Questions, answered.

Save your CV once, then add a job specification. newstart.cv rewrites your summary, headline and achievements so the experience most relevant to that role comes first, and saves the result as a new tailored CV. Your original CV stays unchanged.

It is designed not to. Your identity, employment history, education, links, certifications and projects are protected during generation, skills must come from your saved CV, and job requirements never become facts about you. Rewritten wording can still be imperfect, so always review it before you apply.

Yes. Show Differences compares the tailored CV with your original, highlighting added and removed wording. Download all also includes a differences PDF alongside your CV and cover letter.

Yes. Switch any tailored CV or cover letter to Edit, change the wording, save, then download a PDF or copy the text. Editing and downloading are free.

ATS, Classic and Modern. ATS keeps a clean, single-column structure for applicant tracking systems, while Classic and Modern offer more traditional or contemporary styling. You can change the layout after generation at no extra cost.

An AI estimate of how well the evidence in your CV matches the job's stated requirements. It breaks down into required skills, relevant experience, education and certifications, role responsibilities and desirable skills, and shows the evidence behind every requirement as met, partial or not evidenced.

Required skills carry 50% of the base weight, experience 25%, education 10%, responsibilities 10% and desirable skills 5%. Required skills need explicit evidence; other criteria allow partial credit, and minimum years of experience are scored proportionally. Categories the job does not mention are left out and the remaining weights are rebalanced.

No. The score is a guide to documented fit, not a prediction of hiring success. Perfect matches are rare; use the gaps to decide what to highlight or what is worth adding to your CV, but only if it reflects your real experience.

A letter written for the same role and grounded in the same CV, generated alongside your tailored CV when selected. It is fully editable and downloads in the same layout as your CV.

PDF, Word (DOCX and DOC), plain text, pasted text and scanned images (PNG, JPEG, TIFF, WebP and BMP). Job specifications can also be imported from a public job link. Prefer to do it yourself? Enter your CV or job manually for free.

No. Your CV and job specifications are saved to your account, so you import your CV once and reuse it for every new role.

Original uploads are deleted once their contents have been extracted. Your saved CVs, job specifications and generated documents stay in your account until you delete them.

No. Packs are one-off purchases. There are no automatic charges. AI actions spend your account credits; manual editing and downloads do not.

Credits are reserved while work is in progress. Failed-task reservations are returned, so the reserved amount becomes available again.

No. Cover letters and match scores are optional add-ons to generation. You can turn either off, enter sources manually and reuse saved CVs and job specifications.