AI resume screening for founders, small businesses and recruiters
Accelerate hiring with Propel.
Posted one job and got 300 applicants? Don't read all 300. Propel ranks them so you start with the best, right from your phone.
Launching soon on iPhone and Android. We'll tell you when it's live.
Get started in minutes
Sign in with Google or Apple, paste a job description and you're screening. No procurement, no contract, no server.
Your criteria, in natural language
Write criteria the way you'd say them, like "5+ years of backend and has led a team". Propel reads for meaning, not keywords.
30 resumes in about 90 seconds
Resumes are scored in parallel, so a shortlist takes minutes, not an afternoon of reading.
Pay per resume, from about 4¢
Buy credits when you need them or pick a monthly or annual plan. One credit screens a resume of up to two pages.
Who it's for
Built for people who hire without a hiring department.
No recruiting team, no applicant tracking system, and a pile of resumes that has to become a shortlist this week. Sound familiar?
Founders
One LinkedIn post. 300 applicants. No HR team.
You're hiring between investor calls and shipping. Propel reads the pile against your must-haves so you only open the resumes worth your time.
For founders →Recruitment agencies
A client wants a shortlist by Friday. You have 180 CVs.
Rank every CV against the client's brief in minutes and send them a clean summary of the shortlist, with no Propel branding on it.
For recruiters and agencies →Small businesses
You run the business. Hiring happens in between.
Hire a few times a year? Buy credits once, use them when a role opens, and skip the hiring software altogether.
For small businesses →What you get
Not a black-box score. A breakdown you can check.
Every total is built from a 0 to 4 rating on each criterion you can read and edit. Open a candidate to see what they met and what they missed, or switch on the must-have filter and see who drops out.
Two candidates for the same position, as they appear in the app. The candidates are fictional.
It reads for meaning, not keywords.
Resumes rarely use the words in your job description. Propel judges what a resume says the candidate has done, so the right people aren't filtered out for phrasing it differently. Each criterion gets its own 0 to 4 rating, with the points it earned.
How it works
From job description to ranked shortlist in four steps.
No dashboards, no integrations, no onboarding call. Everything happens in the app.
- 01
Create a position
Upload the job description as a PDF, DOCX or text file, or paste it in. Propel reads it and drafts the criteria for you.
- 02
Tune the criteria
Keep, edit, mute or add must-have and secondary criteria in plain language. Decide how much each group counts.
- 03
Add resumes
Pick PDF, DOCX or text resumes from your phone, iCloud Drive, Google Drive or Dropbox, up to 100 per position, and tap Rank.
- 04
Get the ranked shortlist
Every resume is rated against every criterion. Filter to the candidates who meet all must-haves, then download the summary and the top resumes.
Why not just use ChatGPT?
A chatbot can read a few resumes. Propel ranks the whole pile.
General AI chatbots are great for writing the job ad and the interview questions. Screening a hundred applicants consistently, and picking it up again next week, needs a process built for it.
A workflow, not a blank chat box
Job description, criteria, resumes, rank, download. The steps are built in, and each position shows where it is and what's next.
A place to come back to
Every position keeps its criteria, weights, resumes and ranking. Open it next month to add resumes or re-rank, instead of digging through old chats.
The same yardstick for resume 1 and resume 100
Every resume is rated against the same written criteria, one criterion at a time. A chat conversation weighs things differently from one batch to the next.
Built for the pile, not a handful
Up to 100 resumes per position and 30 per upload. Chat tools limit how many files you can attach, and long conversations get harder for the model to keep straight.
Change your mind for free
Change the weights or mute a criterion and the ranking updates on the spot, with nothing scored again. In a chat, you ask again and get new numbers.
A result you can hand on
A summary document of the ranking and a ZIP of the top resumes, ready to send to a hiring manager or a client.
Trust
Your candidates' data, handled with care.
A published privacy policy and data processing addendum cover every resume you upload.
You make the call
Propel scores and ranks. It never rejects, shortlists or contacts anyone.
Scored on your criteria only
Each rating answers one question: how well does this resume show this criterion? There's no hidden fit or personality score.
Not used to train AI
Your uploads aren't used to train AI models, by Propel or its AI providers.
Delete anytime
Remove a resume, a position or your whole account in the app.
Pricing
$9.99 screens 250 resumes.
Buy credits once and they never expire, or subscribe to Pro or Max, monthly or annually. Cancel anytime. Try one position free before you pay.
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Built for people who don't buy hiring suites.
No seat licences, no annual contract, no sales call. See how Propel stacks up against manual screening, applicant tracking systems, chatbots and other AI screeners.
See the comparison →Stop reading resumes one by one. Let AI do the first pass.
Join early access and try one position free when the app launches. No contract, no sales call.
Launching soon on iPhone and Android. We'll tell you when it's live.