New CV Tool — how it works
New CV Tool helps you build your career profile in more detail than you ever have — application by application, often surfacing things you had forgotten or never thought worth writing down. When you apply for a job, it mobilizes everything in that profile — never inventing, never embellishing — into a CV and letter you compile in conversation with your own AI. The tool is the container: the profile lives here, the documents take shape here, and you export and keep what you send. Your profile is yours to download or delete at any time.
- Grow a detailed career profile, application by application
- Turn the CV you already have into an editable career foundation
- Bring relevant, source-backed evidence into each application
- Work with your own chat, connected agent, coding tool, or API key
- Finish and export CVs and cover letters, and download your supporting documents
- Invent or embellish experience you do not have
- Silently turn an inferred value into a profile fact
- Search the web for jobs itself (your assistant does) or send an application (you press Submit)
- Take away your control: nothing goes out without you
- Hold your data hostage — download or delete it at any time
I just want to hand this to my AI. What do I paste?
Paste this into your chat or agent: "Read https://app.newcvtool.com/help.txt and https://app.newcvtool.com/connect, then help me set up the connection." Those two pages explain what the tool is, what it can touch, and how to connect. You do not need to understand the technical details yourself.
Which AI can I use?
Any chat works through copy and paste: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or a local model. For a direct connection without copy-paste, the client must support connectors (MCP), such as Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, or Codex.
How do I connect a chat like Claude or ChatGPT?
Open Account → Connect an AI agent. Claude has a pre-filled add button. For ChatGPT, the same panel shows the connector URL and the exact Settings path. Approve the New CV Tool page that opens. Connecting is free. With the web app open beside the chat, the edits your agent makes appear in the document you are looking at.
How do I connect a coding tool like Claude Code or Codex?
Tell it: "Add the New CV Tool connector at https://app.newcvtool.com/mcp and connect to my account." You can also use the command shown at https://app.newcvtool.com/connect. A browser tab opens once for your approval.
I only have a free chat account. How do I use it?
Turn on chat mode in the tool. Send copies the document, job ad, context, and instructions your AI needs and opens your chat. Paste it, discuss the document, then import the reply. It arrives as a new version next to the one you sent.
What can a connected AI touch?
It can read your profile, job-search settings and applications; save and sort jobs it found; save applications; edit the CV and letter of an application (the open tab, and only if nobody changed it since it read it); and add facts you explicitly give it. It cannot send or submit an application to an employer, change your identity or contact details, or access another user. You can disconnect it in your AI settings at any time.
Is it free?
Yes. Your profile, applications, connected assistants, manual editing and PDF export are free. Your own assistant does the writing.
How do I pay nothing?
You already do: connect your own assistant (Claude, ChatGPT, a coding tool) or edit by hand. You can also add your own OpenAI or Anthropic API key.
Is there a paid plan?
Not at the moment. The AI that CV Tool used to run inside the app is switched off; your assistant does that work instead, at no cost to you.
Is my API key stored?
No. It stays in your browser, is sent with each request, and is never written to the database or logged.
What does it do?
It builds a detailed, user-owned career foundation over time. For each application, it selects the relevant evidence and helps you present it in your best honest light. It does not invent or embellish.
Is the imported CV ready to send?
No. An existing CV is source material for your career foundation. Review and enrich it first. A job-specific CV and letter are then created from that foundation for a particular employer.
So who writes the CV — the tool or the AI?
You remain the editor. CV Tool can produce a strong base and your AI can help you revise it, but you inspect, change, approve, and export the document. Nothing is submitted to an employer automatically.
Why not just keep everything in ChatGPT?
A chat restarts from whatever context you give it. Here your profile keeps growing, your decisions remain visible, sources stay attached, and each application is stored beside its job ad. The next conversation starts further ahead than the last.
How do I get my existing CV in?
Give it to your assistant: attach your CV as a PDF, or your LinkedIn profile saved as a PDF (on LinkedIn: your profile → More → Save to PDF), and ask it to set up your New CV Tool profile. Without an assistant, enter your history by hand.
Can my AI build the profile itself, not just the documents?
Yes. The Profile panel supports the same send-and-import round trip as documents, with the reply arriving as a new profile copy. A connected agent can add facts you explicitly tell it, with provenance. It cannot silently delete or rewrite existing facts.
Can I add work certificates and other evidence later?
Yes. Upload a certificate, reference, transcript, portfolio note, or other text document in Documents and choose Scan into profile. The tool compares it with the profile and proposes additions. Nothing is saved until you approve it.
Will it make things up?
It is designed not to. Missing evidence appears as a gap, not a fabricated claim, and computed or suggested values remain visible and reviewable. A language model is still involved, so read everything you send.
Is the profile really mine?
Yes. Download it whenever you like, take it elsewhere, or delete the account and its data. Your profile is not sold and is not used to train models.
Plain text version: /help.txt · Connect an AI agent: /connect · Open the app