We Revamped Onboarding (and Added Resume Import)

Previously, new users landed on the dashboard with a blank slate and zero guidance. Not exactly a great first impression. Now when you sign up, you're greeted with a welcome screen that gives you a clear starting point: upload a resume, or skip ahead and set things up manually.

Resume import (the fun part)

This is the headline feature. Upload a PDF or DOCX, and we use Anthropic's AI Claude to extract your work experience, education, skills, and projects.

Once the resume is parsed, you get a full preview page where you can review, edit, and remove items section by section before confirming the import. Don't want that internship from 2015? Just remove it. Typo in your job title? Fix it right there. Nothing gets saved until you hit "Confirm & Import."

We also generate starter labels from your resume data automatically, so your experiences come in organized from day one.

Privacy stuff

We know sending your resume through an AI service raises questions, so we're upfront about it. There's a clear privacy notice on the upload page explaining exactly what happens: your resume text gets sent to Anthropic for parsing, it's processed once, and it's not stored on their end. You also have to check a consent box before uploading — no surprises.

The getting-started checklist

After onboarding, whether you imported a resume or went the manual route, you'll see a Getting Started checklist on your dashboard. It walks you through the basics: add your contact info, create an experience, add a skill, log your education, and write your introduction. Each step links directly to where you need to go, and it tracks your progress with a simple progress bar. Once you're done (or just tired of looking at it), you can dismiss it.

Resume import isn't just for new users

One more thing — if you're an existing user and want to pull in data from a resume, you can still use the import feature from the resume editor. It'll add the extracted records alongside whatever you already have. Same review process, same control.

What's next

This was a big chunk of work, and we're pretty happy with how it turned out. That said, you might've noticed a "Choose my field" button on the welcome page that's grayed out — that's coming soon and will let new users pick their industry to get tailored starter content instead of starting from zero.

As always, if you run into any issues or have feedback, let us know. We're a small team but we do read everything.