Investors
R29/month. Multiplied by job-seekers in Africa.
JobAlertsZA auto-submits job applications for South African users at the price of one short black coffee a month. The unit economics work; the market is enormous; the technical moat is the thirteen ATS handlers we've already shipped.
Jobs in inventory
115K+
scraped nightly; 23K live at any time
ATS handlers live
7
direct submission to the employer's own form
Applications auto-submitted
28,000+
end-to-end to real ATS endpoints · 7,966 in the last 7 days
True error rate
0.61%
real breakage; correct refusals counted separately
The problem
SA youth unemployment is ~60%.
The most cited reason job-seekers stop applying isn't skill or experience — it's friction. The average online application form takes 12–20 minutes. Multiply that across forty target roles a week and the math becomes a second full-time job.
Most candidates apply to 3–5 roles a week, hit zero responses, and give up. The application-form layer is broken in a way that compounds the unemployment problem.
What we built
Three things, shipping today.
01
Auto-apply, not assisted-apply.
We submit on the user's behalf, end-to-end. No chatbot, no 'we drafted it — you click send.' Real CV, real details, and an audit trail of every submission.
02
Nineteen ATS handlers built, six live.
Six submit applications today — MyJobMag, Ashby, Breezy, Careers24, Pnet and Greenhouse — each submitting through the employer's own application form, not just scraping listings. More are built and held back until the receiving platform is ready for them; the engineering is done, the door is opened one relationship at a time.
03
The application actually lands.
0.61% true error rate across 28,000 submissions. Every non-send is classified — no apply path, consent held, employer question we cannot answer truthfully — so a refusal is a known category rather than a mystery, and coverage gaps are visible instead of averaged away.
Revenue model
Two tiers. One coffee.
Free
R0
forever
Up to 10 auto-applies a day. All boards. Full dashboard. Acquisition funnel — converts to Pro after value is felt.
Pro
R29 / mo
cancel any time
The 10-a-day limit is removed. Most active free users reach that ceiling, which is what makes it the upgrade trigger.
UNIT ECONOMICS — avg cost per successful application ≈ $0.02 · Pro margin > 90%
Team
Founder, shipping solo.
Akhona
Founder · Software
Cape Town based. 5+ years of software engineering across web, scrapers, and ML pipelines. Built JobAlertsZA solo over six months — every scraper, every ATS handler, every line of the dashboard. Looking for advisory partners who've scaled consumer SaaS in emerging markets.
The ask
Currently not raising.
Happy to talk for advisory, partnership, or strategic intros — particularly anyone with consumer-SaaS or emerging-market distribution experience.