Nana Jobs: your own AI, a daily shortlist

Nana Jobs is the third tab in Jobs, beside the job board and your applications: open Jobs → Nana Jobs. You connect your own AI; Nana then collects openings from Notes Jobs and public job boards, drops the ones that don't fit, scores the rest against what you've actually done, and gives you a short ranked list every morning. Each job shows why it fits and the strongest reason you might not get it. It finds and ranks. It never applies for you. It's free on every plan, for members 18 and up with a personal account (teens keep the normal job board; organisations post jobs instead). See how it works.

Setting up, in four steps: 1. Connect your AI. Gemini or Groq (both have free tiers: get a key at Google AI Studio or the Groq console), Claude (Anthropic, paid), or any OpenAI-compatible API with its address and model name (OpenRouter, a reachable Ollama and others). We check the key with a free call, keep it encrypted, and only ever show its last 4 characters. A paid AI is never used unless you choose it, and free ones are paced so they stay inside their limits. A Claude key you connected for Nana works here too. Without an AI you still get a free keyword ranking, marked ~ rough. 2. Your CV, and what you've done and what you want. Upload your CV (PDF or Word .docx) or paste the text. Your AI reviews it honestly (what's strong, the gaps, and quick fixes to the CV), suggests the roles that fit, and fills in a scoring profile for you to edit and confirm: the roles you want, a "shipped" list (things you've actually built or delivered, taken only from your CV: anything it suggests that isn't in your CV is left out), your skills, where you can work, your level, the lowest pay you'll take and your deal-breakers. Your CV is kept encrypted, used only for Nana Jobs, and Delete my CV removes it and its review at once. Prefer not to share a CV? Skip it and fill in the profile yourself. 3. Where to look. Notes Jobs (always on, verified firms), the open feeds RemoteOK, Remotive, Himalayas and Arbeitnow, and the public Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby boards of companies you add (we check a company has a public board before adding it). Openings are collected once a day for everyone, so each board is asked once. We don't scrape LinkedIn or Indeed: both forbid it. Coming next: forwarding your LinkedIn job-alert emails to your own Nana Jobs address. 4. When to send it. A daily run at the time you choose (Lagos time), plus Run now whenever you like. A bell when it's ready (on to start with) and the list by email (off to start with). You also choose how many openings your AI reads each day: it's your AI and your bill.

How the list is made: repeats are removed; then free rules drop jobs that are too old, aren't a role you want, hit a deal-breaker, or that you can't take from where you live ("remote, but only from the US" is dropped for someone in Lagos); a keyword ranking picks the most likely ones; your AI reads those and scores each out of 100 (domain 25, stack 25, seniority 15, location 20, the quality of the posting 15) with a reason and the strongest risk; then each link is opened to check the job is still there (a slow site never hides a job). If your AI fails (out of credit, slow, or a wrong key), the list falls back to the keyword ranking marked ~ rough and shows the AI's real error. It is never quietly empty.

Your shortlist: mark each job Interested, Applied or Not for me. What you set is kept: a new run never changes it, and Not for me jobs don't come back. Notes Jobs roles keep the Apply on #NotesApp button; everything else opens the firm's own page. Cover note asks your AI for a short note written only from your "shipped" list, so it never claims experience you don't have; read it, make it yours, and apply yourself.

Private: your scoring profile, CV and shortlist are never shown to firms and aren't your public profile. Firms still see only what you choose to share in I need a job.

Nana Jobs builds on Shortlist, an open-source job-search engine by Victor Dickson (MIT licence).