You think this is vibe-coded AI slop. Fair.

• The repo: github.com/Steel-Man-Resumes/smr-crucible
• The commit history: months of real, dated engineering decisions -- security hardening, consent enforcement, exact-cost metering, failure handling. Slop does not leave a paper trail like this.
• The database migrations: read how consent gating and org boundaries are actually structured, in SQL, not in promises.

• AI generation has daily fair-use limits. That is how "free for the person, forever" stays true.
• The live job feed depends on a third-party provider. When it fails, we show the failure -- we do not fake results.
• The disclosure planner is coaching, not legal advice, and says so on its face.
• Organizations carry their own AI costs. We publish the per-participant number instead of hiding it.
• This is a small operation with real infrastructure -- you will talk to the person who built it, which is either a risk or the entire point, depending on what you have been burned by.

People leaving incarceration do not lack work ethic -- they lack language for their own history, and the confidence that comes from rehearsal. The AI is scaffolding for exactly that, and it is designed to fade: the person ends up owning their story without the tool. It is not a chatbot wearing a resume costume. Judge it by its output: run your own history through it, free.