Applying to jobs has become a full-time job. It shouldn't be.

Ara is your autonomous career agent. She works while you sleep.

Meet Ara → How it works
Free forever · No credit card
The problem

Looking for a job is now a job. Nobody's paying you.

20hrs/wk
spent job-searching by active seekers
300+ apps
received per role, average
55%
say their top frustration is no reply
20wks
average length of a job search
A day in the life

Tuesday, May 13. Two timelines.

Without Ara
11.7 hrs · 0 callbacks
06:45
Refresh inbox. Nothing.
08:00
Open 11 job boards. Same listings.
10:00
Rewrite résumé. Again.
12:30
Submit two applications.
15:00
Cold message a hiring manager. Silence.
19:00
Doomscroll LinkedIn.
22:40
Sleep poorly.
With Ara
12 min · 4 strong leads
06:00
Ara's brief lands. 4 matches, drafts ready.
07:30
Coffee. Approve three with one tap each.
08:00
Done. Get on with your day.
14:00
Warm intro lands. Maya at Grab wants to chat.
Outcome:1 onsite scheduled. 2 first-rounds booked.
A look inside

Open Ara at 6am. This is what you see.

A short brief of the night's work. Who flagged you, what matters, and the cards waiting in your deck.

app.alorawork.com / morning brief / May 18 06:04 · Singapore
a Ara
Today's brief
Roles 26
Chats 7
Intros 3
Watching
Staff Eng · Singapore
Founding · Remote
Tech Lead · Jakarta

Morning brief · May 18

Working
Today · 06:04
Good morning, Jordan. Overnight four companies in our network flagged you. All four worth talking about. Drafts ready.
For Grab's Staff Engineer role, I can reach Maya Tan directly through Lora. Want me to make the intro?
Shortlist · 4 roles
Three drafts ready
Two follow-ups sent
Ask Ara anything…
/role /intro /coach
4 priority roles
By match
Staff Engineer Grab · $200–245k
94
Distributed systems. Maya reviews every applicant.
Distributed Go
Intro ready
Founding Engineer Xendit · $150–185k
91
Tiny team. Heavy ownership.
Founding
Draft ready
Tech Lead Sea · $185–230k
88
Edge runtime team. Remote ok.
Infra
Draft ready
Figure 1. Your morning briefing, 6:04am, May 18, 2026.
Matchmaking

Like dating, for jobs.

1 of today's deck
0 matches
Drag the card or use the buttons
01

A small deck each morning.

02

Swipe right when you're interested.

03

Both sides match. Lora makes the intro.

How it works

From signup to signed offer. Fourteen days.

Day 0Onboarding

A real conversation. Twenty minutes.

Ara learns who you are, what you want, what's off the table.

Day 1First brief

Four matches in your inbox by 6am.

Drafts already written. Approve with a tap.

Day 3Your picks

You swipe through the deck. You pick four.

Ara writes each application the moment you swipe right. In your voice, tailored to the role.

Day 4Warm intro

A real introduction lands.

Through Lora's network, not a cold message.

Day 7First-rounds

Three real conversations on the calendar.

Pre-reads in your inbox. Coaching the night before.

Day 11Offer

An offer arrives. Ara helps you read it.

Market comparison. Suggested counter.

Day 14Accepted

You sign. +18% on the first offer, average.

Median time to accepted offer · 14 days · 10× faster than average
What Ara handles

Six things Ara does so you don't have to.

01 · Know you

Twenty minutes that twenty job boards can't replace.

Onboarding isn't a form. It's a real conversation. What you've done, what you want next, what's off the table. Every role you see is filtered through that, drawn from companies in our network where Lora has already signalled interest in someone like you.

Flagged for youThis week
G
GrabStaff Eng · Singapore
94
X
XenditFounding Eng · Jakarta
91
S
SeaTech Lead · Singapore
88
02 · Match

The company's interested. Are you?

Ara finds the roles where Lora, the hiring-side agent, has already signalled interest in someone like you. They come to you as cards. You swipe yes, no, or maybe later. Each yes becomes a tailored application, sent the same morning.

Grab · pre-flaggedTheir move
Re: Staff Engineer, Platform Lora flagged you · awaiting your swipe

"Maya's team has had two staff hires in the last year. Both came through your kind of background. They'd say yes back. Want me to send?"

Already interested 342-word draft Your call
03 · Connect

Warm intros to actual humans.

When Ara finds a strong match, she works with Lora, our hiring-side agent, to make a warm introduction to the hiring manager directly. Skips the application queue. Gets you read.

