What an ATS is, in one paragraph
Almost every tech company runs its hiring through an applicant tracking system (ATS) — the software behind the “Apply” page on their careers site. Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby power the career pages of a large share of the industry, from seed-stage startups to household names. When you apply “on the company’s website”, you are almost always filling a form served by one of these systems.
Why supporting an ATS properly matters
Each system lays out its application form differently: field names, resume handling, custom questions, consent checkboxes. A submission engine either understands the specific form deeply enough to complete it like a careful human would — or it guesses, and you get half-filled applications submitted under your name. This is the detail that separates working auto-apply from the horror stories.
The path of one application in Hiredeck
- Sourcing: the deck pulls fresh openings directly from top tech companies’ Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby boards. Every card links to the real posting.
- Filtering: jobs on systems the engine cannot genuinely complete never enter your deck — every card you see is one-tap applyable, by construction.
- Drafting: your right swipe triggers an AI-tailored resume and cover letter for that job.
- Approval: the draft waits in Review until you approve it. You are always the sender.
- Submission: the engine completes the employer’s actual form — contact details, resume, cover letter, standard questions — and the status moves Queued → Submitting → Applied.
- Honesty on failure: if a form needs something only you can provide, the application is marked Error with exactly what to finish manually — and the credit is not spent.
What we deliberately do not do
- No job-board blasting. Applications go to company career pages, not scraped inboxes.
- No pretending. Unsupported systems are excluded rather than half-supported. Coverage grows carefully.
- No silent sends. Every application is visible to you before and after submission — in Review, then in your tracker.
One-tap apply is not magic; it is a well-understood form, filled carefully, with your approval in front of it. That is the standard the whole app is built to.