August 7, 2026

AI messages that stay on the point

Two things about cord's AI-written messages were wrong in ways that made people stop using them. Both are fixed.

Fixes

  • Templates: Picking a template while the AI was still writing meant the AI draft overwrote it a few seconds later, so you had to pick it again, with a real chance of sending the wrong message. Choosing a template or typing now stops the AI, and your words win. This covers company outreach and request templates on the job seeker side.
  • Decline reasons: Choosing "Experience (not right)" produced emails telling people they weren't senior enough, even though "Experience Level (too junior)" is a separate reason in the same list. Each reason now carries your own stored wording into the message, and the message can't decline on any other grounds. On the reported case, 3 of 3 generations mentioned seniority before the fix and 0 of 6 after.
  • Experience level: Those same messages were reading the wrong level off a profile. cord stores the levels someone is open to, in the order they picked them, and the message used the last one. Someone open to mid, senior and junior was described as junior, with continuous work history back to 2011. That understated 14.8% of everyone with experience levels set.