Copilot or Autopilot: which mode should run your job search?

Same agent, same resume tailoring, same tracker underneath — the difference is how much you review before an application goes out. Here's how to pick.

Joy De Medici · September 17, 2026

Hiair runs your job search in one of two modes. Both use the same matching, the same resume tailoring, and the same submission in your own Chrome. The only thing that changes between them is who clicks approve.

Copilot: you see everything before it sends

In Copilot, the agent surfaces one match at a time, ranked by fit. For each one you say yes or skip. Say yes, and the resume gets tailored to that specific posting and opens in an editor so you can change any line. The filled-in application — every field, every custom answer — is shown to you too, and you confirm before it submits.

This is the mode for roles you care a lot about, or for the first few weeks with a new tool, when you want to see exactly how the tailoring reads before trusting it with volume. Most people move through a match in under thirty seconds once they're used to the flow, since the agent has already done the reading and the rewriting — you're just approving.

Autopilot: set a target, walk away

Autopilot is built for volume. Pick how many applications you want sent and a tailoring strategy up front, and the agent runs without stopping: searching, scoring, tailoring, filling, and submitting, all while you do something else. It still won't apply to a role that falls outside the preferences on your profile — location, comp floor, seniority, remote or onsite — it just removes the requirement that a human click approve on every single one.

You can pause or stop an Autopilot run at any point, and every application it submits shows up in the same application tracker with the exact resume version and answers that were sent, identical to a Copilot application.

What never changes between the two

Every application submitted by either mode runs through the same paired-computer worker in your own installed Chrome — see how that works — and the same tailoring model. There is no lower-quality Autopilot path; switching modes changes who reviews the application, not what gets built or how it gets submitted.

You can also switch mid-search. A common pattern is starting in Copilot for the first dozen roles to see how the tailoring reads, then moving to Autopilot once you trust the output enough to stop reviewing every one individually.

A rule of thumb

If you're applying to a short list of roles you care a lot about, or you want to watch the tailoring before trusting it fully, start in Copilot. If you're trying to maximize the number of applications going out — which describes most job searches once the first few weeks of hand-picking are over — Autopilot with a weekly target sustains a volume a manual search can't.

Both modes are available on every plan on Pricing; a bigger plan buys a bigger token balance, not a different version of either mode.