How Cavuno Works

Cavuno is AI job board software that runs itself. You launch a branded job board, and Cavuno handles the operational work that would otherwise consume your time: aggregating jobs, enriching company profiles, tagging content, powering search, and driving organic traffic through SEO.

This page explains the core concepts and how AI connects them. Understanding this model will help you make better decisions as you set up and grow your board.

Boards

A board is a complete job board website. When you create a board, Cavuno provisions a full site with its own domain, design, content, and settings. Each board targets a specific niche (like "remote engineering jobs" or "healthcare careers in Texas") and operates independently.

Every board has a public-facing website where candidates browse jobs and employers post them, plus an admin dashboard where you and your team manage everything behind the scenes.

A single Cavuno account can own multiple boards, each with its own team, settings, and billing.

Jobs

Jobs are the core content on your board. Each job listing includes a title, description, company, location, employment type, seniority level, and optionally salary information.

Jobs reach your board in two ways:

Direct posts: employers submit jobs through your board's posting flow. These can be free or paid depending on the pricing plans you create. Direct posts are your primary revenue source.

Backfilled jobs: Cavuno automatically imports jobs from company careers pages based on rules you define. Backfill solves the cold-start problem by populating your board with relevant listings from day one. Both types look identical to candidates. For a detailed explanation, see What is backfill.

When a job is created, Cavuno's AI automatically extracts skills, categories, and seniority from the title and description. This powers skill-based filtering, accurate job alerts, and AI-powered search that understands intent (so "frontend developer" matches "React engineer" too).

Jobs have a lifecycle: they're created (as drafts if you have moderation enabled), published, and eventually expire based on the duration you configure. Featured jobs get promoted placement on your board and are typically sold at a premium.

Companies

Companies are the employer profiles on your board. Each company has a name, logo, description, website, and social links. When a job is posted, it's associated with a company, and candidates can browse all open positions at that company from its profile page.

Companies are created in three ways: manually by you, automatically when backfill imports jobs from a new employer, or by employers themselves when they register on your board. Cavuno enriches company profiles automatically by pulling logo, description, and social data from public sources, so every employer on your board has a complete profile without manual research.

Candidates and employers

Cavuno supports two types of public-facing users on your board, separate from your admin team.

Candidates are job seekers. They can create profiles with their experience, education, skills, and job search status. Depending on your settings, candidate profiles can be visible in a public talent directory that employers browse, visible only to logged-in employers, or hidden entirely. Candidates can also save jobs and subscribe to job alerts.

Employers are the people posting and managing jobs. When employer registration is enabled, employers create accounts on your board, claim or create their company profile, and submit job postings. Employers with subscriptions can post jobs continuously within their plan limits.

Both candidate and employer features are optional. You can run a board with just backfilled jobs and no user registration at all, or enable one side without the other.

AI at the core

Most job board platforms give you a blank website and leave the hard work to you. Cavuno takes a different approach: AI handles the repetitive, time-consuming tasks so you can focus on what makes your board unique.

Here's what runs automatically:

Job aggregation: Cavuno pulls listings from company careers pages based on rules you define, keeping your board populated with fresh, relevant jobs without manual entry. See What is backfill.

Auto-tagging: When a job is created (whether posted by an employer or imported via backfill), AI analyzes the title and description to extract skills, assign categories, and validate seniority. This structured data powers filtering and alerts without you tagging anything by hand.

Company enrichment: When a company is added with a website URL, Cavuno automatically fills in the logo, summary, description, and social links from public sources. Hundreds of companies can be enriched without you writing a single profile. See Automatic enrichment.

Semantic search: Candidates search using natural language, and Cavuno's vector search understands intent. A search for "data analyst" surfaces "business intelligence analyst" and "analytics engineer" too. Typo tolerance means misspellings don't return empty results.

Recommendations: Cavuno suggests similar jobs and similar companies based on semantic similarity, helping candidates discover relevant opportunities they wouldn't have found through search alone.

Programmatic SEO: Cavuno auto-generates optimized pages for every combination of category, location, and job type on your board, creating hundreds of indexable landing pages that rank in search engines without you writing a single page.

Google for Jobs: Structured data (JobPosting schema) is generated automatically for every listing, including education requirements, experience levels, and remote work details. This surfaces your jobs directly in Google search results. See Google for Jobs.

The result is a board that stays current, discoverable, and useful to candidates with minimal ongoing effort from you.

Job alerts

Job alerts are automated email digests sent to subscribers when new jobs matching their preferences are posted. Subscribers sign up with their email and choose daily or weekly delivery.

Alerts are one of your most important growth tools. They drive repeat traffic without requiring candidates to remember to visit your board, and they build an owned email list that compounds over time. Every subscriber who clicks through from an alert is a returning visitor who costs you nothing to acquire.

Because auto-tagging extracts accurate skills and categories from every listing, alert matching is precise. Subscribers get jobs that genuinely fit their criteria, which keeps open rates high and unsubscribes low.

Pricing plans and payments

Monetization in Cavuno works through pricing plans connected to Stripe. You create plans that define what employers pay to post jobs on your board. Plans come in several types:

Free plans let employers post at no cost. Useful for building initial supply or offering a basic tier.

One-time plans charge a flat fee per job posting (e.g., $99 for a 30-day listing, $199 for a featured post).

Subscription plans charge a recurring monthly or annual fee for ongoing posting access (e.g., $299/month for unlimited posts).

When an employer posts a job under a paid plan, Cavuno creates an order, sends them through Stripe checkout, and publishes the job once payment succeeds. Subscription employers skip checkout for each post since their recurring plan covers it.

You can also earn revenue through AdSense advertising, featured job upgrades, and discount codes for promotional campaigns.

Team accounts and roles

Each board is owned by a team account. The person who creates the board is the owner, and they can invite additional team members with different roles. Roles control what each person can access: some team members might manage jobs and content, while others handle billing or board settings.

This is separate from the candidate and employer accounts on the public board. Your team manages the board from the admin dashboard. Candidates and employers interact with the public-facing site.

How the pieces connect

Here's the typical flow once your board is live:

1. Content arrives through backfill (automatic) and direct employer posts (organic or paid)
2. AI enriches everything by tagging jobs with skills and categories, and filling in company profiles
3. Candidates discover jobs through search engines, job alerts, semantic search, and recommendations
4. Candidates engage by browsing jobs, saving listings, creating profiles, and subscribing to alerts
5. Employers pay to post jobs, upgrade to featured placement, or subscribe for ongoing access
6. You grow by optimizing backfill rules, building your subscriber list, and adding direct employer relationships

Backfill keeps your board populated and useful to candidates. AI keeps the content structured and searchable. Candidates attract employers. Employer payments fund your business. Job alerts and SEO compound your traffic over time. Each piece reinforces the others.

What to read next

Create your board, customize your design, and go live in under five minutes.

Find your way around the admin dashboard: jobs, companies, settings, and metrics.

See what candidates experience: AI-powered search, company profiles, salary data, and more.