Question 1

Ask Scout for job search advice

Accepted Answer

Scout is your AI job search assistant. It reads your pipeline, contacts, and activity data to give you personalized advice.

What Scout can help with:
- Prepare for an interview at a specific company
- Plan your networking strategy based on your contacts
- Decide which applications to prioritize
- Get salary negotiation tips for an offer
- Review your overall job search strategy

Getting started:
Scout works automatically on Free, Pro, and Ultra with hosted AI. No setup needed. Just open

Question 2

Build an AI-tailored resume

Accepted Answer

Create resumes tailored to each job, with AI rewriting and built-in scoring to help you get past applicant tracking systems.

Build a resume:
1. Go to Resume in the main navigation
2. Set up your profile with your experience, skills, education, and key accomplishments
3. Select a job from your pipeline as the target
4. Click AI Tailor to rewrite your resume to match the job description
5. Review the ATS score to see keyword coverage and suggestions
6. Export as PDF

Choose a templa

Question 3

Write a cover letter

Accepted Answer

Create tailored cover letters for each job with AI generation, tone control, and impact scoring.

Create a cover letter:
1. Go to Resume in the main navigation
2. Select the Cover Letters segment
3. Click New Cover Letter and choose a job from your pipeline
4. Click Generate with AI or write your own
5. Edit in the full text editor
6. Export as PDF when ready

AI generation:
- AI writes a draft based on your profile and the job description
- Choose a tone (professiona

Question 4

Track your wellness

Accepted Answer

Job searching can be stressful. The Wellness tab helps you check in with yourself and build healthy habits along the way.

Mood check-ins:
Log how you are feeling each day with 5 mood levels. A 28-day heatmap shows your mood patterns over time.

Journaling:
Write daily entries with guided prompts for reflection and processing emotions.

Breathing exercises:
Choose from 4-7-8 breathing, box breathing, 5-4-3-2-1 grounding, and progressive muscle relaxation.

Streaks:
Build healthy

Question 5

Plan your financial runway

Accepted Answer

The Runway calculator shows you how many months of savings you have left, so you can plan your job search timeline.

Set up Runway:
1. Go to Tools > Runway
2. Enter your current savings
3. Add your monthly expenses across categories like housing, food, transport, insurance, and more
4. Add any income sources (freelance, unemployment benefits, side projects, severance, etc.)

What you will see:
- Runway estimate — How many months your savings will last
- Burn rate — Your month

Question 6

Set up daily goals and streaks

Accepted Answer

Set daily targets and watch your progress with visual activity rings that fill up as you complete actions.

Set up your goals:
1. Go to Goals from the Dashboard or main navigation
2. Configure up to 3 daily targets (for example, applications, follow-ups, or interviews)
3. Your rings fill as you complete actions throughout the day
4. Rings animate when you hit 100%

Track your progress:
- Hexagon calendar — A 28-day heatmap showing your daily activity levels
- Streaks — Consec

Question 7

Use email templates

Accepted Answer

Compose gives you a library of ready-to-send email templates for every stage of your job search.

Use a template:
1. Go to Tools > Compose
2. Browse or search by category
3. Click a template to preview it
4. Copy to clipboard with one click

Template categories:
- Follow-up — Check in after an interview or application
- Thank You — Post-interview gratitude
- Introduction — Networking and cold outreach
- Negotiation — Salary and offer discussions
- Networking — Inf

Question 8

Understand your analytics

Accepted Answer

Your Dashboard includes analytics that help you see what is working in your job search and where to focus next.

Charts:
- Pipeline funnel — Your conversion rates at each stage, from Bookmarked to Offer
- Weekly volume — How many applications you are sending over time
- Company breakdown — Which companies you have the most applications at

Insight cards:
- Timing insights — How long your jobs typically spend at each stage
- Strategy cards — Personalized recommendation

Question 9

Read your insight cards

Accepted Answer

Orbit reads your job search data and surfaces insight cards that tell you what is working, what needs attention, and what to do next.

Insight cards you may see:

- Timing Insights — Shows how long your jobs typically spend at each stage and estimates when you might hear back, based on your own history
- Strategy Cards — Personalized recommendations like "Focus on networking — your referral-to-interview rate is 3x higher than cold applications"
- Anomaly Detection — Alerts you wh

Question 10

Earn badges and achievements

Accepted Answer

You earn badges automatically as you hit milestones in your job search.

How it works:
1. Complete actions like sending applications, following up, or logging activities
2. A celebration popup appears when you earn a new badge
3. View all your badges in the Awards section on the Goals page

Badge categories:
- Milestone badges — First application sent, 10th follow-up, 50th activity logged, and more
- Streak badges — Consecutive days meeting your goals (3-day, 7-day, 14-day, 3

Question 11

Generate AI email drafts

Accepted Answer

When composing an email from a job or contact, you can use the AI Draft button to generate a personalized email draft.

