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Resume Builder

One clean template that a screener can actually read, eleven typography controls that cannot break it, and a PDF and Word file at the end - free, both of them. Export it and run it through our own ATS parser before you send it anywhere.

  • Free forever
  • No credits to build or export
  • Saved until you delete it

At a glance

You give
Your history - typed, imported from your profile, or from a file
You get
A PDF and a Word file, plus a checklist of what to fix
Takes
About fifteen minutes from an empty document
Costs
Nothing to build or export. AI assists are optional, 1-3 credits
Free · PDF and Word

Build it here, and we will show you what a parser reads back

One clean template, eleven typography controls, and a checklist that tells you which line is doing the damage. Export a PDF and a Word file, both free, and run either through our own ATS parser before you send it.

Start buildingCheck a resume you already have

An account is required because your resume is saved to it - that is what lets you come back to it from another device, and what makes a resume worth building here rather than in a tab you will close. Nothing is charged to build, edit or export.

file formats, both free
2
typography controls
11
credits to build or export
0
parser checks on your file
10
What using it is like

Type on the left, watch the right

The page you are going to send is on screen the whole time. Add a line and it reflows immediately; the checklist recounts as you fix things, and the page meter tells you how close to the edge you are before you find out from a PDF.

  • Live preview

    The document redraws as you type, at the size it will print.

  • A checklist that counts down

    Findings resolve as you fix them, and each one names the line.

  • Page fit, before the PDF

    How full the page is, and which lever gets you back under.

  • Two files, one document

    PDF and Word from the same source, so they cannot disagree.

The part nobody else can do

We run your file through a real parser, not a preview

Most builders show you a picture of your resume and call it done. When you export here, the actual bytes go through the same parsing engine that powers our ATS checker - the one an employer’s screener behaves like - and you get the extracted text back, in reading order, with every check named.

What it checks

  • Single column
  • Text selectable
  • Standard headings
  • Contact parseable
  • Fonts embedded
  • Clean glyph map
  • No table layout
  • No form fields
  • Not encrypted
  • Reverse chronological

The engine skips checks it cannot answer for a given file, so a report says “9 of 11” rather than a fixed total - and a template change that broke parseability would fail our own test suite in the repository that owns the parser, before it could reach you.

What actually breaks a resume

Four rules, and the reason each one exists

These are not style preferences. Each one is a specific way a file stops being readable by the software that reads it first, and the template holds all four for you - there is no setting here that can break them.

  • One column, never two

    Everything runs top to bottom in a single flow, with no sidebar and no side-by-side blocks.

    A parser reads left to right across the whole page. Put a skills sidebar beside your experience and it interleaves them line by line - your job titles come out shuffled into your skill list, and no human ever sees the original.

  • Real text, not a picture of text

    Every character is selectable text with the font embedded in the file, so it can be extracted exactly.

    A resume exported as an image, or one using an icon font for its headings, extracts as nothing at all. The file opens perfectly for you and arrives empty at the other end - the single most complete failure available, and the hardest to notice.

  • Headings a machine recognises

    Experience, Education, Skills, Projects - the words a parser is actually looking for.

    Invented headings like “My Journey” or “What I Bring” are not matched to any field, so everything under them is filed nowhere. The roles are in the file and absent from the record the recruiter reads.

  • One unambiguous date format

    Month and year spelled the same way in every entry, in reverse-chronological order.

    “03/2021” is March to some parsers and unreadable to others, and a date it cannot resolve is a role it may drop or re-sort. Get this wrong and your most recent job can end up at the bottom.

The constraint is the product

One template, on purpose

Every other builder sells you a gallery. We made the choice once, in the direction that survives a screener - and gave you the part a parser cannot see.

There is no gallery, and that is the feature

Two columns, sidebars, icons, skill bars and photographs are the specific things that make a resume parse badly - every one of them is something our own checker grades as a risk. A template gallery sells you the choice and hands you the consequence. We made the choice once, in the direction that survives a screener.

What you can change is typography

Density, typeface, body size, line height, section spacing, margins, accent colour and heading style - eleven controls, and the panel says the quiet part itself: none of it changes how a parser reads your resume. That is precisely why it is safe to give you.

Two files, and which one to send

PDF and Word, both free

Most builders charge for the Word export or leave it out. Both come out of the same document here, so they can never disagree.

PDF

Almost always

Looks identical everywhere and cannot be reflowed by accident. Ours is single-column, text-selectable and has its fonts embedded, which is what makes a PDF safe rather than the format itself.

Word (.docx)

When the posting asks for it

Some older systems parse .docx more reliably than any PDF. Most builders charge for this export or omit it. It is free here, and it comes out of the same document, so the two files never disagree.

