Your resume is locked on your device before it ever reaches us, so nobody here can read a word of it. The app is live for invited testers right now.
Closed beta: you need an invite code to make an account. How to get one.
Before a person reads your resume, software usually reads it first. Recruiters call it an ATS, short for applicant tracking system, and it quietly rejects strong resumes every day over things as small as an odd font or a layout it can’t follow. Most free checkers will scan yours, but only after you upload the file and hand over an email address. Your resume is your whole working life on one page. A formatting check shouldn’t cost you that.
CareerForge’s check happens right in your browser. The file is read and scored on your device and never sent anywhere. It’s free, there’s no account, and it ships with the app.
Most resume builders just make the formatting easier. You still end up with a folder of near-identical files, copying and pasting between them and hoping the newest one has your best material. CareerForge starts one level up.
Everything you’ve ever done lives in one career vault: every role, project, skill and well-written bullet. Each resume is a fresh selection from it, not another copy drifting out of date.
Paste a job ad, and the AI pulls the right material out of your vault and rewords it to match. It’s optional, it’s on us, and it keeps nothing once it has answered.
What you see on screen is exactly what you download, built to come through cleanly in the systems recruiters actually use.
A minute now beats an hour next year. Note the thing you shipped while the numbers are still fresh, keep the praise worth keeping, and the next resume is written from a record rather than from memory. Performance reviews get easier for the same reason.
A board for your whole search: each application, the stage it’s reached, and the exact resume you sent. It’s free, and it’s locked like everything else, so nobody can see how your search is going. Not even us.
Ask for a cover letter and the AI writes it from your vault and the job ad. Every line has to trace back to something you really did; anything it can’t back up gets flagged, not sent.
Most resume websites can read everything you type, and some make money from exactly that. CareerForge works differently. Your resume is locked on your device before it’s saved anywhere, and the only key is made from your password. The key never leaves your device.
That means there’s nothing readable for us to lose, leak, sell or hand over. If our database were stolen tomorrow, the thief would get gibberish. If anyone demanded your resume from us, gibberish is all we could give them.
One exception, and it’s your choice: the AI. If you ask it to tailor your resume or write a cover letter, it has to read the words you send, so that request isn’t locked the way your saved resume is. It gives its answer and then that text is gone. We don’t keep it, we don’t log it, and it never trains anything. If you never use the AI, nothing readable reaches us at all.
And you don’t have to take our word for it. Before launch, we’ll publish the locking code so security researchers can check it does what we say. The technical detail is in the FAQ below.
Built in the UK · Hosted in the EU · Private by default, GDPR included
You get hired, and you move on. That’s how this is meant to work.
$19 once
$34 /year
The resume check stays free forever, with or without an account, and tracking your applications is free too. AI help is counted per application, not per request: tailoring your resume, writing the cover letter and drafting outreach for the same job all count as one. Prices exclude sales tax. And there’s no cheap trial that quietly turns into a monthly charge: the pass simply ends, and the yearly plan cancels in a click.
No. Your resume is locked on your device before it’s saved, and the only key is made from your password. Our servers only ever see the locked version, so there’s nothing readable for us to leak, sell or hand over. The only time any of your words are readable is when you ask the AI for help, and then only the words you send. More on that in the AI question below.
End-to-end encryption. When you save, your resume is encrypted in your browser with keys derived from your password. Only the encrypted data is sent to our servers, which have no way to decrypt it, and your recovery codes wrap the same keys so you have a way back in. AI requests work differently: the text you choose to send is decrypted in your browser, relayed over TLS through our proxy to the model, never written to storage or logs, and discarded once the response comes back. Before launch we’ll publish the encryption code as open source, so you can audit it instead of trusting us.
Really free, and there’s honestly no catch: the check runs on your device, so giving it away costs us almost nothing. It’s how we introduce ourselves. If it earns your trust, the paid product is here when your job hunt starts.
Both. Templates and regional profiles cover UK- and European-style CVs and US-style resumes. Page size, date formats, photo conventions and wording follow the market you’re applying into, not the one you’re browsing from.
You use one of the recovery codes you’re given when you sign up. There’s no “reset by email”, because a reset like that would mean we could have read your resume all along. Keep the codes somewhere safe.
And if the codes are gone too, there’s a last resort. Every PDF you download carries its own contents in a form the app can read back, so you can drop your old resumes into it and rebuild your vault from them. You keep everything you ever sent out, even in the worst case.
No. The AI runs only when you choose to use it, and it sees only what you send. It has to read those words to help, so that request reaches our servers unlocked, but it’s gone as soon as the answer comes back. Nothing is stored, and nothing is used for training. There are also no analytics scripts or ad trackers on this page or in the app.
The biggest difference is the vault. Other builders tidy up the same old routine: one file per application, copied from the last one, each a little further out of date. CareerForge keeps your whole career in one place and builds every resume fresh from it, so your best material is always in the version you send. Then there’s everything around it: your vault is stored locked so nobody here can read it, the free resume check asks for no upload and no email, and paying is a pass that simply ends, not a cheap trial hoping you’ll forget to cancel.
CareerForge is in closed beta, and making an account needs an invite code. Join the waitlist and you will get one when the next batch goes out. We invite in small groups on purpose, so we can fix what testers find before the next group meets it. If you already have a code, open the app and enter it when you sign up.
Invited testers are using it now, and it opens to everybody once the list on our roadmap is finished. This page came first so you can hold us to what it says, and the prices shown are launch prices.
Beta invites go out from this list in small batches, and everyone on it hears when CareerForge opens to all. No newsletter, no sharing, and the list is deleted after launch.