Questions, answered

No. A job board shows you everything and leaves the sorting to you. GigDisco watches a short list of employers you chose, and tells you what changed. If a company isn't on your board, we never show you its roles — that's the whole design.

No, and we don't intend to. Every application you send is one you decided to send, wrote, and signed your name to. Mass auto-apply tools exist; they're a good way to send fifty applications nobody reads.

No. Nobody can promise that, and a tool that does is selling you something other than a job search. What we can do is make the search systematic instead of sporadic — a clear target, honest legwork, and a nudge every weekday. The work stays yours.

One clear slice of the job market you're searching. “Project management at any software company.” “Anything at that one company you love.” “Operations roles in healthcare within an hour's drive.” Most searches have two or three, and each one gets its own employers, roles, and events.

We build them with you in a conversation, because the first sentence anyone says about their search is almost never specific enough to search on.

Those are for finding listings; there are millions and they'll show you all of them. GigDisco is for running a search: deciding what you're actually after, watching a handful of employers closely, and showing up week after week. Most people don't need more listings. They need a system and a reason to keep going.

Weekday mornings, and only when there's something to say. If nothing changed, nothing arrives — a quiet digest is a working digest. We're not going to manufacture urgency to look busy.

No. Every button in the email works with one tap and no password — “not for me,” “I'm going,” “done.” The whole design assumes you're reading on a phone between other things.

The trade-off: anyone with access to your inbox can tap them, so treat your email account as part of your GigDisco security.

Nothing breaks and nothing is lost. New roles queue up rather than expiring, and the recurring nudges come back around. A search has slow weeks; the system is built to survive them, not to punish you for them.

Yes, free and unlimited on every plan, including the free one. They can see your board and your progress but can't edit anything or spend money. Job searching alone is the hard version — if someone wants to cheer for you, let them.

No. This is the promise we care most about. When you reject roles for the same measurable reason a few times, the system writes a proposal in plain language — “you've rejected three roles that all required a master's degree; add a rule excluding them?” — and then waits for you.

Nothing takes effect until you approve it. Every active rule is listed on your Rules page, in words, with the reasoning that created it, and any of them can be switched off.

We hold ourselves to it too: the very first GigDisco search had two requirements buried in our code. We moved them out — today they're two visible rules on that user's Rules page, revocable like any other.

Undo it. Rejected roles move to a “Dismissed” list rather than vanishing, and undoing puts the role back everywhere at once — your list, your digest, and the evidence behind any related rule proposal.

Because some reasons can't be measured, and a filter built on a guess is worse than no filter. “Wrong field” removes that one role and stops there — there's no structured fact behind it to turn into a reliable rule. Distance, pay, seniority, and credentials do have measurable facts behind them, so those can become rules once there's enough evidence.

We also refuse to propose a rule that would wipe out most of your board. A decision that big should be typed by a person who knows what they're doing, not suggested by a pattern.

Because most people find work through other people, and almost nobody schedules the part where you go meet them. Applications are easy to do alone at a laptop; showing up in a room is harder and works better. So the system treats it as real work, with reminders attached.

No. Their terms don't allow automated extraction, so we don't do it — even where a robots.txt would technically let us. Instead we hand you the search already built, with your interests and city filled in, as a weekly to-do. It's ten minutes and it's yours.

Events we do suggest come from live web search, and we refuse to store one unless it came from a page we actually retrieved. An invented event is worse than no event: it sends you to a room that doesn't exist on a night you set aside.

Because we don't know your finances and it isn't our place to decide for you. National conferences are where the people who run a field actually gather — genuinely valuable, genuinely expensive. We surface them with honest cost information and let you make the call.

Only to suggest non-work gatherings — a woodworking group, a volunteer shift, the bar where your school's games are on. Long shots for the job search, good for you regardless, and the questions are entirely optional. Skip them and everything else still works.

No. Plans are one-time purchases of a fixed stretch of time. Nothing auto-renews, nothing recurs, and there's no cancellation to remember — a job search is a finite project, so the billing matches.

Your board goes read-only and the emails stop. Nothing is deleted. If you come back in six months and renew, everything is exactly where you left it — because searches pause and resume, and losing the record would mean starting over.

Yes — within 7 days, in full, as long as you haven't saved a Direction yet. Email us and we'll send it back. If the law where you live gives you more than that, the law wins.

Mostly research. Building a Direction, finding employers worth watching, and hunting down real local events all run on AI and live web search that cost real money per search. The plan tiers are shaped around how many Directions you're running and for how long, because that's what actually drives the cost.

Yes, and we'd rather say so plainly than bury it. Your profile and resume text are sent to Anthropic's Claude to generate your suggestions. Anthropic processes it as a service provider and doesn't use it to train models.

AI-written suggestions can be wrong. We verify every link before storing it and refuse to store events we couldn't actually retrieve — but treat suggestions as well-researched starting points, not verified fact.

No. We don't sell it, don't share it for advertising, don't buy data about you from brokers, and don't run background checks. If we ever wanted to change that, we'd ask first, in plain language.

Yes. Email us from your account address and we'll delete your account and personal data within 30 days, keeping only what tax law requires. You can also ask for a copy of everything, or corrections — no forms, no fee.

Right now, the Puget Sound region plus explicitly remote roles. That's an honest limitation, not a strategy: the geography is currently built into the system rather than set per person, and widening it properly is work we haven't done yet.

If you're searching elsewhere, the Directions, events, and to-dos all still work — but the job-board watching is tuned for Washington today. Ask us before you buy.

Some career sites are built in ways that can't be read reliably, and some prohibit it. Rather than pretend those companies are covered, we mark them as needing a human and remind you to check them yourself. You'll see exactly which ones.

A small operation in Seattle. The short version is on our About page — it started as a spreadsheet for one person's job search and turned into this.