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Your own shop.
For the whole job hunt.

Job hunting with a felony? Free account. Aim your resume at the job. Plan what you say about your record. Practice the interview out loud. Find jobs. Track every one. Lock up your documents. Everything you built in the Forge is already here.
Free. No code needed. No card. Your work saves.

Real Refinery screens taped to a dark wall and joined by red arrows: the Application Tailor with a live resume preview, a disclosure plan with pivot points, and interview practice with a hiring manager.

Inside the Refinery, t.ROY becomes your own named coach.

Your coach knows where you are in the journey, your saved jobs and applications, your goals and the barriers you named, and the page you are on. Ask it to find jobs, save one, set a follow-up date, take you to the right screen and point at the button. It cannot delete or send anything. Signed in, your coach keeps your conversation so it can pick up where you left off. That is on by default. You can turn it off in Settings. Meet t.ROY.

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The tools

One story moves through all of them. What you told the Forge is already here, so you do not explain your situation from scratch again. A resume with a felony behind it, aimed at one job at a time, built only from your own history.
A resume and cover letter aimed at one job.

Application Tailor

Pick a saved job or paste a posting. You get a resume and cover letter aimed at that job, built only from your own history, with a short note on disclosure timing and a starter script. Paste a link and we read the posting. If the site blocks us, we say so and ask you to paste the text. We never make up a posting. A fit read shows what the job asks for that your resume clearly shows, and what it does not show yet. Edit on the left, see the page on the right. Your approved resume is protected: tailoring makes a copy instead of changing it. Download Word, save PDF, and check the page count before you send.
A second model checks the cover letter, the summary, every bullet, and every skill and education line against your own material. The job posting is never evidence. The rule is nothing invented, a second check enforces it, and you review every line.
When to say it. What to say. What to say next.

Disclosure Planner

Plan when to bring up your record, what to say, and what to say next. Coaching, not legal advice. We ask before any detail about your record is sent to the AI. Say no and you still get a useful template, written without the AI seeing anything about your record. We save the plan so you can come back to it. The answers you type while building it shape the plan and are then let go. It also works for an employment gap or another hurdle you are nervous about. Then practice saying it out loud to a practice partner you choose, as gentle or as tough as you want. Practice is not saved unless you choose to save it.
No program can see or require your disclosure plan. We never share it with an employer, a program or another user. With your yes, it is sent to our AI provider to write your plan. The plan covers the kinds of legal protection that exist, like ban the box laws and record clearing, and points you to local legal aid to confirm what applies to you.
By text, or out loud with a live voice.

Interview Practice

Practice by text for the job you are going for. After five or six answers, or whenever you end, you get feedback on what landed. Or practice out loud with a live voice interviewer, up to 20 minutes a day. We do not store your audio. We save that you practiced, which frame you practiced, and the feedback. Not your words, unless you choose to save a transcript. A saved transcript is text only and encrypted.
No program can see or require your practice. Voice audio passes through OpenAI and is kept under its own retention policy, which we do not control.
Real listings, honestly labelled.

Job Board

We search several job sources at the same time and merge the results, so one slow or broken source does not end your search. If our job sources are down or over quota, we tell you that, instead of telling you there are no jobs. Listings are refreshed at least every six hours. We rewrite dense postings into plain language without changing the facts of the job. Save jobs to your tracker. Hide an employer and their listings stay out of your results. Before you click Apply we tell you where the link really goes: the employer's own form, a job board that wants a sign-up, or a search redirect.
A listing is marked as an employer that hires people with records only when the employer's name exactly matches one our team published. The AI never decides it.
Fields of work worth a look.

Fair-Chance Lanes

Kinds of work where people with records get hired most, what to watch out for in each, and a handoff into a job search for that lane.
These are patterns to check, not promises about any employer.
From saved to offer, with your own notes.

Application Tracker

Track every application from saved to offer, with your own notes. When a follow-up comes due, your dashboard and your coach tell you, and you can draft a short professional note in one click. No apply link? We draft the email and coach you on finding the right address. We never guess an address.
You send it. We never send anything for you.
Everything you make. Everything they keep asking for.

