Jobright revenue: $5M/yr reported, team of 2–10

01

How much revenue does Jobright make?

Each row shows the evidence grade and the source numbers from the list at the end of this page. The grades are explained in How Aiolum verifies.

A funded two-founder start: a leaderboard reported US$5 million a year with 9 employees, a directory reported US$1 million in recurring revenue later, and neither is confirmed
Fact	Value	Grade	How we know	Sources
Annual revenue, leaderboard snapshot February 2025	US$5,000,000	D	Lean AI Leaderboard row: Annual Revenue $5,000,000, 9 employees, Revenue/Employee $555,556, Total Funding $7,700,000, Founded 2023, Snapshot Time Feb 2025. Its source is a LinkedIn post by co-founder Ethan Zheng's account, which this page did not fetch.	[1]
Date of the cited LinkedIn post	10 February 2026	calc	Calculated: a LinkedIn activity number holds its creation time in milliseconds in its upper bits; 7427094193283678208 shifted right by 22 bits gives 10 February 2026. The leaderboard's snapshot label says February 2025, so one of the two dates is likely wrong.	[1]
Monthly equivalent of the leaderboard figure	about US$416,667 a month	calc	Calculated: US$5,000,000 divided by 12.	[1]
Annual recurring revenue, September 2025	US$1,000,000	D	Latka: "annual recurring revenue passed $1M in September 2025", citing a newsletter (signalhub.substack.com) whose robots.txt blocks Claude agents, so it was not read. Latka also lists the company as founded in 2025, which disagrees with the company's own date of 2023.	[2]
People on LinkedIn, September 2025	78	D	Latka, from LinkedIn. LinkedIn counts may include contractors and interns. It disagrees with the 9 employees on the leaderboard.	[2]
Founders	Eric Cheng (CEO) and Ethan Zheng (CTO)	C	About page and the company's blog. Founded and launched in 2023.	[3, 6]
Funding to date	US$7.7 million	C	Company blog, 18 June 2025: a US$4.5 million seed round in mid-2023 led by Lanchi Ventures with UpHonest Ventures, and a US$3.2 million round in 2025 led by Translink Capital with HR Tech Investments, an affiliate of Indeed.	[3, 4]
Public beta	April 2024	C	Company blog: "Since the public beta launch in April 2024".	[3]
Users	50,000 by June 2024; more than 520,000 by June 2025	C	Company blog and press release, "all without any paid advertising". About 60% use it every day, the company says.	[3, 4]
User growth, June 2024 to June 2025	about 10.4 times	calc	Calculated: 520,000 divided by 50,000.	[3]
Users shown on the home page, November 2026	3,000,000	C	Home page counter "3,000,000 trusted users", read 5 November 2026. Not checked by anyone outside.	[7]
Job openings in the index	more than 8,000,000, about 400,000 new a day	C	Home page and blog. The blog says listings are aggregated from LinkedIn, Indeed, company career pages and more.	[3, 7]
Product Hunt	4.8 from 12 reviews, 2,200 followers	C	Product page read 5 November 2026. The company says it was #1 Product of the Week in July 2024.	[10, 3]
Months from the public beta to the leaderboard snapshot	10	calc	Calculated: April 2024 to February 2025, using the snapshot label as the source gives it.	[1, 3]
Premium price, June 2025	US$30 a month	C	Company blog: "Premium plans ($30/month)".	[3]
Employer AI Recruiter price	US$499 per recruiter per month	C	Employer pricing page, read 5 November 2026.	[9]

How to read this table: a grade D value is reported by one source that did not check it (a leaderboard that retells a founder post, or a directory). A grade C value comes from the company's own pages or press release. A "calc" value was computed on this page. No value is grade A or B.

Jobright prices: the job-seeker plan as the company stated it in June 2025, and the employer plan from its pricing page in November 2026 (grade C)
Plan	Per month, billed yearly (US$)	Per month, billed monthly (US$)	Limit
Free (job seekers)	0	0	basic job matching, autofill and resume tools
Premium (job seekers)		30	company blog, June 2025; full resume AI, coaching and networking tools
AI Recruiter (employers)		499	per recruiter per active role; free trial first
Employer annual plans	quote		several active recruiters

The job-seeker pricing page (jobright.ai/pricing) answered 404 on 5 November 2026, and the current Premium price is shown only inside the app, so the US$30 figure comes from the company's blog post of 18 June 2025 and may have changed. The employer product, Jobright AI Recruiter, is priced per active role and starts with a free trial of two weeks; annual plans are by quote.

02

When did Jobright launch, and how did it grow?

From a founder's gap-year trip in 2021 to an AI agent that sends job applications, in about four years. Each entry carries its grade.

