The cover letter generator
A letter from your resume for one posting - the three tones, the two lengths, why it leaves placeholders, and why it names a requirement you do not meet.
Give it your resume and one job description, and it writes a covering letter for that specific posting. 1 credit, and it runs at the cover letter generator.
It only knows two things#
There are exactly two sources of fact: your resume, for anything it says about you, and the job description you pasted, for anything it says about the company and the role. That is the whole input.
It has not read the company's website, its news or its funding history, and it does not have one.
Which is why you get placeholders#
When a letter needs a sentence neither document supports - almost always "why this company" - you get
a marked placeholder such as [WHY THIS COMPANY] rather than a paragraph of invented enthusiasm.
Tone#
Nothing is pre-selected. Three options, and they suit different applications:
| Tone | When to use it |
|---|---|
| Professional | Neutral and specific. The safe default for a large company or a formal process. |
| Warm | Human without being familiar. |
| Direct | The shortest path from your evidence to their requirement. Suits a startup, or an application where you already have a referral. |
Warm does not mean complimentary. A letter that opens by admiring the company's mission, its innovative culture or its impressive growth was written by something that had no information and needed a first paragraph - and the person reading it has seen several hundred of those. The warm tone is explicitly instructed not to do it.
Length#
Short targets about 180 words, which is roughly what a recruiter reads before deciding whether to open your resume. Standard targets about 300, and is worth using when the posting explicitly asks for a covering letter.
Short is the right default unless you are told otherwise. The report prints the real word count against your target, so you find out whether it landed before you paste it into an application.
It names the gap#
Where the posting asks for something your resume does not evidence, the letter says so plainly - in a sentence you can stand behind.
What it will not do#
- Research the company. See above.
- Make you a fit for a role you are not a fit for. It cannot manufacture experience, and one that tried would fall apart in the first conversation.
- Fix your resume. It works from the resume you have. If that document is the problem, start with the readiness report and writing good bullets.
Running it again#
The same resume and the same posting, at the same tone and length, is free - the stored letter comes back and nothing is charged.
Changing the tone or the length is a different question, so it is a fresh charged run. That is deliberate: comparing a warm letter against a direct one is a normal thing to want to do.
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