I Built an AI Job Hunter for Myself. Then I Turned It Into Boardsweep.
Four months ago I got my work visa in Spain and started looking for a job. If you've done a serious job search recently, you already know the routine — and you already know why it breaks you down.
The routine that wore me out
Every day looked the same. Open LinkedIn. Search by keyword and location. Open a posting. Read the requirements. Mentally compare them against my CV. Decide whether it was worth applying — or whether I'd be wasting an afternoon on a role where I didn't meet half the hard requirements anyway.
To make the comparison less subjective, I started pasting each posting into an AI and asking it to score the match against my CV as a percentage. It worked. But doing it one posting at a time, by hand, for dozens of roles a day, was its own full-time job. I was spending more time screening jobs than actually applying to the good ones.
So I did what anyone who's tired of a repetitive task does: I automated it.
The tool I built for myself
I connected a scraper to LinkedIn, added filters and gates for the things that actually disqualify a role — location, work authorization, seniority — and then ran every surviving posting through a third-party AI provider to score how well it matched my profile.
Then I wired it to run on a schedule and deliver the results to my Telegram every morning. I'd wake up to a message like:
5 new roles matching your profile at 85% or higher.
No scrolling. No tab-juggling. No second-guessing. Just the handful of roles that were actually worth my time, already read and ranked, waiting for me before coffee.
The time it saved was not small. The mental energy it saved was bigger. Job hunting is mostly reading — and I had handed the reading to a machine that didn't get tired, didn't get demoralized, and didn't talk itself into applying to a role it didn't fit.
Why I turned it into a product
The results were good enough that I kept thinking the same thing: everyone job hunting is doing this manual screening, and almost no one enjoys it. The exhaustion I felt wasn't unique to me — it's the default experience of looking for work in 2026, when there are more postings than ever and most of them aren't for you.
So I rebuilt my personal automation into a proper website that anyone could use. That's Boardsweep.
With Boardsweep, you upload your CV, tell it where you want to work, and it does what I used to do by hand — across LinkedIn, Indeed, and Google Jobs at once. It reads every posting against your actual CV, checks the hard requirements, and hands you an honestly ranked shortlist of the roles that genuinely fit. You save the time, the energy, and the nerves.
Two things I refuse to do
Building this for myself first taught me what I didn't want a job tool to do.
It will never apply for you. Auto-apply is how you end up spraying your CV at 200 roles and damaging your name with recruiters. Boardsweep reads and ranks. You decide. That's a permanent line.
It scores honestly. It would be easy to make every job look like an 80% match so the product feels exciting. I built the opposite. If a role has a dealbreaker you don't meet, the score is capped and the dealbreaker is named — first. No inflated matches. The whole point is to save you from the wrong roles, not cheerfully send you toward them.
What's next
I'm looking for the first people to use it for real. If you're job hunting on LinkedIn, Indeed, or Google Jobs, I want to put this in your hands — it's free to start, with 2 scans a week, and I read every piece of feedback.
If you want more, Pro is €9/month for unlimited scans plus an overnight watch that scans while you sleep and emails you only when something clears the bar. But you don't need it to start — there's just a tool I built because I needed it, now open to people who need the same thing.
If that's you, start a free search — Boardsweep is free to start.
— Guga, founder of Boardsweep