How Gri9d Sends Job Applications For You: A Step-by-Step Guide
Written by the Gri9d Team · Published May 2, 2026 · 6 min read
Last updated: May 2026
The promise of The Forge is simple: tell us once who you are and what kind of role you want, and we will send tailored applications under your name, to real hiring teams, in under sixty seconds per job. Here is how that actually happens, step by step, with no magic and no exaggeration.
What information does The Forge need from you?
Setup is a single profile. You upload your CV, paste a few writing samples so we capture how you actually phrase things, and answer short questions about target roles, locations, salary expectations, work rights, and any deal-breakers. You can add links to a portfolio, GitHub, or LinkedIn. The whole pass takes most students around fifteen minutes. Once it is done, you do not have to repeat it for every application — that is the entire point.
How does The Forge tailor each application?
When you point The Forge at a job posting, it reads the full description, extracts the responsibilities and the must-have skills, and matches them against your profile. It then drafts a cover letter that calls out the specific experiences from your CV most relevant to that role, and produces a resume variant where the bullet points are re-ordered and re-weighted to emphasise what this employer cares about. Nothing is invented. Every claim traces back to something you already gave us.
Will the application sound like you?
This is the part most students worry about, and fairly so. The Forge uses the writing samples you provided during setup as a style anchor: sentence length, vocabulary, whether you tend to be formal or conversational, whether you use contractions, even how you open and close emails. The output is a draft, not a send-and-forget. You see every cover letter and resume before it goes out, and you can edit a sentence, swap a paragraph, or rewrite the whole thing. Most students change a word or two and approve.
How long does each application take?
From the moment you paste a job link to the moment you hit approve, the typical Forge application takes under sixty seconds. That includes reading the posting, generating the tailored cover letter, regenerating the resume, and previewing the email. The slow part of job hunting has never been the typing — it has been the context-switching, the starting from a blank page, and the small panic of wondering whether your CV is even relevant. The Forge removes that friction so you can apply to ten roles in the time it used to take to apply to one.
What happens after you hit send?
The Forge sends the email under your name and your address, to the hiring contact listed in the posting or to the employer's careers inbox. There is no Gri9d-branded wrapper or footer. Replies land directly in your own inbox, exactly as they would if you had drafted the email yourself, so recruiters speak to you and not to a bot. We keep a record of every application so you can see what was sent, when, and to whom — useful when a recruiter calls three weeks later and you cannot remember which role triggered it.
Is there a catch?
The free tier is genuinely free and covers most students. If you want higher volume or extra features, the optional subscription starts at $9.99 per month. Gri9d was founded in 2026 by Melbourne university students, and The Forge is currently most useful for students applying to roles anywhere in Australia. Your CV and writing samples are stored encrypted and used only to power your own applications.
Ready to see it in action? Read the full Forge product page at /what-is-gri9d/the-forge for screenshots, the underlying model choices, and the data-handling details. If you would rather just try it, sign-up is free and takes about fifteen minutes from a fresh CV to your first sent application.