Autofill Ashby job applications with Barista

Ashby is an applicant tracking system used by many startups and tech companies. Its job posts live at addresses on jobs.ashbyhq.com, and companies often embed the same form in their own careers page.

Each employer builds its form from Ashby’s field types. Ashby’s documentation lists short and long answers, phone, email, multiple choice, checkboxes, date, yes or no, number, CV and file uploads, location, links and education history (Ashby docs). A typical form asks for your full name in one box, your email, your CV, your LinkedIn or GitHub, then the employer’s own questions.

Three things trip up a plain autofill tool on Ashby:

• Yes/No questions are buttons, not radio buttons. Next to them sits a hidden tick box that mirrors the answer; ticking it changes nothing you can see.
• The location box is a “Start typing” search that only offers places once you type.
• “Select all that apply” questions are a set of tick boxes, each named after its own option rather than the question.

• The text fields from your Guap profile: name, email, phone, links. Ashby’s single “full name” box is matched on Guap’s side rather than guessed, because a box called “name” is a first name on some forms and a full name on others.
• Yes/No buttons. Barista presses the button that matches your answer, then waits for the form to show it as selected. If the form never confirms the click, Barista reports that question as not filled instead of pretending.
• Tick box groups, matched against the whole question, so each of your answers ticks its own box.
• The location search, by typing your location and choosing the match it offers.
• Your CV, from your Guap account. Ashby sometimes rebuilds its upload box while the other fields fill; Barista notices and attaches the CV to the new box.

For a long-answer question, Barista puts a button by the box that drafts an answer from your profile and the job post, with an undo. Filling the form is free; a drafted answer is paid per use from credit, at the price on the pricing page.

• The submit button. Barista never presses it, and it never clicks a button that does not say what state it is in, which is how it tells a Yes/No answer from Submit.
• Questions without a clear answer. If nothing on your profile matches, the question stays empty and Barista counts it for you.
• Extra files. Barista attaches your CV only. A portfolio, transcript or cover letter file is yours to add.
• Anything you already typed. Barista never overwrites a filled field.

Barista’s tests use an Ashby form captured from a live, embedded job post in August 2026, plus test forms built to match the Yes/No buttons, tick box groups and location search of live Ashby pages. They check that the form is found, that the right Yes/No button is pressed and confirmed, that the hidden mirror box is left alone, that each answer in a group ticks its own box, and that a rebuilt upload box still gets the CV.

Each Ashby employer adds its own questions, so a new form can still ask something Barista has no answer for. It leaves that question for you.

1. Install Barista from the Chrome Web Store. It also installs in Edge, Brave, Arc and Opera from the same listing.
2. Sign in from the extension with the code Guap emails you, and fill in your profile and CV once.
3. Open an Ashby job post and its application form. Press “Fill with Guap” in the corner, or “Autofill this page” in the extension.
4. Check the answers, fill what is left, and press submit. Barista saves the application to your tracker and marks it sent.