We find the jobs.
We write the resumes.
Job hunting is two full-time jobs. We do both: 5 current openings where your experience genuinely competes, and an ATS-optimized resume and cover letter engineered for each one. Every application link personally verified live the day we deliver.
Eleven documents for a Full Campaign — five one-page ATS resumes, five matched cover letters, and the rationale explaining every match and every choice. Illustrative sample; yours is built entirely from your own history.
How it works
One questionnaire in. A ready-to-fire campaign out.
Tailored, low-volume applications convert at 3–4× the rate of mass applying — and applying within 48 hours of a posting earns 2–3× more interviews. We build you for both.
Tell us who you are
A 15-minute questionnaire — your experience, your salary floor, where you'll work, what you want more of, and what you're running from. Attach your current resume in any state; we rebuild it completely.
We scout & verify
We research current openings across job boards and employer career sites, score them against your background on six axes, screen out ghost postings and dead listings, and personally verify every application link is live before delivery.
We tailor everything
For each match: a one-page, ATS-optimized resume engineered against that exact posting's language, a matched cover letter, the reasoning behind every choice — and a networking angle for each employer where one exists.
The numbers
Built on how hiring actually works in 2026
Straight talk
Who this works for — and who it doesn't
We'd rather lose the sale than take money from someone we can't help.
This is for you if…
- You're applying steadily and hearing almost nothing back
- You're changing industries and don't know where you'd actually compete
- You're experienced enough that a generic resume undersells you badly
- You're short on time, not short on qualifications
- You'd rather send five serious applications than fifty hopeful ones
This isn't for you if…
- You want someone to submit applications for you — you keep that control, always
- You want a guaranteed interview or offer. Nobody can honestly promise that
- You want experience added that you don't have. We will refuse, every time
- You need it in a few hours. Real research takes 48–72
Yes, AI is involved. Here's exactly how.
You should ask, because most of what's sold online right now is a chatbot with a markup. A professional-grade AI research pipeline does the heavy lifting — that's the only reason five individually researched, individually tailored applications cost less than one traditionally written resume. But a human reads every package end to end before it ships, checks every claim against what you actually told us, and re-tests every application link that day. Nothing auto-sends. And the rule that never bends: we do not invent employers, titles, dates, credentials, or numbers — not even when a client asks us to. Invented experience is what gets people fired after they're hired.
Pricing
Launch pricing while our review base grows
Every package is built by a professional-grade AI research pipeline, directed and quality-reviewed by a human before it ships. These are introductory prices and they go up once we've collected our first ten client reviews — early clients get the lower rate permanently on repeat orders.
How ordering works: pay securely through Stripe and you're taken straight to the questionnaire. Your delivery clock starts once your questionnaire and current resume are in — and you can cancel for a full refund any time before we begin work. See our refund policy.
Job-finding services don't write. Resume writers don't search. We do both, at resume-writer prices — which is the whole reason this business exists.
Single Target
- You name 1 job posting you've found
- ATS-optimized resume engineered for it
- Matched cover letter
- 48-hour delivery
Perfect when you've found the job and need to win it.
Full Campaign
- 5 researched job matches, scored & explained
- 5 tailored ATS resumes — one per job
- 5 matched cover letters
- Warm networking angle per employer
- Every link verified live at delivery
- 72-hour delivery · one revision round
- Interview Prep at half price — $20 instead of $40, whenever you land an interview
The complete search-to-application engine.
Interview Prep
- For a specific interview you've landed
- 15–20 likely questions for that exact role
- Strong sample answers from YOUR experience
- Your 2–3 weak spots — and how to handle them
- 48-hour delivery
Most clients add this the day the interview invite lands. Full Campaign clients pay $20.
Going deeper on one interview
A panel, a final round, or a job you really want. Same honest rule: every answer is built from experience you actually have.
15–20 likely questions, a STAR answer for each, the weak spots they'll probe, and smart questions to ask them. 48 hours.
Order →Everything above, plus 6–8 reusable STAR stories mapped to what this employer screens for, and a salary negotiation script with a researched pay band. 72 hours.
Order →Everything above, plus research on each interviewer you'll face, a company digest, your 30/60/90 talking points, and a thank-you letter draft. 96 hours.