Intro requestedvia Lora
Maya Tan VP Engineering · Grab

Hires 1–2 Staff Engineers a year. Replies within 48 hours. Cares about systems thinking and teams over tools.

Ex-Sea Reads carefully Decision maker
04 · Coach

A rehearsal partner that never tires.

Before every interview, Ara runs through likely questions tailored to the company, role, and interviewer. Twenty minutes the night before. Feedback on pacing, content, and the moments where your voice goes up.

Live · 06:21 Mock interview
J
I'd say my biggest weakness is taking on too much without delegating.
a
That's on every list of weakest interview answers. Let's try one that's actually true. What's a critique you keep getting in 1:1s?
05 · Benchmark

Know what 'good' actually pays.

Compensation benchmarks for your role, level, and city. Updated weekly from real offers in our network. Not Levels.fyi self-reported guesses. Walk in with hard numbers behind you.

Staff Eng · Singapore Updated 3d ago
P25 $175k
P50 $210k
You $245k
P90 $285k
06 · Negotiate

The counter, written for you.

When the offer lands, Ara builds a counter using real comp data and the exact language to use. Firm where it matters, friendly the rest of the way. Average uplift: 18%, about $28k for a senior role.

Offer · LumenJust now
Employer "We can offer $195,000 base, $35k equity per year."
Ara's counter Below P50 for the role. Counter at $220k base; they've had this seat open four months. Hold equity, push base.
Accepted + $25,000 / yr
The math

Without Ara, vs with her.

Without
280hours
~11 hrs/week × 6 months
Scanning job boards70
Tailoring résumés & cover letters80
Cold applications & outreach50
Tracking & follow-ups30
Interview prep50
With
12hours
~30 min/week × 6 months
Morning swipes2
Approving drafts1
Real conversations7
Interview prep2

That's 268 hours back. About seven weeks of evenings not spent on job boards. Or roughly the time it takes to learn the basics of a new language.

23× faster
Why we're building this

Stories from people still looking.

P
Priya A. Sr. Product Manager · Jakarta

"I applied to forty-seven PM roles in four months. Three replies."

Priya has six years of product experience and shipped two zero-to-one features at her last company. She's been looking actively since January. Most postings disappear from the listing before she hears back. The Singapore roles that interest her either don't sponsor or quietly only consider Singapore-based candidates. She's stopped customising her cover letters.

Apps sent
47
Replies
3
R
Reuben H. Staff Engineer · Jakarta

"The roles I want either don't exist here or only hire from inside Singapore."

Reuben has been a Staff Engineer for three years. The local market thins out fast above senior level, and remote staff roles at global companies attract thousands of applicants. He's interviewed at four companies in eighteen months. Two ghosted him after the final round. He'd take a pay cut to work on something hard, but the hard problems are mostly in Singapore or San Francisco.

Looking for
14 mo
Ghosted at final
2
E
Elena O. Head of Ops · Kuala Lumpur

"I run ops for an eighty-person company and I still can't get a recruiter to call me back."

Elena has been considering a move for nearly a year. The senior ops roles in KL mostly go through people who know people. She's tried LinkedIn, headhunters, direct messages to founders. The replies she does get are for roles two levels below where she is. She doesn't want to relocate to Singapore. It's starting to look like the only way out.

Looking for
11 mo
Recruiter callbacks
0
FAQ

Reasonable questions. Plain answers.

No. Ara is an autonomous agent who runs continuously on your behalf. Writing is the smallest part of her job.

Every draft is a starting point. You edit and approve before anything sends. Nothing goes out cold.

Companies pay Lora, our hiring-side agent, only when they make a hire. You never pay. No tier. No upsell.

No. Ara works invisibly until you approve each action. You're never listed publicly.

Most of our users aren't. Ara runs quietly. She'll only interrupt when it's genuinely worth it.

We cover every role, from engineering and product to design, ops, finance, marketing, sales, customer success, and leadership. Whatever you do, Ara is built to help you find the next step.

Stop applying. Start arriving.

Free forever. Twenty minutes to onboard. First brief tomorrow.

Join the waitlist →
No credit card · Cancel any time

Hire 6× faster. Without 6× the team.

Lora is your autonomous recruiter. She runs the loop. Your team makes the calls.

Book a kickoff → See how
Pay only when someone signs
The shape of the problem

Recruiting is now mostly typing. That's an indictment of the tools.

