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Reasonably accurate on the things it can actually measure: structure, quantification, language, and relevance to the target. It's genuinely good at spotting weak bullet points, missing numbers, and formatting that gets filtered out early. Where it's weaker is nuance. It can't know that your specific professor is well-regarded at McKinsey, or that your niche work experience is impressive in context. Treat it as a sharp first reader, not the final word. Let it catch the obvious problems, then use your own judgment for the rest.
No. Your CV is read, analysed, and then discarded. We don't store the file, we don't keep the text, and we don't use it to train anything. The only thing we hold on to is your score history if you're a premium user, and even that is just the numbers, not your document. Your CV stays yours.
ChatGPT gives you generic feedback because it doesn't know what McKinsey's recruiters look for versus Goldman's versus what an Oxford tutor cares about. It'll tell you to "use strong action verbs" no matter who you're applying to. Calibre scores against target-specific criteria: the actual things that get a CV past the first screen at each place. That said, ChatGPT is free and we aren't. For a quick sanity check, ChatGPT is fine. When you're applying somewhere genuinely competitive, the specificity is the whole point.
Yes, and arguably more so than for someone who does. From a non-target university, your CV has to do more of the work, because you can't lean on the name to get past the first screen. Calibre tells you exactly what's weak so you can fix it before it lands in front of someone who's already a little sceptical. It won't paper over a real academic gap, but it will stop you getting rejected for things that were completely in your control.
Yes. Most of what makes a CV strong at McKinsey or Goldman has nothing to do with your degree subject. It's about how you frame your experience, whether your bullets are quantified, and whether the structure matches what they expect. A geography or history graduate applying to consulting has the same fundamentals to get right as anyone else. The analysis works whatever your background.
The free version gives you an overall score and flags three issues, enough to know whether your CV is in trouble or broadly in shape. Premium gives you the full picture: every sub-score explained, specific rewrites for your weakest bullets, a cover letter drafted for your target, unlimited analyses across every target, and no daily limit. If you're seriously applying somewhere rather than just curious, the full breakdown is the part that actually changes your CV.
Yes, instantly, whenever you want. There's a "Manage Subscription" button in the app that takes you straight to your billing portal, where you cancel in one click. No emails to send, no hoops. If you cancel mid-month you keep access until the end of the period you've paid for.
Mostly UK-focused right now. The target list (Magic Circle, Oxford, Cambridge, Goldman UK, and so on) is built around UK applications and hiring criteria. That said, firms like McKinsey and Goldman keep broadly consistent standards worldwide, so international applicants targeting them will still get useful feedback. More targets are on the way.