You only sit down when you need a job
Then two or three years of work arrive at once. The decisions, the numbers, the mess you cleaned up never make it onto the page.
Available now · founding price locked
Upload what you have. We ask for the rest.
Most people ignore the CV until they start looking for a new job. Then two or three years of projects, numbers, and half-written notes hit at once, and a lot never makes the page. Drop in an existing resume, or the facts you already jotted down. Merit reads that, asks follow-up questions for the gaps, and writes a CV from what you confirm.
Free plan: one conversation and one tailored CV. No card required.
- Nothing invented
- Encrypted vault
- We never auto-apply
Chen_resume_2024.pdf
From the file
Checkout migration, 2024. Improved site reliability.
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Merit
You wrote “improved site reliability.” What actually changed after checkout shipped?
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You
Load times dropped a lot. We stopped getting paged at night. Payments also stopped double-charging.
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Merit
Roughly how much faster, or how often did it used to fail?
For the CV. Still waiting on you.
- Led a checkout migration that removed the nightly failure pages
- Reduced double-charge incidents for paying customers
Senior Backend Engineer, draft
1 line kept · 1 still open · nothing sent
The problem
Applying more isn’t working. Applying better does.
Recruiters are buried in AI-bulk applications, so they filter harder. The escape hatch is not volume or a cleverer rephrasing. It is a CV that is specific, verifiable, and obviously about your work.
Generic AI sounds confident and wrong
Rewriters polish your words and quietly inflate them. Interviewers ask one follow-up question and the story falls apart, which is worse than a plain CV.
One CV can’t answer every job
Each posting asks for something slightly different. A single generic document silently misses requirements you could have met, and you never find out why you were filtered.
The market
A CV from college does not survive this market.
Most people ignore the document until they start looking. Then they try to reconstruct years of work in a week, often from a file they last touched as a student. Openings have thinned. Application volume has exploded. A lot of what recruiters see is the same AI paragraph with a different name.
US job openings
Fewer seats than the 2022 peak. Same habit of waiting until you need the CV.
BLS JOLTS via FRED (JTSJOL), monthly, seasonally adjusted, Jan 2019 to Jul 2026. Every vertex is an official month. Peak Mar 2022: 12.3M. Dec 2025: 6.5M.
Applications per role
Nearly three times the pile on each desk. Two published years, not a fitted curve.
Greenhouse, customer data pulled August 2025: 28 applications per job in 2021, 95 in 2025.
Applications per seeker
More volume, not more interviews. Indexed to late 2019. LinkedIn’s words: “roughly twice.”
LinkedIn Economic Graph, May 2025: US seekers submit roughly twice as many applications as before the pandemic.
73% of HR professionals say fewer than half the applications they get meet the criteria (LinkedIn, Jan 2025). That is a survey share, not a time series, so it is not drawn as a chart.
Keep the work written down while you still remember it: the number, the project, the mess you cleaned up. When you do sit down, do not start from a blank page. Upload the resume you have, or the notes you already wrote. Merit asks the follow-up questions. The CV that comes out is specific to your work, not another AI filler document.
How it works
Four steps. You stay in control of all of them.
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Dump what you already have
Upload an existing resume, or paste the notes and numbers you have already written down. You do not reconstruct two or three years from a blank page.
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We read it. Then we ask.
Merit analyzes what you sent and follows up on the gaps: the project you forgot, the figure you never wrote down, the context a recruiter would ask for.
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Confirm what’s true
Every claim comes back as an evidence candidate. You confirm, correct, or delete it. Nothing enters your CV until you say it is real.
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Get a CV. You send it.
Merit drafts an honest CV from what you verified. Paste a job if you want it tailored. You review, download, and submit. Merit never applies for you.
The moat you own
Your evidence vault
Everything you confirm accumulates in one private, encrypted record of your career: the part of Merit you keep even after you’re hired.
Encrypted and isolated
Vault data is encrypted at rest, scoped to your account alone, and never mixed into anyone else’s record.
By design, not by policyYours to take back
Export everything, or delete your account and vault completely. No retention traps, and no “contact support to remove your data”.
Export and full deleteTraceable, not invented
A rules-enforced framework checks the draft against your confirmed evidence. If it isn’t in the vault, it doesn’t go in the CV.
Evidence-checked draftsReusable forever
Your vault compounds. Next job search, next promotion, next pivot: you start from a real record instead of a blank page.
Built once, reusedWhere we are today: The interview, vault, and tailoring loop are what you use now. Some extras (mail tracking, employer-side dashboards) are not built yet, and we will say so on this page rather than in a footnote. Phone: use the browser, and install the web app from the browser when the product is live. Native App Store and Play Store packages are being built from that same app. This page will not show store download buttons until those listings exist.
