Automation policy

What the agent does

It applies from your computer, under your own job-site sessions, working through a queue you control one application at a time. It pauses at defined checkpoints: anything personal, anything it is not confident about, and — by default — the finished application itself, which waits for you to send it.

There are two modes. In the default one, every application stops and waits: you read it and send it yourself, and nothing goes to an employer until you do. An optional hands-free mode sends on its own. It is off when you install it; it unlocks only after you have reviewed and sent ten applications by hand; it requires email forwarding you have proved works; and each application is shown to you for five seconds before it goes — on screen if the panel is open, as a notification with the same Skip if it is not. You can turn it off at any time, and personal questions still wait for you either way.

The honest risk

Some job sites' terms of service restrict automated form filling. Because the agent works at a human pace, from your machine, one application at a time, it looks and behaves like assisted applying rather than scraping — but we cannot promise a site will never object. That risk is yours to weigh, and pretending otherwise would be marketing, not honesty.

What we won't build

• Submission you cannot see coming. Even hands-free shows you each application, with a Skip, before it goes.
• CAPTCHA solving or bot-detection evasion — CAPTCHAs pause the run for you.
• Fabricated answers: the agent only uses entries you verified, and drafted text is shown to you before it is typed.
• Invented self-identification (EEO) or salary answers. These come from what you told us, matched against the employer’s own options — and when none of them fit, we ask you rather than pick.
• Applying to anything outside the search you set up, or in bulk on your behalf without a queue you can see.

What changed, and when

Until 8 September 2026 this page said we would never build auto-submit, and that self-identification and salary answers would never be auto-filled. Both statements have stopped being true, so they have been replaced rather than quietly removed. Hands-free applying ships, gated as described above. Salary and EEO answers are filled from what you have told us — never invented, and never guessed when the employer’s options do not match what you said.

Questions

Write to hello@grind.fyi — a person reads it.