No magic, no black box. You teach it about you once, then it reshuffles the truth to fit each job. Here is the whole thing, start to finish.
Chuck in your existing CV, your GitHub, your projects, your half-finished side things. It asks a few questions to fill the gaps, then keeps all of it as one profile.
That profile is the whole trick. Most tools start from a blank page every single time. Tailwright pretty much just remembers, so every new application starts from everything you have ever done, not from nothing.
A link or the raw text, does not matter. It reads what the role actually wants, past the buzzwords, and works out which bits of your background matter most for this one.
It reshuffles and rewords your real experience to fit the job, leads with the relevant stuff, and writes it in your voice, down to the small things like keeping em dashes out if that is how you roll.
The bit nobody else does: if the job wants something you have not got, it does not quietly invent it. It flags it instead, like "published" versus "preprint", or a skill you never confirmed, and asks you. It reframes the truth. It does not manufacture it.
Here is the thing people get wrong: a pretty resume and a machine-readable one are usually at war. Fancy templates with columns and text boxes look great and then get shredded by the Applicant Tracking System the second a recruiter uploads them.
Tailwright builds the page out of plain, real text, one clean column, standard section names, dates lined up with tab stops instead of tables. So the parser sees every field, and a human sees a designed page. Same file.
Seven colour themes, seven typefaces, mix and match. A serif that reads like print, a clean sans, a bold accent or a quiet grey.
A clean PDF and a DOCX, both ATS-safe, plus a matching cover note and a short outreach message in the same voice. All sorted by company and role, so you are not digging through a Downloads folder of "resume-final-FINAL-v3".