How NextRole Works

What is NextRole?

NextRole is an AI-powered job search platform built for professionals who want a more deliberate, less exhausting search. The product runs on Next.js, hosted on Vercel, with PostgreSQL data storage on Neon, payment processing through Stripe, and AI features powered by Anthropic's Claude models. NextRole is operated by Martin Consulting Solutions LLC, a US-registered company. We launched publicly in April 2026 and serve professionals across roles, industries, and career stages.

We offer three subscription tiers — Starter ($9/mo), Pro ($29/mo), and Career Sprint ($79/mo) — each with a 7-day free trial. Cancel before day 8 = no charge.

When you upload your resume and confirm your target roles, work preferences, and locations during onboarding, NextRole builds a structured profile (skills, titles, trajectory, comp expectations). For each new job listing in our index, an AI model — currently Anthropic's Claude — evaluates the match across multiple dimensions: role-title fit, skill overlap, seniority alignment, location/remote compatibility, and compensation alignment with your expectations.

Each role gets a 0–100 score and a one-line reason explaining the match. You see both. The score is a relative-fit signal, not a quality judgment about the role. Roles below your defined threshold are deprioritized in your feed; you can always see them by adjusting filters.

What we describe: the dimensions we score against and the user-visible output. What we don't disclose: exact weights, prompt construction, or model parameters — those are operational details that don't affect our trustworthiness claims.

A "ghost job" is a posted role that the company has no immediate intent to fill — open to gather candidates, signal growth, or maintain a pipeline. Industry analyses suggest roughly 30% of public listings fit this pattern, with notable concentration in tech, finance, and consulting (this figure is widely cited; see for example Clarify Capital's 2023 ghost-job study and follow-up coverage in MarketWatch).

NextRole uses a 6-signal AI model that evaluates each listing across four signal families:

• Recency — how long the listing has been open relative to typical time-to-fill for this role family
• Recruiter activity — whether the posting source is currently engaging with applicants on related listings
• Posting patterns — repost cadence, near-duplicate detection, and persistence across staffing cycles
• Cross-source consistency — whether the same role appears with consistent details across hiring platforms

Listings flagged as likely-stale are deprioritized in your feed. We don't auto-remove flagged listings — you can always see them with a filter toggle. This is intentional: ghost-detection is a probabilistic signal, not an oracle, and you stay in control.

For each job you choose to apply to, our AI rewrites your resume bullets to mirror what the job description actually prioritizes — same evidence from your work history, framed in the language a recruiter scanning for fit would recognize. We don't fabricate experience or skills you don't have. We don't keyword-stuff (which is a documented myth about how applicant tracking systems work — see our note below).

Tailored packets — resume + cover letter draft + suggested talking points — typically generate in under 60 seconds. Starter users get 10 tailorings per month; Pro and Career Sprint users get unlimited.

How does auto-apply work?

Auto-apply submits your application — profile, tailored resume, optional cover letter — directly to the company's ATS for jobs hosted on supported platforms. We currently support Greenhouse and Lever, two of the most widely used ATSes in tech and adjacent industries. More platforms are on our roadmap.

You approve every auto-apply target. Nothing goes out under your name without explicit confirmation. We never message recruiters, hiring managers, or anyone else on your behalf without you saying yes first.

How does the AI career coach work?

Career Sprint subscribers get a dedicated AI career coach — a persistent agent that knows your full profile, application history, and search goals. Powered by Claude, the coach offers context-aware guidance on positioning, interview prep, salary negotiation, and search strategy. It's distinct from the simpler AI assistant included with Pro, which is a context-aware in-product helper rather than a persistent advisor.

Coaching sessions persist across visits — you don't have to re-explain your situation every time you open the app.

Three sources:

• Job listings — aggregated through JSearch, an OpenWeb Ninja product accessed via RapidAPI, which sources from Google for Jobs, LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, and ZipRecruiter. We don't scrape any of these platforms directly.
• Salary benchmarks — initial estimates use a heuristic model trained on aggregated US market observations and BLS-style role+location lookups. Career Sprint's deeper salary intelligence (negotiation talking points, equity analysis) uses Claude with the role and listing context.
• Internal analytics (post-100-users) — once we have meaningful user-outcome data, we'll publish original analyses with explicit sample sizes and time periods. We will never cite internal data without methodology transparency.

Your resume, application history, and search activity are stored encrypted at rest in our Neon-hosted PostgreSQL database. We don't sell personal data and never use your inputs to train publicly-available AI models. Anthropic processes your inputs for AI features, but doesn't train its public models on them either.

We list every subprocessor that handles your data in our Privacy Policy. We update that list whenever a subprocessor changes — for example, when we replaced our job-listing aggregator from SerpAPI to JSearch in April 2026.

Who is behind NextRole?

NextRole is built and operated by Martin Consulting Solutions LLC, founded by Jeremy Martin. Jeremy is a two-time founder; his prior career-tech company was HyreSnap. Martin Consulting Solutions also operates as a digital marketing services firm; NextRole is the company's flagship product and serves as the public case study for our marketing methodology.

We're a small team committed to building a job-search tool that respects user autonomy: NextRole automates the busywork (matching, tailoring, tracking) but never sends anything under your name without your approval. That's a deliberate product principle, not a technical limitation.