Including the ones the rest of this category gets wrong. Each answer stands on its own, with a source named wherever one exists. Tap a question to open it.
Often it is sitting in a much thicker pile than it used to. Workday's 2024 Global Workforce Report found job applications growing four times faster than openings: applications up 31% in the first half of 2024, against 7% growth in jobs. The posting still has one recruiter and one afternoon. That is why a résumé written for that specific role has more work to do than a generic one sent everywhere, and why the expensive part is the rewriting, not the knowing. Monster's 2026 State of the Résumé survey found 77% of job seekers already worry theirs is filtered out before a human reads it, and 68% spend under 30 minutes tailoring each application. The silence after you apply is usually volume, not a hidden rejection rate.
Joey reads a job posting, checks it against the work history you have already given it, and asks you about anything important that is still missing. It then retrieves the matching parts of that history (search, not an agent), writes a résumé draft from that evidence, lets two agents argue the weakest claims, brings in the Judge only if they cannot agree, and has a last agent check the finished draft against its sources before you see it.
A general-purpose chatbot is working from whatever you paste into one message. It does not know your full work history, so when a job description asks for something you have not mentioned, it tends to fill the gap rather than leave it blank. Joey works from a standing record of your real experience, retrieves the relevant parts for each job, and is instructed not to invent experience, metrics, titles or dates. When it cannot find evidence for something a job asks for, it asks you directly instead of guessing. Edits you make on the canvas also feed Dreaming: Joey updates how you like to write and how you sound for the kinds of jobs you apply to, so later drafts start closer to your voice. Dreaming does not invent experience.
As little as a résumé PDF. That is enough to start. If you want richer drafts, Joey can then run a short onboarding interview (up to eight questions) about the action, context, and results behind your bullets. You can skip questions. Extra context also lands in My Experience. Joey does not currently offer a separate portfolio or cover-letter upload; the onboarding dropzone accepts a résumé PDF.
Yes. Joey retrieves a different slice of your history for each posting and writes a document shaped for that specific role, rather than reusing one generic version.
Yes, and editing is expected. Joey's checking agent re-verifies a bullet against your history every time you change it and flags anything it can no longer support. It never silently rewrites your own edits.
Joey's writer is instructed to use only what your retrieved history and your direct answers actually contain, and is explicitly told not to invent experience, metrics, scope, titles or dates. A separate checking agent then re-verifies every claim in the finished draft against its cited source and flags anything it cannot confirm, rather than rewriting it.
Joey asks you directly, once, before it writes anything, rather than inventing an answer. If you tell it you have not done something, that competency will not appear in the draft. Joey itself will never fabricate your history.
Every block Joey writes is linked to the specific piece of your history it was drawn from, so a claim can always be traced back to its source rather than taken on faith.
A flag means Joey's checking agent could not confirm that bullet against the sources cited for it, usually because the wording drifted after an edit. A flag is information, not an automatic correction: Joey explains what it found and leaves the decision to you.
An applicant tracking system is software many employers use to collect applications and to filter or flag ones that do not look like a match for the posting, often using keywords and how closely the document reads against the job. Joey identifies terms a posting is likely to be screened on and uses them only where your own evidence supports them. It will reframe real experience to match what the posting asks for. It will not claim a skill you cannot back up, and it makes no claim about how any particular system will score the result.
No. Joey's writer treats keywords as opportunities to use where your evidence already supports them, not as a checklist to fill. Leaving a keyword out is not treated as a failure; claiming one you cannot support is.
There are seven agents, plus a retrieval step that is ordinary code rather than a model. One agent reads the job. One checks it against your history and asks you about anything missing. Retrieval then pulls the matching evidence. One agent writes the draft from that evidence. Two argue about the weakest claims. The Judge rules if they cannot agree. The Auditor does a final, independent check of the finished draft against its sources. Full detail is on the how it works page.
One agent's only job is to find every weak, vague or unsupported line. The other is the only agent allowed to search your history mid-argument, and uses that to defend or concede each point. The point of the exchange is to catch fabrications and underwritten claims before you see the draft. A line that survives has been tested, not merely accepted.
Joey stores your account and work history so it can write drafts, and you can delete all of that from Settings whenever you want. The Privacy page has the details. Before anything is sent to a writing model or a software partner, Joey strips your name, email, phone number, and street address so those details never reach them. Your work history still goes to the writer, because that is how a draft is made. Joey does not sell your data for advertising. Questions: support@growwithjoey.com.
Joey does not train its own models on your résumé. Where a provider lets us keep API traffic out of their training set, we use that. OpenAI's API is set up so prompts are not used to train their models unless an organisation opts in. Google's paid Gemini API, which Joey uses, says prompts and responses are not used to improve Google's products. Some providers do not offer that option. DeepSeek's API does not document a no-training default or an API-side opt-out, so we do not claim DeepSeek never trains on API traffic. Your name, email, phone, and street address are stripped before any model runs. The work history itself still goes to the writer.
Yes, you can delete it. Open Settings, confirm it is you (your password, or a code we email you), and type your email. Joey then deletes your sign-in, the experience it stored, your uploads, drafts, and the files it holds. That cannot be undone. People answering support mail only see what they need to help. The companies that host Joey and run the writing models are listed on the Privacy page. Deleting your Joey account does not wipe every safety log those companies may keep; the Privacy page is honest about that.
Joey is currently invite-only while it is in early access with a small group of early users. Joining the waitlist is the way in right now, and you will hear back if a spot opens up.
Anyone tailoring their résumé to a specific role rather than sending one generic version everywhere, across seniority levels and industries. If you want a résumé written from your real work for the jobs you actually care about, Joey is for you.
Joey is invite-only while we're in early access.