Frequently asked questions
The answers below are the product’s own help guide and published policies, not a summary of them. Signed in, the full guide is under Help.
What is ApplyStorm?
ApplyStorm is job-application automation for senior and executive-level roles. Storm finds the roles worth your time, tailors every application, handles the repetitive work, and gets you ready for the interview.
ApplyStorm does not click Submit for you. On supported job boards it fills the application in your own browser and stops for your review; everywhere else it hands you the tailored documents and the answers.
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 → Autonomy — Off, Ask me first, or Automatic — is capped per day, and can be paused at any moment. Sending is different: during the beta, every application ends with a person clicking Submit. On supported job boards your own Chrome fills the form and stops for you; everywhere else the materials are ready for you.
Does ApplyStorm submit applications for me, and what about CAPTCHAs?
A person does. Storm prepares the documents and the answers; on supported job boards your own Chrome fills the employer’s form, checks every field, and stops — you look it over and click Submit. Everywhere else the materials are ready and you submit them yourself.
Whether Storm hands an application to your Chrome without asking is a level you set in Settings → Autonomy (Off, Ask me first, or Automatic). Sending is not a level: during the beta, nothing reaches an employer without a person clicking Submit.
Some employers protect their application forms with a CAPTCHA. When that happens the form is handed back to you with the materials ready — Storm will not attempt to work around it.
How do I pause everything at once?
The pause switch — shown in Settings → Autonomy, changed on the Automation tab — stops every unattended Storm action and every hand-off 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. On supported board postings your Chrome can fill the form for you to submit; aggregator postings usually cannot be filled, because the underlying application system is not identified — the materials are still prepared for you.
Hard filters reject postings before any AI scoring runs — title, compensation floor, and remote preference. If very little is arriving, widening those in Settings → Discovery 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. Your answer is kept for the next attempt — nothing is sent because you answered — and a failed application still needs Retry.
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 never does: 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 bank 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, never 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 Interviews → 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, never 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. Every 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.
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?
ApplyStorm writes your LinkedIn application material but never submits it for you — their terms forbid automation, and a suspended profile costs you far more than the time saved. Browser filling runs only on supported job boards, and every application still ends with a person clicking Submit; on sites like Workday and iCIMS the materials are handed to you, because that is where things go wrong quietly.
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?
Résumés, cover letters, interview answers and employer correspondence are never used to train models and are never written to logs. Interview audio is transcribed on our own servers by default; a managed provider is used only where an ApplyStorm operator has explicitly enabled it for an account — you cannot switch it on yourself, and where one is used it is named on the transcript.
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 every point, and a suggested rewrite that reaches for a fact you did not say is withheld rather than shown to you.