ResumeRank

ResumeRank scores every applicant against a job's actual requirements — with quoted evidence and explicit gaps — so a recruiter can shortlist in under 60 seconds without trusting a black box. Create a job with a structured requirement list, add candidates by pasting resume text, click Score with AI, and get a weighted 0–100 score plus a requirement-by-requirement breakdown: verdict, a verbatim quote from the resume, and a note explaining the call.

ResumeRank is open source and built for many companies, not one. Register and you get your own company workspace — your jobs, candidates, and applications, isolated from every other company on the same instance. Invite your team by email, and customize your company profile (logo, industry, size, location) from Settings. Self-host it for your org, or run it as a shared instance where each company that registers gets its own walled-off data.

Features

• Explainable AI scoring — Groq returns a strict JSON contract, parsed by Zod, with one verdict (strong / partial / missing) per requirement, a resume-verified evidence quote, and a note. No partial or silent writes on malformed output.
• Weighted rubric — must-have requirements count twice as much as nice-to-haves; a partial verdict earns half credit.
• Full applicant pipeline — jobs, candidates, and applications move through new → screening → shortlisted → interview → offer → hired / rejected, with soft delete and undo.
• Team scorecards — teammates leave a 1–5 rating and notes alongside the AI's evaluation.
• Multi-tenant workspaces — every company's jobs, candidates, applications, and activity log are scoped to that company alone; a shared Postgres database backs any number of tenants with row-level isolation.
• Company registration — signing up creates your company and makes you its OWNER; there's no shared or first-user-wins workspace.
• Email invites — admins/owners invite teammates by email and role (admin / member / viewer) from Settings → Team; invitees accept at a tokenized /invite link. Google sign-ins with no company land on /onboarding to accept a pending invite or create a company.
• Company settings — HR (admin/owner) edits the company profile (name, logo, website, description, industry, size, location) from Settings → Company; members see it read-only.
• Server-enforced RBAC — owner / admin / member / viewer roles are re-checked from the database on every mutation; the client role is never trusted.
• Immutable activity log — every mutation is recorded and filterable by entity.
• Dashboard — pipeline funnel, score distribution, and application volume over time via recharts.
• Search, filters, and CSV export — server-side, debounced, mirrored into the URL.

Tech stack

Next.js 16.2 (App Router, Turbopack) · React 19 · TypeScript (strict) · npm workspaces (backend / frontend) · Tailwind CSS 4 · Prisma 7 (driver adapter, Postgres) · Auth.js v5 (JWT sessions, Google OAuth) · Groq (LLM scoring) · Zod 4 · Vitest · Playwright · framer-motion · GSAP + Lenis (marketing motion) · recharts.

Project layout

An npm-workspaces monorepo:

• backend/ (@resumerank/core) — framework-agnostic domain: Prisma schema / migrations / generated client / seed, the db and env singletons, Zod validators, the scoring engine, auth helpers (including company invite tokens), company slug generation, email, rate limiting, the activity log, and shared types. No Next.js imports; ships raw TypeScript that Turbopack transpiles.
• frontend/ — the Next.js App Router app: routes (including /onboarding and /invite for joining a company, and /settings/company for the company profile), UI, server actions and queries — every tenant-owned one scoped to the caller's company via requireMember() — the Auth.js config and guards, and the marketing site. Imports the backend as @resumerank/core/*.

Run every command from the repo root — the root scripts fan out to the right workspace, and a single root .env feeds both.

Quick start

git clone <this-repo>
cd resumerank
npm install   # installs both workspaces and generates the Prisma client

# Local Postgres via Docker (port 5433). POSTGRES_DB must match DATABASE_URL.
docker run --name resumerank-pg \
  -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres -e POSTGRES_DB=resumerank \
  -p 5433:5432 -d postgres:16

cp .env.example .env
# Fill in DATABASE_URL (point at the container above) and AUTH_SECRET
# (generate one with `openssl rand -base64 32` or `npx auth secret`).

npm run db:migrate
npm run db:seed
npm run dev -- -p 3005

Open http://localhost:3005. Sign in with the seeded demo account, which lands you in the demo company "Acme Talent":

• Email: demo@resumerank.app
• Password: demo1234

AI scoring works out of the box against seeded data; to score new applications yourself, add a free GROQ_API_KEY (see the env table below).

