The complexity is not a flourish. It is what it takes to write from what is true about you rather than from a prompt. Here is the whole thing, in order.
Tap any stage to open what it does.The first time you use Joey, it reads the résumé you upload and indexes every role, bullet and date into your Second Brain. Then it can run one interview, up to eight short questions, wherever a bullet is missing the action you took, the context around it, or the result. This happens once, when you join, not on every job.
Reads the posting and works out what it actually is. The role, the seniority, the industry, and the handful of terms it will genuinely be screened on.
Compares those terms against what your Second Brain already covers. If something important for this specific job is still missing, it asks up to three targeted questions, all at once, before a word is written. This is separate from the onboarding interview above; it fires per job, and only when needed.
The one point where the pipeline stops and waits for you. When the Gap Check finds something missing, its questions arrive in a single batch, never one after another, and never more than three. What you answer is written into your Second Brain, so the same ground is not covered twice.
Not an agent, and worth saying so: your work history lives in a comprehensively indexed Second Brain, searchable by keyword and by meaning. This step retrieves the specific slice of that index that actually matches the job in front of you, so the writer works from real evidence rather than a blank page.
The writer. Works only from what retrieval found and what you answered. It cannot invent experience, metrics, scope, titles or dates, and every block it writes cites where it came from.
Reads the draft hunting weak verbs, vague claims and filler. Its whole job is to be unimpressed.
The only agent that can go back into your history mid-argument, and it does, searching for evidence to answer the Challenger. They go up to three rounds.
Only steps in when the Challenger and the Defender cannot settle it. The only one that reads the whole argument, and its ruling is binding.
Reads the finished draft against the sources it cited, with no tools and no memory of the argument, and flags what it cannot verify. It never rewrites your words, and nothing routes back from here. Edit a line yourself and it rechecks that line.
What lands on your canvas at the end. Every block carries the piece of your history it came from, and the Auditor's verdict rides with it: cleared, or flagged where a claim could not be stood up against its source. Nothing routes back from here, and nothing was rewritten to make it pass. The draft is yours to edit.
The writer is only allowed to use what retrieval found in your history and what you answered directly. Experience, metrics, scope, titles and dates are all off limits as inventions.
The writer is told, in as many words, that keywords are opportunities and not quotas. Leaving one out is not a failure. Claiming one you cannot support is.
The Auditor flags and explains. It never rewrites a line you wrote. Edit a bullet yourself and it rechecks that bullet against your history, then tells you what it found.
Joey is invite-only while we're in early access.