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Koyou

For your job search

Fewer applications. Better ones.

And you always press Submit.

Koyou finds jobs worth your time, helps you write applications that sound like you, keeps you on a steady daily rhythm, and tracks every reply.

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Sending more stopped working.

Since 2021, employers have received about three times as many applications for every hire, and the share that lead to an interview has halved. Every number here shows where it came from: tap its dot.

What stopped working

Applications per hire

300+

applications for every hire, on average, throughout 2025. In early 2021 it was 121.

Source: Ashby, Recruiter Productivity, Talent Trends Report. More than 109 million applications across 247,000 jobs, January 2021 to March 2026.

Application-to-interview rate

3.6%

of applications for technical roles led to an interview in early 2026, and 4.7% for business roles. In 2021 it was 7 to 8%.

Source: Ashby, Recruiter Productivity, Talent Trends Report. More than 109 million applications across 247,000 jobs, January 2021 to March 2026.

What still works

Interview rate for referred candidates

40%

of referred candidates reach an interview. For people who apply on their own, it’s 3%.

Source: Ashby, Referrals, Talent Trends Report. More than 38 million applications across 93,000 jobs, 2021 to 2024.

Effect of making a plan on job offers

30%

more job offers for job seekers who made a detailed job-search plan, in a randomized trial.

Source: Abel, Burger, Carranza and Piraino, “Bridging the Intention-Behavior Gap? The Effect of Plan-Making Prompts on Job Search and Employment”, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019.

So Koyou helps you send fewer, better applications, on a plan you can keep.

How it works

A steadier way to look for work.

  1. Plan

    A day you can finish.

    A two-minute check-in each morning turns into a realistic plan: one to five strong applications, the follow-ups that are due, one person to reach out to. Once a week, a short review shows what’s working. Miss a day and it’s rescheduled, with no guilt and no streaks.

    Your plan is ready8:02 AM

    • Reply to Orchard Pay5 min
    • Senior Product Marketing Manager, Fernway Learning25 min
    • Product Marketing Lead, Larkspur Health20 min
    • Follow up with Tessellate5 min

  2. Find

    Jobs worth your time.

    Koyou reads public job listings and checks each one against what you want. Every lead comes with a plain verdict (Great fit, Good fit or Long shot) and the reason behind it, links to the original posting, and is flagged if it might not be a real opening.

    Senior Product Marketing ManagerFernway Learning

    Great fit

    Why: the role owns launches end to end, like your work on Automations at Tallyworks.

  3. Write

    Applications that sound like you.

    Koyou asks one question at a time and draws out your real stories. Every line in your resume, cover letter and answers traces back to something you said or uploaded. If a number can’t be confirmed, it’s left out, never guessed.

    Led positioning and launch for Automations, the company’s largest release of 2024.

    From your resume: Tallyworks

    Grew trial-to-paid conversion for the self-serve plan.

    You weren’t sure of the number, so it’s left out.

  4. Apply

    You press Submit.

    Koyou prepares the tailored resume, the answers and the cover letter, then sends you straight to the employer’s own form. When a job takes applications by email, Koyou drafts the message, and it goes out only when you click Send, from your own Gmail or Outlook. Koyou never submits for you.

    Where you’ll apply

    Fernway Learning’s own application form

    Link checked: it goes to Fernway’s own site

  5. Track

    Every reply, from any inbox.

    Forward job email from Gmail, Outlook, iCloud or HEY to your private Koyou address. Replies are matched to the right application, and you confirm each change with one tap. Mail that isn’t about a job is deleted the moment it arrives, without any AI reading it.

    Orchard Pay wants to schedule a call

    Matched to Product Marketing Manager, applied Sep 24. Move it to Talking?

Your data stays yours.

Looking for work means sharing a lot about yourself. Here is what we promise, in plain words.

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  • Yours to download or delete

    Export everything or delete your account at any time. We never sell your data, and never use what you share with Koyou for ads or to train AI models.

  • Outside text can’t steer Koyou

    Text in job posts, emails and web pages can’t make Koyou do anything. If we find text written to trick AI tools, we ignore it and show it to you.

  • Your email, your rules

    Koyou sees only the job email you choose to share with it, and anything that isn’t about a job is deleted on arrival. It sends a message only when you click Send. How we use Google data

  • Never signed in as you

    Koyou reads public job listings. It never signs in to job sites as you, and never uses fake accounts.

Five jobs worth your time beat fifty that aren’t.

Ask for early access

Koyou is in early access. Write to sam@koyou.co and tell us what you’re looking for.