Your resume is getting rejected before a human ever reads it. Prentice fixes that.
Prentice is an AI job application platform that tailors your resume and cover letter to each role, scores your fit before you apply, and tells you when a job posting is not worth your time.

Senior PM
Stripe
Strong fitGrowth Lead · Ramp
Score 38 · Skip today
- 3%
- Only 3 in 100 applications lead to an interview today. A decade ago it was 15 in 100. (Source: JobCannon, 2026)
- 98%
- of Fortune 500 companies screen resumes with ATS software before a human reads them. (Source: CoverSentry)
- 75%
- of applicants never hear back at all. Not even a rejection. (Source: JobCannon, 2026)
- 3x
- more likely to get an interview when your resume is tailored to the specific job posting. (Source: Jobscan)
The Applicant Tracking System (ATS) Problem
Why your resume disappears before a human sees it.
You spend two hours tailoring your resume for a role. You submit. Nothing. No rejection. No reply. Just silence. You are not alone: 75% of applicants never hear back at all.
Here is what happened: the company's applicant tracking software scanned your resume before a human ever saw it. It matched keywords and formatting, nothing else. If you did not match, qualified or not, you were filtered out before any human saw your name.
Prentice writes every resume in the format ATS software is built to read, so the filter stops working against you.
Every resume Prentice generates is single column, standard fonts, plain formatting. Not because it looks conservative. Because that is what gets read.
The fit problem
You never knew if you were even the right fit for the job.
Prentice scores your role fit before you apply. Green means go, yellow means there are gaps, red means skip it today, here is exactly why.
Most job seekers spend 2 to 3 hours tailoring one application. Prentice tells you in under a minute if the role is worth it, then builds you a tailored resume and cover letter from your real experience. No invented metrics. No AI speak. No filler.
Senior PM · Stripe
Strong fitWorth your time. Proceed.
How it works
Seven steps. One application. Zero guesswork.
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Step 1: Upload your resume
Prentice builds a complete picture of your career, once. Every application after this draws from it.
master_resume.pdfJAJordan Avery
Senior Product Manager · 9 years
Career profile built, reused for every application
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Step 2: Paste the job URL or description
Prentice extracts the keywords and qualifications the ATS is scanning for.
job_description.parsestripe.com/jobs/senior-product-managerATS priority terms
PaymentsRoadmappingSQLA/B testingFintechComplianceKafka14 hard keywords · 6 soft signals · 4 required qualifications extracted
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Step 3: Get your fit score
A score from 1 to 100, plus the gaps. Know if it is worth your time in under a minute.
fit_score.reportSenior PM · Stripe
Strong fit0Hard skills91Seniority88Keywords76Industry62 - 4
Step 4: Company intelligence brief
Learn about the company you're applying to. Business model, competitors, recent news, and the culture signals hidden in the job posting.
company_intel.briefStripe
Business model
Payments infrastructure; revenue from transaction fees and platform products
Top competitors
Adyen, Square, PayPal (Braintree)
Recent news
Expanded its issuing product to 12 new markets this quarter
Culture signals
Writing-heavy culture; "rigorous thinking" appears twice in the posting
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Step 5: Resume recommendations
Recommended changes, ranked by impact, already written for you. All you need to do is review the before and after, approve, and Prentice applies them.
recommendations.101High impactResponsible for product roadmap
Owned the payments roadmap across 4 teams, shipping 12 releases that lifted activation 18% in two quarters.
2High impactWorked closely with stakeholders
Aligned engineering, design, and sales on one quarterly plan, cutting scope churn 40%.
3Medium impactImproved the onboarding flow
Rebuilt onboarding around usage data, raising day-7 retention from 22% to 31%.
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Step 6: Tailored resume
ATS-formatted, rewritten in the job's own language, every change logged.
change_log.diffManaged a team working on growth
Led a 6-person growth pod that doubled qualified signups to 9,400 a month within a year.
Handled weekly reporting duties
Automated weekly revenue reporting in SQL, saving the team 10 hours every week.
Nothing invented. Everything verifiable.
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Step 7: Cover letter
Three opening lines built from your real experience. Pick one, Prentice writes the rest of the letter.
cover_letter.hooksYour posting asks for a PM who has scaled payments; I spent four years doing exactly that at a fintech processing 2 million transactions a day.
I raised day-7 retention from 22% to 31% by rebuilding onboarding around data; that is the discipline I would bring to Stripe.
✓ selected
Rigorous writing runs through your culture, and through my last three product specs, each approved without a single revision cycle.
Prentice writes the rest around your pick.
Why Prentice
Every other tool wants you to apply to more jobs. Prentice wants you to apply to the right ones.
The spray-and-pray approach, 50 applications and hope, is not a strategy. It is exhaustion.
