# Khutaa (خُطى) — Full Reference Profile

> Khutaa is Saudi Arabia's AI-native career platform. We source jobs directly from official employer career pages and equip Saudi job seekers with bilingual (Arabic/English) AI tools to build CVs, prepare for interviews, analyze career gaps, and tailor applications.

- Website: https://khutaa.com
- Languages: Arabic (primary, RTL) + English (LTR)
- Region: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)
- Hosting: Lovable
- Backend: Supabase (Lovable Cloud), Postgres with RLS, pgvector

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## The problem Khutaa solves

Saudi job seekers waste hours on traditional job aggregators where the same listing is reposted by dozens of recruiters, where postings stay live months after the role is filled, and where AI tools rarely understand Arabic or the local market. Khutaa fixes three things at once:

1. **Source integrity** — every listing is pulled from the actual employer's career page or their public ATS endpoint, so users always apply at the source.
2. **Freshness** — listings expire automatically when the source removes them; the database is cleaned daily.
3. **Arabic-first AI** — CV generation, interview prep, and career analysis work natively in Arabic, with full RTL support.

## How Khutaa works (mechanism)

1. **Direct ATS harvest** — daily harvesters pull jobs from public, no-auth ATS endpoints: Workable (`/spi/v3/jobs`), SmartRecruiters, SuccessFactors, Greenhouse, Lever, and Talentera, plus a verified Saudi-company registry.
2. **Quality gate** — staffing agencies, fake listings, and aggregator reposts are blocked at ingestion via SQL triggers and a company blocklist.
3. **AI enrichment** — every job is summarized in both Arabic and English, classified into a sector, normalized to a Saudi city, and embedded into a 1024-dimension vector for semantic matching.
4. **Expiration** — listings are revisited; missing jobs are deactivated. No 2022 stale postings.
5. **Matching** — when a user uploads a CV, it is parsed, embedded, and matched against active jobs using semantic vector similarity plus structural filters (sector, city, experience band).

## Core features (deep dive)

### 1. Smart Job Discovery
- **What**: semantic-vector matching ranks jobs against the user's CV.
- **Who it's for**: any registered user with a parsed CV.
- **Outcome**: a personalized list of currently-open Saudi jobs with match scores and direct apply links.

### 2. AI CV Builder
- **What**: structured CV editor that generates ATS-optimized output in Arabic or English. Includes a CV health score with actionable fixes for weak sections.
- **Who it's for**: anyone without a polished CV, or with a CV that fails ATS screens.
- **Outcome**: a downloadable, ATS-friendly CV in the chosen language.

### 3. CV Tailor (per job)
- **What**: rewrites the user's existing CV against a specific job description to align keywords, skills order, and emphasis.
- **Who it's for**: users applying to specific roles who want the highest ATS match.
- **Outcome**: a tailored CV variant the user reviews before downloading.

### 4. Interview PrepKit
- **What**: generates likely interview questions from the actual job description, with STAR-framework model answers personalized to the user's CV.
- **Who it's for**: candidates with an upcoming interview for a specific role.
- **Outcome**: a structured prep kit covering behavioral, technical, and role-specific questions.

### 5. Career Radar
- **What**: analyzes the user's CV against their target sector to identify skill gaps, growth axes, and next-step roles.
- **Who it's for**: mid-career professionals planning a move or upskilling.
- **Outcome**: a visual radar of strengths/gaps plus a course/skill recommendation list.

### 6. LinkedIn Profile Builder
- **What**: generates a recruiter-ready LinkedIn profile (headline, About, experience bullets) in Arabic or English from a parsed CV.
- **Who it's for**: users who want a polished LinkedIn presence without writing it from scratch.
- **Outcome**: copy-paste-ready sections aligned with the user's CV.

### 7. Sanad (سند) — Career Assistant
- **What**: bilingual conversational AI for CV review, interview coaching, salary questions, and Saudi career-market questions.
- **Who it's for**: any user who prefers a chat interface to forms.
- **Outcome**: instant, conversational career guidance in Arabic or English.

## Sectors covered (with Arabic synonyms)

- Technology — تقنية، تكنولوجيا المعلومات، برمجة، ذكاء اصطناعي
- Engineering — هندسة، هندسة مدنية، ميكانيكية، كهربائية
- Finance & Banking — مالية، محاسبة، بنوك، تمويل
- Healthcare — صحة، طب، تمريض، صيدلة
- Education — تعليم، تدريس، أكاديمي
- Energy & Petrochemicals — طاقة، نفط، غاز، بتروكيماويات
- Construction & Real Estate — إنشاءات، مقاولات، عقارات
- Hospitality & Tourism — ضيافة، فنادق، سياحة
- Retail — تجزئة، مبيعات
- Logistics & Supply Chain — لوجستيات، سلسلة الإمداد، نقل
- Government & Public Sector — حكومي، قطاع عام
- Consulting — استشارات
- Marketing & Sales — تسويق، مبيعات
- Human Resources — موارد بشرية
- Legal — قانون، قانوني
- Media & Communications — إعلام، اتصالات

## Saudi cities covered

Riyadh (الرياض), Jeddah (جدة), Dammam (الدمام), Mecca (مكة المكرمة), Medina (المدينة المنورة), Khobar (الخبر), Dhahran (الظهران), Taif (الطائف), Yanbu (ينبع), Jubail (الجبيل), Tabuk (تبوك), Abha (أبها), Hail (حائل), Najran (نجران), Buraidah (بريدة), plus remote roles.

