Who buys this
Small recruiting agencies and in house hiring managers who read two hundred CVs for one role and still miss the good ones.
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Build a candidate screening app. A recruiter creates a role with must have requirements and nice to have ones, then uploads CVs in bulk. The app extracts structured data from each CV, checks it against the requirements, and shows a shortlist where every candidate has a short explanation quoting the exact lines from the CV that support the match. Nothing is rejected automatically: candidates below the bar go into a separate list the recruiter can open. Add notes, a stage pipeline and an email template per stage.
What you will need to wire up
- Lovable AI Gateway
- Lovable Cloud (Postgres)
- Storage для резюме
- Resend
- Stripe
Build order
- Extract to a fixed schema. Years of experience, tools, industries, languages, location and notice period, each as a typed field with null allowed. Free text summaries cannot be filtered or compared, and filtering is what the recruiter is buying.
- Score against requirements, not against a vibe. Each must have is a yes, no or unclear with a quote. The total is arithmetic over those answers, computed in code, so the same CV always gets the same result and the recruiter can argue with a specific line.
- Keep a human in every rejection. Automated rejection based on profiling is restricted in several jurisdictions, and it is bad practice everywhere. The app sorts and explains, a person decides and presses send.
- Strip the fields that invite bias. Offer a blind mode that hides name, photo, age and address during the first pass. It is a genuine improvement in hiring quality and it is also the feature that closes deals with larger clients.
Where this usually breaks
- PDF layouts break extraction: two column CVs interleave lines into nonsense. Detect columns before sending text to the model and fall back to per page extraction.
- Candidates keyword stuff their CVs. Require the quote that supports each matched skill and drop matches where the quote is just a list of buzzwords.
- CVs are personal data with a real retention duty. Set an expiry per role, delete files after it, and log who opened which candidate.
How it makes money
- Per open role. Agencies think in roles, not seats, and a role based price survives the seasonality of hiring better than a headcount plan.
- Volume screening bundles. Sell blocks of CVs processed, which matches your model cost directly and makes a busy month pay for a quiet one.
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