Guide
Know If a Role Is Worth Your Time
Your studio weighs every opportunity against your own criteria and shows you the reasoning behind the number. Know if a role fits what you actually want, and whether it's worth your evening, before you spend it.
Every time you find a job worth a look, you run the same quiet calculation. Is this actually a fit? Is it worth the evening it'll cost to apply properly? You're mostly guessing, and you mostly find out the hard way, an hour in, that the answer was no.
Your studio runs that calculation for you, out loud and grounded. Paste a role and it comes back scored: a number, and a one-word read, right there on the card. You know where a job stands before you even open it.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
strong fit
84
Open it and it shows its work
A number on its own is just another opinion. So open the opportunity, and the studio shows you how it got there.
In plain language, it tells you why the role landed where it did: where you're a strong match, where you come up short, what about the job lines up with what you're after and what doesn't. It reads like a sharp friend who studied the posting and your background and gave it to you straight. You could argue with it, and that's the point. A verdict you can interrogate beats a number you're asked to trust.
The number is a sum of parts you can see
That read isn't one lump judgment. It's broken down across the things you actually weigh when you size up a job: the scope, the room to grow, the comp, how remote it really is, the culture, and the rest of what matters to you. Each gets its own score and its own reasoning.
So the number never arrives from nowhere. If you disagree with the whole, you can find the exact part you'd argue with. Maybe the comp read came in light because the range wasn't posted. Now you know that, instead of wondering.
Against your bar, not a generic one
And every score is weighed through your scoring lens, built from your own story, not an industry average.
You set where the bar sits, too: the line a role has to clear to be worth your time. The studio starts you with a sensible default, and you move it to match how selective you can afford to be right now: tight when you can wait for the right thing, looser when you're ready to move. When it tells you a role clears your bar, it means yours, held to your standards and no one else's. Your scoring lens is where you shape it.
A low score is a gift
Which means a low score is worth as much as a high one, even though it stings.
A role that lands under your bar just handed you back your evening, the one you'd have spent tailoring an application only to learn it was a 50 all along. That isn't a loss. That's the studio doing the self-screening it was never fair to put on you. Let it go, no guilt, and pour the evening into a role that clears. Your time is the scarce thing here, not the openings. There are always more openings.
What it's really for
Not a grade on your career. Triage on your time. This is career intelligence earning its name: it tells you where your effort will actually pay off, before you spend it, and sorts a flood of maybes down to the few worth your while.
The roles that clear your bar are the ones worth building a real application for. That's the next move: pick a strong fit, and spend an opportunity run on it.