Questions and answers

What is Roleford?

Roleford helps people in tech find their next role. It reads your CV and your public code, ranks each morning’s new postings by how well you fit, and prepares each application with you: a tailored CV, answers for the form and a short note to the team. Nothing is sent until you click.

Who is it for?

People looking for engineering roles: software, data, machine learning, infrastructure and the like. We leave out postings that aren’t engineering work. You need to be 18 or older.

Are you a recruiter or an employer?

Neither. We rank postings and help you prepare; you decide where to apply and what to send. We can’t promise interviews or offers.

How do you decide which postings fit me?

We compare each posting with your skills, your CV or LinkedIn PDF, your public GitHub and other public profiles you add or we find, and what you’re looking for: roles, level, place, work mode and pay. Every match gets a fit score from 0 to 100 with the reasons, and the main skills it asks for that you don’t list. How matching works explains it step by step.

What does “verified” mean on a skill?

Your public code, or a public model or dataset of yours on Hugging Face, uses it in a real way, not just a passing mention. Skills from your CV or that you type yourself are welcome, but only public work verifies them, and verified skills count a little more.

Do you read my private repositories?

No. We read public repositories only.

I don’t have much public code. Can I still use Roleford?

Yes. A CV, a LinkedIn PDF or the skills you add are enough to start.

When do new matches arrive?

Once a day, after the night’s new postings are in, and again whenever you change your skills, your CV or what you’re looking for. When new postings fit you well, we email you the best three at about 8:00 your time; you can turn that off in Profile → Notifications → Match emails. If you haven’t opened Roleford for 14 days, we pause your daily list and the email until you’re back.

Why don’t I see a posting I found somewhere else?

It may be closed or older than 30 days; outside the places, work modes, levels or pay you asked for (or, where you set none, far from where you live or the level we read from your CV and code); need a language you don’t list; ask for main skills none of which are among yours; be at a company you hid; not say where the job is; or rank below your top 200. Postings you’ve already rated or started leave the list too. You can widen what you’re looking for in Profile.

What happens when I rate a posting?

It leaves your list and moves to your Good or Bad tab. When you rate a bad match as Pay too low, Too far / wrong place or Not my stack, that part counts a little more in your list from then on. Not this company hides that company. Ratings change only your own list.

Why no company names in Recommended?

We show what each job is about and why it fits you. The company, the full posting and where to apply open when you press I’m interested, for 10 tokens; if the job closes within a day, the tokens come back. That keeps the jobs from being copied away, and the price low.

What do I get when I press I’m interested?

For one job, at once: the company, the full posting (kept for you even after it comes down), the link to apply on their site, people there who published their email, and the hiring process. Then, when you ask and at no extra cost: a CV tailored to it, answers for the application form, a short note to the team and three rewrites. It costs 10 tokens, and the price is on the button before you click.

Does Roleford send anything without me?

No. Emails leave from your own Gmail or Outlook, and only after your click. We draft follow-ups at day 7 and day 14, and they wait for your approval too. With Gmail, Roleford can only send; it can’t read your mailbox.

Can I trust what the AI writes?

Check it before you send. Drafts are written with AI and can be wrong or out of date, so you can edit everything first.

What are tokens?

Tokens pay for the work AI agents do for you: finding and reading postings, tailoring your CV and writing to the team. One job costs 10 tokens.

Is Roleford free?

Yes. You get 100 tokens when you join, enough for 10 jobs, then 20 every morning, enough for 2. Daily quests can raise that to 4 a day, and rating postings, finishing your profile, connecting GitHub and a weekday streak earn more.

How does the streak work?

A weekday counts toward your streak when you finish at least one of that day’s three quests. Opening Roleford alone doesn’t count. Each counted day pays a +5 token bonus.

Weekends never break the streak and don’t add to it. Miss a weekday and it starts again, unless you hold a freeze: you earn one for every 7 streak days and can hold 2. A quest that isn’t for you can be hidden, and another one takes its place when there is one.

What do Pro and Max add?

A weekly allowance: Pro adds 300 tokens a week, about 30 jobs, Max 1,000 tokens a week, about 100 jobs. You can use up to about a third of the week’s allowance in one day. Paid plans and token packs open soon. Until then, Roleford runs on free tokens: 20 every morning, more from quests.

Can I pause, cancel or get a refund?

Once paid plans open: pause or cancel any time in Profile → Plan and tokens; the plan stays active until the end of the period you paid for. You can ask for a refund within 14 days of a payment through Paddle, our reseller, which handles payments, invoices and refunds. Refund policy

Do tokens expire?

Pack tokens stay until you use them or your account ends, unless the pack is refunded. The app shows when the others expire. Tokens have no cash value.

Can recruiters see my profile?

Recruiters and companies using our recruiter search can see what you write in your profile, what we read from your CV and what your public professional profiles show. They never see your CV files, your expected pay, your drafts or your applications. To stop them seeing what you gave us, turn on Hide my profile from recruiters in Profile → Privacy; what your public profiles show stays. While you use Roleford they also see that you’re open to work. Any company using the search can see this, including your current employer; Hide my profile from recruiters stops that too.

Do you use AI on my CV?

Yes, to read it and to write drafts: we send your CV text, profile and the posting to our AI provider, named in the Privacy policy. The ranking itself is done by rules, not by AI.

Where is my data, and how do I delete it?

Our servers are in the EU, in Finland. Some of our providers, such as our AI provider, are outside the EU; the Privacy policy says how that data is protected. Profile → Privacy has Download my data and Delete my account; deleting your account also cancels a paid plan. For anything else, write to hello@roleford.com.