Our complete strategy for turning your CV and a job description into a tailored, ATS-ready CV — without ever inventing experience you don't have.
The core principle — evidence before keywords
A tailored CV is your real background re-presented to answer the role — not a mirror of the job ad. A job-description keyword earns its place only when genuine experience stands behind it. We write the person, not the posting.
Every requirement → one of three cases
- Direct evidence — you clearly have it. We surface it prominently, in the job ad's exact terms.
- Transferable / adjacent — you have related experience. We present that real experience framed for relevance, but never relabel it as the missing skill (Docker experience never becomes "Kubernetes").
- No evidence — you don't have it. We leave it out. A genuine gap is fine and is reported honestly; a fabricated qualification never is.
The pipeline
1Tailor — your CV is rewritten to lead with your strongest genuine matches in the role's language. (Deep mode first deconstructs the job and builds an evidence map; Standard does this in one focused pass.)
2Independent review — a separate, sceptical pass scores the result. The writer never grades its own work, which keeps scoring honest.
Standard = Tailor → Review (2 steps). Deep / Deep + Opus = Deconstruct → Evidence map → Rewrite → Review (4 steps, deeper analysis).
Tailoring modes
- Conservative — light touch; keeps your structure, surfaces genuine matches.
- Balanced — reorders and reframes real experience to lead with what fits.
- Aggressive — bold reframing; may emphasise the scale and impact of genuine achievements — but never invents skills or experience.
Candidate profile (optional)
A saved profile — built from a short interview — tells the engine your target roles, strengths, goals and constraints. It sharpens what gets emphasised and lets the review judge whether the job actually fits you.
The independent reviewer
- Calibrated score — must-have requirements gate the number; sub-scores break down requirements, evidence strength, level match and authenticity.
- A clear recommendation — Apply · Tune then apply · Probably skip.
- Profile fit — is this role worth your time, given your goals?
Verify these claims — you stay in control
The reviewer flags anything that needs your confirmation, and your choices re-tailor the CV:
- Overclaim something the CV states that your background doesn't back up — Keep (it's true), Soften (to an honest version we suggest), or Remove.
- Could add a skill you most likely have but didn't list — Add (if genuinely true) or Skip.
How to strengthen it
Beyond keywords, the review surfaces the highest-leverage honest edits — lead with a stronger project, quantify a real result, surface buried evidence — using only what's already in your CV.
Our honesty guarantees
- Never invents skills, tools, employers, titles, metrics or experience.
- Always preserves your facts — dates, company names, job titles, degrees.
- Surfaces genuine gaps honestly instead of papering over them.
- Every claim is meant to survive a probing interview question.
ATS & language
- Mirrors the job's exact keywords (and their variants) — but only for skills you genuinely have — and avoids tables, columns and symbols that break ATS parsing.
- Detects the job's language and can output your CV in your chosen language, while keeping ATS keywords scannable.