2021CDuring a gap year, Eric Cheng travels through small and medium-sized cities, meets more than 100 young people and helps 10 of them find jobs. He discusses the idea with Ethan Zheng. [6]
Mid-2023CThe two co-founders start Jobright. The company says it raised a US$4.5 million seed round led by Lanchi Ventures. [3]
April 2024CPublic beta. 50,000 users within two months, by the company's count. [3]
July 2024CProduct Hunt launch; the company says it was #1 Product of the Week. [3, 10]
February 2025DSnapshot date of the leaderboard row: US$5 million in annual revenue, 9 employees. The cited post's number decodes to February 2026. [1]
24 June 2025CJobright Agent launches, an AI agent that finds, tailors and submits applications. The company reports 520,000 users and a US$3.2 million round led by Translink Capital, with HR Tech Investments, an affiliate of Indeed. [4, 5]
September 2025DLatka reports US$1 million in annual recurring revenue and 78 people on LinkedIn. [2]
November 2026CThe home page shows 3,000,000 users. The company also sells Jobright AI Recruiter to employers at US$499 per recruiter per month. [7, 9]

03

Why did Jobright work?

Four causes, in the order they mattered. Each one is a reusable lesson.

01

Founders who had done it before

Both founders came with years of work on the same kind of problem: Ethan Zheng built ranking and personalization models for ads at Twitter and for a news feed at Newsbreak; Eric Cheng had built and run a business software company. Matching a resume to a job opening is a ranking problem of the same kind.

02

Automate the boring steps

The product removes the repetitive parts of a job search: reading listings, rewriting a resume for each one, and typing the same details into every employer's form. The company says users can apply to hundreds of jobs a day with autofill, and the June 2025 agent submits applications on its own.

03

A niche that the large sites served badly

An H-1B filter shows openings at employers that sponsor work visas, which international job seekers cannot easily find on the general job sites. TechCrunch wrote about this feature in June 2024, according to the company.

04

Free first, paid for depth

Matching and autofill are free; the company said in June 2025 that the Premium plan for full resume AI, coaching and networking tools costs US$30 a month. Growth came without paid advertising, the company says.

How it was built

The company has published little about its technology. These points come from its own pages and press release, grade C. [3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11]

A web app with job matching, Resume AI, an insider-connections finder, an AI chat coach named Orion, and an H-1B job filter.
A browser extension fills in application forms on the main applicant tracking systems; the autofill page starts with "Install the Autofill Extension".
Jobright Agent (June 2025) chains the steps: it matches roles, tailors the resume, fills the forms and tracks each submission.
The job index is built from listings that the company says are aggregated from LinkedIn, Indeed, company career pages and more.
The press release of June 2025 said an employer product was being built; by November 2026 the pricing page sold Jobright AI Recruiter per active role.

Tools named in the sources

Each one opens its page in the Tools tab, with every story that uses it.

Next.jsB WordPressB Product HuntC RedditC GPT StoreC Google AnalyticsB

04

Who tried this before Jobright, and why did they fail?

Four companies in a database of failed startups tried to make job search or hiring easier with a new interface or with AI, and lost to the large job sites or to slow buyers. The values below are from that database and are not independently verified.

Died 2014 to 2019Burned US$2M

Jobr

The promise

Swipe through jobs on a phone, as in a dating app, and apply in one step.

Why it died

LinkedIn and Indeed added similar mobile features; the swipe idea did not become a lasting advantage and it struggled to make money.

Competition

Died 2009 to 2012Burned US$20K

Jobspice

The promise

Make a professional resume quickly from templates.

Why it died

Free resume tools spread, and it never added job matching or networking to become a broader career service.

Competition

Died 2008 to 2011Burned US$2M

Snaptalent

The promise

Show job ads to passive job seekers on the websites they already read.

Why it died

LinkedIn dominated professional hiring, and the 2008 recession cut hiring budgets.

Competition

Died 2017 to 2022Burned US$15M

Ansaro

The promise

AI that automates recruiting: tracking candidates, parsing resumes and scheduling interviews.

Why it died

Recruiters saw it as nice to have, the change to their work was large, and the return was not clear.

No Market Need

The failed startups come from our database of 1,749 dead startups, retold here in our own words. Its entries are AI-assisted summaries of public sources, so these cards carry no evidence grade.

What changed

Jobr, Jobspice and Snaptalent each improved one step of the job search, and the large job sites either copied the step or made it free. Ansaro sold AI to recruiters, who did not want to change how they hire. Jobright works on the job seeker's side and does many steps at once, which the large sites have less reason to build because their money comes from employers.

