FIRSTKNOCK
Cold-outreach job search, built on a candidate graph
A resume-to-outreach platform that replaces "spray and pray" job applications with a knowledge-graph-powered, personalized cold-email pipeline targeting recently-funded startups.
Problem
Job seekers applying through traditional job boards compete with hundreds of other candidates per posting and rarely get a response. Startups that just raised funding are actively hiring but hard to reach through standard channels.
Solution
Users upload a resume, which is parsed and enriched into a knowledge graph capturing explicit and inferred skills, work history, projects, and education. This graph is cross-referenced against a continuously scraped database of actively-hiring, recently-funded startups (Y Combinator's Work at a Startup) to surface high-fit opportunities and generate personalized outreach to the actual hiring decision-makers, rather than an ATS.
App Flow
Status
Actively in development — the ingestion pipeline, graph enrichment, and dashboard are functional; the job-matching and automated cold-email generation layer is the current build focus.