Steel Man Resumes

For organizations

Your staff get a window. Your people get the tools.

The whole thing in five sentences

The people you serve use the tools free, forever. Your case managers get a dashboard that shows progress -- never private words. The software itself is free and open source. Your organization covers its own AI costs, or rents hosted seats from me. I help you stand it up, and my help scales from a free phone call to paid hands-on setup.

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What your organization gets A branded entry, a staff dashboard, and a consent boundary your compliance person will actually like.
  • Your own access code and branded org space. Your name and logo on the door your people walk through. Nothing to install.
  • A staff dashboard. Each case manager sees the participants assigned to them: progress stage, applications, practice sessions, next steps. Assign staff to participants; see outcomes accumulate.
  • The consent boundary. Staff see progress signals only -- never transcripts, never a participant's private words. Participants grant sharing themselves. This is enforced in code, not in a policy PDF.
  • Participant ownership. The account belongs to the person, not to your program. If they leave your program, their work goes with them. That is the point.
What the people you serve get A career report, a real resume, job-specific tailoring, interview practice, and a disclosure plan. Free.
  • The Forge (free): reads their real work history -- including the years that are hard to talk about -- and builds a career report, a usable resume, and a cover letter. Even in an emergency, same day.
  • The Refinery: tailors that resume to each specific job posting, again for every posting, and saves every version so progress is visible over time.
  • Interview practice with coaching feedback, built for rehearsing the hard questions before they are asked for real.
  • A disclosure planner for the conviction question -- coaching, not legal advice, and it says so out loud.
  • It runs on a cracked phone and a library computer. Low bandwidth, shared devices -- the real world your clients live in.
What it costs -- the honest version People: free. Software: free. Your AI usage: yours. My time: a ladder from free to paid.

The person you serve never pays. Individual job seekers who walk in on their own are covered -- that is my commitment and my sponsors'.

The software is free for your organization too. It is open source. You can run it yourself, inspect it, fork it.

Your organization carries its own AI costs. I cover individuals; I cannot realistically cover whole institutions. The numbers are small and the platform meters usage exactly -- every AI call is counted and costed, so you see real costs, not estimates. For scale: a full resume generation currently costs about two cents of compute; a participant's monthly total lands in the cents to low dollars depending on how much coaching and practice they use. Bring your own API keys, or let me host it for you.

My time is the part that scales with what you need:

FreeA guiding phone callYou want direction and straight answers. Happily.
Free, scheduledStructured setup over ZoomA few working sessions to stand your org up. We book them; it takes as long as the calendar allows.
Hosted seatsNo infrastructure, no IT department? I have the infrastructure. Your cohort runs on my metal, per-seat.
Hands-on setup of your own instanceYou want it on your infrastructure and want it done right. I build it with your team.
Staff trainingYour case managers trained on the platform and the coaching approach behind it.

No surprise invoices. Every paid engagement is scoped and agreed in writing before it starts.

How a pilot actually starts Three steps. Days, not months.
  1. We talk. One call: your population, your workflow, what success looks like for you. You get straight answers, including "this is not a fit" if it is not.
  2. I set up your org. Access code, branding, staff accounts, your first cohort. You watch it happen; nothing is a black box.
  3. Your people start. On their own phones. Your staff watch progress appear on the dashboard. We review after two weeks and decide together what comes next.
Data, privacy, security Progress is stored, not transcripts. Nothing is sold. The code is public.
  • Staff dashboards show progress signals. Private session content is not what staff see.
  • Consent is layered and participant-controlled; sharing with your org is a grant the participant makes, and can revoke.
  • Nothing is sold. There is no advertising, no data brokerage, no dark pattern. The business model is on this page, in the open.
  • The entire codebase is public -- your security reviewer can read every line before you trust a word of mine. github.com/Steel-Man-Resumes/smr-crucible
  • Deeper questions -- retention, deletion, review processes -- belong on a call with your compliance person in the room. I welcome that call. Book it.

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