Offers buried in your inbox
Headhunters, alerts and referrals arrive mixed in with newsletters. By the time you reply, the process already moved on without you.
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Forge your next role with a command center that works for you
CareerForge brings your executive job search into one place: it pulls the offers landing in your inbox, scores them for fit against your CV, manages your application and interview pipeline, and coaches your profile. All on your Mac, all under your control.
- Pulls the offers landing in your inbox — nothing slips through.
- Scores every offer for fit against your CV, with criteria you can see.
- Runs your pipeline of applications, interviews and contacts on one board.
- Local-first: your data lives on your Mac, not in the cloud.
The problem
Hunting for your next executive role turns into a second admin job
You don't know the real fit
Every offer sounds good in the title. Does it actually match your experience, or are you spending energy on processes going nowhere?
The pipeline lives in your head
Stages, contacts, interviews and dates in a spreadsheet you don't update — or worse, only in your memory. Something always goes cold.
Your CV is generic
You send the same CV to different roles because tailoring it each time takes hours you don't have.
AI won't land the job for you. It takes the admin work out of searching, so you spend your energy on the conversations that matter.
The solution
A command center that turns your search into a process, not a mess
CareerForge connects your inbox, reads your CV and orchestrates your search end to end. You decide what to apply to and what to discuss; CareerForge handles capturing, scoring, organizing and prepping you.
01
Inbox intake
Spots offers and process messages in your Gmail and brings them to the board. No more scanning your inbox afraid you missed something.
02
Fit against your CV
Scores every offer against your real experience: how aligned it is, where you have an edge, what's missing. You prioritize on merit, not on a hunch.
03
Live pipeline
Stages, interviews, contacts and events on a board that keeps itself current. Nothing goes cold.
04
Profile coaching
Suggests how to tune your CV and profile for each offer and preps you for each interview.
Local-first and single-user: your search is yours and lives on your device.
Who it's for
For the executive who manages their career, not improvises their search
CareerForge is built for people who get opportunities through several channels at once and need to decide well, fast, and without losing the thread.
Executive in transition
You're exploring your next move discreetly and juggling several processes in parallel.
C-level, VP or Director
Headhunters reach out constantly; you need to filter by real fit, not by noise.
Multi-offer senior manager
Your network brings you opportunities; you want to run them as a pipeline, not a chaotic inbox.
Why CareerForge
Four reasons to trust it with your search
Local-first
Your emails, your CV and your processes live on your Mac, not on our servers. Your search isn't uploaded to any cloud by default.
Fit with transparent criteria
The score against your CV isn't a black box: you see why an offer fits or not, and adjust if it doesn't match your read.
Memory of your search
The whole history — offers, contacts, decisions — is kept. You don't start each week from scratch.
You always decide
CareerForge preps, scores and organizes; applying, replying and negotiating is on you. The tool never acts behind your back.
Differentiator
Not a spreadsheet, not a memoryless chat, not a job board
Today you run your search with tools that weren't built for it. CareerForge integrates what they leave loose.
CareerForge
- Automatic offer intake from your inbox Yes
- Fit computed against your CV Yes, with visible criteria
- Pipeline with stages, interviews and events Yes
- Actionable per-offer profile coaching Yes
- Local-first (data on your device) Yes
Excel / Notion
- Automatic offer intake from your inbox No (manual)
- Fit computed against your CV No
- Pipeline with stages, interviews and events Manual
- Actionable per-offer profile coaching No
- Local-first (data on your device) Yes, but all by hand
ChatGPT
- Automatic offer intake from your inbox No
- Fit computed against your CV Generic, stateless
- Pipeline with stages, interviews and events No
- Actionable per-offer profile coaching You re-upload context each time
- Local-first (data on your device) No
LinkedIn / job boards
- Automatic offer intake from your inbox Only its own platform
- Fit computed against your CV No
- Pipeline with stages, interviews and events No
- Actionable per-offer profile coaching No
- Local-first (data on your device) No (their cloud)
Trackers (Teal, Huntr)
- Automatic offer intake from your inbox Partial, via extension
- Fit computed against your CV No / shallow
- Pipeline with stages, interviews and events Yes
- Actionable per-offer profile coaching No
- Local-first (data on your device) No (their cloud)
The closest competitor is job-search trackers, but they live in the cloud, don't score against your real CV, and don't coach you. CareerForge is local-first and unites intake, fit, pipeline and coaching in one place.
Privacy
Your search is yours. And it stays on your machine.
Looking for your next role while you have one is sensitive. CareerForge is designed so nothing leaves your device unless you decide it does.
Data on your device
Emails, CV, offers and notes are stored locally on your Mac. There's no central server holding your search.
Confidential by design
No one — not your current employer, not us — sees which processes you're in.
Single user, no mixing
Your information isn't combined with anyone's or used to train models.
Optional sync, under your control
If there's ever a cloud, you turn it on, for what you choose.
No data selling
The product is funded by what you pay, not by what it knows about you.
Use cases
Five things you stop doing by hand
Inbox offer triage
Captures offers landing in your email and organizes them on the board; you stop losing them in the noise.
Per-offer fit score
Scores each opportunity against your CV: alignment, edges and gaps. You decide where to invest your time.
Follow-up that doesn't go cold
Reminders for interviews, contacts to revisit and next steps; the pipeline nudges you before anything lapses.
Interview prep
Summarizes the company, the role and your fit, and flags the points to reinforce before the conversation.
CV & profile per offer
Suggests concrete CV tweaks for each application, without rewriting from scratch.
Product preview · under construction
This is how you talk to your command center
A walkthrough of the real desktop app: it pulls the offers from your inbox, scores them for fit against your CV, deep-analyzes the promising ones, moves them through your pipeline and preps you with the Coach. Use the control to pause, rewind or skip to the second. Synthetic demo data — no personal information.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Inbox · pending candidates
Local base snapshot · Approve moves to Pipeline · rejecting logs a reason
Day to scan · today
Pipeline
Local base snapshot · applications board
In pipeline
12
3 closed
Stage
5
active stages
Industry
6
sectors
Mode
3
hybrid leads
Channel
4
LinkedIn leads
Overdue
2
by SLA
Product walkthrough — the real CareerForge interface
0.0s / 80s Intro
Real interface (today) · synthetic demo data, no personal information · use the control to pause, rewind or skip to the second
Reduced motion on: use the slider to walk through the flow manually.
Where we are going Horizon 1 · 0–12 months Horizon 2 · 12–24 months Horizon 3 · 24–36 months
From managing your search to managing your career
CareerForge starts with the active executive search, but the pattern — local-first command center + fit + memory + coaching — scales to your whole career.
Executive search MVP
Gmail intake, fit vs CV, pipeline and coaching. macOS desktop app, local-first, single user.
Career management
Beyond the active search: career tracking, network, goals and latent opportunities.
Career platform
Optional multi-device sync, integrations and continuous guidance.
Roadmap
Four milestones from here to year-end.
- Jun 2026 pre-MVP: Gmail intake + working fit.
- Jul–Aug 2026 pipeline + coaching; first users.
- Sep–Oct 2026 distributable macOS app (test-data separation ready).
- Q4 2026 early access for the first executives.
Who is behind this
Built by an executive who managed his own career
I'm Alfredo Contreras. 24 years in tech, PMP, MBA and MIT xPRO in AI Product Design. I've led deliveries in Telco (BSS), Oil & Gas and Government with annual budgets over USD 10M. Like every executive, I managed my own career across dozens of offers, CV versions and parallel processes — all from my inbox, with no command center. CareerForge was born from that frustration: I built it for myself first.
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