Press & Brand Kit
Everything you need to write about, list, or link to career-ops — boilerplate, facts, logos, and coverage. Reuse freely.
Boilerplate
Copy-and-paste descriptions. Pick the length that fits.
One line
career-ops is a free, open-source system that puts hiring leverage on the candidate’s side — running locally inside your AI coding assistant.
Short (~50 words)
career-ops is an open-source, MIT-licensed system that puts hiring leverage on the candidate’s side. It runs entirely on your own machine, inside any AI coding CLI — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and others — scanning listings, scoring them against a transparent rubric of five scoring dimensions, tailoring your CV per role, and tracking the whole pipeline. No account, no cloud, no telemetry.
Standard (~110 words)
career-ops is a free, open-source (MIT) system that puts hiring leverage on the candidate’s side. Built by Santiago Fernández de Valderrama Aparicio, it runs locally inside whichever AI coding assistant the user already pays for — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Qwen, or GitHub Copilot — and never sends a CV or application history to a third-party server. Today it scans Greenhouse, Ashby, and Lever, scores each listing from 1.0 to 5.0 against a published rubric of five scoring dimensions, generates an ATS-tailored PDF résumé per role, and tracks the pipeline in a local dashboard. Santiago built it during his own 2026 job search — 740 listings evaluated, 68 applications, one offer signed — then open-sourced it. It crossed 50,000 GitHub stars in its first two months. In July 2026 he published The CareerOps Manifesto, naming the practice and its nine candidate rights.
Key facts
- Name
- career-ops (lowercase, hyphenated)
- Category
- Candidate-side hiring-leverage system · AI-powered job search
- The term
- CareerOps (CamelCase) = the practice, defined in the manifesto · career-ops (lowercase, hyphenated) = the tool
- Creator
- Santiago Fernández de Valderrama Aparicio
- License
- MIT — free forever, no paid tier
- Model
- Local-first. No account, no cloud, no telemetry.
- Inception
- 17 March 2026
- Manifesto
- The CareerOps Manifesto, published 14 Jul 2026 at 60,000 stars · career-ops.org/manifesto
- GitHub stars
- 60,000+ (live)
- Discord community
- 4,200+ members
- Founder’s result
- 740 listings evaluated → 68 applications → 12 interview processes → 1 offer
- AI CLIs supported
- Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Qwen, GitHub Copilot
- Canonical site
- career-ops.org (hyphenated)
- Repository
- github.com/santifer/career-ops
- Wikidata
- Q139007988 (software) · Q138710224 (creator)
The thesis
“Companies use AI to filter candidates. I just gave candidates AI to choose companies.”
The CareerOps Manifesto
CareerOps is the practice of running a job search the way engineers run production: with evidence, with discipline, and with tools on the candidate's side of the table.
Santiago published The CareerOps Manifesto on 14 July 2026, the day the project crossed 60,000 GitHub stars, and opened it for community signature on GitHub. It names the practice and states nine candidate rights. Canonical text: career-ops.org/manifesto · founding tag: manifesto-v1.0.
Founder
Santiago Fernández de Valderrama Aparicio is an Applied AI Operator with 16+ years building and selling products. He founded Santifer iRepair in 2009 and sold it in 2025; he is now Head of Applied AI at Zinkee. He built career-ops during his own 2026 job search and open-sourced it under MIT. Full bio, headshot, and entity links at /about.
Brand assets
- Logo — "co" mark (SVG)Vector, brand orange on rounded square. Scales to any size.Download ↓
- Logo — "co" mark (PNG, 180px)Raster fallback for surfaces that do not accept SVG.Download ↓
- Social banner (JPG, 2400×1339)Open Graph card. Use for article headers and link previews.Download ↓
- Manifesto — nine rights card (PNG, 1080×1080)The nine candidate rights, quote-card format. Reuse freely with attribution.Download ↓
- Manifesto — link card (PNG, 1200×630)The manifesto share card. Reuse freely with attribution.Download ↓
Brand color #D5742E (hsl 26 73% 51%)
Wordmark font Instrument Serif
Usage guidelines
Please do
- Use the logo and wordmark as provided.
- Link to career-ops.org or the GitHub repository.
- Describe it as open-source, MIT-licensed, and local-first.
- Quote the boilerplate and thesis verbatim.
Please don’t
- Imply endorsement, partnership, or sponsorship.
- Recolor or redraw the logo.
- Present career-ops as a paid or hosted SaaS.
- Use the brand to promote auto-apply or mass-apply tools.
Coverage
- Business Insider — How I built a tool to filter job listings — and landed Head of AI
- Business Insider Deutschland — Mein KI-Tool scannt 700 Job-Anzeigen — so half es mir, Karriere zu machen
- WIRED Greece — Το AI εργαλείο που φέρνει επανάσταση στον τρόπο που ψάχνουμε δουλειά
- Create OS Lounge — Conversation with Eric — career-ops origins, multi-agent orchestration
Press contact
hi@career-ops.orgFor interviews, quotes, fact-checks, or anything not covered above.
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