Elevated-Applicant - Your Job Search, Engineered

Who This Is For

Elevated-Applicant is for people who want full control over their job search on their own computer: a visual dashboard for everyday work, optional AI coding CLI for power users, and no shared hosted chatbot. Engineers, data scientists, and non-coders alike install it locally.

You'll love this if

You want a visual dashboard with a real local pipeline underneath
You want your CV and tracker on your machine, not in our cloud
You are fine bringing your own AI key or coding CLI for chat and evaluations
You are willing to run one install command to set it up

This may not be for you if

You want a zero-install, always-hosted SaaS account with free AI chat
You refuse to bring your own AI provider key or coding CLI
You want a one-click "apply to all" button (we stop before submit on purpose)
You cannot run a single command in a terminal even once

Not sure? Open the web demo first. It is a limited preview by design. Full pipeline, durable tracker, and AI need the local install.

How It Works

Three layers on your machine. The public website is only a limited demo. Nothing in the full product depends on us paying for your LLM usage.

🖥️ 1

Local Pipeline Engine

Node.js scripts on your computer. They discover jobs, manage your application pipeline, generate PDFs, and process data. Your CV and application files stay on your disk.

🌐 2

Web Dashboard (Default)

A Next.js dashboard that builds on your machine and opens at http://localhost:3000. Pipeline, exploration, CV tools, templates, interview prep, and analytics. The hosted site only previews a limited subset.

🤖 3

Your LLM (Optional, BYOK)

Paste a provider API key in Config for career chat, or connect an AI coding CLI (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini, and others) for evaluations and the Assistant. Your key, your CLI, your bill. We do not host a chatbot.

Getting Started

Everything you need to get up and running in under 5 minutes.

📋 Before you start

Node.js 20+ - Download here if you don't have it
A GitHub account - needed to create an access token (free)
5 minutes - that's all it takes

1

Create a GitHub token

Go to github.com/settings/tokens → Generate new token → Classic. Check the repo box, set any expiration, and click Generate token. Copy the token - you'll paste it into the installer in the next step.

2

Run the installer

Open your terminal and run the command for your system. The installer will ask for your token, then handle everything automatically.

macOS / Linux / WSL:

curl -fsSL -o install.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jssturm/elevated-installer/main/install.sh && bash install.sh

Windows (PowerShell): Open PowerShell first, then paste:

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jssturm/elevated-installer/main/install.ps1 | iex

3

Open the dashboard and add your CV

Once installed, the app lives in ~/Elevated-Applicant (or %USERPROFILE%\Elevated-Applicant on Windows). The installer builds the web dashboard for you - start it with elevated-applicant serve --open and it opens at http://localhost:3000. Drop your resume in as cv.md and the dashboard walks you through your profile, target roles, and portals. Prefer the terminal? Open the folder in any AI coding CLI (Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini) for a conversational setup instead. No manual config editing needed either way.

🔒 Your data stays on your machine. The GitHub token is only used to download the app. It is never stored, logged, or sent anywhere else.

After install: optional AI (bring your own)

Provider API key for career chat - Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or OpenRouter. Paste it in Config → AI Engine. Your key, your provider bill.
AI coding CLI for evaluations and Assistant (recommended) - Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini CLI, and others. Standalone eval scripts also work with your own endpoint.
Your CV as markdown - a text file named cv.md. You can convert from PDF or Word with help from your CLI.
Job scanning and many dashboard tools work without any LLM. Chat and AI scoring do not run until you connect your key or CLI.

By design

Web Demo vs Full Local App

This is intentional product design, not a temporary limitation. The hosted site at elevated-applicant.vercel.app is marketing plus a limited interactive demo. The full product is the local install at http://localhost:3000. AI uses your API key or coding CLI. We do not host a chatbot or pay for your inference.

Web Demo (this site)

Browse resume templates and examples
Explore interview prep materials
View salary benchmarks
Preview the dashboard layout
Public ATS job discovery (where APIs allow)

No hosted chatbot. No durable personal tracker. No owner-paid AI. Install locally for the full product with your LLM.

Local Install (full product)

Full web dashboard at http://localhost:3000
Discover jobs across 78+ search engines
AI scoring and documents with your key or CLI
Career chat with your pasted API key (BYOK)
Track every application in your pipeline
Company intelligence and legitimacy checks
Recruiter packs and landing pages

Full pipeline. Your data. Your machine. Your API keys.

Core Capabilities

🔍

Multi-Engine Job Discovery

Query 78+ job search engines across aggregators, ATS boards, remote-specific sites, VC/startup portals, and specialty boards. Web search providers (Google Jobs, DuckDuckGo, SearXNG) discover jobs from Indeed, LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and others - no API keys needed.

🤖

AI-Powered Evaluation

8-block structured scoring across 33+ prompt modes. Model-agnostic: Claude, Gemini, GPT, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, or local models via Ollama. You bring your own API key or coding CLI. Optional local career chat needs a pasted key in Config. We do not host a chatbot or pay for inference.

📋

Pipeline Management

Track every application from discovery to offer. Kanban board, status tracking, scoring history, follow-up cadence, and analytics - all stored in human-readable markdown files you can version with git.

📝

CV Builder & 20 Templates

Interactive CV editor with live preview across 20 industry-specific templates (tech, finance, healthcare, academic, executive, and more). Real-time preview, grammar checking, and PDF export. Syncs with your cv.md.

📄

Document Generation

Generate ATS-optimized PDFs, LaTeX CVs, tailored cover letters, executive one-pagers, and recruiter packs - all from your canonical cv.md file.

🏢

Company Intelligence

Automatic company classification (enterprise vs startup vs scale-up), funding stage, team size, repost patterns, and legitimacy signals for every pipeline entry. Know which opportunities are real before you invest time.

🔌

Multi-CLI Support

Works natively with Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Qwen CLI, Grok Build, and Antigravity. Slash commands auto-register where supported. Docker Compose deployment available.

🔒

100% Local & Private

Your CV, pipeline, and application data never leave your machine. No cloud storage, no data harvesting, no accounts. Your data, your machine, your control.

🛡️

CI/CD Hardened

Automated type-checking, E2E smoke tests across 14 pages, Docker build verification, and unit tests run on every PR. Catches broken imports, missing files, and runtime errors before they reach users.