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The first thing you see is the landing page. Big headline, an orange Make my resume button, four counter tiles, then three sections that scroll past as you read down: Why Dense, Real Redense Resumes, How It Works.

Make my resume sends you to the editor with a blank template. If you're not signed in, Google's sign-in screen comes up first.

The Real Redense Resumes section shows three example PDFs. Click any one to enlarge it; the modal has a Zoom button and a Download PDF link so you can pull the example to your computer for reference.

Click Sign in in the top-right, or any Make my resume button if you're not signed in yet. Google is the only sign-in option. One click and you're back on Redense.

We use Google so you don't have to manage another password. We only see your name, email, and profile picture — never your Google contacts, Drive, or anything else.

The first time you sign in, you land on Personal Information. This is a one-time page where you fill in the contact info that goes at the top of every resume you build — name, phone, email, LinkedIn, location.

Why fill this in once? Every new resume you start gets pre-filled with these defaults. You can still change any field on a specific resume without touching what's saved here.

When you click Save and continue, you get sent to the home page. Returning users with personal info already saved skip this step entirely.

Two columns. The left is the editor: a stack of cards, one per resume section (Contact, Personal Statement, Education, Skills, Experience, Projects, Awards, Leadership, plus any custom sections you add). The right is the live PDF preview and the sidebar controls.

Every field auto-saves to your browser as you type. The preview re-compiles each time you click Generate PDF at the top-right.

If you're editing a resume you previously saved, you'll see an orange EDITING · <file name> pill at the top of the editor so you know which file you're working on.

The right column has these controls, top to bottom:

• Fits on 1 physical page badge — green when your content fits one page, red when it overflows. The editor scrolls a Cut hint into view when a specific entry pushed the page over.
• Compile status — "Compiling…" while the PDF is being built, "Last compiled X ago" once it's ready.
• Download PDF — saves the current PDF to your Downloads folder.
• Auto-compile preview — when on, the PDF re-renders automatically as you edit. Off by default to save server time.
• Accent color — five swatches. Changes the section-title color and the rule below each section.
• Spread content out (last resort) — loosens the spacing if your page looks too empty. Most resumes look better without it.
• Section order — drag with the ↑ / ↓ arrows to set the order sections appear in the PDF. Editor cards stay in a fixed top-down order; only the PDF reflects this.
• Bullet writing quality — runs on every bullet you write. Flags weak openers ("Responsible for"), AI-tell verbs ("Leveraged"), missing metrics, and bullets that are too short or too long. Click Show findings to see which bullets failed.
• ATS readability — see its own section below.
• Save project and Save as new — see Save vs. Save as new.
• Share for feedback — generates a public link that lets a specific person view (not edit) your resume and leave comments. The link is theirs alone; you can revoke it any time.

Two buttons sit one above the other in the sidebar. Save writes your changes back to the file you're currently editing. If you've never saved this resume before, it opens a small modal asking what to name it.

Save as new always creates a brand-new copy, even when you're working on a file that's already saved. Use this when you want to fork a resume for a different job — keep the original, save the tweaked version under a new name.

Free accounts can keep up to 3 saved resumes. If you try to save a 4th, a modal asks which existing resume to overwrite.

The Section order card in the sidebar shows every section that's rendering in your PDF, in the order it appears. Each row has ↑ and ↓ arrows. Tap them to move that section up or down.

Empty sections still appear in the order but produce no output in the PDF — so a section with no entries can hold a slot for later without breaking your layout.

A score, 0 to 100, plus a letter grade. Runs the same 10 checks as the dedicated ATS Scan page: text-layer integrity, length, email / phone / LinkedIn detection, standard section headings, parseable dates, action-verb bullet openers, quantified bullets, and AI-text indicators.

Click Show findings to expand the report. The first thing you see is a one-paragraph plain-language summary of how an ATS would read your resume. Below that: a per-check list with what passed, what didn't, and a suggestion for each warning.

The right column shows your PDF as a live preview. The PDF reader has its own toolbar at the top — page count, zoom controls, rotate, an outline panel, and a download button. Anything you can do in a normal PDF reader works here.

Below the preview, the orange Download PDF button saves the file to your computer. The download uses the name you saved the resume under, or resume.pdf for an unsaved draft.

A standalone tool. Pick ATS Scan from the navbar. Drag a PDF or DOCX onto the dashed box (or click to pick one), then hit Run ATS scan.

Your file never leaves the browser. Text extraction and scoring both run on the page — no upload, no server, no account required.

The report has four parts:

• A score ring (0–100) and a one-paragraph summary of how an ATS reads you.
• Per-check findings — the 10 weighted checks listed in the editor's ATS Readability widget.
• Top 5 things to fix first — concrete rewrite suggestions. Each one quotes the specific phrase or bullet from your resume that triggered the issue and proposes a literal replacement.
• Match against a job description — see the next section.

After you scan a resume, a panel appears below the report with a textarea. Paste the full job posting and click Run match.

The match panel extracts every keyword the job description weights — tools, frameworks, skills, qualifications — and tells you which of those keywords your resume actually contains, word for word. Two columns:

• Already in your resume — green chips. These are earning you keyword-match points with the ATS.
• Not in your resume — red chips. Each one is a JD keyword that doesn't appear verbatim in your text.

Below the chips is a 3-bucket guide for what to do with the missing list. Read it carefully — "missing" usually means "I have this but called it something different," not "I don't have this."

A ★ next to a keyword means the job posting flagged it as a requirement (e.g. "experience with X"). Those have the biggest impact on how the ATS ranks you.

A reference library for writing bullets. The universal bullet formula, six action-verb categories (building, analysis, leadership, business impact, creative, service), a before/after rewrite gallery, and a list of anti-patterns to avoid.

Open it when a bullet feels weak and you want a verb to pull from, or before writing your first resume to set the shape of every bullet.

The Examples section sits on the home page between Why Dense and How It Works. Three thumbnails — Sarah (CS student), Marcus (mechanical engineering), Eleanor (English / journalism). Click any one to enlarge.

The zoom modal has a Zoom to 100% button if you want to see the resume at native size, and aDownload PDF link if you want the source file. Press ESC to close.

The five contact fields every resume needs at the top: name, phone, email, LinkedIn, location. Pre-fills every new resume you start.

Stored locally in your browser. Nothing is sent to our servers from this page.

Save and go home writes your defaults and sends you back to the landing page so you can start a new resume.

The list of every resume you've saved. Open the user menu in the top-right and pick My resumes. Each row shows the resume name, when it was created, when it was last edited, and a button to open it in the editor.

Free accounts cap at 3 saved resumes. If you've hit the cap and want to save a new one, the save flow asks which existing resume to overwrite.

Found a bug, hit a confusing screen, or want a feature? Pick Contact from the navbar. Fill in your email, pick a subject from the dropdown, write the message, hit send.

Replies usually go out within a day or two. The form sends to a real inbox, not an autoresponder.

PDF won't compile. Click Generate PDF again. The first compile after a quiet period can time out on the serverless function. Two retries usually clears it.

ATS Scan says "no readable text." Your file is probably a scanned image without a text layer. Re-export from Word or Google Docs as PDF and try again.

Section is missing from the PDF. Check the Section order card in the sidebar — the section is probably empty. Add at least one entry and it'll render.

Bullet shows a red dot in the editor. The bullet has a quality issue. Click the dot to see the specific problem (weak opener, no metric, too long, etc.).

Anything else: hit Contact and tell us what broke. Screenshots help a lot.