Same agent, same tailoring, same tracker underneath — the difference is how much you want to review before an application goes out.
The short version
Copilot shows you one match at a time and waits for a yes before it applies. Autopilot takes a target number of applications and a resume strategy up front, then runs on its own until it hits that number. Both modes use the same underlying job-application agent — the same matching, the same resume tailoring, the same submission in your own Chrome. What changes is how much of the decision sits with you versus the agent.
Copilot: review every step
In Copilot, the agent surfaces matches one at a time, ranked by fit. For each one you can say yes or skip. If you say yes, the resume gets tailored to that specific posting and opens in an editor so you can change any line before anything is sent. The filled-in application form — every field, every custom answer — is shown to you as well, and you confirm before it submits.
This is the mode for people who want the speed of automated tailoring and form filling without giving up a final look at what goes out under their name. Most people move through a match in under thirty seconds once they're used to the flow — 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. You pick how many applications you want sent — say, forty this week — and choose a tailoring strategy up front (how aggressively the agent should rewrite your resume per role). From there it runs without stopping: searching, scoring, tailoring, filling, and submitting, all while you do something else entirely. Run it overnight and wake up to a batch of applications already sent and logged.
Autopilot doesn't mean unsupervised forever. You can pause or stop it at any point, and it still won't apply to a role that falls outside the preferences on your profile. It just removes the requirement that a human click approve on every single one.
What stays identical either way
Every application submitted by either mode goes through the same paired-computer worker, in your own installed Chrome, and lands in the same application tracker with the exact resume version and answers that were sent. There's no separate, lower-quality path for Autopilot applications — switching modes changes who clicks approve, not what gets built or how it gets submitted.
You can also switch between modes at any time, including mid-search — run Copilot for the first dozen roles to see how the tailoring reads, then move to Autopilot once you trust the output.
A typical week in each mode
In Copilot, a typical session looks like opening Hiair for ten or fifteen minutes a day, working through whatever new matches came in overnight, saying yes or skip on each, and glancing over the filled form before it sends. By the end of a week that's usually somewhere between fifteen and thirty applications, all reviewed personally, with the time cost mostly front-loaded into that daily check-in.
In Autopilot, the same week looks like setting a target once — say sixty applications — and checking the tracker a few times to see what went out and how the tailoring reads. The agent runs continuously in the background rather than waiting for a daily session, so the applications land throughout the week instead of in one batch, and the time cost is mostly the five minutes it took to set the target in the first place.
Which one to pick
If you're applying to a small number of roles you care a lot about, or you want to see exactly how the agent tailors before trusting it fully, start in Copilot. If you're trying to maximize the number of applications out the door — the situation most job searches are actually in — Autopilot with a weekly target does the volume a manual search can't sustain.
Questions people ask about the two modes
Yes, any time, including mid-search. A common pattern is starting in Copilot to see how the tailoring and matching feel, then moving to Autopilot once you trust the output enough to stop reviewing every single one.
No — both modes use the same matching and the same resume tailoring model. Autopilot doesn't lower the bar for what counts as a match; it just removes the requirement that you personally click approve on each one.
It still respects every preference on your profile — location, comp floor, seniority, remote or onsite. Those filters run whether or not a human is clicking approve, so Autopilot applies faster, not more loosely.
Yes — every application, in either mode, gets submitted through a paired computer running in your own Chrome. See how pairing works on apply from your own Chrome.