Free ATS CV checker — score your CV against any job description
Paste a job description, upload your CV, and get an ATS score with the exact keywords, skills and formatting issues holding it back. Recruiters can also rank a whole applicant batch or match one candidate to every open role. UK-tuned, GDPR-safe, and files are deleted within 1 hour.
For recruiters and hiring managers
Most UK vacancies now attract hundreds of applications, a growing share of them AI-written and keyword-stuffed. CV Intel ranks the batch against the actual job spec, flags likely AI-generated CVs, and gives a written rationale for every position in the shortlist — so the decision is defensible if a candidate challenges it.
Because every ranking carries reasoning and the underlying evidence, you keep a record that shows the shortlist was based on role-relevant criteria rather than an opaque score.
For candidates
Paste a CV and the job advert to see a 0–100 fit score, an ATS readability grade and the exact keywords the screen is looking for but your CV never mentions. The optimiser then rewrites the CV to close those gaps while keeping your voice, rather than turning it into generic AI prose.
GDPR-safe by design
CVs are special-category-adjacent personal data and UK recruiters are accountable for how they are processed. CV Intel purges every uploaded CV within 60 minutes, never trains on candidate data, and logs automated-decision safeguards so you can evidence Article 22 compliance.
The four workflows
- Score — rate one CV against one job spec with a gap analysis
- Optimise — rewrite a CV to pass ATS screens for a named role
- Shortlist — rank 10 to 500 applicants with a rationale per candidate
- Match — score one candidate against a batch of open roles
Frequently asked questions
- Is CV Intel for recruiters or candidates?
- Both. Shortlist and Match are built for recruiters and hiring managers; Score and Optimise are used by candidates and career coaches. All four share the same scoring engine.
- Does it comply with UK GDPR for candidate data?
- CVs are purged within 60 minutes, never used for training, and automated-decision safeguards are logged so you can evidence a human decision step under Article 22.
- Can it detect AI-written CVs?
- Yes — shortlisting flags likely AI-generated applications, and the standalone AI content detector gives sentence-level highlighting when you want to look closer.
- What happens to the documents I upload?
- Every uploaded file is permanently deleted from DocumePro servers within 60 minutes under our Non-Persistence Guarantee. Nothing is retained for analytics, shared with third parties, or used to train AI models.
Score a CV · Optimise a CV · Shortlist applicants · Match a candidate to roles