Why it’s paid (and why it isn’t a scraper)
Fair question. Here’s the straight answer.
Finding the listings isn’t the hard part
Anyone can pull a list of jobs for free. The real slog starts afterwards, when you’re staring at two hundred rows and have to work out on your own which ones are worth applying to. That’s the bit Faro does for you: it reads every role against your CV, gives it a score and tells you why it’s there, and sets aside the duplicates and the postings that have sat open for months because nobody bothered to close them.
If it’s free, you usually pay in data
A service that doesn’t charge you still has to get by, and it usually does that by reselling what it knows about you: who you are, what you’re after, what’s in your CV. We don’t, and the subscription is exactly what leaves us free not to.
There’s real infrastructure underneath, not a downloaded folder
Every day we read the career pages of thousands of companies and match them against your profile, while an AI engine works through your CV and drafts your letters. It isn’t a file downloaded once and left there: it’s compute that runs non-stop, and it costs. The subscription covers that and nothing more, with no ads and nothing resold to anyone.
What about open source?
Open code is a fine thing, but it doesn’t pay for servers or AI; and, as it happens, the outfits that live on sponsored listings or resold data are sometimes open source themselves. We’d rather keep the deal simple: you pay a little, and in return the service works for you, not for whoever would buy your data. If we open up some parts one day we will, but keeping the thing running comes before flags.