Plain text

For paste-in boxes

The web forms that ask you to paste your resume into a textarea. Copying out of a PDF puts line breaks in the wrong places; this is the same content already flattened.

No watermark, no export limit and no paid tier on the download. If a posting does not say which format it wants, send the PDF.

That is the whole product. Below is a finished resume built with it, page for page - or skip the tour and start on yours.

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Sample output · invented data

A finished resume, made with this template

Invented data throughout - no real person, no real employers. The structure, the dates and the figures come from our reference document, which is the same fixture our test suite runs through the real parser on every build, so everything this page claims about it is something CI already proves. Shown as 2 pages in the editor; below it reflows to your screen.

R***t

Java Full Stack Developer

[email protected] · Pune, India

linkedin.com/in/sample-profile · github.com/sample-profile

Summary

  • Java backend engineer with six years across payments and healthcare, running 28 microservices at 99.4% uptime.
  • Cut settlement reconciliation from four hours to twenty minutes, releasing ₹4.2 crore of working capital a month.
  • Full stack across Spring Boot, Postgres, React and TypeScript, shipping to 3 product teams.
  • Currently leading the job-execution platform, which handles 10,000 concurrent jobs a day.

Experience

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Sep 2024 – Present · Remote

    Northwind Logistics

    • Built the job-execution service on Spring Boot, taking it from a single scheduler to 10,000 concurrent jobs a day.
    • Moved batch processing onto Azure Service Bus, improving throughput 3.4x under peak load.
    • Cut average incident turnaround by 60% by adding structured logging and a Kibana runbook per failure class.
    • Reduced job failure rate from 4.1% to 0.6% by reworking retry and error handling around idempotency keys.
    • Introduced contract tests across 6 services, removing the 2-day integration freeze before every release.

  • Software Engineer

    Jul 2022 – Sep 2024 · Bengaluru, India

    Contoso Retail

    • Designed a CQRS and outbox architecture for a retail platform, raising backend throughput 40% and cutting p95 response time 30%.
    • Replaced REST calls between four services with gRPC, removing 25% of end-to-end latency.
    • Ran Elasticsearch for catalogue search across 1.2 million SKUs, holding query time under 120ms.
    • Interviewed 40 senior Java candidates and rewrote the take-home to something people finished in an hour.

  • Software Engineer

    Jun 2020 – Jun 2022 · Pune, India

    Fabrikam Payments

    • Owned the refund pipeline end to end, processing ₹18 crore a month with a 0.02% dispute rate.
    • Rebuilt the notification fan-out on Kafka, which now delivers 2.4 million events a day.
    • Indexed the ledger so chargeback investigations dropped from 3 days to 4 hours.

Technical Skills

  • Backend: Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, gRPC, Elasticsearch
  • Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript
  • Platform: Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, GitHub Actions, Prometheus

Projects

  • Quillstack

    Feb 2023 – Present

    Creator · github.com/sample-profile/quillstack

    • Open-source social platform with Q&A, blogging and real-time messaging, serving 2,000 monthly users.
    • Real-time notifications over WebSockets and Kafka, delivering within 200ms at the 99th percentile.
    • Deployed with Docker Compose across three servers at 99.8% measured uptime.

  • Ledgerly

    Aug 2021 – Mar 2022

    • Double-entry bookkeeping library for small Indian businesses, with GST-aware invoice splitting.

Education

  • Deccan Institute of Technology

    2016 – 2020 · Pune, India

    B.E., Computer Science and Engineering · 8.4 CGPA

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate – Amazon Web Services

    Apr 2023

Volunteer Experience

  • Teach weekend Python classes to 30 students at a government school in Bengaluru.
  • Maintain the attendance tooling now used by 2 other volunteer groups.

End of the sample report. Below the sample: what the AI will and will not do, and the questions people ask before they start.

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Optional, and bounded

The AI asks you for the number instead of inventing one

Four assists, each behind an explicit click, each priced before it runs. The one worth knowing about is the Impact Interview: it asks three to five questions about a single job, you answer in your own words, and it writes the bullets from your answers - so every figure in them is one you gave it.

It will not add a number you did not write

Where a line needs a figure your material does not contain, the rewrite inserts a marked placeholder and lists it separately rather than guessing. A fabricated metric you paste into a real resume is an interview you fail.

Nothing is sent unless you press a button

Building, editing and exporting never leave your browser. When you do run an assist, your name, email and phone number are replaced with tokens before anything reaches the model, and only the lines that assist is about are sent.

