// for experienced professionals · one-time purchase
Every morning NextBeacon reads the new postings at the companies you choose, scores each one against your real background, and builds a tailored résumé where every number, employer and title is checked against your own CV. It all lands in your own NextBeacon app on your PC, with a morning email telling you what is worth a look. Built for people with fifteen or more years of real work behind them.
NextBeacon
// today · tuesday, oct 28
Your action queue for today, in one place.
// pipeline
Every posting you kept, by stage. Nothing moves without you.
// analytics
A read on the roles you are pursuing and the funnel they move through.
// follow-ups
Reminders by stage, so a quiet inbox never becomes a lost thread.
// portals
Each company's own job board, read every morning. Add any company by name.
// documents
One tailored résumé per strong match, every claim checked against your CV before it is saved.
// config
Set once, in plain questions. Change any of it whenever the search changes.
// sound familiar?
If you have fifteen years of real work behind you and months of silence in front of you, the numbers say it is not you.
applications in an average search, at 44 minutes each. That is a full work week of forms.
of applicants heard nothing back from employers last year. Not a no. Nothing.
of professionals have applied to a job they later learned never existed.
applications sent by one auto-apply tool, and the interviews it produced. 300 sent by hand had already earned the same 20.
You do not need more applications. You need the right ones, and a résumé you can stand behind.
Sources: the 2026 United Way NCA job seeker survey; Criteria Corp hiring data for 2025, reported by Fortune in March 2026; a 2026 Enhancv survey of 1,000 professionals; an auto-apply case reported by Wired.
// why it is different
Most tools either rewrite your résumé to please a keyword filter or blast out hundreds of applications in your name. NextBeacon does neither. It helps you choose well, then helps you apply well.
The Apply button opens the employer's own page with your résumé ready. You read it, you decide, and you send it. Nothing goes out in your name without you, so nothing reaches an employer that you have not read.
Before a résumé is saved, every number, employer, job title, degree and certification is checked word for word against your own CV. A claim that is not in your CV does not get through. Your reputation took twenty years to build; this protects it.
Each posting gets a 1 to 5 fit score against your actual experience, pay floor, level, location and the work you want, with the reasons written out. 4.0 and up means apply. 3.5 to 3.9 means consider.
You name the companies you would actually be proud to join. NextBeacon finds their job boards, reads the postings they publish, and drops the ones that have since closed. No recycled listings, no ghost jobs from an aggregator.
NextBeacon runs on your own PC with your own Claude account. Your résumé, your profile and your job history live in files on your own computer, and NextBeacon LLC never receives them. Nothing about your search is posted or shared, so if you are searching while employed, it stays your own business.
| NextBeacon | Bulk auto-apply services | Résumé and tracker subscriptions | Building it yourself with AI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it costs over a year | $299 once, plus your own Claude plan (about $20 a month) | $311 to $599 a year | $288 to $599 a year | Weeks of your own time |
| Who sends the application | You, every time | The service, in bulk | You | You |
| Checks every résumé claim against your own CV | Yes | — | — | Only if you build it |
| Where your information lives | On your PC | On their servers | On their servers | On your PC |
| Who fixes it when a job board changes | We do, in updates | They do | They do | You do |
Prices are the public 2026 prices of the common services in each group. A dash means the feature is not advertised on their public pages. Categories are summarized, not named.
// what is included
// how it works
Run the installer. It checks that your PC is ready first, then installs everything it needs. No command window, no code.
Upload your résumé, then answer a few plain questions: roles, pay, remote or on-site, industries and the companies you want watched.
Each morning it reads the new postings, scores them, lines them up on your Today page, and emails you the ones worth a look.
Open the tailored résumé and the employer's page, read them through, and submit the application yourself.
// who it is for
// a note from the person who built it
I built this for my friends.
Too many people I know and respect, people with twenty years of real work behind them, have spent this year in the application black hole. Sixty applications and silence. A posting that turns out not to exist. A tool that "applied" for them to a role two states away. Watching that happen to good people made me angry enough to build something.
I remember my own hard road into a new industry a few years back: a résumé rewritten a hundred times, hundreds of cover letters, a long list of rejections and a longer list of silences. A tea-bag tag on my monitor said "Settling is Not an Option," and some days it was the only thing keeping me on target. What finally worked was simple: fewer applications, targeted at companies I actually cared about, with a résumé that actually matched what hiring managers were looking for.
