Resumes & Default Cover Letter

Your base resumes are the resumes the AI tailors from for every job. Open Resumes in the sidebar: every resume you keep is a card in a grid, with a search over their names once you have a few. Click a card to open its editor, or Create new resume to add another, up to your plan's limit.

One of them is your default resume: it's used for match scores, for Auto-apply, and for any job no other resume is set for. To switch, choose Make it the default on another resume. A tailored resume can also become a base resume with Save as base resume (see Editing Tailored Documents).

Resumes

Each one holds everything the AI uses when it tailors a resume for a specific posting: work history, education, skills, languages, certifications, courses, projects, publications, contact info, photo, and the default template + style.

Two ways to fill it

  • Upload a PDF or DOCX (up to 10 MB) and we parse it into structured fields, then drop you into a review form to fix anything the parser got wrong. Every upload makes a new base resume.
  • Fill the form manually with every field editable directly through type-appropriate controls (calendar pickers for dates, searchable comboboxes for languages and visa types, a photo uploader). The structural editing controls (drag-reorder, hide toggles) are described below.

Editing, reordering, and hiding

Inside the resume form you have full structural control alongside content edits:

  • Edit any field inline (name, contact, summary, every bullet of every entry, dates, locations, descriptions)
  • Reorder sections by dragging the section header (drag handle on the left). Reorder applies globally and is persisted in your resume so every download and every tailored resume inherits the same order
  • Hide a section with the eye toggle on the section header. Hidden sections are kept in your data (so you don't lose them) but excluded from the PDF and from the AI's view when tailoring. Show them again with the same toggle
  • Reorder entries within a section (e.g. move a job above another in Experience) by dragging the entry's drag handle
  • Hide an entry the same way as a section, with the eye toggle on the entry. Useful for archiving an old role you no longer want shown without deleting it

Live preview and download

The left side of the page shows a live HTML preview that mirrors the PDF layout. Every edit, reorder, hide, template switch, or color change updates the preview instantly with no debounce. Hit Download in the toolbar to get the corresponding PDF in the current template and style. Preview and download are free on every plan.

Analyze

The Analyze button in the toolbar runs an end-to-end AI quality review of the resume:

  • Clarity and impact of bullets
  • Missing keywords and skills
  • Section balance (too few experiences, too many courses, etc.)
  • Specific suggestions you can apply one by one with a click

Free includes one try; Pro and Max are unlimited, within fair use. Recommended right after your first upload and again after any substantial rewrite.

Per-section AI refinement

Inside the form, individual parts can be rewritten by the AI without doing a full Analyze pass:

  • Bullet enhancement: rewrite a single bullet for tone, brevity, or impact
  • Section improvement: rewrite an entire section (summary, a single experience entry, etc.)

Each refinement is silently applied to the field in place. Save afterwards if you want to keep it.

Default template and style

Pick the template (Harvard, Classic, Sidebar, Executive, Vivid, Framed) and the style (font, primary color, accent color) you want every tailored resume to inherit. The live preview updates instantly with no AI call. The values saved here are the defaults, you can still override them per document on the tailored resume edit page.

Version history (Pro+)

Every save creates a new version. Open History in the toolbar to compare prior versions and restore one if you regret a change. Available on Pro and Max.

Default cover letter

The default cover letter is purely about visual defaults: the actual body of every cover letter is generated per job by the AI, so there's no cover letter text to author and no sections or entries to reorder or hide (the structure is fixed: header, recipient block, subject, salutation, four paragraphs, signature). What it sets:

  • Default template: Professional, Modern, Double Frame, or Geometric
  • Default style: font (5 typefaces) and colors (primary + accent)

To set it, open any tailored cover letter from the Tailored page, pick the template and style you like, and click Use as default (see Tailored Cover Letters).

The defaults you keep this way apply to every tailored cover letter you generate from that moment on. Per-document overrides are available on the tailored cover letter edit page.

Source of truth

Changes to a base resume (content, template, style) silently propagate to every new tailored document made from it from that moment on. Existing tailored documents are not retroactively rewritten. Match Scores follow your default resume and update on their own.