Two things are different now. Large language models can rewrite a resume and fill a form well enough that a small team can offer it to millions of people at low cost. And applicant tracking systems put most employers' application forms into a few standard formats, so one extension can fill them all. The open question is the same one that ended Jobr: the job sites that supply listings and the employers that receive the applications can change their rules.

05

Can one person copy Jobright now?

Not by one person. The pattern, partly.

Jobright had two experienced founders, US$7.7 million in funding by the company's account, and 78 people on LinkedIn in September 2025, according to Latka. A solo founder cannot copy the full job index and agent. A narrow part of it is within reach of one person: a tool for one group of job seekers whom the large sites serve badly, such as visa holders or one profession.

Where it is still open: Job search for groups the general sites serve badly: visa holders, licensed trades, career changers, job seekers outside the United States.

1Pick one group of job seekers with a filter the large sites do not offer (visa sponsorship, a license, a language).
2Build the one step that costs them the most time, for example tailoring a resume or filling forms on one applicant tracking system.
3Keep a free plan for that step and charge for depth, as Jobright says it does.
4Read the terms of every job site and applicant tracking system you touch before you automate anything on them.

What could go wrong for Jobright?

The risks are the mirror image of the causes above.

What is not verified

The headline of US$5 million a year rests on one source: the Lean AI Leaderboard row with snapshot February 2025, which cites a LinkedIn post by co-founder Ethan Zheng's account that this page could not read. The post's own number decodes to 10 February 2026, so the date may be wrong. Latka reported only US$1 million in annual recurring revenue in September 2025, from a newsletter this page could not read. No payment processor, filing or press report confirms either figure. A reader could look for a funding announcement or an interview in which a founder gives revenue with a date.

Automated applications and job sites' terms

The company says its autofill lets users "apply to hundreds of jobs each day" and that Jobright Agent submits applications for the user, and its blog says its job listings are aggregated from LinkedIn, Indeed and company career pages. Some job sites and employers restrict automated access or bulk applications in their terms. The sources do not say whether any site has objected; an affiliate of Indeed invested in the June 2025 round.

Testimonials

The testimonials on the home page show first names and initials only. The same quote, "Thanks to this platform I've landed a few interviews and accepted an offer within 1 week of interviewing!!", is signed "Tracy C." on the home page and "Gabriella B., LinkedIn Strategist" on the company's June 2025 blog post.

Team size

The leaderboard listed 9 employees at the headline figure; Latka counted 78 people on LinkedIn in September 2025. The team was started by two co-founders and raised venture money twice. This is a funded company, not a one-person business.

Platform risk

The product depends on job listings from other sites and on the forms of applicant tracking systems. A change of terms or of form layout at LinkedIn, Indeed, Workday or a similar system could break matching or autofill.

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AI review of LinkedIn profiles, CVs written for one job ad, and interview preparation for job seekers · Brazil

Karvi

Evidence A

$8.6K Stripe revenue

Solo founder · 9 months after launch, revenue falling

It sells one small result at a small one-time price: the first diagnosis is free, and the full analysis costs R$19.90 in Brazil or US$3.90 abroad, with no subscription. It takes Pix, the Brazilian instant-payment system, which most of its buyers use. A solo founder with an audience on X could launch it in days, and Stripe shows US$1,868 in the first full month.

7 grade-A facts · 3 that failed before it

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Europass AI

Evidence A

$1.5K verified total

Team of 2 to 10 · 36 months after launch, revenue growing

Many European employers, schools and public bodies ask for a CV in the Europass layout, and many applicants write it in a second language. Europass AI aims at one narrow group, skilled workers in construction, manufacturing and trades who apply across Europe, and lets an AI model write the text in the language they choose.

7 grade-A facts · 4 that failed before it

AI resume and cover letter builder · Lithuania

Rezly AI

Evidence A

$1.2K in 30 days

Solo founder · 19 months after launch, revenue growing

A job seeker needs a good resume for a few weeks, not for years. Rezly lets them start for free with no sign-up and then sells a short pass at the moment they want to download more than one PDF. The AI writing comes from OpenAI by the request, so one founder can offer the same tool in many languages.

5 grade-A facts · 4 that failed before it

AI job-search workspace: tailored resumes, application tracker, voice interview practice, offer comparison · Not stated in the sources

Resumeaze

Evidence A

$1.50 verified, all time

Solo founder · 1 months after launch

Job seekers keep resumes, postings, reminders and interview notes in many tabs and files. Resumeaze puts the steps from the posting to the offer in one place and says that its AI keeps the user's facts. It is very new: the first verified payment came on 28 October 2026, and TrustMRR shows US$1.50 in total revenue on 3 November 2026. This page records a business at its first payment, not a proven one.

