Press & Brand Kit
career-ops is an open-source AI job search agent. It reads job listings, scores each one against your CV and drafts the application. It drafts and fills; it never submits. You press Submit.
Boilerplate, facts, logos and coverage below, free to reuse. Questions and fact-checks: hi@career-ops.org.
Writing about career-ops
- The name
- career-ops, lowercase and hyphenated, also at the start of a sentence. CareerOps, in CamelCase, is the practice named in the manifesto.
- Who submits
- It drafts and fills; it never submits. You press Submit.
- The score
- Each listing gets a score from 1 to 5 across five dimensions, with the reasoning.
- The creator’s search
- 740 job listings evaluated, 68 applications, 12 interviews, 1 offer. He applied to 68 of the 740. It is one person’s search, not a promise.
- Adoption
- career-ops has no telemetry, so there is no user count. Public signals are GitHub stars, contributors and the hired stories. Stars are not users, the hired stories are not a success rate, and any number needs its date.
- Where your CV goes
- No backend of ours. Your CV goes from your machine to the AI provider you chose, and nowhere else.
- Press mentions
- The April 2026 feature ran in WIRED Greece. Please credit that edition.
- The brand
- Use the logo and wordmark as provided, without recoloring or redrawing them. Please don’t imply endorsement, partnership or sponsorship. The brand is never for promoting auto-apply or mass-apply tools.
- Reuse
- Quote the boilerplate and the thesis verbatim, and link to career-ops.org or the GitHub repository. Describe it as open source (MIT) and free for candidates. Please don’t say or imply that candidates pay for career-ops.
- Built on career-ops
- The official project is github.com/career-ops-hq/career-ops and career-ops.org. Anything else built on career-ops is a separate project, with its own authors and terms.
Official links
- Websitecareer-ops.org
- Repositorygithub.com/career-ops-hq/career-ops
- Press kitcareer-ops.org/press
- Manifestocareer-ops.org/manifesto
- Changelogcareer-ops.org/changelog
- Hired storiesgithub.com/career-ops-hq/career-ops/blob/main/HIRED.md
- Community pluginscareer-ops.org/docs/reference/plugins
Boilerplate
Copy-and-paste descriptions. Pick the length that fits.
One line
career-ops is an open-source AI job search agent, free for candidates, that puts hiring leverage on the candidate’s side. https://github.com/career-ops-hq/career-ops
Short (~90 words)
career-ops is an open-source (MIT) AI job search agent, free for candidates, that puts hiring leverage on the candidate’s side. Today it runs on your own machine, inside the AI coding CLI you already use: no account, no telemetry, no backend of ours. Your CV goes from your machine to the AI provider you chose, and nowhere else. It drafts and fills; it never submits. You press Submit. It scans listings, scores them from 1 to 5 across five dimensions, tailors your CV per role and tracks the pipeline. https://github.com/career-ops-hq/career-ops
Standard (~200 words)
career-ops is an open-source (MIT) AI job search agent, free for candidates, that puts hiring leverage on the candidate’s side. Today it runs on your own machine, inside the AI coding CLI you already use: no account, no telemetry, no backend of ours. Your CV goes from your machine to the AI provider you chose, and nowhere else. It drafts and fills; it never submits. You press Submit. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot CLI and other CLIs, and free and local models work too. It scans company career pages on ATS platforms such as Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever and Workday, plus job boards in several countries, scores each listing from 1 to 5 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 Fernández de Valderrama Aparicio built it during his own 2026 job search (740 job listings evaluated, 68 applications, 12 interviews, 1 offer), then open-sourced it. It reached 50,000 GitHub stars in June 2026, about two months after the repository was created. In July 2026 he published The CareerOps Manifesto, naming the practice and its nine candidate rights. https://github.com/career-ops-hq/career-ops
Key facts
- Name
- career-ops (lowercase, hyphenated)
- Category
- Open-source AI job search agent · puts hiring leverage on the candidate’s side
- Creator
- Santiago Fernández de Valderrama Aparicio
- License
- MIT
- Price
- Free for candidates, forever.
- Model
- Local-first. No account, no telemetry, no backend of ours: your CV goes from your machine to the AI provider you chose, and nowhere else.
- Inception
- 17 March 2026
- Latest release
- v1.38.0 (live)
- Release pace
- 33 releases of the core between May and October 2026, roughly weekly since mid-September (as of 31 Oct 2026)
- Job sources
- More than 100, from ATS platforms to job boards in several countries (as of 31 Oct 2026)
- Languages
- Website in 8 languages, README in 19 and evaluation modes in 20, English included
- AI CLIs supported
- Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, Antigravity CLI, Grok Build CLI, Qwen, Kimi, Hermes Agent, GitHub Copilot CLI (Gemini CLI: legacy wrapper)
- GitHub stars
- 79,000+ (live)
- GitHub forks
- 14,000+ (live)
- Contributors
- 700+, as shown on the GitHub repository page, bots and manifesto signatories included (as of 31 Oct 2026)
- Discord community
- 5,100+ members
- Hired stories
- 22 hires on the record in HIRED.md, each linked to a public story posted by the person who got hired.
- Creator’s result
- 740 listings evaluated → 68 applications → 12 interviews → 1 offer
- Manifesto
- The CareerOps Manifesto, published 14 Jul 2026 at 60,000 stars · career-ops.org/manifesto
- Program
- Member of the Vercel Open Source Program, Summer 2026 cohort (in-kind support).
- Photo of the creator
- On request: hi@career-ops.org
- The term
- CareerOps (CamelCase) = the practice, defined in the manifesto · career-ops (lowercase, hyphenated) = the tool
- 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.
Quotes
- “Months of sending CVs into silence. So I built the filter I needed.”
- “I built career-ops to manage my own job search, and it worked: it landed me a Head of Applied AI role. Six months later I left that role to focus on building career-ops full time.”
Santiago Fernández de Valderrama Aparicio, creator of career-ops. Source.
Creator
Santiago Fernández de Valderrama Aparicio is the creator of career-ops and has spent 16+ years building and selling products. He founded Santifer iRepair in 2009 and sold it in 2025. He built career-ops during his own 2026 job search, and it landed him a Head of Applied AI role. He then open-sourced the project under MIT. Six months after landing that role, he left it to focus on building career-ops full time. Full bio and entity links at /about.
Timeline
- Project inception, during Santiago’s own job search.
- Repository created on GitHub, under the MIT license.
- 10,000 GitHub stars.
- Feature in WIRED Greece.
- Feature in Business Insider.
- 50,000 GitHub stars, about two months after the repository was created.
- The CareerOps Manifesto, published the day the project crossed 60,000 stars.
- The repository moves to the career-ops-hq organization on GitHub.
- 75,000 GitHub stars.
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 ↓
- Author image (illustration, PNG, 384px)The illustrated avatar used on /about and GitHub.Download ↓
- Social banner (JPG, 1200×630)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 ↓
Product demo demo.gif on GitHub (“My own search, partway through, with the UI in Spanish.”)
Brand color #DD7627 (hsl 26 73% 51%)
Wordmark font Instrument Serif
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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