What it does · Bushpass

Pile 01 · Apply to live ads

The job boards, all in one feed.

The classic route. A daily feed of job ads that are open right now, pulled from the public job boards and employer career pages. You read the ad, you hit apply.

Daily live-ad feedPulled every morning from public boards and major employer career pages. Duplicates and city noise dropped.
Always currentAds drop off when they expire or get filled. No stale archive.
88-day eligibility scoringEach ad gets a verdict: eligible, likely, or skipped, based on the official Specified Work rules.
Accessibility scoringFlags how realistic each gig is without heavy tickets or qualifications.
Filter and saveSlice by state, season and work type. Star the keepers.

A handwritten 'Work Wanted' notice tacked to a wooden post by a country station road.

~ work wanted, station road ~

Pile 02 · Pitch cold, even when there's no ad

Three illustrated atlases of regional Australia.

Hand-built directories of employers you can pitch yourself to, even if they haven't posted an ad in months. This is how most backpacker work actually gets landed.

Driftwork Atlas · farmsHand-illustrated map and postcard pages, with polaroid cards for working farms. A directory of who to write to, not a board of ads.
Outback Operations · miningFive mining states, FIFO and roster info, contractor cards.
Roadhouse Atlas · outback hospoStops along the Stuart, the Eyre, the Savannah Way. Cooks, cleaners, all-rounders.
Public contacts onlyEvery email and phone is pulled from the employer's own public listing. Nothing private, nothing hidden.
Personal pitches, never spamOne tailored email at a time, drafted by Bushpass, read and sent by you.

~ farms ~

A vast outback mine in the Pilbara at golden hour.

~ mines ~

~ roadhouses ~

Pile 03 · Pitch yourself · Campaigns

Apply like a human, not a spreadsheet.

A backpacker-friendly CV, a draft you can actually read, and a campaigns engine that drips your messages out from your own Gmail at a polite cap and spacing. The employer hears from you, not from a bot.

The CV builder, PDF import and AI polish are all free in the web app. Only the actual sending (the two Plus items below) lives in the desktop app, the optional A$12.99/mo add-on. You can always copy an address and email from your own Gmail by hand for nothing.

One-page CV builderVisa and availability up top, references at the bottom, built to skim in five seconds.
PDF importDrop in your old CV, Bushpass fills the fields. No retyping.
AI polishOne-click rewrite in plain English. You read it, keep it or bin it.
Quick mails PlusOne-off envelopes from any farm, mine or roadhouse card. Two clicks, a personal note, your CV attached, gone. (Optional convenience, or just email them yourself for free.)
Campaigns · the drip engine PlusPick a state in any atlas (or a list you built), the public contacts queue up as ten, twenty, fifty drafts with your CV already attached. Set a daily cap (say 25 a day) and a polite spacing (say 90 seconds between sends) so your Gmail doesn’t look like a robot. Pause, resume, cancel anytime. You read and approve every draft before it joins the queue. (Optional time-saver for heavy senders, not needed to get the full value of Bushpass.)
Status boardEach campaign shows queued, sending, sent, failed, skipped, bounced, replied. Replies are detected automatically so the campaign quietly stops bothering people who already wrote back.
Your own Gmail accountCampaigns send from your Gmail address using a Google App Password. Replies land in your inbox, not in some Bushpass dashboard. Bushpass is the postman, you’re the sender, the recipient sees only you.
Send logWho you wrote to, who replied, what’s still cold. A notebook, not a CRM. The AI can scan it when you ask “who haven’t I followed up with?”.

~ CV ~

A traveller posting letters from the outback.

~ campaigns ~

A red Australia Post mail van driving through orchards.

~ post on the move ~

Pile 04 · Keep the paperwork tidy

Backpacker admin without the spreadsheet hell.

Track shifts, estimate tax, scan a payslip in two seconds, and know what's in season before you book the bus.

88-day shift trackerLog your shifts (date, employer, hours, location, work type) toward your second-year visa. The same shifts power the AI's "am I on track for year two?" answers, and your CV pulls its recent work history from here.
Tax calculatorWHV or resident, daily to FY view, NDA countries handled. An estimator that always shows its working. Reads your visa preferences and your scanned payslips so you don't re-enter income line by line.
Payslip scannerSnap a payslip, AI reads the figures, you confirm before it saves. The hours flow into the 88-day tracker, the gross and withheld land in the tax calculator, the employer is suggested in your send log. One photo, four files updated.
Harvest calendarWhat's in season, where, when. The intel hostels gatekeep, in one view. Cross-checks against your visa preferences so the next-leg states show up first.
Visa preferencesSet once on onboarding, the whole app stays in sync. Eligibility scoring on every job ad, atlas filters, tax mode (WHV / resident / NDA), the 88-day shift tracker, and the AI's context all read from here.

An open ledger of shift hours and dates.

~ 88-day log ~

A vintage adding machine tape with neat figures.

~ tax ~

~ seasons ~

Pile 05 · The AI mate

An assistant that already knows your situation.

A small chat button in the bottom corner of every page. It already sees your visa, your tracker, the page you're on, so you don't have to re-explain yourself for the tenth time.

Context-aware chat"Am I on track for my second year?" "Going rate for kitchenhand in Broome?" It reads your data, then answers.
Inline rewritersPolish, warm up, punch up. Always a suggestion, never auto-saved.
Honest about its limitsIt tells you when it's guessing, when it's official, and when to call a registered agent.

A vintage radio under a starry outback sky.

~ night patrol, all clear ~

Wired together

One file, five rooms, every door open.

Bushpass is one tool, not five toys glued together. Every action you take in one pile shows up in the others on its own. No exporting, re-importing, copy-pasting between tabs.

You set your visa preferences once on onboarding eligibility verdicts on every job ad, atlas filters, tax mode (WHV / resident / NDA), the 88-day shift log, and the AI's context all stay in sync. Change them once, the whole app re-reads them.
You snap a payslip with the scanner hours and dates auto-fill your 88-day tracker, gross and withheld land in the tax calculator, the employer is suggested as a contact in your send log. One photo, four places updated. You confirm before any of it saves.
You log a shift in the 88-day tracker the shift log refreshes, your CV's "recent work history" can quote the latest gig, and the AI mate can answer "how many days do I still need?" with the real live count.
You build (or PDF-import) your CV campaigns and quick mails attach it automatically, single-job applies reuse it, the AI mate uses it as background when it drafts an email for you. Update the CV once, every downstream draft picks up the new version.
You open a state in any atlas (farms, mines, roadhouses) the public contacts on those polaroid cards queue up as a campaign with your CV attached. You read every draft, edit anything, set a daily cap, then let it drip out at the spacing you chose. Atlases and outreach are not two separate features, they’re the same workflow.
You launch a campaign drafts queue up, sends drip out from your own Gmail at the cap and spacing you set, replies are detected and that recipient is auto-skipped, every state change (sent, failed, bounced, replied) writes itself into the send log. You can pause or cancel from the campaign card any time. The AI mate can read the status board when you ask “who’s replied this week?”.
You open the AI mate from any page it already sees your visa, your shifts, your CV, the screen you're on, and your send log. You don't re-explain. "Who replied to me last week?", "what's a fair rate for this gig?", "am I on track for the second year?". It reads, then it answers, then it shows its working.