The augmentation manifesto
AI assists. You decide.
Companies use AI to filter candidates. We give candidates AI to answer back - without turning them into spam bots. This is the contract Applye is built on. Every feature is checked against it, and any feature that breaks it does not ship.
1. Augmentation, not automation
Applye will never auto-apply, auto-send, or auto-submit anything on your behalf. It scores, drafts, and suggests - then hands control back to you. No background agent quietly represents you to a recruiter. A hiring manager is a person; the relationship is yours, not a bot's.
2. Fewer, better applications
Mass-automated applications are noise - for you and for everyone else in the pile. The point of tooling is not two hundred submissions a week; it is knowing which twenty are worth your evenings, and making those twenty excellent.
3. Your data is yours
The job search is intimate data: where you applied, what you earn, what you were rejected from. In Applye Desktop it lives in a local database on your machine. A web account, hosted processing, or future sync is a separate product boundary and must be explicit rather than silently turning local data into cloud data.
4. Honesty over inflation
Applye tailors your real experience to the role's language. It does not invent titles, skills, or years. A CV that gets you an interview you cannot survive is not a win; it is a wasted afternoon for two people.
5. Pay for judgement, not busywork
AI is a scarce, paid resource. Everything that can be deterministic code is deterministic code, runs locally where practical, and costs zero tokens. In desktop BYOK/CLI mode, model calls use the AI access you choose. Optional managed AI may exist as a hosted service, but it must not make ordinary deterministic work depend on an expensive model call.
6. Open desktop core
The local desktop core is MIT-licensed and developed in the open. Optional hosted services may have paid plans, but the trust boundary of the local tool remains inspectable in code and the desktop workflow does not become dependent on a paid Applye account.