Straight comparison
Where Merit sits in a noisy market
| Merit | AI résumé rewriters | Human concierge mills | |
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| Where the content comes from | Your resume or notes, then a conversation that fills the gaps | You paste; it rephrases | A person, briefed by you, often with AI in the loop |
| Fact-checking | Every line traceable to evidence you confirmed | None. Polishing can inflate | Not verifiable by you |
| Tailored per job | Yes: per posting, from your vault | Usually one generic CV | Yes |
| Who submits | You do. Always | You do | They do, on your behalf |
| Indicative price | $19.99/mo founding (list $49) | ~$29–49/mo self-serve | ≈$249/mo |
| Your data | Encrypted vault you can export or delete | Their cloud, their terms | Shared with a team |
Competitor pricing taken from public pricing pages (Teal, Huntr, ApplyRyt), September 2026. It changes often. Check it yourself before you decide. We don’t chase their claims; we compete with their price.
Pricing
Start free with one CV. Pay only if you want more.
Use one conversation and one tailored CV with no card. Subscribe later only if you want unlimited interviews and more applications. The founding price is an early-customer thank-you, not our list price. Once that offer ends, the same plan is $49/mo. Founding members keep $19.99 for as long as they stay.
Free
$0
Prove it before you pay
- One full guided interview
- One tailored CV for a job you choose
- Your evidence vault, encrypted
- No card, no trial clock
Founding price
Founding member
$19.99/mo $49
Price locked for life while you stay subscribed
- Everything in Free, unlimited interviews
- Up to 10 tailored applications a month
- Application answers for each posting
- Browser concierge that fills forms. You review and submit
- Export to PDF, DOCX and ATS-friendly text
Founding prices are limited and time-boxed. Usage caps are disclosed up front.
Standard
$49/mo
The same product, after the founding offer ends
- Everything in Founding member
- Higher monthly tailored-application allowance
- Deep-interview power features
- Priority support
Placement cells, career centres, and bootcamps get per-seat plans and a cohort dashboard. Email hello@meritcv.com with the subject “I run a programme” and we will talk.
Our promises, in writing
We sell strong applications. We don’t sell hope.
What we will never do
- Guarantee you an interview, an offer or a visa outcome
- Run “money back when you get hired” publicity stunts
- Submit applications for you without you reading them
- Invent experience, titles, dates or numbers you didn’t confirm
- Bury the price, the caps or the cancellation terms
What we stand behind
- A CV you could defend line by line in an interview
- Your evidence stays yours. Export it or delete it any time
- Honest pricing: no dark patterns, cancel in two clicks
- You keep final say over every word that leaves your account
- If a feature is early or missing, we label it instead of hiding it
Questions
The things people ask us first
Is this just another AI résumé writer?
No. A rewriter starts from a document you already wrote and makes it sound better. Merit starts from whatever you already have: an old resume, scattered notes, or both. It then interviews you to capture the work behind the bullet points, and keeps that evidence in a vault. The CV is a downstream output of a record about you, which is why you can defend it in an interview, and why the next CV takes minutes instead of hours.
Will it make things up about me?
It is built not to. Drafts are constrained to evidence you explicitly confirmed, and a rules layer checks the output for claims that aren’t backed. If a requirement on a job posting has no matching evidence, Merit tells you it’s a gap. It doesn’t paper over it with confident-sounding fiction.
Do you apply to jobs for me?
Never. Merit can prepare the CV, the answers and the form fields, and the browser concierge can type them into a careers page for you, but you review and you press submit. No auto-apply, no applications sent from an account you don’t control.
How is my career data protected?
Your vault is encrypted at rest and isolated to your account. You can export everything or delete your account and its vault outright. These are product features we will be precise about. We won’t claim “zero knowledge” if it isn’t literally true, because the tailoring step has to read your evidence to work.
What happens to my price after the founding offer?
Founding members keep $19.99/mo for as long as they remain subscribed. New members after the offer ends pay the standard $49/mo. We won’t quietly move existing members onto a higher plan. That promise is the whole point of a founding price.
What if it isn’t for me?
Start on the free tier: one conversation, one tailored CV, no card. Cancel a paid plan yourself in two clicks. We also apply a refund window while we have no long track record to point at, so you shouldn’t have to take our word for it.
Can I use Merit on my phone?
Yes. Merit is built as a phone-first web app. When the product is live, open it in the browser and, if you want an icon, use the browser’s Add to Home Screen / Install prompt. Native App Store and Play Store apps are being packaged from that same app. We will not put “Download on the App Store” or “Get it on Google Play” buttons here until those listings are real.
Do I need an invite to start?
No. Create an account, upload what you have or start from notes, and use the free conversation plus one tailored CV. No invite needed, and no access request.
I run a placement cell or bootcamp. Is there a plan for us?
Yes. Per-seat plans with a cohort view so you can see who has built their vault and who has gone quiet. Email hello@meritcv.com, tell us the cohort size, and we will talk. Institution pilots are being scoped now.
Get started
Start with what you already have
Upload a resume or paste the facts you have noted down. Merit analyzes that, asks the questions for what you forgot, and produces a CV you review before anyone else sees it.
No card. One conversation and one tailored CV on the free plan. Programmes and placement cells: email hello@meritcv.com.