Frequently asked questions

What is ApplyStorm?

ApplyStorm is job-application automation for senior and executive-level roles. Storm finds the roles worth your time, tailors your applications, handles the repetitive work, and gets you ready for the interview.

On supported job boards ApplyStorm fills the application in your own browser and stops for your review; elsewhere it hands you the tailored documents and the answers. You press Submit, except on job boards you set to Full Auto with the “Submit applications for me” permission on.

How much does it cost?

Pro is $39 per month or $105 per quarter, everything included, cancel anytime. Included: Continuous discovery across close to 200 curated company career boards plus a job aggregator; AI-tailored résumé + cover letter per posting, downloadable as PDF and Word; Form filling in your own Chrome on supported job boards — you check it and click Submit; Location, compensation, title and remote filtering with an exclusions list; Your own applystorm.net address — employer replies land in Messages, linked to the application; KPI dashboard and interview preparation. It allows 75 applications, 40 submissions, up to 100 tailored résumés per month.

The Free tier needs no card and allows 10 applications, 5 submissions, up to 5 tailored résumés per month.

Paid subscriptions can be refunded in full within 7 days of a charge, no explanation required.

What does ApplyStorm do without me doing anything?

Jobs are discovered on a schedule, scored against your profile, and the strong ones have a tailored résumé and cover letter generated for them. That much runs on its own by default — each is a level you can change.

Everything else Storm does runs at the level you set in Settings → Storm’s permissions → Autonomy levels — Off, Ask me first, or Automatic — is capped per day, and can be paused at any moment. Sending is different: by default you press Submit. When you start an application, your own Chrome fills the employer’s form on any site and stops for you. The exceptions are a job board you set to Full Auto with the “Submit applications for me” permission on, and an employer’s own site when you turn on Full Auto under Settings → Storm’s permissions → Submission mode by job board → Other employer sites — there, the extension in your own Chrome makes the click.

Does ApplyStorm submit applications for me, and what about CAPTCHAs?

By default, you do. Storm prepares the documents and the answers; when you start an application, your own Chrome fills the employer’s form on any site, checks the fields, and stops — you look it over and click Submit.

The exception is a job board you set to Full Auto. Full Auto is off until you turn it on for that board, and it also needs your permission “Submit applications for me”. With both on, the ApplyStorm extension in your own Chrome clicks Submit for you, so Chrome needs to be open with the extension on. This applies to the applications Full Auto picks itself; ones you send, approve or retry still stop for your click. The application goes out in your name and you do not see it first. If a form asks for something only you can complete, such as an arbitration agreement or a signature, it is handed back to you and the final Submit is yours — unless you turned on “Agree to employer consents and statements for me”, in which case Storm ticks a required “I agree” box for you (it still doesn’t type your name as a signature). The pause switch stops Full Auto within about 30 seconds, and turning the permission off stops it too.

Full Auto on Ashby, Workday and iCIMS also needs “Fill on any site” turned on in the ApplyStorm extension. If the site asks you to sign in first, or Storm cannot fill the form, the application comes back to you with the reason. If several in a row come back on one of these boards, Storm pauses Full Auto there and Settings shows a Resume button. If you set one of these boards to Full Auto before 19 October 2026, when Full Auto there meant Storm hands the application back, Storm asks you once in Settings before it presses Submit there.

On an employer’s own site (not a job board), Full Auto is a separate switch under Settings → Storm’s permissions → Submission mode by job board → Other employer sites. With it on, Storm presses Submit on the applications you start there; it still needs the same permission.

Whether Storm hands an application to your Chrome without asking is a level you set in Settings → Storm’s permissions → Autonomy levels (Off, Ask me first, or Automatic).

Some employers protect their application forms with a CAPTCHA. Storm does not solve it: it brings the tab forward and lets you know. Once you have done the check, Storm carries on by itself.

How do I pause everything at once?

The pause switch — shown in Settings → Storm’s permissions → Autonomy levels, changed under “How far Storm goes” — stops unattended Storm actions and hand-offs to your Chrome within about 30 seconds. Nothing is lost: documents already queued for tailoring may still finish, everything prepared stays where it is, and anything you submit by hand is unaffected.

Where do the jobs come from, and why might I see few of them?

Discovery pulls from job boards (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby) and from an aggregator. Your Chrome can fill the application form on any of them once you start it. Aggregator postings link to the employer’s own site, so Storm fills the form there when it can reach it.

Hard filters reject postings before any AI scoring runs — title, compensation floor, and remote preference. If very little is arriving, widening those in Settings → Job search is the first thing to try, and it costs nothing.

How are jobs scored?

Each posting is scored out of 100 across five dimensions against your profile. A "—" instead of a score means the posting was rejected by your hard filters before scoring, which saves the cost of an AI call on something you would not want.

The score is a ranking aid, not a verdict. A 72 you are excited about is a better use of your time than an 88 you are not.

What do I need to get started?

Everything else reads from this. Your résumé is parsed into skills, roles and achievements, and those become the material used to score jobs, tailor applications and prompt you during interviews.

Achievements that carry a number are the most valuable thing in it. "Cut p99 latency 40%" is used constantly; "responsible for platform reliability" is not. If your résumé is light on figures, that is the highest-leverage thing to fix.

