// for experienced professionals · one-time purchase
Every morning NextBeacon reads the new postings at the companies you choose, scores each one against your real background, and builds a tailored résumé where every number, employer and title is checked against your own CV. Built for people with fifteen or more years of real work behind them.
// sound familiar?
If you have fifteen years of real work behind you and months of silence in front of you, the numbers say it is not you.
applications in an average search, at 44 minutes each. That is a full work week of forms.
of applicants heard nothing back from employers last year. Not a no. Nothing.
of professionals have applied to a job they later learned never existed.
applications sent by one auto-apply tool, and the interviews it produced. Volume is not the answer.
You do not need more applications. You need the right ones, and a résumé you can stand behind.
2026 figures from the United Way NCA job seeker survey, Criteria Corp hiring data reported by Fortune, an Enhancv survey of 1,000 professionals, and a widely reported auto-apply case study.
// why it is different
Most tools either rewrite your résumé to please a keyword filter or blast out hundreds of applications in your name. NextBeacon does neither. It helps you choose well, then helps you apply well.
The Apply button opens the employer's own page with your résumé ready. You read it, you decide, and you send it. Nothing goes out in your name without you, so nothing can embarrass you.
Before a résumé is saved, every number, employer, job title, degree and certification is checked word for word against your own CV. A claim that is not in your CV does not get through. Your reputation took twenty years to build; this protects it.
Each posting gets a 0 to 5 fit score against your actual experience, pay floor, level, location and the work you want, with the reasons written out. 4.0 and up means apply. 3.5 to 3.9 means worth a look.
You name the companies you would actually be proud to join. NextBeacon finds their job boards, reads the postings they publish, and drops the ones that have since closed. No recycled listings, no ghost jobs from an aggregator.
NextBeacon runs on your own PC with your own Claude account. There is no NextBeacon server, and nothing of yours is stored by us. If you are searching while employed, nobody can tell.
| NextBeacon | Bulk auto-apply services | Résumé and tracker subscriptions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it costs over a year | $299, once | $300 to $480 a year, and rising | $170 to $350 a year |
| Who presses Submit | You, every time | The service, in bulk | You |
| Checks every résumé claim against your own CV | Yes | — | — |
| Where your information lives | On your PC | On their servers | On their servers |
Prices are the public 2026 prices of the common services in each group. A dash means the feature is not advertised on their public pages. Categories are summarized, not named.
// what is included
// how it works
Run the installer. It checks that your PC is ready first, then installs everything it needs. No typing, no code.
Upload your résumé, then answer a few plain questions: roles, pay, remote or on-site, industries and the companies you want watched.
Each morning it reads the new postings, scores them, and emails you the ones worth a look.
Open the tailored résumé and the employer's page, read, and press Submit yourself.
// who it is for
// a note from the person who built it
I built this for my friends.
Too many people I know and respect, people with twenty years of real work behind them, have spent this year in the application black hole. Sixty applications and silence. A posting that turns out not to exist. A tool that "applied" for them to a role two states away. Watching that happen to good people made me angry enough to build something.
I remember my own hard road into a new industry a few years back: a résumé rewritten a hundred times, hundreds of cover letters, a long list of rejections and a longer list of silences. A tea-bag tag on my monitor said "Settling is Not an Option," and some days it was the only thing keeping me on target. What finally worked was fewer applications, aimed at the companies I actually cared about, with a résumé I never had to apologize for.
NextBeacon is that approach, built into a tool. It is not magic and it cannot promise you an interview. It will tell you honestly which postings fit, build a résumé that is true to your CV, and leave the Submit button to you. If you are in transition, I know the road. You can do this.
// price
// get nextbeacon
$299, one time. Online checkout is opening soon. Until then, email info@mynextbeacon.com and you will receive a payment link and your copy, usually the same day.
// questions
No. NextBeacon never applies to a job for you, in bulk or one at a time. It finds and scores postings and prepares your résumé. You read it, you open the employer's page, and you press Submit. Nothing is ever sent in your name without you.
It is built not to. Before a résumé is saved, every number, employer, job title, degree and certification is checked word for word against your own CV, and anything that is not there is removed. AI can still make mistakes, so read every résumé and letter before you send it. You always have the final say.
Yes. You run one installer. It checks that your PC is ready, installs everything it needs, and opens a page-by-page setup that asks plain questions: your résumé, the roles you want, your pay floor, remote or on-site, and the companies to watch. There is no command window and no code. Most people are done in about fifteen minutes.
It stays on your PC. Your résumé, your profile and your job history live in files on your own computer. There is no NextBeacon server, and nothing of yours is stored by us. The AI work happens through your own Claude account, under your own name, so posting text and parts of your profile go to Anthropic and nowhere else. The full details are on the privacy page.
Claude is the AI from Anthropic that reads postings, scores them and drafts your résumés. NextBeacon uses it through an account that belongs to you, so your information is never pooled with anyone else's. You pay Anthropic for that plan directly, about $20 a month for Claude Pro. If your plan lapses, the AI features pause until you renew it.
Not to NextBeacon. You pay $299 once and it is yours to keep on one Windows PC. The only running cost is your own Claude plan.
Not yet. NextBeacon runs on Windows 10 and 11. If you only have a Mac, please do not buy it yet.
Most of them. NextBeacon reads the job boards that companies publish on, and it finds a company's board when you type the company's name. A few large employers block automated reading of their career pages, and those cannot be scanned. You can still add them and check them by hand.
No, and nobody honestly can. NextBeacon helps you choose well and apply well. A score is an opinion about fit, not a prediction. Whether you get the job depends on you, the employer and the market.
Rob Hale, one person in Colorado, who built NextBeacon for friends in a hard market and runs it himself through NextBeacon LLC, a one-person Colorado company. The terms say so plainly. You can reach him at info@mynextbeacon.com, and the help page covers what to expect after you buy.
