It does not invent anything
Every line it writes is traceable to something you told it. If you did not do it, it will not appear — you have to survive the interview.
The application tool from Role Readiness
Write it for the one job you actually want.
You already have the experience. Shortlist Engine reads the specification for one specific role, finds where your history genuinely matches it, and rewrites your application so a stranger sees the match in thirty seconds instead of missing it entirely.
Works for CVs and résumés, cover letters, application forms and LinkedIn profiles. Your first job is free.
It shows its working
Every change comes with the reason and the line in the specification that prompted it. You learn the pattern, so the fourth application takes ten minutes.
It is scored, not guessed
Built on the same Role Gap Score as the free assessment, so you watch the number move as you work rather than hoping.
1Job specification at a time. The whole point is that it is specific
+18Typical Role Gap Score movement from presentation alone [PLACEHOLDER]
4Formats: application document, covering letter, form answers, profile
£19Per month. Cancel in two clicks, no phone call
How it works
Three steps. You do the remembering; it does the arranging.
The order matters. It reads the job before it touches a word of yours.
STEP 01
Give it the job
Paste the advert. Shortlist Engine pulls out every requirement, sorts essential from desirable, and notes the exact language the employer uses for each one.
STEP 02
Give it your history
Upload what you have, however rough. It interviews you about the gaps — short, specific questions aimed only at requirements you might match but have not evidenced.
STEP 03
Take the rewrite, with the reasons
A finished application, plus a change log explaining every edit and the requirement behind it. Accept, reject or edit each one. Your Role Gap Score updates as you go.
See it work
Same person. Same career. Nothing invented.
The advert asked for continuous improvement experience, budget responsibility and evidence of managing a large team. All three were already true. Two of them were on page two.
Before54
Professional summary
An experienced and hard-working operations professional with over twenty years in manufacturing environments. Excellent communicator, strong attention to detail and a proven team player who thrives under pressure.
Operations Supervisor, 2018–present
• Responsible for the day-to-day running of the production floor
• Duties included staff rotas, health and safety compliance and stock control
• Involved in various improvement projects
• Assisted with departmental budgeting
Why it scores 54: everything the advert asks for is technically present and none of it is visible. The opening paragraph could belong to any of four hundred applicants. "Involved in various improvement projects" is the strongest match in the document and it is the third bullet.
After78
Professional summary
Operations supervisor with six years running continuous improvement projects across a 90-strong manufacturing site, including a stock process redesign that cut write-off by 31% in twelve months. Direct responsibility for a £1.4m operating budget and 24 direct reports.
Operations Supervisor, 2018–present
• Led six continuous improvement projects; stock redesign cut write-off 31% (£96k) in year one
• Held £1.4m operating budget, delivered under budget in four of six years
• Managed 24 direct reports across three shifts, cutting turnover from 22% to 9%
• Ran the site through two successful external audits
What changed: nothing was added that was not true. The three named requirements moved into the first fifteen lines, duties became results with numbers attached, and the employer's own vocabulary is used for the things they asked for. Remaining gap: ISO 9001, named as essential and genuinely absent. That is a training job, not a writing one.
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What is in it
Built for one job at a time.
Specification parser
Pulls every requirement out of the advert, separates essential from desirable, and flags the phrasing the employer keeps repeating.
Evidence interview
Short targeted questions about requirements you may match but have not evidenced. This is where most of the score movement comes from.
Change log
Every edit listed with its reason and the requirement it serves. Accept or reject individually. Nothing is applied silently.
Live Role Gap Score
The same score as the free assessment, updating as you work, so you can see which edits actually moved the needle and which were cosmetic.
Four output formats
Application document, covering letter, structured form answers and a LinkedIn profile summary — all from the same source, all aimed at the same advert.
Version per job
Each application is stored against its advert. When a similar role appears, start from the closest previous version instead of from scratch.
Plain English, both sides of the Atlantic
UK and US spelling and conventions, set per job. Writes for the market the advert is in, not the one the software was built in.
Export anywhere
Word, PDF and plain text. Plain text matters more than people expect — a lot of application forms only accept pasted text.
Where the limits are
Four things Shortlist Engine deliberately will not do.
It will not invent experience
If you did not do it, it does not go in. Every claim has to survive an interview, and an application that outruns you is worse than no application.
It will not mass-apply for you
No bulk sending, no auto-apply, no spraying one document at ninety adverts. That is the behaviour this product exists to replace.
It will not promise ATS tricks
No white text, no keyword stuffing, no hidden blocks. Those get you rejected by the humans who find them, and they always find them.
It will not close a real skill gap
If the specification asks for something you have never done, writing cannot fix that. The score will say so, and point you at the training.
Pricing
Your first job is free. Nothing is locked behind a phone call.
Cancel from inside your account in two clicks. No notice period, no retention offer, no email asking you to reconsider.
First job
Free
- One complete application, start to finish
- Specification parser and evidence interview
- Full change log with reasons
- Your Role Gap Score before and after
Shortlist Engine
£19 / month
- Unlimited jobs and versions
- All four output formats
- Saved history, reused across applications
- Rescoring against any advert, any time
- £149 a year if you pay annually
Gap Method Membership
£45 / month
- Everything in Shortlist Engine
- Gap tracking over time
- The mapped free course library
- AI-led exam preparation
- £390 a year if you pay annually
[PLACEHOLDER — prices and annual rates are indicative. Confirm before publishing. VAT treatment to be decided.]
Questions
Before you subscribe
Is this just ChatGPT with a nicer interface?
It uses the same class of technology, and the difference is the method around it. A general chatbot has no rubric, no memory of your history between sessions, and no way to tell you which edit actually moved you closer. Shortlist Engine scores every version against the specification and shows you the working. If you enjoy prompting from scratch each time, you genuinely do not need this.
Will an employer be able to tell it was AI-assisted?
The output is your material, reordered and evidenced in your own facts, so there is nothing generic to detect. What gets people caught is a document full of claims they cannot back up in a room — which is exactly what this refuses to produce.
I have no idea where my old CV is.
Fine. Start with the evidence interview and build from nothing. It takes longer the first time and you end up with a cleaner source than most people's ten-year-old document.
Does it work for internal promotions?
Yes, and it is one of the better uses. Paste the internal specification for the role above yours. Internal applications are frequently the weakest documents people write, because they assume everybody already knows what they do.
What happens to my data if I cancel?
Your applications stay available to export for thirty days, then are deleted. Nothing is sold, and nothing is shown to employers or recruiters at any point.
Do I need the free assessment first?
No, but it helps. If your Gap Report showed Signals or Evidence as your lowest dimension, this is the tool for that. If it showed Skills or Proof, start with the membership instead — writing will not fix a training gap.
Pick one job. Do it properly. See what changes.
The first one is free, and it takes about half an hour. You will know inside ten minutes whether this is for you.