Library and Vault

Everything you make is kept in your Library to reopen or reuse. The Vault is a private place for the documents a job search keeps asking for: ID, certificates, reference letters. Each file is encrypted before it is stored and can be opened only through your own signed-in session, never by a link. Download every file you stored as one ZIP.
No program can see or require what is in your vault. There is no administrator or organization bypass in the code. It is a document home, not a secrets vault.
One step at a time, chosen by rules.

Your Next Step

At every point the Refinery shows the single most useful next step. Rules decide what the step is. The AI only explains why, and if the AI is down you still get the explanation. Your progress page counts real actions, not guesses.
A short tour shows you around, and you name your own coach.
The Application Tailor printed and taped up: a bullet in the editor joined by a red line to the same line on the live resume preview.
Application Tailor
A printed disclosure plan: after a brief acknowledgment, pivot points like Perfect Attendance and Reliability, and a Practice the Conversation button. A note reads Practice it in your own words.
Disclosure Planner
Interview practice with a hiring manager asking Tell me about yourself and what brought you here today, beside the saved materials list. A note reads Practice. Keep building.
Interview practice
02 / yours

Private, exportable, deletable

Specific claims, each one checkable in the open source code.

PRIVATE AT THE DATABASE

Your resumes, applications, profile, the index of your vault files and your progress history can be read only through your own account, by a rule in the database itself. Saved practice transcripts and vault files are encrypted.

ACCOUNT SECURITY YOU CONTROL

Turn on two-step verification with any authenticator app. You get one-time backup codes. See every device signed in to your account and sign out any you do not recognize. It loses access right away. We email you when your account is opened from a device or browser we have not seen before, and you can read your own sign-in history. We do not track where you go. When you sign in we record your IP address and the approximate city it maps to, so you can spot a sign-in that was not you. Passwords are stored as a one-way hash. Or skip the password and sign in with a link sent to your email.

DOWNLOAD EVERYTHING

Download your data whenever you want, all of it or by category: resumes, applications, coach chat, consent history, AI decisions about you, sign-in history, progress, everything about sharing, saved practice transcripts, and a list of vault files. Every AI recommendation is logged with the model, the reason and a fingerprint of the input, and you can read your own log in Settings.

TWO KINDS OF DELETE

Delete your data and keep your login, or delete your account entirely. It cannot be undone. Exporting or deleting asks for your password again, so a borrowed phone cannot copy or wipe your work. A data delete removes your resumes, plans, applications, profile, coach memory, saved practice, stored files, AI logs and progress history, and removes you from your organization. Records an organization keeps about you, such as case notes, are the organization's and are not erased by it. Anything already sent to an AI provider is under that provider's retention.

WHEN SUPPORT HELPS YOU

Our own support staff can open an account to help you. Every such access is recorded with who and when, a full-access session needs a written reason and ends after 30 minutes, and read-only sessions cannot change anything.

YOU AND YOUR PROGRAM

If you choose, your program can see how far along you are: never your resume, your plan or your practice. It is off until you turn it on. No program can read your conversations with your coach.

WHAT WE COUNT

No analytics load on disclosure, interview practice, your Library or the Mini Forge. Elsewhere we count visits only, and send three sign-up events to Google Analytics: Forge started, Forge finished, account created. No ads. We do not sell your data.

COMFORT SETTINGS

Turn on plain language, have replies read aloud, and make text larger. Your coach and t.ROY can reply in Spanish. Screens and buttons are in English, and your resume stays in the language of the job posting.
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How it connects

Start with a free account. Your Forge work comes with you into Refinery.
1

Run The Forge

Free with an account. You leave with a career report, a resume and a cover letter.

2

Create an Account

Create an account and everything you built comes with you. That includes what you told the Forge about your record. It is stored in your own profile, which no program can read.

3

Build in The Refinery

Tools unlock in order: your profile, then a first resume, then everything. A locked tool shows a labelled sample, never a dead end. There is a daily allowance of AI use per tool. An organization code raises it.

Ready to start?

Need a resume with a felony on your record first? If you have not run The Forge yet, start there. It starts with a free account. Then the Refinery picks up what you built.

Want a human to review your resume? Contact Troy directly.