Start with your profile, or from nothing

Import your Revquix profile, an existing PDF or Word file, a LinkedIn export or a resume.json - or open an empty document and type. Everything is free, and the file is yours in two formats when you are done.

Open the builder

What happens to your data

Your resume is saved to your Revquix account so you can come back to it from any device - it is yours and it stays until you delete it. Building, editing and downloading all happen in your browser: no render and no download involves our servers, and you can check that in the network tab. Nothing is sent to an AI model unless you press one of the AI buttons, which say what they cost before they run.

Full detail in our privacy policy and AI policy.

How this works

About Resume Builder

What it checks, what it deliberately does not, and how to read the output.

What an ATS actually does to your resume

An applicant tracking system does not look at your resume. It runs a parser over the file, pulls out whatever text it can find, and hands a recruiter a structured record built from that text. Everything a human eventually sees is downstream of that extraction, which means a beautiful document that parses badly is worse than a plain one that parses cleanly.

The failures are boringly consistent. Two columns interleave into nonsense because the parser reads left to right across the page. Text baked into an image or an icon font extracts as nothing at all. Invented section headings like "My Journey" are not recognised as Experience, so the roles under them are filed nowhere. Dates written as 03/2021 are ambiguous, and a parser that guesses wrong puts your most recent job last.

What this builder does about it

One template, single column, with real headings and no tables, no text boxes, no images and no header or footer regions. Everything you can change is typography - density, typeface, body size, line height, section spacing, margins, accent colour and heading style - and none of it changes what a parser reads. That is exactly why it is safe to hand you.

As you type, a checklist runs against the document and names the specific line that needs work: a bullet that runs past the length a recruiter scans, a role with no measurable result in it, a date range that reads as a gap. It is not a score out of 100 and it never invents one.

  • Single column, always - the one structural choice that matters most
  • Standard section headings a parser recognises without guessing
  • Real selectable text with the fonts embedded, never an image of text
  • Dates in one unambiguous format across every entry

Two files, and the parse check

You get a PDF and a Word document from the same source, so the two can never disagree, and a plain text version for the forms that ask you to paste. Most builders charge for the Word export or leave it out; it is free here because some older systems still parse .docx more reliably than any PDF.

Then the part no other builder can offer: export the real file and run it through our own ATS checker, the same engine an employer's screener behaves like. You see the extracted text in reading order and every check named - single column, selectable text, standard headings, contact parseable, fonts embedded, chronology. Not a preview of your resume, but the thing a machine reads back from it.

What it will not do

It will not make your resume look unusual, because that is the trade the format demands. If you want a design portfolio piece, build it somewhere else and keep this version for the applications that go through a screener.

It will not write your resume for you. The optional AI rephrases lines you wrote and asks you for facts you have not written down yet; where a bullet needs a number your material does not contain, it marks a placeholder instead of inventing one. And it cannot tell you whether a specific company's system will like your file - no tool can, because those systems are configured privately. What it can tell you is what text comes back out of your file, which is the part that is knowable.

FAQ

Questions people actually ask

The ones that come up before somebody uploads anything.

Is the resume builder really free?

Building, editing, and exporting to PDF, Word or plain text cost nothing, with no watermark, no export limit and no card at signup. The four optional AI assists cost 1-3 credits each and always say what they cost before they run. A new account starts with 20 credits.

Why do I need an account for a free tool?

Because your resume is saved to it. The document lives on our servers so you can come back to it from another device, and it stays until you delete it - there is no timer. Without an account we would either lose your work when the tab closed or have to build a claim flow, and both are worse than one sign-in.

Why is there only one template?

Two columns, sidebars, icons, skill bars and photographs are the specific things that make a resume parse badly - every one of them is something our own ATS checker grades as a risk. A template gallery sells you that choice and hands you the consequence. We made the choice once, in the direction that survives a screener, and gave you typography instead.

Should I send the PDF or the Word file?

Send the PDF unless the posting asks for a .docx. Our PDF is single column, has selectable text and embeds its fonts, which is what makes a PDF safe rather than the format itself. Use the Word file when a form explicitly wants one, and the plain text version for boxes that ask you to paste your resume in.

Does the AI write my resume for me?

No, and it is built so it cannot. The assists rephrase lines you wrote and elicit facts you have not written down yet - the Impact Interview asks you three to five questions about one job and builds bullets from your answers. Where a line needs a figure your material does not contain, it inserts a marked placeholder rather than inventing a number.

Can I import a resume I already have?

Yes - a PDF or Word file, a LinkedIn data export, a resume.json, or your existing Revquix profile. Everything imported goes through a review step first where anything the parser was unsure about is flagged amber for you to confirm, so nothing lands in your document unchecked.

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