It starts by getting to know you and what you want — then builds the strategy, finds the roles, sharpens the CV, opens the conversations and gets you ready for the interview. For software engineers only.
Software engineering roles only. Other fields come later, once this one is genuinely good.
Every other tool starts with a keyword. Cadence starts with a conversation — what you want from the next role, what you're moving away from, what you'll trade and what you won't. Only then does it build you a strategy.
A strategy is a decision about what you're going after and why: the kind of role, the kind of team, the seniority you're aiming at, the story your CV tells and the argument your outreach makes. Everything downstream follows from it — which is why Cadence won't start looking until it has one.
The alternative is what most people do: apply widely, tell a slightly different story each time, and never find out which version was working.
Most people are torn between two or three genuinely different paths. Cadence lets you run them side by side — each with its own roles, its own CV, its own pitch — instead of forcing a decision before you have the evidence to make it.
A search run properly is a second job. Cadence takes the parts that eat your evenings and hands back something finished — because most of what gets you hired happens nowhere near the apply button.
Roles matched to the strategy you set, not to a keyword you typed. A short list worth reading rather than a feed to scroll.
The tailored CV, and the opening message to the person behind the role — drafted from your real work, ready for you to edit and send.
Every role, conversation and version in one view. No spreadsheet, no six tabs, no trying to remember what you sent whom.
Keeps up with what's moving and what's gone quiet, and tells you which two threads need you this week.
When it becomes an interview, a prep pack for that company and that role — not a generic list of questions.
Each step knows what the last one decided, so you never re-explain your own background to a blank prompt again.
Most searches lose their thread — a CV in one place, a spreadsheet in another, prompts pasted fresh each time. Cadence carries the context forward, so you never explain your own background twice.
Before looking at a single vacancy: what you'd keep from this job, what you're leaving, what you'll trade and what you won't. Then an honest read of where your experience puts you in today's engineering market — which paths are open, which titles you're competitive for, and which are a stretch.
Not every engineering job in London — the ones that match the direction you just set. Cadence knows the difference between a job ad and a real opportunity, and it looks in places a keyword search on a job board won't reach.
A CV written for everything reads as written for nothing. Cadence reshapes yours around the specific role, leading with the work that matters to that team. Career breaks, a redundancy, a pivot, a stretch of contracting — it helps you land the honest framing, so a gap is something you've answered rather than something you hope they miss.
Every role you're pursuing, with the context attached — what you sent, who you spoke to, where it stands. Your notes and edits stay yours; nothing you've worked on gets overwritten as new roles come in.
An application is a form in a pile. A conversation with the person who owns the team is something else entirely. Cadence works out who that is — the engineering manager, the team lead, the person whose work you can speak to — and helps you open with something real, built on what you've genuinely done.
When it becomes an interview, Cadence pulls together what this company is dealing with, the kind of technical ground they cover, and behavioural answers drawn from your own projects — so what you say happened, actually happened.
Cadence charges a flat subscription for the product itself. The AI runs on your own account, billed to you directly at cost — no cap, no markup, and no quietly worse results once you've used it a lot.
It takes a couple of minutes to set up, and it means a heavy month of searching costs you what it costs, rather than what a pricing tier decided.
No auto-apply. No bulk sending. No browser automation against LinkedIn. Every message waits for you to read it, change it, or bin it.
Cadence writes the opening message for you — grounded in the overlap between what that person works on and what you've actually built, so the first line is a real reason to be in touch rather than a compliment about their mission. Then it stops. Every message waits for you to read it, rewrite it, or throw it away.
A search run properly generates more threads than anyone can hold in their head, especially alongside a full-time job. Cadence carries that weight so you can spend your attention on the two conversations that matter this week.
Connect your inbox and Cadence notices when something moves — so the pipeline reflects where you actually are, not where you last remembered to update it.
Out of thirty open threads, two need you today. Cadence surfaces those and leaves the rest quiet.
The conversations going cold are as useful to know about as the ones moving. Neither should depend on you remembering.
When a search reaches the stage where you'll need something, Cadence is usually already working on it.
Read access only. Cadence looks at messages relating to the roles you're already tracking. It doesn't read the rest of your inbox, never sends from your account, and you can revoke access from your Google settings at any time without losing your work.
Cadence exists because the workflow was real before the product was — used in an actual senior engineering search in London, with a visa constraint attached. It knows what this market rewards because it was built while navigating it.
The workflow existed before the product did. It was prompts, a spreadsheet and a lot of manual research — run against a real senior engineering search in London, with a visa constraint attached and a full-time job alongside it.
Twelve years of building software, several of them leading a team, and enough time on the hiring side to know what actually gets read. Cadence is the version of that workflow worth handing to someone else.
No, and it won't. Cadence researches, scores and drafts. Sending an application or a message is always a deliberate action you take. There is no bulk apply, no scheduled sending and no automation running against LinkedIn on your behalf — that gets accounts restricted, and it produces worse outreach anyway.
Because it's cheaper and more honest. Products that bundle AI into a subscription have to cap your usage to protect their margin, which means the tool quietly gets worse the more you use it. With your own key, the model bills you at cost, you can see exactly what a run costs, and our subscription pays for the orchestration — the sequencing, the scoring, the interfaces. You'll need an OpenAI or Anthropic key to start; both take a couple of minutes to create.
A tracker organises applications you've already sent — it lives entirely on the apply-button side of the process. Cadence works out what to go after in the first place and helps you reach the person behind the role, so you're in a conversation rather than a queue. If you already have a strong list and just want it tidy, a tracker may be all you need.
No. Cadence connects to Gmail with read access and looks only for messages tied to roles and contacts already on your board — connection notifications, replies from people you've contacted, interview invitations. It doesn't send from your account, doesn't scan unrelated mail, and you can revoke the connection from your Google security settings at any point without losing your board.
It stores the text and uses it as the source of every downstream stage — positioning, fit scoring, message drafting, interview answers. It's sent to whichever AI provider you've connected, under your own key and your own agreement with them. Data is held in the EU, and there's a deletion endpoint that removes everything, not just deactivates the account.
Not yet. Cadence is in development and the waitlist is how early access gets allocated. Pricing will be a monthly subscription for the orchestration layer only — you'll see the exact figure before you're asked to decide anything, and AI usage will never appear on our invoice because it isn't ours to charge for.
Not yet, and we'd rather say so than take your money. Cadence is tuned specifically for software engineering — the role types, the seniority ladder, the way these teams hire and what they screen for. Other fields will follow once this one is genuinely good, not before.
The first release is tuned for the UK market, including sponsorship-relevant filtering and UK data handling. Other markets come after that works properly rather than alongside it.
Early access is limited and allocated by hand. We want a small group of engineers running real searches — the kind that don't end at the apply button.
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