Looking for a job is a project. It has research, writing, follow-ups, deadlines and a lot of waiting, and most people run it in the evenings, on top of the job they already have. We started Nico because that project deserves better tools than a spreadsheet and a stack of browser tabs.
The idea in one sentence
Nico is an AI agent that works the whole job hunt with you, built around the one role that is right for you rather than the hundred that are not.
That sentence carries two choices we made early and have kept.
The first is the whole job hunt. Finding a role, preparing an application, keeping conversations moving and getting ready for interviews are one process to the person doing it. We wanted one agent that understands all of it, not a separate tool for each step.
The second is fit over volume. Applying to a role you match well, with an application written for that role, is a better use of an evening than applying to twenty roles at once. Nico is designed to make the well-matched application the easy path.
What Nico does today
It finds roles where they are first published. Nico reads the career pages of thousands of companies directly, in the language they were written in. Many roles appear there and nowhere else, and the rest appear there first. You describe what you are looking for, name a city or a company, and Nico shows you the few roles that fit.
It reads job descriptions the way a hiring manager would. For a role you like, Nico compares your resume to the description and shows where you match and where you do not. Where there is a gap, it points to courses and resources that close it, so the next time that kind of role comes around you meet all the requirements.
It tailors your resume to the role. Not a new resume from scratch, but your resume, with the experience that matters for this role brought forward and phrased in the language the description uses.
It keeps every conversation moving. Nico reads your inbox, surfaces what needs a reply, helps draft the response and schedules interviews. Every application has a clear next step and a date on it.
It works with the assistant you already use. Nico has its own intelligence, and it also connects to ChatGPT and Claude, so you can ask about your applications and interviews from the chat window you already have open.
Nico speaks English, Dutch, German, French and Spanish, and reads job postings in many more languages than that.
Who it is for
Anyone whose next role is a considered choice rather than a numbers game. People changing companies, changing fields, or returning to work after a break. People who would rather be doing almost anything else than job hunting, and want it done well anyway.
The private beta
Nico is in private beta. We are opening spots in small groups so that every new person gets attention while we learn what works. Requesting access takes a minute on the homepage, and we will be in touch as spots open up.
On this blog we will write about what we learn along the way: how companies publish roles, what makes an application land, and what an AI agent can and cannot do for a job search. If there is a topic you would like us to cover, reply to any of our emails and tell us.