Developer Builds Free AI Recruiter Assistant That Answers Portfolio Questions Instantly

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A developer named Bradley built an embeddable AI chat widget called Scout, designed to help recruiters quickly find answers about his skills, projects, and work experience without manually searching his portfolio. The widget loads via a single script tag and works on any website, including static HTML and WordPress pages, requiring no build tools or npm installation. The system uses a vanilla JavaScript frontend hosted on GitHub Pages, a Node.js backend on a free Google Cloud VM, and a JSON knowledge base synced from GitHub. Scout is designed to answer direct recruiter questions honestly, without overstating the developer's experience, and falls back to its local knowledge base if all AI providers fail. Privacy was a stated priority, with session memory limited to individual browser tabs and no permanent identity tracking implemented.

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