$5.5k
cost-per-hire, average. Rising every year.
300+
applications per hire. Triple what it was in 2021.
44days
to fill a role on average. Long enough to lose the best.
How Lora works

Five steps. Fourteen days.

Step 01
Day 0
Kickoff

A 45-minute call. Lora learns who you want and what's negotiable.

Step 02
Day 1–2
Source

Matches your brief against active Ara candidates. Surfaces six pre-qualified intros.

Step 03
Day 3–6
Swipe

You swipe through six cards in five minutes. The matches, where both sides said yes, go straight to scheduled loops.

Step 04
Day 7–10
Onsite

Schedules across panels. Pre-reads, rubrics, debriefs all done.

Step 05
Day 11–14
Offer

Calibrated comp. Offer letter on the day of decision.

Matchmaking

A new deck of candidates, every week.

1 of this week's deck
0 matches
Drag the card or use the buttons
01

Pre-qualified candidates, opted in.

02

Swipe right when you want to talk.

03

Loop scheduled within 24 hours.

The product

Your hiring, on one screen.

Three things every Monday morning: where each search stands, what needs you today, and which candidates are ready to talk.

app.alorawork.com / hiring
Lora
Monday brief Week of May 18 · Singapore
Open roles3 active
Staff Engineer
4in pipeline
on track
Senior PM
47dopen
Role too narrow
Designer
2interviewing
offer pending
Needs your attention3 items
Offer expiring Priya A.'s offer expires Wed. Add equity, hold base. Review →
Onsite needed 4 candidates over bar for Staff Eng. Book by Fri. Schedule →
Job spec Senior PM open 47 days. Drafted a sharper version. Approve →
New mutual matchesBoth sides swiped yes
96%Sienna O. · Senior at Grab · wants smaller scope
94%Devon K. · Senior at Sea · loves platform work
91%Adaeze N. · Manager at Xendit · open to remote
①
Every open role, at a glance. One tile per role. How many candidates are in the pipeline. How long it's been open. Whether it's healthy or stuck. The whole search, summed up in three numbers and a color.
②
The few decisions only you can make. Lora handles the sourcing, scheduling, and follow-up in the background. This panel shows only what needs your call: an offer to counter, an onsite to book, a job description to approve.
③
Candidates who already want to talk to you. These aren't cold leads. Each person on this list is actively job-searching with Ara and has already swiped yes on your role. All that's left is for you to swipe back.
The economics

Per role. Per quarter. The hours that actually went somewhere.

Before
80
recruiter hours per hire
→
With Lora
14
recruiter hours per hire

~6× faster. Same headcount. Better hires. Lora does the sourcing, screening, scheduling, and follow-up. Your recruiter does the judgment calls.

Why we're building this

Heads of talent, still trying to hire.

"Three hundred applications a week. Maybe twelve qualified. Most weeks, fewer."

Marcus L. Head of Talent · Singapore fintech

"I spent forty hours in interviews last month. We made one hire."

Sandra W. Founder · Series A in Jakarta

"We paid an agency twenty-eight thousand for someone who left in six months. We can't keep doing this."

Anita C. VP People · Singapore marketplace

"The senior engineers I actually want are in Jakarta and KL. None of them know we're hiring."

James Chen Head of Engineering · Singapore scale-up
Why this works

Two agents. Same conversation.

Lora can move this fast because every candidate is already running Ara. Both sides arrive pre-aligned.

Ara
works for the candidate
↔
Lora
works for the company
Pricing

Pay when someone accepts the offer.

$0
SaaS fee
$0
Per-seat
$0
Annual contract
10%
of first-year comp, on hire

Below traditional contingency recruiting. Cancel any time before placement at no cost.

FAQ

Common questions. Direct answers.

No. She replaces logistics like scheduling, formatting, and rejection emails. Your recruiter gets to do recruiting again.

Your ATS organises an existing funnel. Lora generates one, from the live candidate pool on Ara's side. We integrate with Greenhouse, Ashby, and Lever.

Yes, clearly, from the first message. They prefer it. Candidate NPS hovers above 70. Most recruiting processes are below 20.

Structured first-rounds, identical across candidates. Monthly demographic audits, and we'll show you ours. The human always decides; Lora recommends.

Lora works great for any role: engineering, product, design, ops, GTM, finance, technical leadership, executive search. Whatever you're hiring for, the matchmaking flow works the same way.

45-minute kickoff. First qualified intros in 48 hours. No engineering integration needed.

Stop searching. Start hiring.

45-minute kickoff. First intros in 48 hours. Pay only when someone signs.

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