Upload your CV once. Draftloop does the typing.

1. Set up once

Install Draftloop from the Chrome Web Store and create an account. Then upload your CV: Draftloop reads it and fills your profile with your contact details, your work history and your education, and saves it straight away. For most people that is enough to start.

Your profile has four short steps — Resume, Contact, Work and Demographic — and the more of it you complete, the more Draftloop can fill. The demographic questions are optional and stay empty unless you choose to answer them.

Keep more than one CV if you apply for different kinds of roles. You pick which one to attach, and it goes onto the form as the original file, byte for byte, so it opens for a recruiter exactly the way it opens for you.

2. Open a job application

On the 532 applicant tracking systems and job platforms Draftloop knows, it is ready as soon as the page loads: an Autofill with Draftloop button appears in the bottom-left corner. One integration covers every company that hires through that system, which is most of the Apply buttons you will meet.

On a careers page it doesn’t recognise, click the Draftloop icon in your toolbar and press Autofill, or use the shortcut Alt + Shift + D. It will still try, and it often succeeds.

3. What the colours mean

Every field Draftloop touches is marked, so you can see at a glance what went where.

• Green was filled from your profile.
• Purple was written for you. Read it before you send it.
• Amber needs you — Draftloop wasn’t sure, so it didn’t guess.

That last one matters. A wrong answer in a required field is worse than an empty one, so when Draftloop can’t be confident, it leaves the field for you rather than filling it with something plausible.

4. The questions your CV doesn’t answer

“Why do you want to work here?” “Tell us about a project you’re proud of.” Cover letters. These are the ones that take twenty minutes each, and they are where Draftloop writes an answer for you — drawing on your CV, on the answers you have already given, and on the job posting in front of you.

Don’t like a draft? Press Rewrite and get another. It also reads forms in other languages, and its written answers come back in the language the question was asked in.

Written answers are free on your first 25 applications. How the 25 are counted is simple: an application only counts when Draftloop writes something, however many questions it writes inside that one form.

5. Forms with several pages

Many applications are split into steps. When you press Next, Draftloop notices the new fields and fills them on its own, so you don’t have to start it again on every page. Workday is the best-known example, and our step-by-step Workday guide walks through every page of it.

6. Review, then submit yourself

When it has finished, a small panel tells you what it did: how many fields it filled, how many it wrote for you, and which ones need you. Go through the form, change anything you want, and press Submit when you are happy.

Changed your mind? Undo autofill puts every field back exactly as it was, and anything you had typed before Draftloop started is never overwritten.

7. It learns how you answer

When you type an answer into a field Draftloop couldn’t fill, it offers to remember it. The next time a different employer asks the same thing in different words, it already knows what you said. Across 724 real applications, Draftloop remembered 525 answers and filled 536 fields from them, so the fortieth application asks you far less than the first.

It also keeps track of where you have applied, and warns you before you spend twenty minutes on a role you have already applied for.

8. What it will never do

• Submit anything. An application sent by a bot is worse for you than no application at all.
• Agree to things on your behalf. Consent boxes, “I certify” statements, attestations and terms are left for you to read and tick.
• Sign for you, or consent to an interview being recorded.
• Solve a CAPTCHA. Those are there to check that a person is present, and you are.