An AI resume tailored to every job application, without lying
Many job seekers send the same resume to every posting. Reach, by Vine AI, writes a new resume and cover letter for each application, builds them only from the history you actually have, and checks every claim in them against that history before anything is sent. This guide explains how that works, what it costs, how to run several career tracks with a different resume for each, and where the approach has limits. It is written by the Reach team; Reach was founded in 2026 by Bryan Vine, has a small user base and no independent review record yet, so everything below is stated as a plain description you can test on the free tier.
Why one resume for every posting underperforms
A single resume is written for an imagined average job. Real postings are specific: one asks for the reporting work you did two roles ago, another cares about the team you led, a third wants the certification buried at the bottom of page two. A generic document leaves the reader to find the match on their own, and most readers will not look for long. Sending that same document hundreds of times through an automated tool multiplies the problem: more applications, all of them equally vague.
The fix is not to invent a better candidate. It is to choose, order and phrase your real experience so the parts that matter for this posting are the parts a reader sees first. That is the job Reach's document writer does.
How Reach writes a resume for each application
A new package per application. Every application Reach prepares gets its own resume and cover letter, written for that posting. They are generated from the resume you uploaded and the details you have given Reach about your history.
Your uploaded resume is never rewritten. The source document stays exactly as you provided it. Reach only generates new documents from it, so your original is always there as the reference point.
A grounding check against your history. After a resume and cover letter are written, a grounding check compares every claim in them against your source history. Claims that do not trace back to something you actually did are flagged as invented. This is the part that answers the question most people ask first: an AI job application that does not lie on your resume needs something that checks the writing against the facts, not just a promise in a prompt.
A plain-language pass. Generated text is passed through a cleanup step that removes filler and the dash-heavy phrasing that makes a document read as machine written. The goal is a resume that sounds like a competent person wrote it about their own work.
You can edit before it ships. Review mode is the default, so every application is held for your approval. You can read and edit the resume and the cover letter; your edits re-render the PDF, and the edited version is what goes out.
A frozen record after it ships. Once an application is sent, its stored package is frozen. It becomes the record of exactly what the employer received, so when a recruiter calls about a role you applied to weeks ago, you can open the documents they are holding.
Questions people ask about tailored resumes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Does it rewrite my uploaded resume? | No. The source is never changed; Reach only generates new documents from it. |
| Does it make a new resume for every job? | Yes. Each application gets its own resume and cover letter written for that posting. |
| Can it invent experience I do not have? | A grounding check compares every claim against your source history and flags invented ones, and you can read and edit both documents before they are sent. |
| Can I edit the documents? | Yes, before the application is sent. Edits re-render the PDF. |
| Can I change them after sending? | No. The sent package is frozen as the record of what the employer received. |
| What uses a credit? | The first package for a job. Regenerating or editing documents for that same job is free. |
| What happens when I run out of credits? | Applications keep going out with your base resume. Nothing stalls. |
| Can I keep different resumes for different careers? | Yes. Each persona (up to eight) has its own resume, criteria and scoring. |
| Do I need a resume to start? | No. Resume Studio, included in Pro, can build one from a short typed or spoken interview. |
Credits: what a tailored package costs
One credit is the first resume and cover letter package for a job. If you regenerate that package or edit it, there is no further charge for the same job, so iterating until it reads right is free. If you run out of credits, Reach does not hold your applications hostage: they keep going out with your base resume, and nothing stalls.
| Plan | Tailored packages | Auto-applies |
|---|---|---|
| Free, $0 forever, no card | 5 a month | 3 a day, unlimited matches |
| Basic, $7.50 a month (25 percent off the $10 list) | 60 a month | 10 a day |
| Pro, $15 a month (25 percent off the $20 list) | Unlimited, plus Resume Studio | Unlimited, priority queue on new postings |
| Until You Land, $40 once (20 percent off the $50 list) | Up to 6 months of Pro | Automatic refund if you get zero apply-ready matches in the first 14 days |
Apple Pay and Google Pay are accepted. Referrals pay in plan time: a friend who joins gets two free weeks of Basic, and you get a free week.
Multiple resumes for multiple career tracks
Plenty of people are searching in more than one direction at once: a data analyst also open to operations roles, a nurse looking at both clinical and education jobs, an engineer weighing management. A single search profile forces one resume to stretch across all of them.
Reach handles this with personas. You can run up to eight career tracks, and each one has its own resume, its own criteria (location, salary floor, seniority, work type and the rest) and its own scoring. A posting is scored separately for each persona, and the tailored documents start from that persona's resume. A job is never applied to twice under different personas, so two tracks that overlap will not send the same employer two applications for one posting.
Resume Studio and the resume interview
No resume yet. Resume Studio can build one from a short interview that you type or speak. It asks about your work and turns the answers into a resume you can then use as a persona's source.
Variants. Studio also generates resume variants, which is useful when you want to see your history framed for a different kind of role before you set up a persona for it. Resume Studio is included in Pro.
The free resume checker
Every tailored resume starts from your base resume, so a weak base limits everything built on it. The free resume checker needs no account and is the quickest way to find what to fix before any tailoring happens.
What Reach gets wrong
Generation takes time. Writing and checking a package for each application is slower than attaching one file to everything. Tailored applications do not go out instantly.
You should still read the documents. The grounding check flags invented claims; it does not replace your judgment about emphasis, tone or what you would rather leave out. Review mode exists so you can read before sending, and it is worth using, at least until you trust the output for a given persona.
Overreach is the real risk, which is why the check exists. Recruiters can tell when a resume claims more than the career behind it supports, and an interview exposes it quickly. Reach is built to present your real experience well, not to make you sound like someone else. If you want a tool that inflates a resume, this is the wrong one.
Other limits. Reach's job inventory is US-centric and thinner elsewhere. Auto-apply volume is capped on purpose. There is no native mobile app, only an installable web app. And the company is young, with no independent reviews yet.
Who this is for
- You are getting no callbacks and suspect your applications read as generic: per-application documents are the direct fix.
- You worry an AI will make things up on your behalf: the grounding check plus editing before send is designed for exactly that concern.
- You are pursuing two or more different kinds of role: personas give each track its own resume and criteria.
- You have no current resume: start with Resume Studio's interview.
- You want maximum volume with one fixed document: a volume tool will suit you better than Reach.
Start with the document everything else is built from: run your current resume through the free resume checker, then try tailored packages on the free tier.