How it works:
1. Open the Compose modal from a job or contact
2. Click the "AI Draft" button (visible when you have an AI API key configured in Settings)
3. The AI will pull context from the job details, contact info, and recent activities to write a personalized draft
4. Edit the draft as needed, then click "Open in Email" to send

The AI adapts its tone based on the conte

Question 12

Weekly coaching email

Accepted Answer

Orbit sends a personalized AI coaching email each week based on your pipeline data and mood trends (Ultra only).

What's included:
- Weekly metrics (applications, interviews, conversations)
- Personalized recommendations based on your pipeline
- Mood trend analysis with wellness suggestions
- Stale application follow-up reminders
- Interview prep advice when relevant

Setup:
1. Go to Settings > Preferences
2. Enable "Weekly coaching email"
3. Choose your preferred delivery day

Preview

Question 13

Activity log

Accepted Answer

The Activity tab (Tools > Activity) shows a chronological log of everything that's happened in your job search.

Activity types:
- Applied to a job
- Email sent
- Interview scheduled
- Offer received
- Status change
- Note added
- Contact added
- Job added

Each entry shows:
- Activity type with icon
- Job or contact it relates to
- Description and date
- Click to navigate to the related job or contact

Activities are automatically logged when you take actions in Orbit. You can also add

Question 14

Wellness exercises and journal

Accepted Answer

The Wellness tab (Tools > Wellness) provides mental health support throughout your job search (Pro/Ultra).

Three sections:

Overview:
- Daily mood check-in (5-level scale with optional labels)
- Mood trend visualization
- Contextual wellness cards based on your search activity
- Reframe cards after rejections

Journal:
- Guided journal prompts
- Free-form entries
- Reflection on wins and challenges

Exercises:
- Breathing exercises: Guided box breathing for anxiety
- Anxie

Question 15

Resume templates and PDF export

Accepted Answer

Orbit includes 5 professional resume templates with PDF export.

Templates:
- Modern: Clean, contemporary layout
- Classic: Traditional professional format
- Minimal: Simple, text-focused design
- Executive: Senior-level format with leadership emphasis
- Technical: Optimized for engineering and tech roles

Getting started:
1. Go to Resume in the main nav
2. Set up your Candidate Profile (one-time, 5-step wizard)
3. Select a job to tailor your resume for
4. Choose a te

Question 16

Write a cover letter

Accepted Answer

The Cover Letter tool generates personalized cover letters based on your profile and a target job.

How to create one:
1. Go to Resume > Cover Letters tab
2. Select a job from your pipeline
3. AI generates a tailored cover letter
4. Edit the content as needed
5. Export to PDF

What AI uses:
- Your candidate profile (experience, skills, achievements)
- The job description and requirements
- Company information

Tips:
- Always review and personalize the AI output
- Add specific details

Question 17

Template variables in Compose

Accepted Answer

Email templates support 6 variables that auto-fill when you compose a message.

Available variables:
- {contactName} — The contact's full name
- {contactTitle} — The contact's job title
- {company} — The company name (from the job)
- {role} — The role/position (from the job)
- {myName} — Your display name (from Settings)
- {today} — Today's date

How to use:
1. Create or edit a template in Tools > Compose
2. Type the variable name in curly braces in the subject or body
3. Whe

Question 18

Customize your daily goals

Accepted Answer

Goals track daily job search activities with customizable targets.

Default goals:
- Applications submitted
- Contacts reached out to
- Follow-ups sent
- Research done

How to customize:
1. Go to Tools > Goals
2. Click the gear icon to open settings
3. Set your daily targets for each goal type
4. Enable or disable individual goals

Activity rings: Each goal has a colored ring that fills as you make progress. Close all rings to complete the day.

Streaks: Consecutive days with all

Question 19

Wellness check-in streaks

Accepted Answer

Checking in daily builds a wellness streak that tracks your consistency.

How streaks work:
- Check in your mood each day (from the Wellness section on your dashboard or Tools > Wellness)
- Each consecutive day of check-ins adds to your streak
- Missing a day resets the streak to zero

Where streaks appear:
- Dashboard Today tab — in the Wellness section
- Week in Review — shows your streak count
- Goals system — streak progress counts toward daily goals
- Coaching email — mentions your

Question 20

Runway alerts and warnings

Accepted Answer

Orbit alerts you when your financial runway is running low.

Alert levels:
- Critical (red): Less than 2 months of runway remaining
- Warning (orange): Less than 3 months remaining
- Healthy (green): 3+ months remaining

Where alerts appear:
- Dashboard Runway widget — shows months remaining with color
- Trends > Insights grid — Fatigue indicator considers financial stress
- Coaching email — mentions runway status in weekly advice

How to improve runway:
1. Review expense

Question 21

Understand your pipeline funnel

Accepted Answer

The pipeline funnel shows how your applications progress through each stage.

