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Your network is already your best hiring channel.
NextChapter makes it the only one you use.

Roughly three quarters of inbound résumés are filtered by ATS before a recruiter sees them — meanwhile referred candidates are five to fifteen times more likely to be hired. NextChapter is the agent that closes that gap: it watches the market, maps every open role to someone you already know, finds the warmest path to the hiring manager, and drafts each outreach for your review.

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Agent — live

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Draft for your review

To Sara M. · via LinkedIn

Hi Sara — saw that Northwind just posted a Senior Product role you might hear about before the board does. I worked with Priya there last year; she'd probably make the intro land if you're open to it. Want me to draft the ask her way?

Warmest path found: you → Priya → hiring manager

awaiting approval

The math referrals run on

The channel is the advantage. Not the résumé.

Three numbers explain why applying harder rarely works — and why reaching the right person almost always does.

≈75%
of inbound résumés are filtered out by ATS before a human reads them.
5–15×
higher hire rate for referred candidates vs. the open application pool.
2×
the source-of-hire share held by referrals — and the gap is widening.

ATS systems optimise for keyword density; hiring managers optimise for trust. NextChapter routes around the first and into the second — on your behalf, every day, across every role you care about.

How the agent works

A recruiting coordinator. In your inbox, on your behalf.

Four steps, repeated quietly each day. You choose what leaves your account — the agent does everything else.

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  1. 01

    Scan the live market

    Continuously pulls open roles from the boards and ATS feeds your recruiters actually watch — refreshed every few hours, not weekly.

  2. 02

    Match roles to people you know

    Cross-references every job against your LinkedIn, alumni graph, email and calendar. Surfaces second-degree connections who already work at the target company.

  3. 03

    Find the warmest intro path

    Ranks the chain to the hiring manager — direct colleague, ex-coworker, mutual from a project, conference acquaintance — so you always ask whoever would actually pick up.

  4. 04

    Draft, queue, follow up

    Writes a brief you can edit, sends through your own Inbox or LinkedIn, logs every reply, and pings you when a touchpoint stalls so nothing goes cold.

Who it's for

Built for the candidates whose strongest lead lives one message away.

Mid-career & senior

Your strongest referrers are former colleagues and former managers — people who already trust your work. A referral from them converts at 5–15× the rate of an Easy Apply.

Career returners

After a break, your résumé is exactly what ATS systems penalise. Your network is what actually gets you back in the room — but only if you ask the right person, in the right order.

Recent grads & switchers

You have alumni and internship leads most candidates your age don't leverage systematically. NextChapter turns "who do you know at X?" into a structured outreach loop, not a favor chain.

What replaces the spray-and-pray loop

Fewer black holes. Faster interviews. Real conversations.

NextChapter is not a résumé bot. It is the agent working the back-channel so that the front channel — your inbox, your interviews — finally carries signal again.

  • A steady pipeline, not a daily grind

    A handful of well-targeted intros each week beats a hundred Easy Apply submissions that disappear into an ATS queue.

  • Outreach in your own voice

    Drafts cite the specific connection and stay short enough to read on a phone — no boilerplate asking for "20 minutes to chat about my background".

  • A coordinator, not a coach

    You stay in charge of tone, timing and consent. The agent handles tracking, follow-ups and the next best contact — invisibly, daily.

FAQ

The questions we hear most often.

Still wondering whether NextChapter fits your search? Email nextchapt@polsia.app — a founder replies.

No. The agent drafts outreach for your review and only sends after you approve. You can edit copy, change the channel, or drop a contact entirely before a single message leaves your account.

Early access

Ready to play your strongest card?

Tell us where you are in your search and we'll get you into the next cohort. We onboard candidates personally — no queue, no waiting list limbo.

Email nextchapt@polsia.appOne line about your search is enough to start.