Legible

Legible

About

Free diagnosis

About Legible

Strong candidates are being filtered out every day. Not because of what they've done. Because of how it reads.

What we believe

Strong candidates often have CVs that don't show it.

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 diagnosis should make the paid rewrite feel worth it.

You should leave the free diagnosis with enough clarity that paying for the full rewrite feels like a natural next step, not a leap of faith.

AI does the processing. Recruiter judgment shapes what it produces.

Legible uses AI to review materials and generate outputs, guided by the same framework a senior TA professional would apply. The methodology is human-built. The speed is AI. You review everything before using it.

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.

From the founder

Mikkel Damberg Hadsbjerg

Talent Acquisition Lead

Over nearly a decade in talent acquisition, I have hired across start-ups, consultancies and large international public companies, from junior roles to director level. Different markets, different hiring requirements, different kinds of pressure. But the same problem, every single time.

A lot of people do not know how to write a CV.

Not because they lack experience. Not because their careers are unimpressive. But because writing about yourself in a way that communicates clearly to a stranger, in ten seconds, under pressure, is a specific skill that almost nobody is taught. It is not obvious. It is not intuitive. And the consequences of getting it wrong are invisible to the person getting it wrong.

I have reviewed candidates with ten years of genuinely impressive track records whose CVs read like a list of duties. People who undersold themselves into a lower tier than they deserved, not because they were less capable, but because they did not know how to show the level of their work. The fix is almost always the same: stop describing the job. Make the proof of your impact visible. Show what changed because of you.

That pattern, real experience with unclear materials, is what Legible is built around.

For years, if you wanted your CV properly fixed, your options were limited. Do it yourself and maybe get it wrong again. Or hire a professional copywriter, wait for schedules to align and pay a ton of money that you might not have while unemployed. Neither option is great if you find the perfect job by Tuesday, that you need to apply for by Wednesday.

The tools available today have changed that equation. What used to require a senior recruiter and a skilled writer working together across multiple sessions can now be structured and delivered in under twenty minutes, not as a gimmick, but as a genuine step up from what most people would produce alone. Over the last year in particular, the quality of what is possible has shifted significantly. Legible exists because the timing is right to make this accessible.

The goal is simple: the kind of honest, calibrated feedback that previously required a coach or an expensive service should be available to anyone who needs it, at the moment they need it. Not behind a subscription. Not after a week’s wait. Right now, if that is what the situation calls for.

The diagnosis is free because the diagnosis is the value. You should not have to pay to find out what is wrong. And the rebuild is priced the way it is because good advice on how to present your career should not be a luxury.