For students

Text us once. Never apply again.

No app. No profile. No 500 applications. Just a text. A real conversation. A real project. And an offer at the end of it — from a company who's already watched you build.

01 — Why this exists

You're burned out before you've started.

  • 20 applications today
  • 500 by the end of the cycle
  • every form asks for the same thing
  • 0 replies, and counting

Before you can apply, you have to find the jobs. Hours of LinkedIn, Handshake, random Slack groups, career pages that won't tell you what the job actually is. By the time you have twenty worth a shot, you're already cooked.

Then every form wants your résumé and makes you re-type it by hand — name, school, GPA, every class, every past job. One breaks halfway through. You start over. Multiply by twenty.

You're doing all of it between classes — thirty minutes before lecture, ten in the dining hall line, forty after a problem set at midnight. You burn out before you've written one honest sentence about yourself.

You need this internship. No internship means no rent for next semester, no summer plan, no line on the résumé next year. Meanwhile the kid with a referral got his offer in one text. The classmate who fed twenty forms to ChatGPT overnight got three interviews.

Honesty is punished. The best kid doesn't get seen.

02 — How it works

It starts as a text. Everything grows from that.

No app. No profile. No uploader. You text a number. Within seconds, our bot — latch — texts back. Over the next few weeks, latch gets to know you well enough to vouch for you to a real company.

01 · TEXT US

A message, not a form.

You text a number. latch replies in under three seconds. Warm, curious, nothing corporate.

— you
hey… a friend sent me this number?
— latch
hey! I'm latch. I help college kids find work they actually care about. what's your name and where are you at?
02 · TALK

Weeks, not a questionnaire.

This isn't onboarding. latch helps you work out what you actually want — new angles, new questions, new kinds of work to try, until something clicks.

  • → what's the last thing you built for yourself?
  • → if you had six months off, what would you do?
  • → what'd you try that didn't work?
03 · SHIP

A real project, spec'd for you.

A week-long build tied to what you said you cared about. Use AI all you want. We're watching how you ship, not whether you typed every line.

SPEC · junior ML
build · small image classifier
deliverable · repo + short video walkthrough
scope · ~5–10h across the week
we read the code, the commits, the walkthrough.

By the time a company works with us, we already know you.

03 — What it costs

Free. Until you land.

The terms
  • · The texting, the conversations, the project — all free.
  • · A fee only if we place you. It scales with the role — a few hundred for a modest internship, up to a couple thousand for a career-changing offer.
  • · It comes out of your signing bonus. Nothing out of pocket, ever.
  • · No subscription. No paywall. Nothing if we don't deliver.
$0 right now. fees are paused until legal review closes. you owe nothing in the meantime.
Contact

Text latch. That's it.

No forms. No scheduling links. No résumé to upload. Just text.

Reply time is the marketing. Under three seconds, every time.