Every application, read and ranked against the job.
Paste the job description, drop in the CVs and cover letters, and get a ranked shortlist in minutes — with the evidence behind every score. Built for teams without an HR department.
10 documents free · no card needed · names hidden before scoring
From a pile of applications to a shortlist you can explain.
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Paste the job
Drop in the description as you'd post it and choose how strict to be. Some roles need every requirement; some reward potential.
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Add the applications
Upload CVs and cover letters as PDF or Word. Each letter is matched to its CV by email and name — never by upload order.
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Read the shortlist
Candidates ranked with a score, the must-haves they meet and miss, and quotes from their own documents. Export to Excel or CSV.
Whichever side of the application you're on.
Hiring for a small team
No recruiter, no applicant tracking system, fifty CVs and a day job.
- Screen a whole pile of applicants in one sitting.
- The same criteria for every candidate — not just whoever you read first.
- Know why someone ranked where they did before you call them.
- Share a spreadsheet with whoever's interviewing.
Applying for a job
See your application the way a screener will, before you hit send.
- Find the must-haves you haven't evidenced yet.
- Check one CV and cover letter against several jobs.
- Specific gaps to fix, quoted back from your own documents.
- Pay per check, not a monthly subscription.
Built to be fair — and to show its working.
AI screening earns trust by being explainable. Every decision CVAI makes can be checked.
Names hidden before scoring
Names, emails, phone numbers and addresses are removed from each document before the AI reads it, so they can't sway the score.
Evidence, not vibes
Every must-have is marked met, partly met or not met, with a quote from the applicant's own document to back it up.
You make the call
Scores rank applications; people make hiring decisions. Nobody is ever rejected automatically.
Pay for what you grade.
One credit grades one document — a CV or a cover letter. Credits never expire, and anything that fails to grade is free.
Free
Try it properly on a real role or application.
- 10 documents
- Every feature, no card needed
Starter
For a handful of roles, or checking your own applications.
- 100 documents
- Credits never expire
- Excel and CSV export
Hiring
For a busy hiring round across several roles.
- 500 documents
- Credits never expire
- Excel and CSV export
Good to know.
What counts as a credit?
Grading one document uses one credit, so a CV plus its cover letter is two. If a document fails to grade — an unreadable file, say — it's free.
Which files can I upload?
PDF, Word (.docx) and plain text, up to 25 MB per upload. Older Word files (.doc) need saving as .docx or PDF first.
How are cover letters matched to CVs?
By the email address in each document, then by the applicant's name, then by filename. Anything that can't be matched with confidence is graded on its own rather than paired with the wrong person.
What happens to the documents I upload?
They're stored on our servers and only used to grade applications in your workspace. Before any text goes to our AI provider (OpenAI) for scoring, names and contact details are removed. Documents sent through OpenAI's API aren't used to train their models.
Does it penalise AI-written cover letters?
No. A letter that reads as possibly AI-written is flagged so you can take a closer look, but it never changes the score — AI-text detectors are unreliable, particularly for people writing in a second language.
Can I use this to make hiring decisions?
Use it to decide who to look at first. CVAI ranks and explains; it never rejects anyone automatically, so a person always makes the decision. That matters: UK and EU data-protection law restricts decisions made solely by automated systems.