Compass
Compass is a second-brain job search tool I created over 6 days at an Anthropic Claude Code hackathon.
Core trick
Scheduled agents score job leads against a stored personal-history file and output a ranked shortlist with a skip list.
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Description
Compass is a second-brain job search tool I created over 6 days at an Anthropic Claude Code hackathon. I am an Indian MSc student from Bristol, actively seeking visa-sponsorship based roles. And my pain point remains the same, 73 applications sent, received only 4 responses. The challenge is not so much in sending more applications but in targeting and creating warm introductions.
Current job search tools help you apply to relevant vacancies according to your CV. Compass works the other way round. It stores all information — skills verified by you, rejections faced, contacts made, artefacts created, etc., and uses 8 agents (Scout, Archivist, Scorer, Visa Checker, Ghost Hunter, Writer, Mirror, Triage) on this brain weekly. The result is a Weekly Compass containing scored job applications, suggestions for warm introductions, draft messages for cold direct messaging, Visa Clock countdown, and skip list.
Manually, it is a process that takes around 10-12 hours a week. With the help of Compass, I am now spending 1 hour reviewing this process weekly.
There are massive real-world implications of this tool, especially for international students in the UK facing this sponsor-list maze. But for some, it means their rent grows faster than the visa clock.
README excerpt
# Compass Second-brain + agents that find and rank the CV-boosting opportunities you'd otherwise miss. Built by a UK international MSc student who almost missed a $100k hackathon because he wasn't scrolling Instagram that day. Every ambitious student misses 50 opportunities a month. This agent catches them. ## What it does Every Sunday at 08:00, you open one email: - Top 5 opportunities ranked by **Leverage Score** (is it worth winning?) and **Fit Probability** (can you actually win it?) - A **Don't miss this** urgent item - A **Mirror** insight on your week's pattern - A **Skip list** of 10 things to ignore, with reasons Anything you spot mid-week — Instagram reel, LinkedIn post, email forward — you paste into **Ingest Anything**. The agent classifies, scores, remembers. ## Why different Every competitor asks "which jobs match your CV?". Compass reasons across your full history: every skill proven, rejection suffered, contact made, artefact earned. It's not an aggregator. It's a second brain with a hiring mission. **3 scores per opportunity**: - **Leverage (0–10)** — opp quality (8 factors, rubric-based) - **Fit Probability (0–100%)** — your odds given current profile - **Skill-Uplift** — interactive: "if I gained X, my Fit jumps to Y" ## Agents (8) Scout · Triage · Archivist · Scorer · Visa Checker · Ghost Hunter · Writer · Mirror See `agents/SPECS.md`. ## Stack Next.js 15 · shadcn/ui · Supabase + pgvector · Claude Opus 4.7 · Resend · Playwright ## Quick start