How it works
Get the most out of the builder
The builder does the writing. You supply the raw material. The better the input, the higher the score. Here is exactly how to do it.
The process
Five steps, start to finish
Each step feeds into the next. Skipping any of them will show up in your score.
1
Tell it what job you are going for
Fill in your target role, industry, and seniority level. If you have a job posting, paste the full description into the Job Description field. This is the single biggest lever for keyword matching. The builder reads the posting and calibrates the language to match what that employer is looking for.
No posting? Use the job title alone. A posting will always score higher.
2
Enter your work history with numbers
For each role, use the Key Achievements fields to list your bullet points separately. Each bullet gets its own box. Include specific numbers wherever you have them: percentages, dollar amounts, headcounts, time frames, client counts. The builder treats those numbers as facts and keeps them intact through the rewrite. Vague descriptions get tightened. Numbers survive exactly as entered.
One bullet per achievement field. Do not pile everything into the raw notes box.
3
Fill in contact, skills, and education
Phone, email, and LinkedIn are not optional if you want a clean ATS score. Most systems parse the contact block first. A missing phone number alone can drop your compatibility score significantly. Skills go in the separate fields, not buried in job descriptions. Education: if you do not have a formal degree, write what you have studied and when. Even self-directed study with a date beats a blank field.
No degree? Try: "Self-directed study, AI and web development, 2020 - present"
4
Review the AI draft and ATS score
The builder generates your resume in real time. When it finishes, the ATS scoring runs automatically. You get a score out of 100 across four categories. Review the draft for any names, dates, or company names that need correcting. The AI does not know how to spell your old employer's name. You do.
Copy the draft into Word or Google Docs and run spellcheck before moving on.
5
Use the fix panel and rebuild
Below your score, a fix panel appears with questions based on your weakest categories. Answer the ones that apply and click Rebuild. The builder applies your corrections to the same draft without starting from scratch. Each rebuild typically adds 5 to 15 points. You can rebuild multiple times.
Answer all the fix panel fields, not just the first one. Every unanswered field is a missed point.
Your score
What each category measures
The ATS score runs out of 100 across four categories of 25 points each. This is what each one is actually checking.
25 / 25 pts
ATS Compatibility
Whether a resume parsing system can actually read your document correctly. Most employers run applications through automated software before a human sees it. If that software cannot parse your contact info, your dates, or your job titles, your application gets dropped.
How to score higher: Fill in phone, email, and LinkedIn. Use a full date format for each role (month and year, not just year). Stick to standard section names. Do not use tables, columns, or graphics in the intake fields.
25 / 25 pts
Keyword Density
How well the language in your resume matches the language in job postings for your target role. ATS systems match resumes to jobs using exact and near-exact keyword matches. If a posting says "stakeholder management" and your resume says "worked with teams," you miss the match.
How to score higher: Paste the full job description into the builder. Pull specific terms from that posting and include them naturally in your achievement bullets. The builder will mirror the language back.
25 / 25 pts
Impact Language
Whether your bullets show results or just describe tasks. A bullet that says "managed the onboarding process" tells the reader what you did. A bullet that says "cut onboarding time from 3 weeks to 6 days across a team of 40" tells them what changed because of you. The second one scores.
How to score higher: Add numbers to your achievement fields. Percentages, headcounts, dollar amounts, time savings. The builder keeps them exactly as you wrote them. If you do not have numbers, describe the scale: team size, number of clients, frequency, or geographic reach.
25 / 25 pts
Structure
Whether the document is organized in a way that ATS systems and human reviewers expect to find. Missing sections, blank fields, or non-standard organization cause the system to flag the resume as incomplete even if the content is strong.
How to score higher: Include education even if it is informal. Add a certifications section if you have any credentials. Make sure every role has a start date, end date or "Present," and a job title. Do not leave any section intentionally blank.
Best practices
What moves the score the most
These are the highest-impact things you can do. Most of them take under two minutes.
Paste the job posting
The Job Description field is where keyword matching happens. A resume built with a job posting scores 8 to 15 points higher on average than one built without it. Paste the full posting, not just the title.
Put numbers in the achievement fields
Every number you enter comes out of the AI exactly as written. Percentages, dollar figures, team sizes, client counts - they survive the rewrite intact and go directly toward your Impact Language score.
Complete the contact block
Phone and email are the first things ATS systems look for. A missing phone number alone can drop your Compatibility score by several points. LinkedIn is optional but adds to completeness.
Always fill in education
A blank Education section is an automatic Structure penalty. No degree is not the same as no entry. List coursework, certifications, self-directed study, bootcamps, or anything with a date attached.
Use the fix panel every time
The questions in the fix panel are generated from your specific score gaps. They are not generic suggestions. Answering them and rebuilding targets the exact categories holding your score down.
Use month and year for dates
Writing "2022 - Present" is fine for a human reader. ATS parsers prefer "January 2022 - Present" because they calculate tenure. Year-only dates get flagged as potentially incomplete in some systems.
What to avoid
Mistakes that cost points
These come up constantly. All of them are easy to avoid once you know what to look for.
avoid
Dumping everything into the raw notes box. The Raw Notes field is for context that does not fit as a bullet point. It is not a substitute for the achievement fields. If your accomplishments are only in the notes box, the builder has no structured bullets to work from and will generate generic content.
avoid
Leaving phone or email blank. These look like small omissions. To an ATS parser, a missing phone number means the record is incomplete. It can prevent the application from being routed correctly, and it shows up directly in your Compatibility score.
avoid
Skipping the job description field. The builder can generate a polished resume without it. It cannot generate one that matches a specific employer's language without it. Keyword Density is the hardest category to improve after the fact if you skip this step.
avoid
Ignoring the fix panel after scoring. The fix panel is where most of the score improvement happens. Generating a draft and not running the fix cycle is like baking a cake and not adding frosting. The structure is there. The finish is not.
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Leaving education completely blank. If you skipped the education fields because you do not have a formal degree, add something anyway. A certification, a course, a period of independent study with a date. Blank is always worse than something.
Ready to build?
The whole process takes about ten minutes. Your draft comes out the other side polished, scored, and ready to iterate on.
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