Cairn reads the emails your applications generate and links each one to the right role. Every stage change is dated, sourced and reversible. Median time to a first offer is now 102 days (Huntr, Q3 2026). A search that long needs a ledger, not a spreadsheet.
No card required. Cairn never submits applications for you.
You keep applying the way you already do. Cairn keeps the record.
Connect a mailbox with an app password: Cairn checks the inbox every 15 minutes, read-only, and keeps job mail only. Attachments are never stored. One mailbox is included on the Free plan for now; forwarding addresses are not available yet.
Rules run first; a model reads only when rules are unsure. Each result carries a confidence score and the evidence excerpt.
Text “status Stripe” on Telegram and get the dated answer. A weekly digest covers your pipeline and your companies’ hiring signals.
Each source has limits. Cairn states them instead of hiding them.
The most reliable record. Receipts, scheduling and rejections all arrive here. Cairn sees only the mailbox you connect.
If an employer never writes, Cairn cannot know. Silent roles are flagged after the follow-up window you set.
The browser companion saves the posting you have open, asks to log an application when it sees a confirmation page, and reads the status list on portals you visit. Portal sync on Pro signs in with a credential you store and keeps a screenshot of what it read.
Portal sync supports Workday and has so far been run only against our demo portal. The companion is installed by hand until it has a store listing. Saving a portal sign-in is off unless you turn it on.
A text like “Mercury recruiter called” becomes a dated event on the right application. You confirm any stage change the message implies.
Cairn never changes a stage from a text without your confirmation.
Each part reads from data you own and says where it came from.
Recruiters, interviewers and hiring managers are found in your job mail by rules, with the source and a confidence. Each has a last touch and a follow-up date. Cairn drafts the note; you send it.
Cairn reads busy times from an ICS address (Free) or Google and Microsoft calendars (Pro), writes your free windows for the next ten business days as text to paste, and flags interview clashes. It never creates or accepts events.
Import your own LinkedIn connections export. For each application Cairn lists people you already know at the company, with where each name came from. Nothing is fetched from LinkedIn.
The skills the roles you are pursuing ask for, ranked by how many of those roles name each one and how much evidence your résumé and notes hold for it. Counts only, no model call; each figure states its basis.
Interview stories, prep and networking notes, linked to applications. A notes API and an Obsidian plugin can sync a vault folder; the plugin is early and installed by hand.
Bring an Excel workbook, a CSV or pasted cells from another tracker. You see the column mapping and likely duplicates before anything is saved, and an import can be undone.
Upload a PDF, .docx, .txt or .md. Cairn extracts the text, shows it for editing and stores the text only after you confirm. The file is not kept. Scanned PDFs are not read.
When a portal emails a sign-in code during portal sync, Cairn picks it out of your job mail by rules, types it once and deletes it. Authenticator and SMS codes are handed back to you.
Pro costs less than one lunch a month. Bring your own model key on any plan to lower platform cost.
Zero-trust data access, encrypted secrets, and a strict line between what you give us and what a model sees.
Every query runs as you. Postgres enforces tenant isolation, not just application code.
Secrets use AES-256-GCM with per-secret data keys. Master keys never enter the database.
Models see email and posting text only. Passwords, tokens and portal logins are stripped first.
Type I readiness is in progress. Controls and the audit timeline are listed on the security page.
Log your first application in under a minute. Connect a mailbox and watch its job mail land on the right rows.