That meant saying no to a lot of things that look good in a screenshot but don't hold up once you're actually using them: AI that quietly invents an achievement, a "match score" that's really just the model's opinion of itself, an ATS-safety badge that doesn't mean anything, a share link that bakes your phone number in permanently whether you meant to share it or not. C for CV exists because a resume builder handling your actual job search shouldn't ask you to just trust it.
What we believe
- AI drafts. You decide. Every suggestion — a stronger bullet, a tailored summary, a cover letter — is grounded only in what you've actually written. It never invents an employer, a metric, or a skill you didn't list. You approve or reject each change yourself, one click either way, and one click to undo it.
- A score should mean something. Job Match's match percentage isn't the AI grading its own homework — it's plain, deterministic code checking whether a keyword is actually present in your resume. The model's only job is reading the posting; the scoring is math.
- Free should mean free. Guest mode lets you build a full resume and use the live preview with zero sign-up, nothing saved to a server unless you choose to. Downloading it — and everything else, like cloud sync and the AI-guided tools — just needs a free account, never a payment card.
- Honest labels, not flattering ones. Every template is marked by how it actually parses through an applicant tracking system, not by how good it looks in a thumbnail — so choosing a bolder design is a trade-off you make on purpose, not a surprise you discover after applying.
- Your data stays yours. It's encrypted, hosted within the EU, and never sold. A share link is off by default, and when it's on, you can choose to hide your contact details from it entirely — the redaction happens on our server before the page is ever sent, not just in what's displayed on screen.
- What you see is what you get. The same rendering path builds the live preview, the exported PDF, and the template gallery, so the document you download is never a surprise — and its text is real, searchable text, never a flattened image.
Built to be used, not just launched
A tool people actually rely on for something as high-stakes as a job search has to keep earning that reliance: the small stuff gets fixed fast instead of filed away, a claim gets corrected the moment it stops being true, and a new page only gets added once it has something real to say. That's the standard here, not a roadmap slide.