Do I have to answer the same application questions every time?

Application forms ask the same questions repeatedly. Answers you have given are saved and reused, so you write each one once.

When a form asks something that cannot be answered from what you have supplied, it is surfaced for you rather than guessed at — with the company, the job, the question before it on the form and the answer already given there, so you can answer it in context. Follow-ups such as “If you answered Yes above…” are settled from the earlier answer and are not asked.

Each held question says what answering does for that application, and what Storm tried before asking you: your profile, your saved answers, leaving an optional field blank, or writing an answer from your résumé. Your answer is kept for the next attempt — nothing is sent because you answered — and a failed application still needs Retry.

If you answer a held question on the employer’s form yourself instead, Storm saves that answer here too once you submit, so the next employer that asks gets it. You can change any saved answer here, or by asking Storm. A saved answer can be for one employer or for every employer; when you change one employer’s answer to a plain “No” on a question about you (outside business, for example), it applies to every employer from then on.

What happens when an employer replies?

An interview invitation or an offer from a verified sender moves the application forward on its own. A rejection does not: it appears on the application as a one-click question — “this email looks like a rejection, is that right?” — with the exact phrases that triggered it. Rejections are final, so a person decides.

If the sender could not be verified, nothing moves automatically either — you get the same one-click question instead.

Do employers email me directly?

You have your own address on applystorm.net. When application tracking is on, applications use it, so employer replies land in Messages and are linked to the application they belong to instead of getting lost in your personal inbox.

You can reply from the Messages page. Replies are sent from your ApplyStorm address and keep the conversation threaded, so the employer sees an ordinary email exchange.

What if a job is taken down after I apply?

Employers close postings without notice. When one has gone, the application is marked as closed rather than failing with a confusing error, and you are not notified — there is nothing for you to do about it.

Can it help me prepare for interviews?

Practise questions written from the job you actually applied to and the résumé you actually sent. Answer them out loud and get scored on what an interviewer would take from it.

Answers you are happy with can be promoted into your Answer Library so they are reused elsewhere.

Can it record my interviews, and what happens to the recording?

Recording requires a fresh permission for each session and you must tell everyone on the call. The recording is deleted after 30 days; the transcript is kept for a year.

Withdraw permission at any point and capture stops immediately — not at the end of the call.

Does it help during a live interview?

Optional, off unless you tick it, and only for the one interview you tick it on. When the other person asks you something, the shape of an answer appears — which of your experiences to reach for and the two or three beats to hit.

It reads only their side of the call, not your microphone, and none of that audio is kept. It draws on your résumé and saved answers and will not put a number or a company in front of you that is not already yours.

Expect roughly five to seven seconds between the end of their question and something appearing. Help stays on screen until you have spoken over it, and past answers are one tap away on the timestamps below the card, or the "r" key.

Can it compare offers?

Under Applications → Offers, paste the offer email or upload the letter (PDF or Word). The terms are read into editable numbers — base, bonus, signing, equity with its vesting — and anything read wrong is yours to fix on the card. A term the letter does not state shows as a dash rather than a guess.

With two or more offers in the same currency, a side-by-side ranks them by 4-year net present value. It is arithmetic, not advice.

What does a specialist do, and who decides?

A career specialist is optional. No specialist can open your account until you turn on managed service in Settings → Account, and you can turn it off again at any time — revoking closes their access immediately.

With it on, a specialist assigned to you can read your profile, résumés and job pipeline, review what Storm prepared, help with applications, and submit on your behalf when you have asked them to. Each action they take is recorded and attributed to them — anything they submit shows “by” their name on the application — and you can message them from Messages.

Who can see my data?

Your data is yours. A specialist can only see it if you have accepted a specialist working on your behalf, and revoking that closes their access immediately.

Interview audio is transcribed on ApplyStorm servers rather than sent to a third-party transcription vendor.

Can I delete my account and everything in it?

You can delete your account from Settings. There is a grace period before anything is destroyed, during which you can change your mind; after that your data, files and recordings are removed.

Does it apply on LinkedIn?

Yes, if you turn it on. “Work on LinkedIn for you” is a permission in Settings → Storm’s permissions, and it is off until you allow it. With it on, Storm handles a LinkedIn job the same way it handles any other job site.

LinkedIn’s terms don’t allow automated tools, and LinkedIn may restrict accounts that use them, so allowing it means accepting that risk. You can turn it off at any time. It lasts three years, and Storm reminds you a month before it ends.

Does it solve CAPTCHAs?

We don’t solve CAPTCHAs. When one appears, we hand the filled form back to you.

The application is handed back with the materials ready, and you submit it yourself.

Is my material used to train AI models?

We do not sell your personal information, and we send our AI providers only the data a task needs, as our Privacy Policy describes.

We have not confirmed a commitment from every provider that handles your text not to use it for training, so we do not promise one. Your résumés, cover letters, attachments and interview recordings are stored in a private bucket that is not publicly reachable.

Will it put things in my résumé that are not true?

Tailored résumés and cover letters are built from what you actually wrote. Interview feedback quotes your own words back as the evidence for each point, and a suggested rewrite that reaches for a fact you did not say is withheld rather than shown to you.