Question 1

Will this make my resume sound AI-generated?

Accepted Answer

No. The goal is to make your evidence clearer and more recruiter-friendly, not to turn your resume into polished-but-generic AI copy. Good output should still sound like your experience, your scope, and your judgment, just stated with more precision.

Question 2

Do you invent metrics or achievements?

Accepted Answer

No. The product should never create numbers, revenue impact, headcount, or delivery claims that were not already true. If a bullet is weak because the evidence is thin, it should surface that weakness so you can decide what real proof belongs there.

Question 3

Can I optimize against a real job description?

Accepted Answer

Yes. You can paste a live job description and optimize your resume against that exact role instead of a generic template. That helps the suggestions prioritize the responsibilities, keywords, and business context the recruiter is actually screening for.

Question 4

What does the recruiter-read score measure?

Accepted Answer

The score is meant to reflect how quickly a recruiter can understand fit, impact, and role alignment from the page in front of them. It looks at clarity, evidence strength, specificity, and match to the target role rather than treating keyword stuffing as success.

Question 5

Can I target different roles with the same resume?

Accepted Answer

Yes, but you should expect different versions to win for different roles. The product can help you adapt one base resume toward separate tracks, such as platform engineering, product analytics, or program management, while keeping the underlying facts consistent.

Question 6

Do I keep control over the final wording?

Accepted Answer

Rewrites preserve your original scope, experience, and judgment. The optimizer adjusts precision and alignment — it does not replace your voice. Yes. The suggestions are there to accelerate your editing, not to replace your judgment. You decide what to keep, what to soften, and what to rewrite manually before anything gets sent to an employer.

Question 7

Why not just use ChatGPT?

Accepted Answer

FineInk uses multiple specialist models to analyze and cross-check your resume against one specific job description, with the evidence, keywords, and score movement visible for your review. Every model provider that processes your resume is covered by zero-data-retention terms, and your documents are not used to train AI models. Consumer chatbot conversations can be used for model improvement, depending on the product and settings.

Question 8

Is my resume data private?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Resume and job-description data are treated as private user inputs and protected with standard transport and storage safeguards. The product is built for real hiring materials, so privacy expectations are much higher than a casual chatbot session.

Question 9

Do you store my resume after I leave?

Accepted Answer

The product may retain optimization artifacts tied to your account so you can return to past work and keep the experience reliable. The privacy policy also says deletion requests can be handled through product controls as they become available, so retention should stay tied to product use rather than broad archival.

Question 10

Is my data used to train AI models?

Accepted Answer

No. FineInk does not use your personal documents to train AI models. Model providers that process your resume are covered by zero-data-retention terms and may process it only to produce the output you requested.

Question 11

When should I choose Free versus a paid plan?

Accepted Answer

Free is the right place to start if you want to inspect the score, see the quality of suggestions, and confirm the product fits your search. A paid plan makes sense once you are actively applying, tailoring for multiple openings, or running a focused sprint where repeated iterations save real time.

Question 12

Do paid passes auto-renew?

Accepted Answer

No. Search Pass and Search Pass Pro are one-time purchases with fixed access windows. They do not roll into a monthly subscription.

Question 13

What happens when my pass ends?

Accepted Answer

When the access window ends, new paid optimizations, exports, and premium features stop unless you buy another pass. Historical results should remain available as read-only account data where the product architecture supports it.

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