Advice that fits your own search, without explaining it first: most of the time, the question is all you type. Ask FutureDay is the button in the corner of every FutureDay screen. Each question carries where your search is up to, plus any contact, company or role you have open. It gives you the words to send, sends nothing itself, and asks rather than guesses about what it can't see.
Most of the time it takes to get useful help with a job search goes on explaining it: the role you're after, who you've spoken to, what happened next. By the time that's typed out, the ten minutes you had are gone. Ask FutureDay starts from where your search already is, so most of the time the question is all you type.
Why is most job search advice so hard to act on?
Because it's written for everyone. Network more. Tailor your resume. Follow up. All true, and none of it tells you what to do tonight about the former colleague who went quiet after one friendly reply.
The questions that stall a search are small and specific. What do I say to Sam? Is this role a reach? What should I ask in Thursday's interview? The general answer is easy to find. The one that fits needs to know where you're up to.
What does generic job search advice cost you?
Time, first. Anyone who can't see your search needs a briefing before they can be specific, and it's the same briefing every time. Skip it and the advice fits somebody else: "reach out to your network" doesn't help someone who messaged three people this week.
The bigger cost is the question you don't ask. When a straight answer needs ten minutes of setup, it waits for the weekend, and the follow-up it was about waits with it.
Why is it hard to get advice that fits your own search?
Because the facts it depends on are scattered: your notes, your inbox, a spreadsheet, your memory of last Tuesday's call. Anyone you ask, a friend or a general chatbot, only knows what you tell them, so keeping them up to date on who you contacted, who replied and what's due is still your job. And you're the person least able to see your own search clearly.
What should an AI job search assistant know about you?
Where you're up to, and no more than it needs. That's the line Ask FutureDay is built on.
The Ask FutureDay button sits in the bottom right corner of every screen once you're signed in. On a phone it's a round sparkle button, and the chat fills the screen.
Every message you send carries a short snapshot of your search: your name, which of the four moves you're on, how far along you are, your next open step and the screen you're on. It's rebuilt each time you press send, so it works from today's picture. Switch your next steps off with Take a break and it's told that too, so it isn't handed a follow-up to chase you about.
Open a person in Contacts, a company in Target Companies or a role in the Job Tracker, and that record goes with your question, with what's linked to it: your notes, its tasks, the company, and the people and roles attached. For a role, that includes the job description, the Job Fit Check verdict, the application you saved and your interview prep. Type "this role" and it knows which one you mean.
Just as deliberate is what it doesn't get. Outside the record you have open, it isn't sent your resume, your applications or the rest of your network, and every message tells it so, and tells it to treat anything missing as unknown until you say. It knows you're in the Resume Builder. It hasn't read your resume. A contact's personal details, like their birthday, partner or interests, are never sent. So when a question goes past what it has, it's built to say so and ask, not guess.
Ask FutureDay is also separate from Your weekly digest, the card on the Plan screen. Once there's activity to summarise, a separate AI request writes that card when you open Plan, from the figures in your account, under three headings: This week's highlights, Worth a look and One thing to do today. Its footer says "Based on your live data".
What can Ask FutureDay help with?
Under the greeting sit two suggested questions that fit the screen you're on. In the Resume Builder: "What makes a strong resume summary?" and "What do recruiters look for first?" In the Job Fit Check: "How do I read a fit check?" and "Should I apply for a reach role?" Tap one to ask it. "What else can you help with?" shows a few more for that screen, straight away.
With a record open, the questions follow its stage. A contact you've messaged brings up "What if Sam doesn't reply?" and "Draft a follow-up message to Sam". A role you're interviewing for brings up "Help me prepare for the interview".
Before: "I'm after a head of operations role. Three weeks ago I messaged Sam, a former colleague now at a logistics firm, and followed up last week. No reply. What should I do?" The whole background, typed out again.
After: "What if Sam doesn't reply?" Five words, or one tap, with Sam's record open. It already has Sam's stage, when you were last in touch and your notes.
Ask for a message and it writes one in the chat. You copy it, change what you like and send it yourself: it can't send anything, and nothing else in FutureDay can either. Type your question, or tap the microphone and say it.
Each day starts a fresh conversation. Show earlier conversations brings back earlier days, on any device, and conversations are kept for 30 days. The bin icon, Clear chat, deletes the lot.
Can AI help with your job search without taking it over?
Yes, if it works from your search rather than running it. The question gets smaller: you skip the briefing and ask what you wanted to know, on the screen where it came up. Small questions get asked on the day, not saved for the weekend, and you send the message while it still matters.
And the answers are easier to trust, because it is told plainly what it can and can't see. When it has your stage, your notes and your next open step, it works from them. When it doesn't, it says so and asks. You still decide, and you send every message yourself.
Most job search advice is written for everyone, and advice that fits usually means explaining your search from the start.
Ask FutureDay sits on every screen and sends your move, your progress, your next open step and the screen you're on with each question.
Open a contact, company or role and that record, and what's linked to it, goes too.
Beyond that, it isn't sent your resume or the rest of your network, and it's built to ask rather than guess.
It gives you the words to send. You send them.
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