Intelligence for people caught in the applicant tracking filter.
Every job you've ever had.Finally working for you. Honestly.
Built for the first interview, and the second.
What you've done is more than what's on your resume. Cipher closes that gap.
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The gap no one names.
You've been applying. You've been qualified. And you're not hearing back.
The tools that promise to apply to 1,000 jobs for you are the reason your resume needs to be better than ever. Hiring managers are confident they can spot an AI-written resume, and they reject the ones they believe are. Whether they can actually tell is another question; the one blind test of that ability found most couldn't. The penalty falls on what they perceive as AI-written: generic prose, predictable structure, bullets that sound like everyone else's.
The problem isn't your experience. It's that your experience isn't on your resume yet.
Other tools start with the job description and work backward. Cipher starts with you.
The antidote to the volume war.
Cipher uses AI to keep resumes more human.
More than you knew to say. Nothing invented.
Cipher builds three things: a Career Record that surfaces everything you've actually done, a master resume that captures it all, and tailored resumes that make the strongest honest case for each role you apply to. No over-optimization. No inflation. Just the version of you that's been there all along, finally on the page.
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The Career Record
A private interview that draws out what you actually did, not what you remembered to put on your resume. Your scope and scale. The problems you fixed quietly. The results you undersold. Employment gaps are noted, not penalized. If something happened during that time, Cipher asks about it. If nothing did, it stays a gap. No inflation either way. Everything Cipher surfaces comes from what you said and confirmed. Nothing is invented.
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The Master Resume
Every bullet in your master resume traces back to a specific moment in your Career Record: something you lived, something you can speak to in an interview. Confirmed by you. Not borrowed from a template. Not generated from a job description.
Your master resume holds everything. Nothing is dropped from it for want of a decision. Anything Cipher drafts, or pulls from a resume you upload, waits for your confirmation before it can reach a tailored resume.
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Tailored resumes, built with you
Most tools take your resume and adjust it for a job description.
Cipher reads the job description and breaks it into what the role actually asks for. For each of those needs, it surfaces the evidence in your record that could answer it, and you choose what goes in. Cipher picks the certifications, awards, projects and publications that fit the role.
Then Cipher assembles a real resume, formatted and ordered, at the length you asked for. If what you chose runs long, Cipher cuts to fit, never past three pages, and tells you exactly what it cut. Want it back? Restore everything in one step. Cipher never invents a claim to fill a gap.
The difference is not that a tool optimized what you gave it. It's that you decided what to put in, against what the role actually needs, with your whole record in front of you.
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Three fit scores
For each role you apply to, Cipher produces three honest scores.
Filter probability. Will your resume reach a human reviewer? Cipher accounts for parse integrity, hard knockout requirements, keyword coverage, and early-eye visibility. Based on documented applicant tracking system (ATS) vendor behavior, not mythology.
Shortlist strength. How strong a case does your resume make for this role? Writing quality, specificity of evidence, implied capabilities, and network proximity, all factored, all disclosed.
Career alignment. Should you even apply? This is the one no other tool asks. A strong resume doesn't matter if the role isn't actually one you'd want to be in eighteen months from now. A low score is information, not a failure. Cipher tells you why, so you decide whether to apply anyway or save the energy for a stronger fit.
Every factor in every score is disclosed. Open any score and you can see what drove it.
What Cipher is built to do.
Get through the filter honestly.
Your resume should reach a human. Cipher produces resumes that are ATS-readable, keyword-relevant, and grounded in real experience, not keyword-stuffed or over-engineered. The filter is a gate. Cipher helps you meet it honestly.
Intrigue the human on the other side.
A recruiter spends seconds on a resume. Cipher produces tailored resumes where the most relevant, specific, and verifiable work rises to the top: not boilerplate, not borrowed language, not a resume that sounds like every other candidate who used the same tool.
Set yourself up for a successful interview.
Every bullet in a Cipher resume is something you can speak to fluently, because you lived it. The Career Record interview is the preparation. The resume is the result. Cipher limits AI polish to two passes per bullet. After that, the work is yours, and you can speak to every word of it. We built the ceiling on purpose.
The thing you forgot to put in your cover letter.
MembershipCipher does not write your cover letter. That's a deliberate choice.
