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From blank page to a tailored résumé.

A practical, step-by-step walkthrough of your first session. You will set up a résumé, sharpen it with a partner, tailor it to a job, and score it before you apply — with every word still yours.

Know your way around

Everything for a résumé lives on one screen, organized into a few simple panels. The document is in the middle, your tools on either side.

Sections

  • Summary
  • Experience
  • Skills

Editor

Lead Product Manager

· Owned the roadmap end-to-end

· Grew activation 38% in two quarters

Focus chat

Quantify this bullet
Here is a sharper take

Sections

Summary, Experience, Education, Skills, and Projects in one list. Set each section's type and drag to reorder.

Resume Insights

A deterministic linter that flags weak verbs, filler, buzzwords, repeated openers, and a low quantification rate.

Version history

Every draft is saved automatically. Compare any two versions and restore an earlier one in a click.

Section Focus

Zoom into one section with its own history and an AI chat that only sees what matters.

Your first session, start to finish

The path most people take on day one. Move through it in order, or jump to the part you need.

01

Create or import your résumé

Every project starts with a résumé. Begin from a blank page, pick a template, or paste in work you already have.

  • Start from scratch, or paste an old résumé or a wall of rough notes
  • AI structures it into a clean header, titled sections, and bullet lists you can edit
  • Pick an export template — your content stays the same, the layout changes
  • Sections are typed automatically as Summary, Experience, Education, Skills, or Projects

Alex Rivera

Senior Product Manager

alex@email.com · San Francisco · linkedin.com/in/arivera

Experience

  • Owned the product roadmap end-to-end across four teams.
  • Launched a self-serve plan that grew activation 38%.
Auto-structured·From a paste or rough notes
02

Organize your sections

Strong résumés are easy to scan. Give each section a type, put your strongest work up top, and let the Timeline build itself from the dates you add.

  • Reorder sections and bullets by dragging — strongest first
  • Set a section type so Insights and Review know how to read it
  • Dates on Experience and Education feed an automatic Career Timeline
  • Find & Replace fixes a job title or recurring phrase across the whole résumé
SummarySummary
ExperienceExperience
EducationEducation
SkillsSkills

Drag to reorder · types feed Insights

03

Write and sharpen in the editor

The assistant lives inside the page. Reshape any line, or let AI tighten a passage in place, and keep only what you like.

  • Highlight a line and Smart Rewrite offers sharper takes — accept, tweak, or ignore
  • Select any passage and AI Enhance tightens it in place: active voice, concrete results
  • Resume Insights runs as you type, the same way every time — no vague AI vibes
  • Your voice never gets overwritten; the words stay yours

Responsible for managing the product roadmap and the team.

EnhanceRewriteFix

Owned the product roadmap end-to-end, aligning 4 teams to ship 12 releases in a year.

04

Focus a section with scoped chat

When you want a second set of eyes, zoom into a single section. The chat there has read only that section, so the feedback is specific, not generic.

  • Open Section Focus to work on one section at a time
  • A scoped AI chat sees only that section's content and its history
  • Ask for a punch-up, a tighter opener, or stronger, quantified bullets
  • Drop any suggestion straight into the section with one click

Focus · Experience

Make my lead bullet quantify the impact.

Try: “Owned the roadmap end-to-end, aligning 4 teams to ship 12 releases in a year.”
05

Tailor to a job

On the Apply tab, paste a job description and Merit shows exactly how your résumé stacks up — then writes a cover letter grounded in it.

  • Job Match scores your résumé against the posting, out of 100
  • See matched keywords, and add the missing ones to your Skills in a click
  • Get concrete tailoring suggestions for this specific role
  • Generate a cover letter grounded in your résumé — one saved per application

Job match

Strong fit
82/ 100

Missing — add to Skills

+Stakeholder mgmt+Figma
06

Review, export, and track

When the draft is solid, score it, send it, and keep every version. One pass surfaces what a recruiter and an ATS will see.

  • Run a Review for an overall score plus ATS readiness, impact, clarity, and completeness
  • Export to PDF, DOCX, or Markdown for any application
  • Version history keeps every draft, so you can compare and restore anytime
  • Move each résumé through a simple board: draft, ready, applied, interviewing

Review

78/100
ATS readiness84
Impact72
Clarity80
Completeness76

Inline tools, where your cursor is

Everything you reach for lives in the editor itself — a click or a selection away, never a context-switch.

Smart Rewrite

Sharper takes on any line, on demand — options, never edicts.

AI Enhance

Select a passage and tighten it in place, dropped straight into the editor.

Resume Insights

Deterministic checks on every keystroke — weak verbs, filler, buzzwords, quantification.

Section Focus

Work on one section at a time, with its own scoped AI chat.

Find & Replace

Fix a job title or recurring phrase across the whole résumé in one pass.

Export

Send it out as PDF, DOCX, or Markdown, from any template.

Beyond your first draft

Once the basics feel natural, these are the tools that carry a finished résumé the rest of the way.

Work as a team

  • Invite your organization and edit the same résumé in real time
  • Roles from Owner to Editor, Viewer, and Guest keep control where it belongs
  • Version history keeps every change tracked and reversible

Export anywhere

  • Export to PDF, DOCX, or Markdown
  • Switch export templates without touching your content
  • Duplicate a résumé to spin up a tailored version per role

The right model, automatically

  • Each rewrite is routed to a model that fits it, no provider to choose
  • New models become available as they ship, with no lock-in
  • You focus on the words, not on managing AI

Get more out of every session

Small habits that make the whole workspace work harder for your search.

Writing

  • Lead every bullet with a strong verb and a number
  • Cut filler and buzzwords — Resume Insights will point them out
  • Tailor a copy per role instead of editing one résumé to death
  • Read the Review summary before you hit apply

Workflow

  • Duplicate your résumé before a big rewrite so you can roll back
  • Use Section Focus when a single section needs real work
  • Run Job Match against the posting before you apply
  • Move each application across the board so nothing slips

Your first-session checklist

Do these five things and you will have touched every part of the workspace.

1

Create or import your first résumé

2

Organize your sections and set their types

3

Sharpen a bullet with Smart Rewrite or AI Enhance

4

Run Resume Insights and clear the flags

5

Tailor to a job and run a Review

Where to go next

Dig into the details, compare plans, or get your questions answered.

Your résumé is ready when you are.

Start free and build your first résumé today. You stay the author; we handle the busywork.