tailit

Tailor your resume to any job in minutes.

Paste a job link and AI rewrites your resume to match — surfacing your real experience and the right keywords. An AI interview builds your profile; pick from 65 templates; export a clean, ATS-friendly PDF. Free, open-source, and your data never leaves your browser.

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• Free & open-source LLM — runs on Groq's free tier (Llama 3.3 70B for reasoning, Llama 3.1 8B for fast tasks; any Groq-hosted open model works). No credit card.
• Private — your resume lives in your browser (localStorage). There's no database and no account; text is only sent to the LLM to be rewritten.
• ATS-friendly PDFs — real selectable text via Typst, with 65 templates and a live preview.

Quick start

Prerequisites: Node ≥ 22.11 (the repo pins 22.13 in .node-version) and pnpm 10.

pnpm install

# Get a FREE Groq API key (no credit card): https://console.groq.com/keys
cp .env.example .env.local
# then paste your key into GROQ_API_KEY=

pnpm dev          # http://localhost:3000

Verify your key works: open http://localhost:3000/api/health?ping=1 — it should return {"ok":true,...}.

Scripts

Command	Description
pnpm dev	Dev server
pnpm build / pnpm start	Production build / serve
pnpm typecheck	tsc --noEmit
pnpm lint	ESLint
pnpm test / pnpm test:watch	Vitest (schema + PDF render tests)
pnpm thumbs	Regenerate template thumbnails into public/thumbs/

How it works

flowchart TD
    U["Upload PDF/DOCX"] -->|"POST /api/parse → LLM"| R(["JSON Resume<br/>in-browser · Zustand + localStorage"])
    IV["AI interview"] -->|"POST /api/interview → LLM"| R

    J["Job link / paste"] -->|"POST /api/job"| E["Jina Reader → Readability → paste"]
    E -->|"LLM"| Q["Job requirements"]

    R --> T["POST /api/tailor → LLM"]
    Q --> T
    T --> O["Tailored resume<br/>+ honest match report"]

    O --> P["Pick a template"] --> V["Live Typst SVG preview"] --> D["Download PDF<br/>POST /api/render → Typst"]

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• Stack: Next.js 16 (App Router) · React 19 · TypeScript · Ant Design v6 · Zustand (persist).
• Data model: JSON Resume (src/lib/resume/schema.ts), validated with Zod.
• LLM: thin Groq wrapper in src/lib/llm/provider.ts (swap the model via GROQ_MODEL / GROQ_MODEL_FAST). Every LLM response is re-validated with Zod — raw output is never trusted.
• Job ingest: src/lib/job/extract.ts tries Jina Reader first, then Mozilla Readability, then falls back to pasted text (LinkedIn/Indeed often block bots).
• Templates: src/templates/<id>/ are Typst templates (65, mostly Typst Universe @preview CV packages). Each has an adapter.ts (maps the resume → the template's input JSON), a resume.typ (entry point), and a meta.json; these are generated into src/templates/registry.ts. PDFs are compiled server-side via @myriaddreamin/typst-ts-node-compiler in POST /api/render. The live preview uses the same engine rendered to SVG so it's pixel-identical to the export.
• Truthfulness: the tailoring prompt only rephrases/reorders your real content and reports gaps honestly — it never invents employers, dates, or skills.

Adding a template

Create src/templates/<id>/{adapter.ts,resume.typ,meta.json}, then run node scripts/build-registry.mjs to regenerate the registry. Verify one with npx tsx scripts/verify-template.mjs <id> (or all with scripts/verify-all.mjs), and regenerate thumbnails with pnpm thumbs. See CLAUDE.md for the full details.

Deploy (free)

The repo ships a Render Blueprint (render.yaml):

1. Push to GitHub.
2. In the Render dashboard: New + → Blueprint, connect the repo.
3. Set the GROQ_API_KEY environment variable (and optionally NEXT_PUBLIC_SITE_URL for canonical SEO/Open-Graph URLs).
4. Deploy.

Render's free tier (512 MB RAM, spins down after ~15 min idle) is enough for personal use. The Typst PDF compiler is a native addon warmed at boot, so it's best suited to a long-running Node server rather than a serverless/edge host.

Notes & limits

• Groq's free tier is rate-limited (per-minute/day). The UI surfaces a friendly message on 429s; wait a moment and retry. You can point GROQ_MODEL at any Groq-hosted open model.
• Some job sites block automated reading — use the paste fallback in the Tailor tab.

License

MIT © Sardor Mamadaliev.

Bundled third-party assets keep their own licenses: the swe and vantage templates are MIT (see their LICENSE files), the Font Awesome Free icon fonts in src/templates/_fonts/ are SIL OFL 1.1 (OFL.txt), PT Sans in src/templates/vantage/fonts/ is SIL OFL 1.1, and the remaining templates wrap their respective Typst Universe @preview packages under each package's own license.