Guide
Getting Set Up
The one sitting that pays off on every application after. Your résumé goes in, your career comes back in chapters, and your studio starts to know you.
There's one sitting worth doing before you chase a single job. You do it once, up front, and everything the studio builds afterward is sharper for it. Every score, every kit, every time.
This is the part most people skip on every tool they touch. You won't, because here it's the whole foundation. The setup is the edge. Here's what's in it.
Two things you already have
It opens with two inputs: your résumé, and the one role you're chasing right now.
Your résumé is the raw material. The role is the aim. Give it both, and everything downstream points at that job in particular: the questions it asks you, and the lens it scores by. Aim first, then work.
It reads you
Then it reads you, and not the way a keyword scanner does. It reads the way a sharp recruiter does, the one who looks up from your résumé with an actual take.
In seconds, your career comes back to you in chapters, one for each role you've held. Twelve years, four chapters, a pivot in the middle: this is going to be interesting. Each chapter gets its own expert, and that expert's job is to know that stretch of your work cold.
The studio has seen you. That's the moment setup starts earning its keep.
Anthropic
Staff Infrastructure Engineer
2024–Present
Stripe
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2021–2024
Your scoring lens
Then there's what you actually want out of a role, and the studio has a first draft of that ready for you.
This is your scoring lens: comp, scope, how remote, the domain, the kind of problem you want to spend your days on. From what it's learned about you and the role you're chasing, the studio drafts the lens and does the first weighting for you. Then it's yours to refine, always. Comp might be everything right now. Next month you might trade some of it for a team worth learning from. Adjust it whenever you like.
That lens is what every job gets measured against now. Yours, not a generic one. Your scoring lens goes deeper when you want to tune it.
Tuning to what matters to you…
Comp · scope · remote · domain
Your first score
Before you leave, do one more thing. Drop in a real job.
Paste a link to something you're actually considering, and watch the studio work. It reads the posting, does the homework on the company, and scores the fit against the lens you just built. A straight read, one of five bands, right there in front of you.
That's the whole point of the place, and you've watched it happen once now, on a job you care about, before you've paid a thing. Reading your scores picks up from here.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
strong fit
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You're set
That's setup. One sitting, done. Your studio knows your chapters and scores by your lens.
From here it only gets sharper, and you're the one who sharpens it. Go back into any chapter and enrich it: a few sharp questions that draw out what your résumé couldn't hold, so every future score and kit comes back truer. Episodes is the whole story on it.
You've brought it up to speed. Now go find it a job worth the trouble.