Terms of Service

Last updated 3 September 2026 · Applies to the Ahead staging environment

What Ahead is

Ahead is a job-search service. Aliya, our agent, finds job opportunities that match criteria you agree with her, explains why each one matches, prepares application materials for your review, tracks what happens next, and prepares you for interviews.

What Ahead is not

Ahead is not an employer, an employment agency placing you into roles, or a party to any hiring decision. We do not decide who gets interviewed and we do not decide who gets hired. Employers do.

Ahead does not guarantee a job, an interview, an offer, or placement. Anyone who guarantees you those things is promising something outside their control.

Your account

• You must be 16 or older.
• Give accurate information. Aliya's work is only as good as what you tell her.
• Keep your password to yourself. You're responsible for activity under your account.
• One account per person.

What you authorize, and what you don't

Ahead operates on explicit, separately granted permissions. Discovery, application preparation and employer visibility are three different switches and you control each one.

Nothing is submitted to an employer without your explicit approval, every time. Aliya prepares; you decide. Ahead also refuses to submit a duplicate application to a role you have already applied to.

Get Ahead — $49

• Get Ahead is a one-time charge of $49 USD. It is not a subscription and does not auto-renew.
• Payment is processed by Stripe. Ahead never sees or stores your card number.
• It entitles you to have Aliya work your active job search: opportunity discovery, match explanations, application preparation, tracking and interview preparation.

The Ahead Guarantee

If Aliya doesn't find and prepare qualified opportunities that match the search criteria we agree on, Ahead will continue working at no additional charge until we do.

A qualified opportunity means a role that, to the extent the data is available, meets:

• the target role or function you agreed with Aliya;
• your geography or remote preference;
• your compensation target, where the employer discloses compensation;
• your stated industry exclusions;
• any eligibility requirements the employer states;
• and appears active and verified at the time we found it.

Where an employer does not disclose something — compensation is the common case — Ahead reports that as unknown rather than treating it as satisfied. The criteria are recorded when your search starts, and that record is what the guarantee is measured against. If you change your criteria substantially, we agree new ones.

This guarantee covers Ahead's own work. It is not a refund promise and it is not, and cannot be, a promise about an employer's decision.

Refunds

If Ahead hasn't delivered what's described above, contact us and we'll make it right — by continuing to work under the guarantee, or by refunding you. We'd rather refund an unhappy customer than argue with one.

Acceptable use

Don't use Ahead to:

• misrepresent your identity, qualifications or work history;
• apply on behalf of somebody else without their knowledge;
• scrape, resell or redistribute the opportunity data;
• attempt to access another user's account or data;
• break the law.

We may suspend an account that does these things.

Beta status

Ahead is in beta. Features change, and some things documented elsewhere on this site are explicitly listed as not yet working. We tell you what doesn't work rather than hiding it.

Liability

Ahead is provided as-is. To the extent the law allows, our total liability to you is limited to what you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim. We are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, including a job you did not get.

Ending it

You can close your account at any time. We may close an account that breaches these terms. On closure we delete your personal data, subject to the retention described in the Privacy Policy.

Changes

We'll update the date above when these terms change and tell you about material changes. Continuing to use Ahead after a change means you accept it.

Contact

Reach us through your account settings.