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
46K+
scraped nightly across 12 boards
ATS systems covered
13
direct-submission handlers — the moat
Applications auto-submitted
1,500+
end-to-end to real ATS endpoints · 1,100+ in the last 7 days
Cost per application
~$0.02
AI cover letter + submit · >90% Pro margin
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.' Tailored CV, AI cover letter, audit trail.
02
Thirteen ATS handlers built.
Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever, SmartRecruiters, Breezy, Workable, PlacementPartner, Simplify.hr, Pnet, MyJobMag, Careers24 and more — each integrated against the actual submit endpoints, not just scraped.
03
AI cover letters in the user's voice.
Four LLM providers — GPT-4o, Gemini, Groq, Claude — with automatic failover. Cents per generation, trained on the user's CV plus the job listing. Indistinguishable from a careful 20-minute manual write.
Revenue model
Two tiers. One coffee.
Free
R0
forever
Over 10 auto-applies a day. All boards. Full dashboard. Acquisition funnel — converts to Pro after value is felt.
Pro
R29 / mo
cancel any time
Unlimited auto-applies. AI-tailored CV per role. Priority matching. Direct ATS submission.
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.