For every role you score, Cipher surfaces the specific Career Record passages and anecdotes most relevant to what that job description is actually asking for, with a note on why each one belongs in your letter. The project you led under constraint. The problem you solved twice at different companies. The thing you mentioned in passing in the Career Record that is exactly what this hiring manager is looking for.
You write the letter. Cipher makes sure you don't forget the part that would have made it memorable.
An example, not your record
This is what the advisor produces. Every passage below comes from a sample record we wrote for this page. None of it is yours.
The role
Operations Manager, regional distribution company. The posting asks for someone who can "improve throughput without adding headcount" and "work across warehouse, transport and customer service."
What the advisor surfaced, 1 of 2
From the sample record, on a prior role: "We were two people short for most of a year and never backfilled. I ended up re-sequencing the pick route so the short shift wasn't the bottleneck. Throughput came back to where it was before we lost them."
Why this belongs in your letter
The posting asks for throughput without headcount and this is that, exactly, without claiming it. A resume bullet would compress it to a number. A letter can say you did it because you had no other option, which is the part a hiring manager remembers.
What the advisor surfaced, 2 of 2
From the sample record, on a different employer: "Warehouse and customer service were blaming each other for late orders. I sat in on both morning huddles for a month until I understood what each side was actually seeing."
Why this belongs in your letter
The posting asks for someone who works across three functions. This is evidence of it rather than a claim about it, and it comes from a different employer than the first passage. That is what shows the pattern is yours and not the job's.
Cipher does not write the letter. It finds the two things you'd have forgotten.
The cover letter advisor is included with Membership.
We publish our work.
Most tools tell you their AI is good. Cipher shows you what it's built on.
Cipher's three fit scores aren't black boxes. Every factor in every score is documented, labeled by evidence type, and published. Peer-reviewed research. Sources named. Caveats disclosed.
Labor economics
Field experiments on how referrals change hiring odds, and whether better resume writing causally increases hiring. It does: in a study of nearly half a million job seekers, treated jobseekers were 8 percent more likely to be hired in their first month. The methodology names the study, its size and what it could not establish.
Organizational psychology
Fifty years of person-job fit research, meta-analyzed, establishing that the roles people fit predict the roles they stay in and succeed at.
Hiring science
Research on how screeners actually evaluate resumes, including where that evaluation goes wrong. Cipher's methodology names what the research found and what it could not establish.
If you've tried everything else.
"I already use ChatGPT for my resume"
So does everyone. That's the problem. Hiring managers are confident they can spot AI-written resumes, and they penalize the ones they believe are, even though the one blind test of that ability found most couldn't actually tell. The penalty isn't using AI. It's producing a resume that reads like everyone else who used AI. Cipher uses AI differently: starting from your Career Record, not a job description, which produces specificity, texture, and traceable claims that generic AI output can't replicate.
"I already have a resume"
You have a resume. Cipher asks: does it have everything you've actually done? The Career Record interview surfaces work you minimized, results you didn't know how to quantify, and accomplishments you forgot to claim. You uncover what you've overlooked.
"$55 is too much"
Career coaches charge $150 an hour. Resume writers charge $300 a document. Cipher Membership is $55 a month, or $270 for six months billed once, $60 less than month to month. And when you land the job, you can end your membership whenever you like. Your Career Record stays, and it's here when you need it again.
Start free. Stay as long as it's working.
No card required to start. No annual lock-in. No pressure to upgrade.
See pricingYou uncover what's been missing. Then you decide what goes on the page.
Cipher asks you about your work. Not a form, not a checklist. A conversation. What a normal Tuesday looked like in that job. How you ran the meeting nobody wanted to be in. The project that went sideways and what you did about it. It keeps asking until the thing you actually did is on the record, in your words.
That record is yours. Not an employer's, not a matching engine's. Every resume Cipher builds is drawn from it, and nothing reaches the page that you haven't confirmed, so you will recognize yourself on it. The accomplishments will be ones you remember, described the way you'd describe them, and you'll be able to speak to every line because you're the one who said it.
Cipher does not apply for you, does not write to recruiters, and does not decide which jobs you want. It makes the document true and hands it back. Then it helps you choose: fewer applications, each one to a job that fits what you can actually do and what you want next.
Cipher uses AI to keep resumes more human.