Free AI CV Builder
built for UK applications
UK CV format (2 pages, no photo, British English) tailored to each job description. 30 seconds. No card. No auto-apply spam.
Start free — no card needed →What makes this different
We don't think you need another CV — we think you need to know why the last 50 got binned.
Before you rebuild, run an Application Autopsy on your last few rejections. We diagnose the pattern — targeting, channel quality, salary realism, UK-specific signals. Then the rebuild actually fixes the problem.
See an autopsy example →What a UK CV actually looks like (vs an American resume) — and why it matters in the United Kingdom
Most free AI CV builders default to a US format because they were built for a US audience. A US resume is one page, includes a photo for industries that expect it, opens with an “Objective” statement, and lists GPA / school honours. None of that is right for the UK.
A UK CV is two pages. No photo (it can trigger unconscious bias rules — half of UK ATS pipelines strip photos automatically before a human sees them). No date of birth (illegal to ask for under the Equality Act 2010). Opens with a 3–4 sentence professional summary, not an “Objective”. Includes GCSE / A-Level grades and BTEC qualifications where relevant. Uses British English throughout (“organisation”, not “organization”; “practise” as a verb but “practice” as a noun). And it anchors salary expectations in GBP, with realistic UK ranges, not US-inflated numbers.
Our builder defaults to all of that. You don't have to remember it.
ATS optimisation for UK recruiters — what the parser actually reads
UK ATS systems (Greenhouse, Workday, iCIMS, Lever, SmartRecruiters) are looking for keyword overlap between your CV and the job description. Industry rule of thumb: 65%+ keyword match before a human reads it. Most candidates sit at 30–40% because they write a single “perfect” CV and use it for every role.
The builder takes a JD, extracts the keywords the ATS will actually score on, and rewrites your experience section to mirror them — without inventing experience you don't have. If the JD says “distributed systems” and your CV says “scalable backend”, you're invisible to the parser even though it's the same skill. We fix that.
Other things the parser cares about: clean section headings (Experience, Education, Skills — not “Where I've Been” or “What I Know”), reverse-chronological order, standard date formats (MM/YYYY), and no images, tables, or columns. The builder enforces all of that by default. More on this in the post: Why your CV gets ghosted: the unglamorous truth from UK recruiters.
What it won't do
Won't invent experience. If your CV says you have two years in Python, the builder won't bump that to five because it sounds better. Recruiters spot embellishment in interviews and it's the single fastest way to get binned.
Won't auto-apply. Some “AI CV builders” bundle auto-apply (looking at you, AIApply / LazyApply / Sonara). That gets you fingerprinted and banned by ATS vendors. We tailor the CV; you decide where it goes.
Won't pretend to be a job board. We don't sell candidate data, run job-board ads, or surface roles we've been paid to surface. The output is yours. Background reading: Why “tailor your CV to every job” is mostly bad advice and Ghost jobs are 18% of UK postings — how to spot one in 30 seconds.