What happens when you first sign up

Creating your account drops you straight into setup, and setup ends with a real match score rather than an empty dashboard. The scan behind that score returns in a few seconds.

It is one screen, not a wizard. Two panels sit side by side, Your resume on the left and The job you want on the right, with an action bar along the bottom. There is no Next button and no sequence to follow, so you can work on either panel in whichever order suits you, or on both at once.

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Panel 1, your resume

Drop the resume you already have onto Drop your resume here, or click to browse for it. PDF, DOC, DOCX and TXT are accepted, up to 10MB. If your file is awkward, Paste it as text instead takes the raw text, from 250 up to 50,000 characters, and Read my resume sends it.

This is not data entry. We read your file and pull it apart into structured sections, which leaves you checking that everything came through the way you wrote it.

The file you upload becomes your base resume, the one every future scan starts from. Each scan tailors a copy of it, so the original stays exactly as you uploaded it no matter how many jobs you run it against.

Reading takes a moment, and you do not have to sit and watch it happen. The panel says as much: Add the job description on the right while we read your resume.

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What the resume score tells you

When the read finishes, the panel turns into a score summary, Scored on completeness and writing quality, with a sub-score for each and a list of the issues we found.

If a section came back thin or empty, the cause is usually the source file rather than a gap in your career. Resumes built with columns, tables, text boxes or graphics are the ones that parse badly, and an applicant tracking system reads them just as badly, so anything wrong here is worth knowing before you apply rather than after.

You fix all of it in the resume editor, which you are handed as soon as the scan is done.

On the free plan you can hold 1 base resume. If you already have one, this panel shows the limit and a See plans button instead of replacing the resume you are already scanning against.

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Panel 2, the job you want

Paste the job posting into the panel. The description is the only required field, and it needs at least 200 characters, which the responsibilities and qualifications sections of any real posting clear on their own.

There is also a URL bar at the top of the panel. Give it the link to the posting and it fills the description in for you.

Company and job title are optional and sit behind Add company and job title. Adding them is what makes a job recognizable later on your tracker, and you can do it now or at any point afterwards.

Setup does not ask which tracker or list to put the job on, and "Where your first job goes" below covers where it ends up.

Scan, or scan and auto optimize

The action bar has 2 buttons, and the difference between them is whether the AI runs.

Scan compares your resume to the posting and shows you your match score and the keywords you are missing. It costs no AI credits.

Scan and auto optimize does all of that and then runs Keyword Boost, which rewrites your existing bullet points to work the missing keywords in rather than inventing new bullets or new sections. It takes about 15 to 30 seconds and uses 3 AI credits, and the hint line above the buttons tells you that cost before you press it.

Auto optimize needs existing writing to work with. If your resume has no work experience, project, or volunteering entry, the button stays disabled and its tooltip names what to add: Add a work experience, project, or volunteering entry to use auto optimize.

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What you see when it runs

The screen switches to Scanning your resume, and if you filled in the optional company and job title it names what you are being scanned against underneath. Nothing is queued and there is no email to wait for, because the scan runs in front of you while you watch it.

Your match score then appears as a dial, above {n} keywords are missing from your resume and up to 12 of those keywords as chips, with a +{n} more chip when there are others.

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Where you land

Setup drops you into your new scan's resume view, with the details and the job match already open, so the first thing in front of you is the work rather than a menu. If you chose auto optimize, the AI suggestions are on screen and already paid for.

Setup does not hand you to the dashboard. You can open it from the sidebar whenever you want it.

Where your first job goes

Setup never asks, so it decides for you: your first scan is placed on the WATCHLIST list of My First Tracker, the tracker created for you at signup. Open Job Trackers in the sidebar and it is sitting there.

Every scan after that one takes the list you pick while creating it. See Adding a job to your tracker.

Skipping, and coming back

Skip for now at the top right leaves setup and takes you to the dashboard. The one time it asks first is when your resume is scored and no job is in yet, since a single paste stands between you and a result. That dialog is One step from your match score, offering Add a job description and Skip to dashboard.

Skipping costs you nothing. New Scan in the sidebar does the same work as setup and lets you choose the tracker and list as well, so you can run that first scan whenever you are ready for it.