Did the AI make things up on your resume?
Paste what you actually wrote and what the AI wrote for you. Every claim in the AI’s version that your own words don’t support is highlighted: invented numbers, tools, responsibilities and results.
Example result
An AI rewrite of a data analyst’s resume
The analyst gave an AI their real resume and asked for a summary paragraph. Some of what came back never happened. This is what the tool returned for it, unedited. Press Try an example above to load it into the tool. The people and companies are made up.
What was pasted in
Data Analyst, Tui Payments (2021–present) - Built the weekly revenue dashboard used by 40 managers. - Rewrote the reconciliation batch job, cutting the daily run from six hours to twenty minutes. - Produced month-end reports for the finance team. Skills: SQL, Python, Tableau, Excel
As a Data Analyst at Tui Payments, I built the weekly revenue dashboard used by 40 managers and rewrote the reconciliation batch job, cutting the daily run from six hours to twenty minutes. I managed a team of twelve analysts and presented results to the executive board every quarter. I also led the company's migration to Snowflake, saving $200,000 a year.
4 claims aren’t in what you wrote
Remove these, or replace them with what really happened. Recruiters check, and interviewers ask about them.
As a Data Analyst at Tui Payments, I built the weekly revenue dashboard used by 40 managers and rewrote the reconciliation batch job, cutting the daily run from six hours to twenty minutes. I managed a team of twelve analysts and presented results to the executive board every quarter. I also led the company's migration to Snowflake, saving $200,000 a year.
- “I managed a team of twelve analysts”Not in what you actually wrote.
- “presented results to the executive board every quarter”Not in what you actually wrote.
- “I also led the company's migration to Snowflake”Not in what you actually wrote.
- “saving $200,000 a year”Not in what you actually wrote.
AI checks can miss things. It’s your name on the application; read it through.
How it works
What this tool looks for
Why AI adds things
Chatbots are trained to sound convincing, so they fill gaps with plausible details: a team you didn’t lead, a tool you didn’t use, a percentage nobody measured. It reads well, and it’s the first thing an interviewer asks about.
What counts as a made-up claim
Anything about you or your work that your own material doesn’t say.
- Numbers: team sizes, budgets, percentages, savings
- Tools, methods and responsibilities you didn’t mention
- Scale, frequency and results that weren’t there
Rewording is fine
Summarising, combining or reordering what you wrote isn’t flagged, and neither is plain framing like “I’d welcome the chance to discuss”. Only claims without a source are.
Questions
About this tool
Is it wrong to use ChatGPT for my resume?
No. Using AI to word things well is fine; the problem is when it adds things you didn’t do. Everything on your resume should be something you can talk about for two minutes in an interview.
Does it work for cover letters?
Yes, for any text an AI wrote about you: resumes, cover letters, LinkedIn summaries, interview answers.
Does it catch everything?
It catches most invented claims, but AI checks can miss things or flag something you’d consider fine. Read the text yourself before you send it.
Is what I paste stored?
No. What you paste is sent to the AI to produce your result and isn’t saved. We keep a record that the tool ran (not what you pasted) and a scrambled form of your IP address for up to two days, to limit each tool to 3 checks a day.