shared with employers — Atlas is a private workspace for your search, not an application platform.
Yes. Every AI-generated field is human-editable: career analysis, summary, skills list, and scoring rules. Your edits persist across resume re-imports. The career analysis tracks an edited-on timestamp so you always know what's hand-written versus AI-written.
Atlas re-parses the fresh resume but preserves your manual edits. New skills and roles get added; fields you've hand-edited stay as you wrote them. You can re-import as often as you want without losing the work of tuning your profile.
Data, privacy, and control
Your profile, scoring rules, saved jobs, and feedback live in a private Postgres database tied to your account. Atlas is built on standard cloud infrastructure (Vercel for compute, Supabase for storage) and your row-level data is isolated from other accounts.
No to both. Atlas does not sell user data to recruiters, brokers, or anyone else, and your resume and feedback are never used as training data for any model — ours or anyone else's. Scoring runs through provider APIs configured for zero data retention.
Yes. Account Settings includes self-serve account deletion with an email confirmation step. For data export, email roy@brightline.io and we'll send your profile, scoring rules, and saved jobs as a structured file within a few business days.
No. Atlas is a search execution platform, not a job application service. We don't submit your resume anywhere on your behalf. You decide when and how to apply, using your own email, LinkedIn, or whatever channel each role expects.
Under the hood
Atlas isolates every LLM call behind a typed interface. That lets us route different tasks — resume parsing, scoring, rule synthesis — to whichever model is best for the job, and swap providers without touching product code. Most users leave the defaults. Power users can opt into bringing their own API keys for parts of the workflow.
Because the problem isn't finding jobs — it's triaging them. Five boards already exist and they're firehoses. The value Atlas adds is collapsing the firehose into a short, ordered list where the top is genuinely worth your attention. The ranking is the product.
Still curious
Request a beta invite, upload a resume, and let Atlas surface your first ranked shortlist. If something feels off, email us — early feedback is what shapes the next release.