Funnel stages:
Saved → Applied → Screening → Interviewing → Offer

Key metrics:
- Response rate: % of applications that get any response
- Interview rate: % of applications reaching the interview stage
- Offer rate: % of interviews resulting in offers
- Ghost rate: % of conversations that go cold (no response after 14+ days)

Where to find it:
- Dashboard > Trends tab > Overview section
- Da

Question 22

Record voice notes

Accepted Answer

Voice notes let you capture thoughts quickly using your microphone.

How to record:
1. Click the microphone icon in the quick capture area
2. Speak your note
3. The audio is transcribed to text automatically
4. Edit the transcription if needed
5. Save to attach it to a job or contact

Use cases:
- Quick post-interview debrief while details are fresh
- Notes while commuting or walking
- Capture phone conversation highlights

Requirements: Microphone access permission in your browser.

Question 23

Share progress with a career coach or partner

Accepted Answer

Want to show your job search progress to a career coach, mentor, or accountability partner? Here's how.

Export your data

1. Go to Settings > Data
2. Click "Export Data"
3. Download the JSON file containing all your jobs, contacts, activities, and stats

This gives a comprehensive snapshot of your entire search.

Share specific metrics

For a quick summary, take a screenshot of:
- Dashboard > Today — Shows your active pipeline at a glance
- Dashboard > Week — Weekly stats, pattern

Question 24

Use Scout from anywhere with the slide-in panel

Accepted Answer

Scout is available as a persistent panel that slides in from the right side of the screen. You can open it from any page in Orbit.

Open Scout:
- Press Cmd+J (or Ctrl+J on Windows) from anywhere
- Or click the sparkle icon in the top navigation bar

What Scout can do:
Scout has write access to your CRM. You can ask it to:
- Save a job : "Track a Senior Engineer role at Stripe"
- Update status : "Move my Google application to interviewing"
- Add a contact : "Add Sarah

Question 25

Autonomous agents that monitor your job search

Accepted Answer

Orbit includes 7 autonomous agents that analyze your pipeline and suggest actions. Agents never change your data directly. They propose suggestions that you accept or dismiss.

Requirements:
- Ultra plan

How agents run:
Agents run server-side on a daily schedule, powered by hosted AI on Ultra. No API key is needed. You can see the schedule, last run time, and usage in the agent dashboard on your Dashboard page.

Enable and configure agents:
1. Go to your Dashboard
2. Find the

Question 26

Pipeline Intelligence: analytics for your job search

Accepted Answer

Pipeline Intelligence is a dashboard widget that shows key metrics about your job search performance.

Stats shown:
- Response rate — Percentage of applications that got a response
- Active jobs — Number of non-rejected, non-withdrawn jobs
- Stalled jobs — Jobs with no activity in 14+ days
- Average time to interview — How many days from application to interview

Top Priorities:
A ranked list of your most important active jobs, scored by:
- Priority level (high, medium, l

Question 27

AI features for financial runway

Accepted Answer

Runway includes two AI features to help you manage your finances during a job search.

Paste a bank statement:
1. Go to Tools > Runway > Expenses
2. Click Paste Statement (the purple button next to Add Expense)
3. Paste your bank or credit card statement text
4. Click Parse and AI extracts and categorizes your expenses
5. Review the list and click Add All to import them

AI categorizes each expense into one of 14 categories (housing, food, transportation, etc.) and rounds amo

Question 28

AI wellness pattern analysis

Accepted Answer

Wellness Insights analyzes your mood check-in history to spot patterns and offer encouragement.

Local analysis (free):
With 3 or more mood check-ins, Orbit shows:
- Your overall mood trend (positive, steady, or challenging)
- Your most common feelings
- Your longest streak of good days

AI analysis (Pro):
With 5 or more check-ins and an AI key, Orbit generates:
- Specific patterns (e.g., "Your mood drops after rejections but recovers within 2 days")
- A resilience assessment based on yo

Question 29

Networking recommendations: who to reach out to

Accepted Answer

The Networking widget on your Dashboard ranks your contacts by who you should reach out to this week.

How contacts are scored:
- Contacts at companies where you have active applications score highest
- Hiring managers and referrals score higher than general connections
- Contacts you have interacted with before (warm relationships) get a boost
- Contacts going cold (14 to 60 days since last contact) are flagged
- Recently contacted people (last 3 days) are deprioritized

Suggested actions

Question 30

Search jobs and contacts with AI matching

Accepted Answer

Semantic search uses AI embeddings to find jobs and contacts by meaning, not just keywords.

