pirch › how a hunt works
the whole thing, shown

how a hunt works

one real hunt, start to finish. numbers unedited.

1

the ask

you drop a resume — or honestly a messy note. pirch distills it into a career profile: who you are, where you're pointed, what you care about. not a keyword list. you can read and edit everything it thinks.

2

the read

the bird reads 120 live listings across the boards for this profile. most of what's out there is stale, duplicated, or nothing like you — reading it so you don't have to is half the job.

3

the checks

the ones that look like you get checked: still posted? still hiring? fresh? estimates say a real chunk of listings never lead to a hire at all — this is the defense against the ghost-job era. 7 made it through.

4

the cut

then the bar: is this actually you — the work, the level, the direction — not just the right words? 4 cleared it. the other 116 were thrown away on purpose. restraint is respect.

5

the why + the letter

each match arrives with a why-this-is-you. your cover letter's drafted too — and any match you open gets its own. here's the top match from this exact hunt (the profile was an illustrator):

from this hunt — engine output, unedited

Digital Illustrator / Apparel Designer · Nine Line Apparel

why you (first three of five):

  • "Digital illustrator title strongly matches an artist background — this is drawing-first, design-second"
  • "T-shirt and apparel graphic work is a natural lane for artists comfortable with illustration"
  • "Screen-printing knowledge is a learnable, tangible craft skill that suits a hands-on artist"

the letter, opening lines: "Designing for screen printing is a completely different discipline than general graphic work — you're thinking in spot colors, halftone separations, and ink layering from the first sketch. That's exactly where my head is, and it's why the Digital Illustrator role at Nine Line caught my attention immediately."

6

the receipt

read 120 · checked 7 · kept 4

that's one hunt. that's what a credit buys.

why show this? because "AI finds you jobs" means nothing anymore. the only honest pitch left is showing the work. — the bird

ready to keep hunting?

pay once, no subscription. every hunt is the whole pipeline above.

5 huntsabout a week of good mornings · $1.80 each $9 15 huntsbest valuea few weeks of searching · $1.27 each $19 40 huntsa whole search — under a dollar a morning $39

new here? your first hunts are free — no card needed. start free →