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 something useful.
- 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 better application pack. 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, export remains useful, and planned monetisation flows explain what credits are being used for.
The best version of the tool should feel like a precise workbench, not a generic AI dashboard with a document preview attached.