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For founders

You posted one job. Now you have 300 resumes and no one to read them.

Propel reads every resume against what the role actually needs and hands you a ranked shortlist in minutes, so the first pass doesn't eat your week.

Sound familiar?

The first pass is the part that hurts.

Reading resumes isn't your job

Every hour on a resume pile is an hour off the product, the customers and the round. And it comes back with every hire.

The best one is on page nine

Skim fast and you miss the engineer who described exactly the work you need, in words you weren't scanning for.

A hiring suite is overkill

Applicant tracking systems want seats, pipelines and an annual plan. You have three roles open and a deadline.

How it fits

How it fits into a founder's week.

  1. 1

    Paste the job description you already wrote. Propel drafts the must-haves and nice-to-haves, and you fix anything it got wrong in plain language.

  2. 2

    Save resumes from your inbox or job board to Files, iCloud Drive, Google Drive or Dropbox, and add them 30 at a time.

  3. 3

    Tap Rank. About 30 resumes take around 90 seconds.

  4. 4

    Open the top of the list, see each candidate's rating on every criterion, and send the summary to your co-founder.

See every step →
The Propel app's process overview for a Senior Backend Engineer position: all six workflow steps ready, 30 resumes ranked, and a View results button
One position in the app: job description, criteria, resumes and ranking, with where you are and what's next.

What it costs

A whole role for less than lunch.

Screening 250 resumes costs $9.99 in credits that never expire. Hiring every month? Pro is $9.99 a month for 350 resumes.

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Questions

What people like you ask first.

A chatbot is fine for a handful. Propel gives you a screening workflow instead of a blank chat box: every position keeps its criteria, resumes and ranking to come back to, every resume is rated against the same written criteria, you can change the weights without asking again, and you get a summary document and a ZIP of the top resumes. Uploads aren't used to train AI models.

No. Propel works on resume files. Save them from email or a job board, add them to a position and rank.

Each Propel account belongs to one person. Share the downloadable summary document, or the ZIP of the top resumes.

One position with up to 2 must-have and 2 secondary criteria and 10 resumes, ranked once. Downloads aren't part of the trial.

Get back to building. Let Propel read the pile.

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.