I ran my own job search with Claude this autumn, and I kept it in Saybooks rather than in a spreadsheet or in chat history. Between August and October that came to more than 120 postings and over 50 applications, through company sites, recruiters and agencies.
Claude is good at the reading: what a posting actually asks for, how well it fits, what to say to a recruiter. What it can't do on its own is remember all of it across weeks, and a spreadsheet doesn't stop the mistakes a busy search makes. So the tracker holds the record, and Claude works on it under rules.
The same job twice. Agencies retitle the same role all the time. One consultancy's role reached me through three different agencies under slightly different titles. Being submitted twice for the same job can get you disqualified, so every new posting is checked against the ones already on the board: the requisition number, the link, the employer and the description itself. A likely duplicate comes back as a warning for you to weigh, never silently merged or dropped.
No invented facts. Fifteen of my early applications say "unknown" for the date I applied, because I logged them from notes that didn't say. Claude is refused if it tries to fill one in. When the real date turns up, a correction records it with where it came from. The same goes for names, pay and requisition numbers: they come from the posting or from actual correspondence, or they stay empty.
One next action each. Every pursuit has one thing to do next and a due date. "What's due today?" gives the morning list: follow-ups, interviews coming up, companies that have gone quiet. A company that never answers is recorded as ghosted, not deleted, because which ones go quiet is worth knowing.
It never sends anything. No LinkedIn integration and no email. Claude drafts and suggests; you send and submit. The tracker records what happened.
One lesson from this week. I connected the same tracker to Gemini as a test, and asked for my pipeline. It listed the interviews correctly and got the total wrong: 58 items on a board of 84. Gemini had only read part of the long answer and counted what it saw. The board now answers with its counts first, and on a long board it suggests asking for one stage at a time. The totals should come from the tracker, not from a model counting a list it may not have read to the end.
The demo has a made-up job seeker's search in it, no account needed. Connecting your own takes a minute and is on the job hunt page.
More: all three job hunt demos.