NextBeacon is that approach, built into a tool. It is not magic and it cannot promise you an interview. It will tell you honestly which postings fit, build a résumé that is true to your CV, and leave the sending to you. If you are in transition, I know the road. You can do this.
// price
One payment and no monthly fee to NextBeacon, ever. A full refund within seven days if it is not for you. Licensed for one computer, with one move to a replacement, for your own job search. One installer and a page-by-page setup in plain language. No call needed.
The full product: AI that reads every posting against your real background and writes résumés you can stand behind.
Needs a paid Claude plan from Anthropic on an account in your name, about $20 a month, paid to Anthropic. The checklist below has the details.
No separate AI account needed. Watches your companies, ranks the matches by fit, emails you every morning.
Upgrade to the full NextBeacon any time, from inside the app, for the $170 difference. No reinstall.
// get nextbeacon
$299 one time, or $129 for NextBeacon Lite, through secure checkout by Stripe. The thank-you page and your purchase email carry the download link and your purchase key, so you can be installing within minutes.
// questions
No. NextBeacon never applies to a job for you, in bulk or one at a time. It finds and scores postings and prepares your résumé. You read it, you open the employer's page, and after your review you submit the application. Nothing is ever sent in your name without you.
It is built not to. Before a résumé is saved, every number, employer, job title, degree and certification is checked word for word against your own CV, and anything that is not there is removed. AI can still make mistakes, so read every résumé and letter before you send it. You always have the final say.
Yes. You run one installer. It checks that your PC is ready, installs everything it needs, and opens a page-by-page setup that asks plain questions: your résumé, the roles you want, your pay floor, remote or on-site, and the companies to watch. There is no command window and no code. Plan on about half an hour: the installer takes around ten minutes and the setup questions the rest.
It stays on your PC. Your résumé, your profile and your job history live in files on your own computer, and NextBeacon LLC never receives them. Three things do leave your PC, so you know. The AI work runs through your own Claude account, so posting text and parts of your résumé and profile go to Anthropic. And each morning's report (that day's companies, roles, scores and pay) passes through NextBeacon's sending service on its way to your inbox; the service sends it and keeps no copy. And once a day NextBeacon checks your license with that service and sends it a few counts (how many postings were scanned and scored and, unless you switch it off, how many you applied to), never a company, a job title or a line of your résumé. The full details are on the privacy page.
Claude is the AI from Anthropic that reads postings, scores them and drafts your résumés. NextBeacon uses it through an account that belongs to you, so your information is never pooled with anyone else's. You pay Anthropic for that plan directly, about $20 a month for Claude Pro. If you do not have Claude on your PC yet, download it from Anthropic. If your plan lapses, the AI features pause until you renew it. NextBeacon Lite does not use Claude, so it needs no account.
The same tool without the AI. Lite watches the companies you choose, keeps the postings whose titles match the roles you want, ranks each one Strong, Possible or Weak fit by comparing the posting with your titles, your résumé, your pay floor and your remote setting, and emails you the list every morning. It does not score postings 1 to 5, explain its reasoning, or write résumés, cover letters or application answers. It needs no separate AI account. If you later want the full product, press Unlock in the app, pay the $170 difference, and the full features switch on in place, no reinstall.
Not to NextBeacon. You pay once, $299 for NextBeacon or $129 for NextBeacon Lite, and it is licensed to you for one Windows PC with no end date. If it is not for you, ask within seven days for a full refund. The only running cost is your own Claude plan, and Lite has none.
Not yet. NextBeacon runs on Windows 10 and 11. If you only have a Mac, please do not buy it yet.
Most of them. NextBeacon reads the job boards that companies publish on, and it finds a company's board when you type the company's name. A few large employers block automated reading of their career pages, and those cannot be scanned. You can still add them and check them by hand.
No, and nobody honestly can. NextBeacon helps you choose well and apply well. A score is an opinion about fit, not a prediction. Whether you get the job depends on you, the employer and the market.
NextBeacon is built and run by NextBeacon LLC, a one-person Colorado company. Its founder created the tool to help friends navigate a tough job market, and the terms reflect that it is one person's company. If you need to reach us, email info@mynextbeacon.com, or check out the Help page for details on what happens after you purchase.