A CV tool can easily become everything except a CV tool.
It can become a dashboard, an AI prompt box, a job tracker, a billing surface, a template gallery, or a cloud sync product. Some of those things are useful. None of them should replace the document as the main object.
That is the design constraint behind Masterful CV. The core loop is deliberately plain:
- Import or edit the profile.
- Preview the CV as a real document.
- Tailor it against a job when that helps.
- Export the finished CV as a PDF.
- Track the application context without losing the source profile.
AI assistance is valuable when it shortens the distance between an existing CV, a job description, and a stronger tailored CV. It becomes a problem when it silently rewrites the source data or makes the user guess what credits were spent.
The product work is in keeping those boundaries honest: profile data is canonical, generated artifacts are inspectable, and export remains the clear endpoint of the workflow, while usage and billing flows explain what credits are being used for. It is the same review-first discipline I want from agent tooling in Consortio, pointed at a document instead of a repository.
Masterful CV is built to feel like a precise workbench, not a generic AI dashboard with a document preview attached.