Build a resume that parses cleanly.

Everything here exports as real, selectable text in one reading order, checked before you download.

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The workspace showing a line the check could not support from the approved record, surfaced for the applicant to decide on.
A line the check could not support from the approved record, surfaced before the file is downloaded. The applicant and the employers are fictional.

What's different

The three things that decide whether a file reads.

01Real, selectable text

The PDF is rendered from controlled HTML by a browser engine, never flattened into an image, so what a parser extracts is your actual content.

02One reading order

Single-column structure with the headings parsers expect (Experience, Education, Skills), so nothing has to be guessed at.

03Checked after rendering

Text is extracted back out of the finished PDF and compared with your document; the DOCX is converted and inspected. A file that fails its checks does not ship.

The sequence

The check happens on the finished file.

  1. Bring in your history

    Upload, photograph, or paste a resume, then approve the roles, dates and achievements once as your Career Record.

  2. Build inside the safe structure

    Every template projects the same single-column document model, so the layout choices that break parsers are not available to pick. Switching templates never retypes, truncates or reorders your material.

  3. Checks run before download

    Extraction, page count, glyphs, clipping. The report exists for every file; you only hear about it when something fails, and a failure blocks the download.

The argument

What we refuse to promise

The resume industry sells ATS certainty. Match scores, pass rates, one weird trick about tables. Applicant tracking systems differ by vendor and by how each employer configured theirs, and nobody outside a given employer can see how its setup treats a file, let alone promise it.

So we promise what we can check: your file contains real, extractable, correctly ordered text; its headings are conventional; its glyphs render; its pages do not clip. We call that ATS-friendly, parse-checked and format-checked, and we check it on every export rather than asserting it once in marketing copy.

A file that reads, every time you export it.

Build inside a structure parsers can follow, and let the checks run on the finished file rather than trusting a template's promise.

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ATS implementations vary. We say ATS-friendly, parse-checked, and format-checked, never ATS-proof, and we do not sell match scores or guaranteed rankings.

Questions about building for parsers

What makes a resume ATS-friendly?
Real selectable text, a single reading order, and conventional section headings. Every template here is built that way, and every export is checked after rendering.
Do you give my resume an ATS score?
No. A universal match score measures the scoring tool, not any real employer's system. We check that the file parses instead of grading you against a heuristic.
Are two-column resumes really a problem?
They are a risk. Some parsers interleave the two columns into nonsense. The templates here use a single reading order, which removes that failure mode.
What happens if a rendered file fails its checks?
The failure blocks the download, and a system failure that leaves you without a usable file is refunded automatically. A broken file never reaches an employer with our name on the export path.

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