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It finds the opportunities. You make the moves.

Handpick reads the market for you — roles, contracts and freelance briefs — then explains why each one fits and writes the first message. You decide what goes out.

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sources scanned daily: 6
matches surfaced weekly: 0
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14 further listings reviewed and set aside. Reasons kept on file.

Senior Product Designer

Northstar Labs · Contract · 6 months · Remote (EU)

awaiting you

Reason Complex B2B workflow design Worth noting Rate not published — confirm early Contact Maya Chen, Design Director — from the public team page

Draft message

Hi Maya,

I came across Northstar's search for a senior product designer. The brief mentions untangling multi-step approval flows — that's been the centre of my last two engagements, most recently cutting a 9-step review down to 3.

Happy to send that case study over if it's useful.

Alex

Handpick will not send this on its own.

It reads everything

Job boards, company pages, funding news and community posts — checked daily against what you actually want.

It shows its reasoning

Every match arrives with the specific overlap, and the caveat you should raise in the first conversation.

You hold the send button

Drafts wait in your queue. Nothing is submitted, messaged or applied for without an explicit approval.

It finds the opportunities.
You make the moves.

A quiet agent working the market on your behalf. It researches, reasons and drafts — then stops, because the last step is yours.

no bulk applying · no auto-send · no scraped inboxes

Today's log

06:02 Scanned 1,412 sources · 38 new listings
06:14 Set aside 32 — location, seniority, stack
06:31 Shortlisted Northstar Labs — workflow design overlap
06:33 Found contact on public team page
06:35 Drafted a 94-word note, second pass for tone
06:36 Stopped. Waiting for your approval.

Two replies from last week's approvals are still open. Handpick will remind you on Thursday rather than chasing on your behalf.

Draft 01

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Senior Product Designer

Northstar Labs · Contract, 6 months · Remote (EU)

ToMaya Chen, Design Director SubjectWorkflow design support

Hi Maya,

Happy to send that case study over if it's useful.

Alex

held · nothing sent

Built for one person at a time — your preferences, your voice, your timing.

Sources are public. Every claim in a draft can be traced back to where it came from.

Pause it for a week and nothing happens. That's the point.

A personal agent for the working search No. 01

It finds the opportunities. You make the moves.

Handpick spends the morning reading the market — job boards, hiring pages, funding notes, the quieter corners where contracts get mentioned first. By the time you sit down, the noise has been cleared.

What remains is a short list with its reasoning attached, and a note already written in your own register. It goes no further than that. Approval is a human act, and it stays one.

The shortlist, first entry

Senior Product Designer

Northstar Labs — contract of six months, remote within Europe.

i
The brief describes untangling approval flows — the same problem your last two projects were built around.
ii
Length and location sit inside the boundaries you set in March.
iii
The rate is unpublished. Worth raising in the first exchange rather than the third.

A note, prepared for you

Unsent — awaiting you

To Maya Chen, Design Director — found on the public team page.

Hi Maya,

I came across Northstar's search for a senior product designer. The brief mentions untangling multi-step approval flows — that has been the centre of my last two engagements, most recently taking a nine-step review down to three.

Happy to send that case study over if it would be useful.

Alex

Until then it stays on this page.

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