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Calibre was built alone by a final year UK law student, who learned how much a polished CV matters and how rarely anyone explains what a particular firm is actually looking for.
Every applicant is told to tailor their applications. Almost none are told what to tailor them to. Careers services are stretched thin and hand out the same advice to everyone, and the people who genuinely know what a Magic Circle firm screens for are usually already inside it. Without those contacts, you are guessing, and guessing is expensive when a training contract cycle comes round once a year.
So the research got done properly: reading published recruiter and admissions guidance, firm by firm, until the criteria could be written down. That is what sits behind every score, and why the feedback names the standard a CV misses instead of guessing alongside you.
It is still one person. Calibre is not perfect because of that, but it also means a problem reported on Monday is usually fixed by Tuesday rather than sitting in a queue, and a reply to any Calibre email reaches the person who built it. If it saves you some of the guesswork, it has done its job.
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. If you're signed in, the only thing we hold on to is your score history — the numbers and which target you scored against, 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, and unlimited analyses with no daily limit. It also unlocks the timed mock tests and the marked work simulations on our assessments page. 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.
There is no daily cap. Run your CV as many times as you like, against as many targets as you like, for as long as you're subscribed. What it doesn't cover is anything other than one person working on their own applications: scripts or bots submitting analyses, or one account shared between several people. Every analysis costs us real money to run, so that line exists to keep the price where it is. In practice you will never come near it, our heaviest genuine user has not been close, and nobody has ever been suspended. If we ever did have to pause an account we'd email you first, explain why, and you can contest it. The detail is in our Terms.