An honest comparison
Why not just paste your résumé into ChatGPT?
You can, and for writing you probably should. A general chatbot writes well but audits inconsistently, and it does not know Indian campus placements.
We score with fixed local rules and use an AI provider only for the writing. Here is the difference.
Source, 28 rules, 39 drives, how we score
Six differences
A score you can trust twice
A general AI chatbot
Ask for a score and you get a number, a different one next time, from a model that's guessing at a rubric it can't see.
OptiResume
The same 28 fixed rules run every time. Same resume, same score. No AI touches the number, it's counting and formulas you could audit by hand.
It won't invent experience
A general AI chatbot
Ask an LLM to 'make it impressive' and it will happily add metrics you never earned and skills you can't defend.
OptiResume
We flag unquantified bullets and suggest metric categories to pull from your own notes. Where a rewrite needs a number your text does not give, it writes a placeholder such as [X%] for you to fill in, and any number your text does not contain is flagged for you to check. Skill-claim verification flags skills you listed but didn't demonstrate.
It knows the drive, not just the résumé
A general AI chatbot
A general model doesn't know TCS NQT's cutoff, which branches Infosys DSE takes, or whether backlogs disqualify you.
OptiResume
We check your eligibility against dated campus-drive criteria for 39 drives, each with its source, and say when a figure is unofficial.
A workspace, not a chat you lose
A general AI chatbot
The thread scrolls away. Your score, versions, and applications live in your history, or don't.
OptiResume
Saved scores, JD-tailored variants, application tracking, a coding-challenge certificate, and interview prep, one account that remembers.
Private by construction
A general AI chatbot
Pasting your résumé into a consumer chatbot can be retained and used to train future models.
OptiResume
We never store your file. Signed in, we keep the extracted text so you can re-check and compare; the free check keeps nothing on our servers. Personal details (email, phone, links) and your name are redacted before any AI sees a word.
When it does write, it's grounded
A general AI chatbot
Free-form generation is powerful and unconstrained, great for a first draft, risky for the truth.
OptiResume
Rewrites are constrained to your actual content, shaped into STAR format, and routed through a single audited gateway with per-user limits, not open-ended generation.
What a general chatbot is good at
Drafting from a blank page, brainstorming angles, adjusting tone. That is real, so we use an AI provider too, behind guardrails, for exactly that.
What we do not do is let a model guess your score or invent your track record. The scoring stays fixed; the AI works only when you ask.
See your score first, free
28 evidence-backed checks, a job-description keyword match, and no invented experience. No account, no card, and we never store your file.