For people job hunting on SEEK in Australia

The job hunt, minus the busywork.

Merify reads every new ad that could suit you, scores it against your resume, and writes the cover letter. You read it, change what you like, and send the ones you want.

Start with your resume See how it works Invite-only while we're small. Setting up takes about five minutes.
Office Administrator · casual
From this morning's shortlist
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Accounts Assistant, part-time

Harlow & Finch Accountants · Milton, Brisbane
$34–38/hrPart timelisted 3 h ago
  • Three days a week, written with students in mind
  • Xero every day: you already keep a set of books in it
  • Asks for MYOB, but only as a nice-to-have
Dear Ms Finch,

I am applying for the part-time Accounts Assistant role at Harlow & Finch. For the past eighteen months I have kept the books for a small business in Xero: reconciling the bank feed each week, raising invoices and chasing the ones that run late. Your ad asks for someone who is careful with detail and comfortable picking up the phone to a client, and that is the work I already do.
Copy letter & open SEEKEditSkip

An example. Yours is built from your own resume and the ads that are live today.

01 · The sums

A proper application takes about twenty minutes. Now multiply.

Finding the ad, reading it, reworking your letter, filling in the form. Most people run out of evening long before they run out of jobs. Put your own numbers in.

By hand13 h 20 min
With Merify1 h 20 min
That's 12 hours back, every week.

We count two minutes a job with Merify: reading the letter, pasting it into SEEK's form and pressing submit. Twenty minutes by hand is our estimate for an application with a letter written for the ad; move the slider if you're faster.

02 · What changes

The same hunt, with the dull part taken out.

By hand
With Merify
Finding
You search when you remember to, and scroll past the same ads again.
It checks SEEK about once an hour, day and night. A job posted this morning is on your list by lunch.
Sorting
You open forty ads to find the six worth your time.
Every ad is read in full and scored against your resume, with the reasons and the catches written out.
Writing
You swap the company name in last month's letter and hope nobody notices.
A letter written for that ad, from what's on your resume, in the way you write.
Checking
It's late, the ad wants a skill, and you round up. Now it's in writing.
Each letter gets a second pass against your resume, and claims it can't back up are cut. You still get the last read.
Keeping track
A recruiter calls three weeks later and you can't place which job it was.
Every application is logged with the exact letter you sent.
03 · How it works

Five minutes of setting up. After that it runs without you.

1

Tell it what you're after

A few sentences about the work you want, your resume, and any cover letters you've already written.

2

Check what it understood

It works out which jobs you could realistically land and what counts as your experience. You correct it before anything runs.

3

It reads the market

Every new ad in your field is read and scored. Most are quietly dropped. The good ones get a letter.

4

You send the ones you like

Open a job, read the letter, change anything, then apply on SEEK with it ready to paste.

You submit each application yourself, on SEEK, signed in as you. A hands-free version, where you only tap Approve, is being tested with a handful of people.

04 · What it won't do

Four things we decided it should never do.

Invent experience

Letters are built from your resume and what you tell it, and nothing else. Each one is checked against your resume before you see it, and you get the last read.

Send things behind your back

Nothing reaches an employer unless you send it. You can read and rewrite every word first.

Spray and pray

It throws away most of what it reads. You see the jobs worth applying for, with the catches pointed out.

Keep your data hostage

Delete your account and your resume, your letters and your history are removed straight away.

05 · Why it exists

I'm a uni student in Brisbane. Looking for part-time work meant the same routine every night: scroll SEEK, find a few jobs worth it, rewrite the same letter for each one.

So I built something to do that part for me. In its first week I sent 42 applications, each with a letter written for that job.

Divyesh, who built Merify

06 · Questions

Fair questions.

Is this allowed by SEEK?

SEEK's terms don't permit software that applies on your behalf. Merify doesn't: you submit every application yourself, on SEEK, signed in as you, so nothing automated touches your SEEK account. Merify does the reading and the writing.

Will the letters sound like a robot wrote them?

They're written from your resume, and if you give it letters you've written before it follows how you write. You can edit every word, or tell it what to change in plain English. Read them before you send them: it's your name at the bottom.

What happens to my resume?

It's stored on our server and used for one thing, which is writing your applications. To do that it's sent to the AI models that do the writing, through Amazon Bedrock, which doesn't use it to train models. Nobody else gets it. Delete your account and it's gone.

Does it work for my kind of work?

If the jobs are advertised on SEEK in Australia, yes: care work, trades, hospitality, retail, office, tech. Setting up works out which categories to search from your resume and what you say you're after.

What if it gets something about me wrong?

You see what it understood before it starts, and you can correct it. After that, any job's letter has a box where you can say “from now on, never mention X” or “I do have a forklift ticket”, and it remembers.

Set it up tonight. Wake up to a shortlist.

Start with your resume