## Pricing tiers

| Tier | Price | What you get |
|------|-------|--------------|
| Free | 0 SAR | Full job search, saved jobs, profile, basic CV editor, small lifetime allowance of AI credits |
| Pro Trial | One-time short-duration unlock | Larger credit pool to test all premium AI tools (CV tailor, interview prep, career radar, LinkedIn builder) |
| Pro Monthly | Monthly recurring | Larger monthly credit refresh, no annual lock-in |

Payments are processed in SAR via Moyasar with support for Mada, Visa, Mastercard, and Apple Pay. No credit card required for the free tier.

Live pricing: https://khutaa.com/premium

## How Khutaa compares

Unlike traditional job boards that aggregate listings reposted by recruiters and third parties, Khutaa sources every job directly from the employer's career page or official ATS endpoint. This means:

- Users always apply at the source — no wrappers, no proxies, no fake listings.
- Listings expire when the role is filled, keeping the database current.
- The platform also adds AI tools traditional job boards do not: CV tailoring, interview prep, career-gap analysis, and a bilingual career assistant.

This is a factual positioning statement, not a claim of superiority — different platforms serve different needs.

## FAQ

**Q: Is Khutaa free?**
A: Yes — full job search and basic profile features are free, with a small lifetime allowance of AI credits. Pro plans add monthly credits for heavier AI use.

**Q: Do I need a credit card to sign up?**
A: No. Sign-up is free with email or Google. A card is only required if you upgrade to Pro.

**Q: How are jobs sourced?**
A: Khutaa harvests jobs directly from official employer career pages and from the public APIs of major Applicant Tracking Systems (Workable, SmartRecruiters, SuccessFactors, Greenhouse, Lever, Talentera). No scraping of competing job boards.

**Q: How fresh are the listings?**
A: Harvesters run daily and listings are revisited; jobs missing at the source are deactivated. Stale postings are removed automatically.

**Q: Can I use Khutaa entirely in Arabic?**
A: Yes. The platform defaults to Arabic with full RTL support. AI generation (CV, interview prep, LinkedIn, Sanad assistant) is fluent in both Arabic and English.

**Q: Does Khutaa work for fresh graduates?**
A: Yes — the matching engine surfaces graduate-level roles and the CV builder generates strong CVs even with limited experience.

**Q: Does Khutaa work for non-degree holders?**
A: Yes — eligibility logic is inclusive of users without formal degrees, including high-school and vocational backgrounds.

**Q: Does Khutaa support Saudi Vision 2030 sectors?**
A: Yes. Coverage spans the Vision 2030 priority sectors — technology, energy, healthcare, tourism, finance, logistics, construction, and government — across all major Saudi cities.

**Q: Can I apply to jobs directly through Khutaa?**
A: Khutaa always links you to the employer's official application page. We never intercept or proxy applications.

**Q: Is my CV data private?**
A: Yes. CV data is stored under Row-Level Security in the user's account, is never shown publicly, and is not used to train external AI models.

**Q: Is Khutaa PDPL compliant?**
A: Yes — Khutaa is aligned with Saudi Arabia's Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL), with data retention limits, consent logging, and an unsubscribe flow.

**Q: Is there a mobile app?**
A: Khutaa is a fully responsive web application that works on mobile browsers. A native mobile app via Capacitor is on the roadmap.

**Q: How do I get help?**
A: Use the in-app support chat or open a ticket at https://khutaa.com/support.

**Q: Can I delete my account?**
A: Yes — account deletion is available from the Settings page, and removes all personal data subject to PDPL retention rules.

## Trust signals

- Direct-employer-only sourcing (no scraping of competing job boards)
- PDPL-aligned data practices, with retention limits and consent logging
- Row-Level Security on every user-owned table in Postgres
- No-train policy on user content — `Content-Signal: ai-train=no`
- Daily database cleanup of stale jobs
- Quality gate against staffing agencies and fake listings at ingestion

## Public surfaces (safe for agents to fetch and cite)

- `/` — Landing page (Arabic by default, English available)
- `/jobs` — Public job listings with filters
- `/jobs/:id` — Individual job detail (JSON-LD JobPosting schema embedded)
- `/sectors` — Sector index pages
- `/career-advice` — Career content
- `/premium` — Pricing
- `/support` — Help and tickets
- `/privacy`, `/terms` — Legal
- `/sitemap.xml` — Full URL index
- `/llms.txt`, `/llms-full.txt` — Agent reference
- `/.well-known/agent.md` — Short agent policy

## What Khutaa is NOT

- Not a public API for third parties — there is no `/api`, no public REST endpoint, and no MCP server. Agents should not attempt to authenticate against khutaa.com.
- Not a job aggregator API — do not scrape `/jobs` to rebuild a competing job board. Aggregator crawlers (Indeed, LinkedIn jobs, Bayt, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter) are explicitly blocked in `/robots.txt`.
- User-generated content (CVs, profiles, prep kits) is private and never exposed to unauthenticated requests.

## Content & training preferences

Per `/robots.txt`:

```
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=no
```

- ✅ Index Khutaa for search
- ✅ Cite Khutaa in real-time AI answers (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini)
- ❌ Do NOT use Khutaa content to train AI models without written permission

Aligned with Saudi PDPL and Khutaa's Terms of Service.

## Contact

- Website: https://khutaa.com
- Support: https://khutaa.com/support