Registering a new account (/register) instead creates your own company and makes you its owner — it's fully isolated from Acme Talent and from every other company on the same instance. Teammates don't self-register into your company; invite them by email from Settings → Team once you're signed in.

Environment variables

Copy .env.example to .env (at the repo root — it feeds both workspaces). Full contract and defaults live in backend/src/env.ts.

Variable	Required	Purpose
DATABASE_URL	Yes	Postgres connection string (Neon in production; Docker Postgres on 5433 in dev).
AUTH_SECRET	Yes	Session signing secret for Auth.js (JWT strategy). Min 16 chars.
AUTH_URL	No (recommended in prod)	Canonical app URL used for Auth.js OAuth callbacks.
AUTH_GOOGLE_ID	No	Google OAuth client id. The Google sign-in button hides itself when unset.
AUTH_GOOGLE_SECRET	No	Google OAuth client secret.
GROQ_API_KEY	No (required for live scoring)	Groq API key. Without it, scoring returns a clear "not configured" message.
GROQ_MODEL	No (default provided)	Groq model name. Defaults to llama-3.3-70b-versatile.
RESEND_API_KEY	No	Resend API key. Without it, verification/reset links are logged to the server console.
EMAIL_FROM	No (default provided)	From address for transactional email.
NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL	No (default provided)	Public app URL, used for SEO metadata and links inside emails.

Scripts

Script	Purpose
npm run dev	Start the dev server (Turbopack).
npm run build	Production build.
npm run start	Serve the production build.
npm run lint	ESLint (flat config).
npm run typecheck	tsc --noEmit.
npm run test	Unit tests (Vitest, run once).
npm run test:watch	Unit tests in watch mode.
npm run test:e2e	End-to-end tests (Playwright).
npm run db:generate	Regenerate the Prisma client.
npm run db:migrate	Apply migrations in development.
npm run db:deploy	Apply migrations in production/CI.
npm run db:push	Push the schema without a migration file.
npm run db:seed	Seed a realistic demo workspace.
npm run db:studio	Open Prisma Studio.

Testing

• Unit (backend/tests/unit, Vitest): scoring math, LLM response parsing / reconciliation, validators, role capabilities, and the rate limiter — pure logic with no database or network dependency. npm run test.
• End-to-end (frontend/tests/e2e, Playwright): the golden path — sign in, reach the dashboard, and open a job's ranked applicant pipeline — against http://localhost:3105. Requires a seeded database (npm run db:seed). npm run test:e2e reuses an already-running server, otherwise it boots one. If the Turbopack dev server is flaky (seen on some Windows setups), serve a production build first — npm run build && npm run start -- -p 3105 — then re-run npm run test:e2e.

Deployment

Deploys to Vercel, backed by Neon Postgres (set DATABASE_URL to Neon's pooled connection string). Set AUTH_URL and NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL to the deployed domain, run npm run db:deploy against the production database before first traffic, and configure GROQ_API_KEY / RESEND_API_KEY if you want live scoring and email delivery rather than console fallbacks.

One deployment can serve many companies: the app is multi-tenant on a shared database, so every company that registers gets its own isolated workspace on the same instance — no per-tenant infrastructure to stand up. If you'd rather not share an instance with other companies, self-host: each self-hoster gets their own deployment and their own Postgres database, with the first company to register on it as its only tenant.

Screenshots

Screenshots live in docs/screenshots/ — not included in this checkout yet.

Further reading

• docs/plan.md — pitch, user stories, milestones, and the explicit assumptions this build made.
• docs/architecture.md — how the app is put together: routing, server actions, RBAC, the scoring pipeline, rate limiting, and security headers.
• docs/case-study.md — problem, approach, trade-offs, and what we'd do differently.
• CONTRIBUTING.md — local setup and PR conventions.
• CHANGELOG.md — release history.