Prentice is built on a different philosophy: apply to fewer roles, with better applications, and land more interviews. The fit scoring system exists specifically to protect your time and your confidence.
| Feature | Prentice | Most resume tools | ChatGPT alone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fit score before you apply | Yes | No | No |
| Tells you when NOT to apply | Yes | No | No |
| Company intelligence per application | Yes | No | Manual, every time |
| Resume rewritten in the company's own language | Yes | No | If you prompt it right, every time |
| No fabrication guarantee | Yes | No | No |
| ATS formatting enforced automatically | Yes | Rarely | No |
| Change log showing every edit and why | Yes | No | No |
Pricing
A resume writer charges $500 per session. Prentice starts at $9 a month.
Professional-grade output. Subscription-grade price.
Starter
$9/mo
3/month applications
- ✓Tailored resume
- ✓Cover letter
- ✓Fit scoring
- ✓Batch Score
- -LinkedIn optimization
- -Interview prep
Job Seeker
$19/mo
15/month applications
- ✓Tailored resume
- ✓Cover letter
- ✓Fit scoring
- ✓Batch Score
- -LinkedIn optimization
- -Interview prep
Accelerator
$39/mo
30/month applications
- ✓Tailored resume
- ✓Cover letter
- ✓Fit scoring
- ✓Batch Score
- ✓LinkedIn optimization
- ✓Interview prep
Need more applications mid-month? Top up anytime. Add 3 applications for $4 or 5 for $10. One-time, never recurring.
FAQ
Questions worth answering.
No. Every bullet point, metric, and claim in your Prentice-generated resume must come from your actual documents. If a bullet point is too thin to work with, Prentice asks you for more detail rather than inventing it. If it cannot verify something from your uploaded resume, it will not write it.
Always. Prentice never blocks you. It gives you an honest assessment and asks you to confirm. You may have context the AI does not: a referral, an internal contact, or a relationship that changes the picture. The decision is always yours.
ChatGPT has no structure, no fit scoring, no company intelligence, no ATS template, no no-fabrication standard, and no change log. You would need to build and manage all of that yourself, every time, for every application. Prentice is the complete workflow that replaces that.
Prentice starts at $9 a month for 3 tailored applications. The Job Seeker plan is $19 a month for 15 applications, and Accelerator is $39 a month for 30 applications plus LinkedIn optimization and interview prep. Need more mid-month? Add 3 applications for $4 or 5 for $10, one-time, never recurring.
Yes. The fit score weighs transferable skills heavily and actively looks for growth signals: promotions, expanding scope, and cross-functional moves. Prentice shows you honestly where the gaps are, which adjacent strengths compensate for them, and what would need to be true for the move to be viable.
Your resume and application data are stored encrypted. Prentice does not sell your data or use it to train AI models. You can request deletion at any time, fulfilled within 30 days.
You have 90 days of read-only access after cancellation to download everything you have built. After that, your data is permanently deleted.
Prentice is built for professional and executive-level job seekers across industries. It works best for roles where the job description has clear requirements and you have a meaningful work history to draw from.
Most job seekers spend 2 to 3 hours tailoring a single application from scratch. Prentice brings that down to under 15 minutes, including the resume rewrite, cover letter, and company research. The fit scoring step saves additional hours by telling you upfront which roles are not worth applying to.
Prentice scores your resume against the job description across seven factors: hard skill match, seniority alignment, keyword coverage, industry overlap, achievement profile, transferable skills, and geographic fit. Each factor is weighted by how heavily employers screen for it. You see a breakdown per factor, not just the total, so you know exactly where the gaps are.
Yes. Paste up to five job descriptions into Batch Score and Prentice scores your fit against all of them at once, then returns a ranked table with your score, the biggest gap, and a one-click button to start a full application on the ones worth pursuing. It never uses an application credit and no resume is generated, so you can triage a shortlist and put your energy where it will actually pay off.
98% of Fortune 500 companies use applicant tracking software (ATS) to filter resumes before a human reviews them. ATS systems scan for specific keywords, job titles, and formatting they can read. Columns, graphics, custom fonts, and designed layouts break that scanning, so a resume that looks polished in Word can arrive as scrambled text and never reach a recruiter, no matter how qualified you are. Every resume Prentice generates is single-column, Calibri font, plain formatting. Not because it looks conservative, but because that is what gets read. (Source: CoverSentry)
Fewer applications. More interviews.
Most job seekers apply to dozens of roles and hear back from a few. Prentice users apply to fewer roles, the ones they are actually competitive for, and get more from every application they send.
Then they cancel, because they got hired. That is the plan.
Upload your resume. Paste a job description. Know where you stand in under a minute.
From $9/month. Cancel or pause anytime.