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Smart ATS Builder

A multi-hour task, done in 5 minutes.

Role
Product & build
Users
1,500+ in a month
Type
Fill-in-the-blanks resume
Smart ATS Builder · A multi-hour task, done in 5 minutes.

While mentoring students, I saw that an ATS-friendly resume meant learning complex rules, formats and keywords. It was slow and confusing, and it stopped good students before they even applied. So I removed the process.

1,500+Users
3,000+Resumes created
5 minPer resume, down from hours
30 daysTo get there, organically
01

The problem

Nobody should need to learn LaTeX to apply for a job.

Students spent hours nudging margins, fighting font bugs and breaking things that were working two minutes ago. Then they still did not know if the resume would pass the software reading it before any human did.

I kept seeing it in mentoring sessions. We would sit down to talk about a career, and the session would stop at the resume. Good students were getting filtered out by formatting.

02

What it is

Fill in the blanks, get a resume.

Smart ATS Builder takes away everything a student should not have to know. No rules to learn, no template to wrestle with, no Overleaf. You answer simple questions and get a clean resume that is built for applicant tracking systems.

  1. 01Fill

    A simple form: education, experience, skills, projects.

  2. 02Generate

    A clean, ATS-optimised resume, instantly.

  3. 03Score

    A score that shows how it reads to the system.

  4. 04Download

    Ready to send, with nothing to learn.

03

How it works

The rules live in the system, not in your head.

  • Guided inputs. The form asks for what a recruiter and a parser both need, in the order they need it.
  • Optimisation logic. Formats and keywords are handled by the system, so the output stays consistent.
  • A LaTeX result. Students get a properly formatted LaTeX resume without ever touching LaTeX.
  • A score. So they know where it stands instead of guessing.
Adoption across IITs and NITs
Adoption across IITs and NITs
04

What happened

1,500+ users in a month.

1,500+Users
3,000+Resumes created
30 daysNo marketing spend

On average every user made two resumes, one for each kind of role they were going after. It spread on its own across IITs and NITs, with students sending it to each other. Then engineers started recommending it publicly, including an AI research engineer at IBM.

Say goodbye to Overleaf formatting stress. Meet the fastest way to build a LaTeX resume, without ever touching LaTeX.

Aakriti Aggarwal, AI Research Engineer at IBM, on LinkedIn
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A tech geek who always thinks ahead in time. His vision always leads to solutions that make users come back.

Pranjal Mishra, SWE Intern at BlackRock, NIT Jamshedpur
05

Why it spread

No campaign. Just a problem everyone already hated.

  • A shared pain. Every student applying for placements was fighting the same formatting, in the same week.
  • A result in five minutes. It worked the first time, so people showed it to a friend while they still had it open.
  • Built where they were. It started inside the mentoring community, so the first users already trusted the person who built it.
  • Free of ceremony. No course to take, no rules to learn, nothing to install.
06

What it taught me

Remove the process and people come on their own. It also became the second agent on the road to GeniOS, right after the AI mentor.

Read the GeniOS story
07

What shipped

  • 01. 1,500+ users within a month, across IITs and NITs, with no marketing spend.
  • 02. Acknowledged by AI engineers, software engineers and an engineer at IBM Research.
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