What the four weeks actually involves, how you get in, how we choose, and what happens when it finishes.
← Back to the tester pageFutureDay writes about your career. It reads what you have done and tries to put it into words a recruiter or a hiring manager will take seriously. There is no way to check whether it does that well except to give it to people whose careers are real, whose stakes are real, and who will tell us the truth.
That is the whole reason for the four weeks. Not bug hunting — anyone can find a broken button. We need to know whether what comes out is right, and whether it was worth your time.
Each week has a focus. You are welcome to roam anywhere in the app at any time, but if you only do one thing, do that week's thing — it is how we get a straight answer instead of twenty-five scattered ones.
Sign up, tell the app who you are, upload whatever CV you currently have, and build a proper one. There is a 30-minute group call at the start of the week to say hello and answer questions.
Work through your LinkedIn headline, your About section and your experience, and set out what you want to be known for.
Six to eight people will be invited to a 30-minute screen share this week. You use the app, we watch and stay quiet. It is not a test of you — watching where someone hesitates tells us more than any survey.
Find a live role you would genuinely go for, run it through the app, and see what it says about your fit and what it produces to send.
It has to be a real job. A made-up one tells us nothing, because you won't care about the answer.
Try the interview preparation, and put a few real people into the contact tracker. Then a 30-minute wrap-up call and a final set of questions.
FutureDay isn't open yet, so it sits behind a security layer as well as its own login. That means two emails before you are in. It is a one-time nuisance and then you're through, but it surprises people, so here it is in advance.
The security layer matches your address exactly. If you apply with your work address and then sign up with a personal one, the app will refuse you at the door and there is nothing helpful on that screen to explain why.
So: pick the address you actually want to use, put that one on the application, and use the same one when you sign up. If you change your mind, email us and we'll switch it in a minute.
We are picking for a spread of careers and career stages rather than taking applications in order, because the app behaves differently depending on what you do. If every tester were in sales, we would ship something that only works for people in sales.
Which means two honest things. A brilliant application can miss out because we already have three people doing similar work. And a place can open up later, which is why we ask whether you'd like us to come back to you.
People are brought in over three starting dates a week apart, so if you are not in the first group it does not mean you were not picked. We'll tell you which one you're in.
Yes, and it is treated the same way as any paying customer's would be. Your data is yours, it is not sold or shared, and it is not used to train anybody's AI model. Our privacy policy covers the detail.
One thing worth saying plainly: as the people building this, we can see what is in the system, and during the test we will be looking at how far people got and where things went wrong. If you would rather we didn't look at something in particular, say so and we won't. If you leave and want everything deleted, ask and it's gone.
Then it worked, and we would be delighted. Tell us and stay if you're happy to — a lot of what we need to learn is about how the app behaves for someone at the interview stage. If you would rather step away, do that instead and we'll still honour the three free months.
No. Plenty of what FutureDay does is worth doing when you are not looking — that is rather the point of it. But you do need to bring your own real career rather than a made-up one, and if you are actively looking you will get more out of week three than anyone.
Yes, and we would like some of you to. It is built to be used on a phone, and that claim has never been tested by twenty-five strangers. If you are mostly a phone person, please say so on the application — you are more useful to us than you think.
Nothing bad. Both calls are recorded and sent round. Turning up is better because you can ask things, but life happens and we are not marking a register.
Email grant@futureday.ai and say what you were doing at the time. We are based in Australia, so there may be a gap between your evening and ours, but we read everything and come back within one working day. If the app itself falls over it will tell you what to do and offer to send us the details, so you are not waiting for a reply before you can carry on.
Your access carries on, free, for another three months. Nothing changes and there is nothing to do. After those three months, if you want to carry on, you go onto the founding member rate, which is lower than the public price and stays that way. If you don't want to carry on, you don't, and nothing is taken from any card because we never asked for one.
Free for the four weeks and free for three months after that, with no payment details taken at any stage. The first time you would ever be asked to pay is four months from now, and only if you decide you want to.
Three minutes to apply. We'll come back to you either way within a few days.
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