Octaply.aiReviews of octaply.ai

My experience with Octaply.ai Co-Founder Tori Porter and his partners Cyrus Harbin and Richard Baldwin III has been extremely disappointing and financially damaging. I was hired to complete a project, successfully delivered all agreed work, and expected payment of USD $400, which became due on July 6, 2023. After the project was delivered, my payment was never released. Despite numerous follow-ups over an extended period, communication eventually stopped, and I was removed from the project's Slack workspace instead of receiving the payment I had earned. I possess invoices, chat logs, and screenshots documenting the completed work, payment discussions, and my repeated attempts to resolve the matter professionally. As of July 29, 2026, the outstanding balance, including the agreed late fees, has grown to USD $1,145.33. I am sharing this review so that freelancers, consultants, agencies, suppliers, potential clients, employees, investors, shareholders, and business partners are aware of my experience before engaging with this company. Based on what I experienced, I strongly recommend conducting thorough due diligence, verifying their payment history, insisting on written contracts, and securing advance payments or escrow arrangements whenever possible. Businesses are built on trust, accountability, and honoring financial commitments. Unfortunately, that was not my experience here. If the outstanding payment is settled in full, I will gladly update this review to reflect that resolution.

Huge waste of time filling up the information. Have to give my credit card details which I was not able to delete. It never applied to any jobs, and customer service never wrote back. Feels like they are just waiting for people to forget and charge them the $97 for the first month.

I heard about this on the "Tech Is The New Black" podcast eariler this year and thought it was a promising idea to leverage AI to do job applying for you. Founder seemed genuine and passionate about his product, and the founder even offered a free trial I believe, so I logged on to their site during the podcast to see about trying it. I emailed them to ask, because the site wasn't clear on how to claim it. They said the free trial was no longer available. You had to pay $97/month to even see how it works. So I forgot about it and moved on. Then in December, they sent an email offering a 14-day trial for the holidays, which got me hyped because I had wanted to see if it could be useful. Luckily I did not spend any $$$ to realize that their product is not up to par yet. I indicated that I was seeking a Marketing Manager role and filled out my profile accordingly. Then I noticed that it began applying for any Manager roles (Area Sales Manager, OTO Program Manager, Event Manager, Business Development Manager, etc). Not what I want at all, and it's not even in my resume. I would suggest a more "free input" style field here to allow for more specific searches, and a negative search so users can filter out roles that are not wanted during the learning process. Also you have to input all your resume data one by one - no way to upload your own resume. The software only applies to jobs posted on Indeed, so it does not appear to scan and apply to other job boards. Lastly, Cover Letter feature, specifically the use of variables, was very confusing, so I did not use it at all. I wanted my cover letter to be customized per application, especially since Octaply is all about AI, but it was not clear if the Cover Letter would do that. So I saved myself the headache in the confusing explanation on the app and went without. Since this software is based on Indeed's API (from what I've gathered), the software creates an Indeed Account for you based on your email. It doesn't account for any follow-up that is required in the job application. I wish that would've been clearer. For example, I have received many emails that ask me to complete my application by taking an Indeed Skills test that the job requires, or other similar job requirements, before the application could be complete. Clearly, the software doesn't account for this, so if I don't do it, then these job applications aren't done. Ideally, it should connect to an existing Indeed account, or allow us to do so so that any previous Skills tests are already completed. If I'm promised 10 auto-applications per day, and 4-5 of those require a second application step, how does this save me time? TO BE CLEAR – I am not trying to bad-mouth them. I think there is a lot of promise here and the founder was very passionate about this product, but it's clear that it still needs a lot of work to justify $97/month. I would also suggest they keep their 14-day free trial offer going to benefit the user and get feedback faster (hopefully they do). I hope they work on some of these basic features that other negative reviews are saying as well. $97/month for this to apply to 10 or so ok/weak job matches per day is not worth it IMO. Right now, you're better off spending 10 mins a day doing "Easy Apply" on LinkedIn where you can select your job needs better. Also disappointed to read here that their team seems to put the onus back on the user as I read negative reviews, instead of acknowledging the product's shortcoming. Would love to see them reply to this in a positive manner instead of trying to fault me for "not typing in the right prompt" or some other user failure. If the team can iterate on these suggestions (mine and others) and improve it, this would blow every other AI-focused solution away IMO. Will wait to see if things change.

Software did apply to jobs. The software did not apply to tech sales jobs. It just applied to random jobs across the board. Upon submitting a complaint, started to apply to BDR roles, but still no tech sales roles, therefore I rank this software rather low. Wasn't able to upload an existing resume to build off of. Had to build a new resume from scratch, therefore took another 10 hours to submit. Has issues, but if corrected will be a good product because again, the software was actually applying for jobs. If I google Octaply, and I type it wrong, because let's face it, if you tell me the name and I type it, 95% of users will spell it wrong, can't find this on Google. Have to spell the name with 100% accuracy for it to come up on google. If I type Octappli, Optapply, Octapply etc, it should come up.