How it works:
1. Go to any search field in Orbit
2. Type a natural description like "roles focused on distributed systems" or "contacts who work in fintech"
3. Orbit uses AI to compare your query against all your jobs and contacts
4. Results are ranked by semantic similarity, not keyword matching

What gets searched:
- Job titles, companies, descriptions, and notes
- Contact names, titles, compan

Question 31

Weekly reports and analytics

Accepted Answer

Ultra subscribers receive detailed weekly reports about their job search performance.

What is included:
- Application volume trends (week over week)
- Response rate changes
- Pipeline stage conversion analysis
- Time spent at each stage
- Stale application alerts
- Networking activity summary

Where to find reports:
Reports appear on the Dashboard > Trends tab. The data updates automatically as you track your activities.

Requirements:
- Ultra plan

Tip: The more consistently yo

Question 32

Shareable coaching insights

Accepted Answer

Ultra subscribers receive weekly coaching emails with AI generated career advice. Each email includes 1 to 2 shareable insights that you can send to friends or post on social media.

How it works:
1. Orbit analyzes your pipeline, activities, and mood data weekly
2. A personalized coaching email is sent on your preferred day
3. Each email includes shareable insight cards with universal career tips
4. Click the share link to open a public page with the insight (no personal data is shared)

C

Question 33

AI interview debrief

Accepted Answer

After an interview, paste your notes or record a voice debrief and AI generates a structured analysis with actionable feedback and a thank-you email draft.

How it works:
1. Open a job that is in Interviewing status
2. Click the Debrief button in the Job Modal
3. Paste your raw interview notes, or use the voice recording option to speak your thoughts aloud and have them transcribed automatically
4. Click Generate Debrief
5. AI produces a structured report

What you get:
-

Question 34

AI company research brief

Accepted Answer

Generate a one-click company research brief to prepare for interviews with confidence.

How it works:
1. When a job is in Interviewing status, the InterviewPrepCard appears
2. Click Generate Company Brief
3. AI researches the company and generates a structured brief

What is included:
- Company overview — What the company does, size, funding stage, and key facts
- Recent news — Notable events, product launches, or press coverage
- Culture signals — What employees and

Question 35

Job match score

Accepted Answer

Orbit automatically scores how well a job description matches your candidate profile, showing the result as a percentage badge on job cards.

How it works:
1. Set up your candidate profile in the Resume section (skills, experience, preferences)
2. Save a job with a description
3. Orbit compares the job requirements against your profile
4. A match percentage appears as a badge on the job card

What gets compared:
- Your skills vs. required and preferred skills in the job description
- You

Question 36

Application readiness checklist

Accepted Answer

The readiness checklist shows how prepared you are to apply for a job, with a progress bar that tracks 8 items.

Checklist items:
1. Resume tailored — A resume has been tailored for this specific job
2. Description saved — The job description has been saved
3. Cover letter — A cover letter has been drafted
4. Contacts at company — You have at least one contact linked to this job
5. Linked contacts — Contacts are bidirectionally linked to the job
6. Next action set — A

Question 37

Rejection pattern analysis

Accepted Answer

After 5 or more rejections, Orbit analyzes your rejection data to identify patterns and help you focus on jobs where you are more likely to succeed.

How it works:
1. Continue tracking your applications normally
2. When you reach 5+ rejected jobs, the analysis becomes available
3. Open the Pipeline Intelligence widget on the Dashboard
4. The Rejection Patterns section appears automatically

What gets analyzed:
- Tag correlations — Which tags (remote, startup, enterprise, etc.) ap

Question 38

AI Resume Tailor

Accepted Answer

Get an AI-tailored resume optimized for a specific job description for $2.99 per use.

How it works:
1. Open a resume in the Resume Editor
2. Select a target job with a description
3. Click AI Tailor $2.99 (or use the bundle option for $3.99 to include a cover letter)
4. Your card on file is charged and the AI tailors your resume

What the AI does:
- Rewrites your summary and headline for the target role
- Reorders and rephrases experience bullets to match job requirements
- Adjusts

Question 39

AI Cover Letter

Accepted Answer

Generate a personalized, high-conversion cover letter for $1.99 per use.

How it works:
1. Open the Cover Letter Editor
2. Select a target job
3. Click Generate $1.99
4. Your card on file is charged and the AI writes your cover letter

What you get:
- A 225-250 word cover letter optimized for the specific company and role
- Opening hook that references the company specifically
- Body paragraphs mapping your achievements to job requirements
- Professional closing with a specific call

Question 40

Salary Negotiation Playbook

Accepted Answer

Get a comprehensive, word-for-word negotiation playbook for $9.99 when you receive a job offer.

How it works:
1. Update a job to "Offer" status and enter the salary amount
2. Click $9.99 in the Salary Playbook section
3. Your card on file is charged and the AI generates your playbook

What is included:
- Strategic summary with recommended approach
- Market analysis comparing your offer to market rates
- Counter-offer with target amount, minimum acceptable, and justificat