Company
Legible exists to make hiring signal easier to read.
A recruiter-led review and rewrite service for candidates whose experience is stronger than the way it currently reads.
What we believe
Strong candidates often have weak signal.
Many people are not being ignored because they lack substance. They are being missed because their proof is buried, vague, or poorly targeted.
Career help should feel calm and exact.
We are not trying to feel like an AI toy or a job-search dashboard. The standard is editorial, careful, and useful.
The free layer should earn the paid layer.
The product should create enough clarity in the free layer that paying for the rebuild feels like a rational next step, not a leap of faith.
Current stage
Legible is in private beta. Access is by invitation only. The service is being tested with a small initial group before it opens more broadly.
Standard
Recruiter-grade, not gimmick-grade
Legible operates as a serious service with a clear point of view about quality. Not a tool. Not a dashboard.
Privacy by design
Session-led, minimal by default
Materials are processed within the session and not retained after it ends. No account required. No long-term storage by default.
Founded by
Mikkel Damberg Hadsbjerg
Talent Acquisition Leader
Legible came from a problem I kept seeing from the inside: strong candidates being filtered out because their materials did not communicate their level clearly — not because of what they had actually done.
Legible is built on years of reviewing applications across multiple markets. The service structures every review the way a senior TA professional would — and rewrites with the precision a trained copywriter would bring. That judgment was trained into the service — built from years of seeing what gets candidates through and what gets them filtered out — so you get a calibrated read and a carefully written result, not a generic one.
The free diagnosis should be good enough to be useful on its own. The paid rebuild should be meaningfully better.