Introducing CV Studio.

The old CV tailoring flow was a single button and a quiet prayer. You clicked Tailor CV, the AI did its thing, and a PDF appeared. If the AI made one section a little too keen on a buzzword, or buried the experience you actually wanted highlighted, the only repair was to ask it to try again from scratch. You lost everything you liked along with the bit you wanted fixed.

CV Studio replaces that with a workspace. A full-screen editor on the left, a small panel of controls on the right, five PDF templates to choose from at the top, and the AI sitting behind a text box waiting for instructions. Edit anything by hand. Ask the AI to refine a section. Switch templates without losing your work. Hit download when you are happy.

The friction it removes

A tailored CV is a small editing job. Move that bullet to the top. Tighten the summary. Swap in the keyword the job ad clearly wants. None of these are tasks you want to delegate end-to-end; they are tasks you want to do, just faster, with a competent first draft to start from.

The one-shot approach made the AI carry every decision. Either you accepted the output as-is, or you regenerated and rolled the dice. CV Studio inverts that. The AI gives you a draft. You drive from there.

The interesting part of a tailored CV is the last 20% — the bits a human notices. The first 80% should already be done by the time you open the document.

What it does, exactly

Six pieces, each kept narrow on purpose.

1. An AI-drafted starting point

When you open CV Studio on a job for the first time, the AI reads the job description and your profile (your CV, your LinkedIn import, your memory and preferences) and produces a tailored draft. It is not a generic rewrite. The summary references the role. The skills section is ordered with the role's keywords first. Experience bullets are picked and re-emphasised for relevance. The draft lands directly in the editor, ready to read and refine.

If you have already opened the studio for this job before, it loads your last saved version instead of regenerating. Your edits are not lost between sessions.

2. A real WYSIWYG editor

The editor is built on Tiptap and supports the things you actually need in a CV: three heading levels, paragraph, bold, italic, underline, bullet and numbered lists, links, undo and redo. The toolbar is sticky at the top of the editor while you scroll. Clicking anywhere in the document lets you type — there is no "raw markdown" mode lurking underneath.

You can rearrange sections, delete bullets, add new ones, fix the spelling of the company you worked at in 2019. Everything that the templates render in the final PDF is editable in place.

3. Five PDF templates, switchable in one click

Different recruiters, different industries, different aesthetics. CV Studio ships with five distinct templates. Switching templates does not regenerate the content — your CV stays the same, only the layout and typography change.

4. Pixel-perfect editor-to-PDF parity

Most editors show you a generic rich-text canvas and hope the rendered PDF lines up. CV Studio takes the actual CSS the PDF renderer uses and injects it directly into the editor. The page frame in the editor is the same width as a US Letter page, the margins are the template's real margins, the section headings use the template's real fonts and weights.

What you see is what you download. Switching templates updates the editor's appearance instantly — the same way it will appear in the PDF.

5. Refine with AI

Below the download button is a text box labelled Refine with AI. Type a single instruction — "make the summary more punchy and emphasise Python", "tighten the bullets under the 2022 role", "add a sentence about scaling teams", "rewrite the skills section as a single paragraph instead of a list" — and the AI rewrites the CV while preserving everything you have not asked it to touch. It is not a full regeneration. It is a targeted edit on top of your current version.

Refinements are iterative. Apply one, read the result, apply another. You can stack a dozen small adjustments without ever losing the version before.

6. Regenerate from scratch (only when you want to)

Sometimes you have edited yourself into a corner and want a fresh start. The Regenerate button discards everything and asks the AI for a brand-new tailored draft. It is a deliberate destructive action — there is a confirm step in red, because once you regenerate, your edits are gone.

The small touches

A few things that are not features as such, but are the difference between a workspace that feels right and one that does not.

• Auto-save, debounced. Every edit you make is saved 700ms after you stop typing. The footer of the editor shows Saving… while it is in flight and Saved · 4s ago once it lands. You never have to think about it.
• Save-on-flush before risky actions. Before downloading the PDF, before applying an AI refinement, before closing the studio — any pending save is flushed first. You will not download yesterday's version because the auto-save timer had not fired.
• Sanitised HTML. Every save and render passes through a strict allow-list. Only the tags a CV actually needs survive — headings, paragraphs, lists, links, basic emphasis. Nothing you paste from a chaotic source document can leak unwanted styling or markup into the PDF.
• Sensible cover-letter pipeline, too. The same HTML-to-PDF route handles cover letters now. The old path occasionally let raw markdown link syntax — [text](url) — leak into the rendered PDF. That is gone.

How a typical session looks

1. You save a job to your board (one click via the Chrome extension or from a search result).
2. You open the job and click Tailor CV. CV Studio opens full-screen. The AI generates a tailored draft from your profile against the job description. About fifteen seconds.
3. You read the draft. The summary is fine but a bit dry — you click into the first paragraph and tighten it by hand. You move one bullet up under your most recent role.
4. You decide the skills section reads better as a single line. You type "merge skills into one paragraph" into the Refine box and click Apply. The skills list collapses into a clean sentence.
5. You change the template from Classic to Compact in the dropdown at the top. The editor reflows instantly into the denser layout. It looks tighter, fits better.
6. You click Download PDF. A WeasyPrint-rendered file lands in your downloads folder, named with the company and role. It is exactly what you were looking at on screen a second ago.

The whole sequence is two or three minutes for a CV that is genuinely tailored to the role, in a template you chose, edited by you where it matters.

What CV Studio is not

A short list, deliberately:

• Not a design tool. You cannot move blocks around with the mouse, change colours, or add columns. The templates are fixed. If you want full design control, export the HTML and open it in something else.
• Not a CV from nothing. CV Studio works against your profile. If your profile is empty, the AI has nothing to tailor. Upload your CV or import your LinkedIn profile first.
• Not version history (yet). There is one current draft per job. Regenerating overwrites it. We are aware this is the obvious next thing — proper revision history is on the list.

What's next

A few obvious follow-ups already in the queue. Per-section regenerate, so you can refresh only the summary without touching the rest. Side-by-side compare with your master CV. A keyboard shortcut for download. And, yes, revision history — the ability to step back through previous versions of a single job's tailored CV.

If you give CV Studio a spin and something feels off, please tell us. The studio is the third or fourth iteration of the tailoring flow internally, and the input from real users always shapes what comes next. Write to support@job-copilot.ai.