Kestrel matches you to open roles at early-stage companies, keeps your applications up to date from Gmail on its own, drafts notes to founders that you approve before they go out, and builds your resume and portfolio as you go.
Free to try with 30 AI credits. No card needed.
On the board today: 21,083 open roles at 145 startups.
Pick a role to see what startups are hiring for right now.
The steps you already take when you look for a job, with the busywork taken out.
Founding ML engineer
Fernwork, Seed
Senior backend engineer
Tidepool, Series A
Platform engineer
Halyard Labs, Pre-seed
Once a day Kestrel scans your inbox for application emails and nothing else. A confirmation becomes an “Applied” card, an invite moves it to “Interview”. You can always drag a card yourself.
Read-only access, revoke it any time
Applied 2
Interview 1
Offer 0
We pull openings straight from startups' own hiring pages every day, with funding stage, team size and location attached. Closed roles drop off the board on their own.
Missing a company? Ask and we'll add it.
Upload a PDF and Kestrel turns it into a clean resume you can tailor per role, plus a hosted portfolio page with a small assistant that answers recruiters' questions about your work.
Sam Okafor
Backend engineer, payments and data pipelines
Ledger service
Go, Postgres
Fraud features
Go, Postgres
Open-source CLI
Go, Postgres
For roles you care about, Kestrel finds who to write to and drafts a note grounded in what they've built. Every email waits for your approval and is sent from your own address, with a daily cap to keep things human.
To maya@fernwork.example
Subject Your evals work, and a question
Hi Maya, I read your post on grading model outputs with small rubrics. I built something close to it for support tickets last year
Every new account starts with 30 free AI credits to try everything. Upgrade when the search gets serious, cancel when you've signed.
€9/ month
Billed monthly
500 AI credits every month
€15/ month
Billed monthly
1,500 AI credits every month
Free: Browse the startup job board, 30 trial AI credits, manual application board.
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Credits pay for the things that run on a language model. Searching the board, browsing companies and moving cards around are free. Here is what each AI action costs:
| A message to the assistant | 1 |
| Reading an uploaded resume | 2 |
| Tailoring your resume to a role | 1 |
| Rewriting a resume section | 1 |
| Analysing your GitHub profile | 2 |
| Generating your portfolio | 3 |
| A visitor question to your portfolio assistant | 1 |
| Drafting a founder email | 1 |
| Explaining a match score | 1 |
| Sorting an application email from Gmail | included |
Basic includes 500 credits a month and Pro includes 1,500. Your allowance resets at each renewal; unused credits don't carry over. If an AI action fails, the credits come straight back.
AI actions pause until your next refill or until you upgrade. Everything you've already made stays where it is: your portfolio stays online, your resumes stay downloadable, and your board and saved roles keep working. Nothing is deleted and you're never charged extra without asking.
Yes. Every new account gets 30 credits once, enough to import a resume, generate a portfolio and chat with the assistant for a while. No card required.
Gmail is optional and connected separately from sign-in. With read access, Kestrel looks only for messages about your job applications (confirmations, interview invites, rejections) and uses them to update your board. It does not keep copies of unrelated emails, never uses your mail for advertising, and never uses it to train AI models.
With send access, Kestrel can send the outreach emails you've approved, one by one, from your own address. It never sends anything on its own. You can disconnect in Settings at any time, which also revokes access at Google.
Up to 15 a day on Basic and 40 on Pro. The cap is there on purpose: short, specific notes to a few people work better than volume, and it keeps your address in good standing.
From the hiring pages startups publish themselves. We check them daily, add new roles and remove closed ones, so what you see is what the company is hiring for today.
From Settings, open “Manage subscription” and cancel in a couple of clicks. You keep your plan until the end of the period you paid for, then move to Free with whatever credits are left. Deleting your account is also in Settings and removes your data.
Questions about your account, a company you'd like on the board, or feedback on what to build next. A person reads every message.
Prefer email? hello@kestreljobs.com