3 grade-A facts · 4 that failed before it

AI job-search app: swipe on jobs, AI-tailored resumes and cover letters, an AI agent that submits the application · United States

Sprout - AI Job Search

Evidence C

$250K MRR in 8 months

Team of 2 to 10 · 8 months after launch, revenue falling

Filling in the same facts on every employer's application form, and rewriting a resume for every job, is the slowest part of a job search for students and new graduates. The founder had already built a growth system for her first app: hundreds of paid short-video creators trained with her own course. She moved the same system to a job app, aimed at college students and recent graduates, who she says have more buying power than her beauty app's users.

Every number graded · 4 that failed before it

AI resume builder and reviewer · USA

Sheets Resume

Evidence C

$336K/yr run rate

Team of 2 to 10 · 7 months after launch

The founder had answered resume questions on Reddit for six years, and his free template had millions of users, so the AI tool launched to people who already trusted his format. It replaced a US$400 one-to-one review with a US$99 product that costs little to run.

Every number graded · 4 that failed before it

Built with the same tools

Businesses whose sources name tools that Jobright also uses: Next.js, Product Hunt, Reddit, Google Analytics. Every tool has its own page in Tools.

AI customer-support agents · Canada, now USA

Chatbase

Evidence A

$10M ARR

Solo founder · 37 months after launch, revenue growing

It launched the obvious application of a new model within weeks, with a pricing page on the first day. The founder built the parts around the model instead of a model, so every model upgrade improved the product for free. Then it moved from a consumer toy to business customers who stay.

2 grade-A facts · 5 that failed before it

Open-source social media scheduler for people and AI agents · Israel, company registered in Hong Kong

Postiz

Evidence A

$3.2M/yr run rate

Solo founder · 27 months after launch, revenue growing

Said US$245K a monthRecords US$263K MRRSaid less than the records

The founder took a twenty-year-old product category with no open-source entry and open-sourced all of it, which gave him millions of Docker downloads and 37,000 GitHub stars without a marketing budget. Revenue stayed small for a year. It multiplied when he turned the product toward people who automate their posting with n8n workflows and, from late 2025, with AI agents, which need an API-first scheduler and keep paying because they post without human effort.

6 grade-A facts · 5 that failed before it

AI assistant inside messaging apps · Switzerland

Notis

Evidence A

$13.5K MRR in October 2026

Solo founder · 35 months after launch, revenue falling

It reached people inside the chat app that they already open all day, so capturing an idea on a phone took one voice note. It aimed first at Notion users, whom the company told that ideas get lost on the phone. Ads on Facebook and Google then paid for fast growth in early 2026, until the founder stopped them in August 2026 because the costs were larger than the revenue.

6 grade-A facts · 5 that failed before it

Browser extension for AI chat apps · Israel

AI Toolbox

Evidence A

$109K in 12 months

Team of 2 to 10 · 25 months after launch, revenue growing

Heavy users of AI chat apps lose old answers, because the apps had no folders, no filtered search and no bulk export. AI Toolbox adds these inside the apps, for four apps at once, sells them mostly as one-time licenses, and, by the seller's account, finds its buyers through search pages instead of ads.

5 grade-A facts · 5 that failed before it

Sources

The grade next to each source is the best grade that the source can support. "Read in full" means that the text of the page was downloaded and the numbers were checked in it.

D Lean AI Leaderboard, published Google Sheet (CSV export), downloaded 5 November 2026
Read the row for Jobright (snapshot Feb 2025). Its source column is a LinkedIn post (linkedin.com/posts/zhengyudian_...activity-7427094193283678208), which was not fetched.
D Latka: Jobright AI Revenue 2025, $1M ARR
Read in full. A directory page; the ARR figure cites signalhub.substack.com, which blocks Claude agents and was not read.
C Jobright Blog, 18 June 2025: Is Jobright Legit?
Read in full. The company's own account of its founders, funding, beta date, user counts and Premium price.
C Jobright Blog, 24 June 2025: Jobright Launches First AI Agent to Put Job Search on Autopilot
Read in full. Press release on the agent launch, the US$3.2 million round and 520,000 users.
C HR Tech Feed, 24 June 2025: Indeed Venture Arm Invests in AI Career Agent Technology
Read in full. A trade site's retelling of the press release, with the investor quote.
C Jobright: About Us
Read in full, 5 November 2026. Source for the founding story and the founders' backgrounds.
C Jobright home page
Read in full, 5 November 2026. Source for the features, the user counter and the testimonials.
C Jobright: Job Autofill
Read in full. Source for the autofill extension and the "hundreds of jobs each day" claim.
C Jobright: Employer pricing
Read in full, 5 November 2026. Source for the AI Recruiter price.
C Product Hunt: Jobright AI
Read the rating, reviews, followers and launch year.
C Jobright: AI Agent
Read in full. Source for what the agent does.

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