Order →Who we are
Who builds your package
Scout & Tailor is a small, deliberately hands-on operation based in Lafayette, California, serving clients nationwide.
Andrew Burkhammer, founder
Across ten years at Chevron and Sandia National Laboratories — as a maintenance supervisor at a Richmond refinery and later as a facilities portfolio manager at a U.S. national laboratory — I wrote the job requirements, read the stacks of resumes, and sat in the interviews that decided who got hired. Scout & Tailor exists because that view of the process is the one candidates never get to see.
Every package is reviewed by a human
An AI research pipeline does the heavy lifting — that's how you get five researched, individually tailored applications for the price of one traditionally written resume. But nothing ships without a person reading it end to end, checking every claim against what you actually told us, and re-testing every application link that day.
Honest about what we can't do
We will tell you when a match is a stretch and why. We will never invent an employer, a title, a date, or a number to make you look better on paper — that gets people fired after they're hired. And we don't guarantee interviews or offers, because nobody can.
Why this exists
I hired professional resume writers twice, and both times I got exactly half of what I needed.
The first one stuffed the document with every keyword from the posting. It read like it was written for a machine, because it was. That tactic is also years out of date — the screeners most employers now run score contextual relevance and actively penalize keyword density.
The second wrote something genuinely beautiful. It also missed the specific language the postings actually used, and my applications kept vanishing into silence.
One was legible to software and not to people. The other was the reverse. Nobody was doing both at once — so I went and learned how, first on my own search, and then for clients.
Neither of them was unqualified. One held a degree from a school you would recognize instantly, and that is rather the point. A credential tells you someone can write. It does not tell you they have worked out how the gate actually opens — what today's screeners reward and penalize, which postings are even real, and what a hiring manager does with a document in the six seconds they give it. That isn't taught in a degree program. You learn it by paying attention from the other side of the desk, which is where I spent ten years.
We ran it on ourselves first
Before Scout & Tailor took a single client, the founder used this exact process on his own 2026 search — same research method, same six-axis scoring, same one-page ATS build.
Four applications have reached an interview or screen: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, JLL (considered for two roles), and Marin Transit — out of 19 submitted. A twentieth is excluded from that count because the employer cancelled the role outright, so it was never a decision about the candidate.
That is one person's search, in his own field, with his own background — not a prediction about yours. Most of those applications are still open, and plenty will end in silence; that's what job searching is. We're showing you the raw count with the denominator attached rather than a rounded percentage, because a number you can check is worth more than one you can't.
FAQ
Questions people ask
Will these resumes pass ATS scans?
They're engineered for it — single-column layout, standard section headers, no tables or graphics, keywords drawn from each posting's actual language, written for the semantic AI screeners most employers now run. No honest service can promise a specific score on every proprietary system; this format is the industry standard for parsing reliably.
How do you pick my 5 jobs?
Your questionnaire sets hard constraints (salary floor, location/remote, industry vetoes) that we never violate. We then score candidate postings on requirements coverage, salary fit, logistics, a nameable edge you have over the median applicant, employer legitimacy, and whether the role delivers what you told us you want more of. Ghost postings, dead listings, and fee-charging "opportunities" are screened out, and every surviving link is re-verified the day your package ships.
What if a posting closes before I apply?
Postings move fast — that's why we verify at delivery and tell you to apply within 48 hours. If a link dies before you get there, reply within your revision window and we'll swap in a live replacement.
Do you apply to jobs for me?
No — you stay in control of where your resume goes. We hand you everything ready to submit, which also means your applications come from you, not a bot (employers penalize automated submissions).
Is AI involved?
Yes, openly: a professional-grade AI research and writing pipeline does the heavy lifting, and a human directs and reviews every package before it ships. That's how each order gets research and tailoring that would cost $500+ from a traditional service.
Do you guarantee interviews or jobs?
No, and you should be suspicious of anyone who does. We build you the strongest possible entry into processes where hundreds compete; the interviews are yours to win — and our Interview Prep package helps there too.
Ready to stop spraying applications?
Order your package, spend 15 minutes on the questionnaire, and have a complete, verified, tailored application campaign in your inbox within 72 hours.