AutoReference

Your work, remembered for you.

AutoReference is a career memory app that quietly turns your day-to-day work into:

• a weekly work log
• impact bullets for performance reviews
• a living résumé draft

Instead of asking users to remember what they did, AutoReference builds an evidence-backed record from the tools where work already happens.

MVP (what we are building first)

Goal: Connect Gmail + Google Calendar (read-only), detect work signals, and generate a weekly summary with exportable bullets.

User flow

1. Sign in
2. Connect Gmail + Calendar (or use demo mode)
3. AutoReference scans recent activity
4. User sees a Work Log timeline
5. User edits and approves "Impact Bullets"
6. Export: Performance review bullets + one-page résumé draft

Core concepts

• Work Signal: A piece of activity that suggests ownership or impact (meeting, email thread, doc, ticket, commit).
• Artifact: A grouped set of signals representing one initiative (project, launch, incident, campaign).
• Impact Bullet: A concise résumé-style statement derived from artifacts and signals, with confidence + evidence links.

Product principles

• Zero manual tracking
• Evidence-first output (every bullet links to a source)
• Private by default (nothing is posted publicly)
• "Magic moments" weekly (summary that feels like found value)

Tech stack

• Next.js (App Router)
• TypeScript
• Tailwind CSS
• shadcn/ui
• Postgres + Prisma
• Auth (NextAuth or equivalent)
• Google OAuth (Gmail + Calendar read-only)
• Background jobs (optional for MVP)

Repo structure

• /app routes and pages
• /components UI components
• /lib clients, auth, utilities
• /server ingestion + parsers + bullet generator
• /prisma schema
• /scripts demo data seeding

Local development

1. Install deps
2. Create .env.local
3. Run database
4. Seed demo data
5. Start dev server

Environment variables (draft)

• GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=
• GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET=
• NEXTAUTH_SECRET=
• DATABASE_URL=

Demo mode

If OAuth is not configured, the app should run in demo mode using seeded data so we can show the product instantly.

Roadmap

• Jira/Linear + GitHub ingestion
• Slack/Teams ingestion
• Role-based templates (SWE, PM, Analyst, Ops)
• Promotion packet generator
• Recruiter share link (optional, user-controlled)