Frequently Asked Questions

Cursus Vitae is a free web app that turns a static CV into a living career graph — a connected map of your roles, skills, and achievements, with each skill linked to the role where you earned it. From that graph you build one complete CV, tailor it to specific jobs, export a clean ATS-friendly PDF, and track every application in one place. Your career data stays in the EU and is never sold or used to train AI models.

A living CV is a career record that grows and connects instead of sitting frozen in a document. Rather than a flat page you rewrite from scratch each time, your experience becomes a graph you can view, update, and reshape — then export as a normal CV whenever you need one. Cursus Vitae is a living CV: you keep one connected version of your whole career and project it into whatever a specific application needs.

CV 2.0 is the CV reimagined as a connected, explorable record of a career rather than a one- or two-page document. The traditional CV flattens everything you’ve done into a static list; CV 2.0 keeps the structure — which skills came from which roles, how your experience fits together — and treats the PDF as one export of that structure, not the thing itself. Cursus Vitae is built as the CV 2.0.

A career graph is a map of your professional life as connected pieces: your roles, the skills you used in each, your achievements, and how they relate. Instead of a flat list, every skill is linked to the role where you actually earned it. This is the core of Cursus Vitae — the graph is the source of truth, and every CV you export is a view of it. Open any skill and you can see where it came from.

A resume builder gives you a nicer-looking template to fill in — the output is still a flat, one-off document. Cursus Vitae builds a connected career graph underneath: it understands which skills came from which roles, keeps one complete version of your experience, and tailors each application from that same confirmed history. So it gets sharper the more you use it, rather than starting from a blank page every time. You still get the clean, ATS-friendly PDF at the end — it’s just an export, not the whole product.

Cursus Vitae is for anyone building, understanding, or actively using their CV — job seekers tailoring applications, career changers mapping how their skills transfer, and people who simply want one accurate, connected record of their career instead of a dozen scattered document versions. It’s built to work fully from a phone, so you can build and apply from anywhere. It’s a tool you use on your own side of the hiring process; it doesn’t act for employers or recruiters.

Bring in the CV you already have, or add your experience piece by piece. Either way, you end up with a connected view of your career — a real draft you can refine, tailor, and export whenever you like. There’s no credit card and no trial clock.

No. Most of your CV comes straight across from the one you already have, so you start with a real draft rather than a blank page. From there, Cursus Vitae helps you make it more complete and more accurate — connecting a skill to the role where you used it, filling gaps between jobs, and turning vague descriptions into specific ones.

Discover sessions are short, guided conversations that walk you through your own history and help you make your career graph more complete. They connect a skill to the role where you actually used it, merge duplicate entries, fill in periods between jobs, and turn vague lines into specific, evidence-backed ones. You answer; the app organizes. Nothing is added to your record without your confirmation.

You paste in a job’s requirements, and Cursus Vitae maps them against your career graph — showing you, requirement by requirement, what your experience already demonstrates and where the gaps are, with concrete suggestions on how to close them. Then you shape the CV for that role: switch roles, bullets, and skills on or off, and export it. This is requirements mapping, not scoring — it assesses how well a document fits a job; it never ranks or grades you as a person. The free tier includes tailoring for up to 5 applications.

Yes. Applicant tracking systems (ATS) are the software recruiters use to scan and filter CVs, and they struggle with unusual layouts. Cursus Vitae exports clean, single-column, ATS-friendly templates designed to parse reliably — so your tailored CV reads correctly to both the software and the person behind it. You pick a template, preview it, and export a polished PDF in one tap.

Yes. Choose a clean, ATS-friendly template, preview it, and export a polished PDF in one tap. The graph is the source of truth, but the standard PDF every recruiter and ATS still expects is a first-class export — you’re always compatible with today’s hiring, never locked into a format only we can read.

Yes. Every role you go for — the company, the link, the status, and the exact CV you sent — is tracked right inside the app, next to the CV it came from. No separate spreadsheet, no lost threads.

No — and that’s the point. Cursus Vitae asks about your work, listens to how you describe it, and helps you see skills and achievements you might not think to include. It suggests professional phrasing and skills to add, but nothing changes until you review and confirm it, and it will never add an achievement you didn’t earn or a number you can’t defend in an interview. It helps you articulate your experience — it doesn’t fabricate it. You stay the author at every step.

Cursus Vitae is mobile-first. You can build, edit, tailor, and export your CV entirely from your phone — build on your commute, review at lunch, apply from anywhere. No app download needed; it runs in your browser.

Cursus Vitae works best in English and Spanish, and can understand and respond in many languages. English currently produces the most polished CV output. Whatever language you work in, the aim is the same: your CV reads professionally while your own words and story stay intact.

It means you own everything you enter or create in Cursus Vitae — your career history, skills, CVs, and documents — and you decide what happens to it. We store and process it only to run the features you use, never sell it, and never share it with recruiters or advertisers. You can export it or delete it at any time, and when you delete your account it goes with it. Full detail is in our Privacy Policy.

Your account and career data are stored in the EU (Supabase, AWS Ireland) and protected under GDPR. AI-assisted features are powered by Anthropic’s Claude: when you use one, only the career data needed for that request is sent to Anthropic’s API to produce a suggestion you review. Under Anthropic’s commercial API terms that data is retained for up to 30 days and is not used to train their models, and we never use your career data to train any AI model of our own.

Any time. You can export all of your data whenever you like, or delete your account from Settings — and everything goes with it, apart from the few records we’re legally required to keep. No retention beyond the life of your account.

A shareable career view is a private link you generate yourself to show a selection of your career to someone — typically a recruiter. You choose what it includes and how long it stays active (for example 30, 60, 90 days, or a year), and you can disable or delete it at any time. We host the page the link points to but never send it on your behalf; you decide who receives it.

Cursus Vitae is free. The free tier is the whole product — your living CV and career graph, Discover sessions, ATS-friendly templates, PDF export, mobile editing, application tracking, and tailoring for up to 5 applications. There’s no paid tier or billing active today. A paid tier with additional AI capabilities is planned but not yet available, and you’d never be charged without your express agreement.

It’s really free, and there’s no catch. The free tier isn’t a trial that expires — it’s a permanent, complete product, with no credit card required and caps measured in features (like 5 tailored applications), not days. It’s free because your career shouldn’t cost money to articulate.