How our AI tools work
Every AI tool on the site, from the cover letter generator to the ATS resume checker and the ghost job detector, works the same way. It takes what you typed, adds an instruction we wrote, and sends both to a large language model run by another company. Then it shows you what comes back. No person reviews it, and nothing checks the facts between the model and your screen.
"AI" or "Super Intelligence"
A US executive order of September 2026 directs federal agencies to write "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in their own documents instead of "artificial intelligence" and "AI". It binds federal agencies, not private websites, and it renames nothing about how these tools work. We keep saying AI because that is what the people using this site say. If you are wondering which word belongs on your resume, we wrote a guide: AI or SI on your resume.
Which provider processes your text
Text you submit leaves our server and is processed by one of these companies, over an encrypted connection, under their terms and their privacy policy:
- Free and Pro runs using the site's key go to Groq, which is our current default provider. Pro runs may be routed to a larger model from the same or another configured provider.
- Runs using your own API key go to whichever provider that key belongs to. You can currently bring a key for Groq, OpenAI, Google (Gemini API), Anthropic, OpenRouter. In that case the request is made against your account with that provider, you pay for the tokens, and that provider's terms govern the request instead of ours, including whatever they say about training on API data.
We send the text and the tool's instructions. Your name, email address and account ID stay behind. Input and output aren't stored either, with one exception: a plan with History, switched on. And we never use either to train a model. The full data picture is in the privacy policy. If you'd rather no outside company saw a document at all, don't paste it into an AI tool. The browser tools never upload anything, so they're a safe choice for it.
Providers change. If we switch the default provider or model, we'll update this page. Your account's usage log records the provider used for each of your runs.
What the models get wrong
- Invented details. The big one. Our cover letter tool's instruction says, in so many words, invent no employer, degree or number. Models still do it. Take our sample applicant, Jordan Lee: four highlights, no degree mentioned anywhere. A draft that gives Jordan a degree has made it up, and it will read exactly as confident as the true lines around it. Read every sentence. If you couldn't defend it across an interview table, it comes out.
- Invented sources. Ask for a citation or a statistic and you may get one with a plausible author, a plausible year and no existence. Same for facts about a company. Find the original before you quote anything.
- Generic phrasing. The training data is full of lines like "I am excited to apply for this opportunity at your esteemed organization." Recruiters see lines like that all the time. The draft gives you a frame. Your own details are what make it worth reading.
- The wrong country's conventions. US spelling ("organize") where a UK employer expects "organise". A date like 03/04, which an American reads as March 4 and a Briton as 3 April. Salutations, salary formats, the word resume where the posting said CV. The default is American throughout, so change it for wherever you're applying.
- Summaries that lose the sentence you needed. Summarizing is leaving things out, and which caveat mattered to you is something the model has no way of knowing. Going to be examined or interviewed on it? Go back to the original first.
- Paraphrases that quietly change the meaning. Technical, legal and medical text is where it bites: a reworded sentence can end up saying something a little different, and no alarm goes off. Put the rewrite next to the source and compare.
- Stale knowledge. Training data ends at a cutoff date. After that the model knows nothing, and it can't go and look at a company, a job posting or this year's rules.
- Bias. The training data carried biases, and some come through, in how people get described and in which roles and industries get which adjectives.
Academic and employer rules are your responsibility
Universities in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia all have AI rules for assessed work now, and no two agree. At one, brainstorming and proofreading are fine. At the next you sign a declaration. At a third, undeclared use counts as misconduct. Employers are catching up: some application forms now ask whether AI helped, and some portals run detectors on what you upload.
Which means: before any of these tools touches work you'll hand in, dig out the policy that applies to you and follow it. Unclear? Then disclose. Your rules are yours; we can't know them, and we can't take the consequences of breaking them. Separately from any AI policy, passing off made-up experience, qualifications or references as fact can be fraud.
Not professional advice
Nothing here is advice, whether legal, immigration, employment, tax, financial, medical or career, and no professional relationship comes from using a tool or a calculator. Your notice period, your redundancy rights, what a visa allows, how something is taxed: those are set by your contract and your jurisdiction. If real money or a real job rides on the answer, read the contract and pay a qualified person for an hour of their time.
Availability and accuracy are not guaranteed
The AI tools run on other companies' systems. Those can be slow, rate-limited, down for a while, or changed by the provider without warning. The same input won't give the same output twice. So don't leave a deadline resting on a generator being up. Draft early.
How to use the output well
The result is a first draft from a quick assistant who has never met you and knows only what you typed. Treat it that way:
- Start with specifics: what you did, the numbers, the job ad itself. Vague input comes back as vague output.
- Keep the shape. Then go through it line by line, and wherever a sentence could be anyone's, make it yours.
- Anything you couldn't back up across an interview table gets cut.
- Spelling, dates and the salutation get fixed for the country it's going to.
- Read it aloud once. If it sounds like someone else to you, it will to the recruiter.
Report a bad output
Did a tool produce something harmful, discriminatory or dangerously wrong? Please tell us, at support@getjobtools.com or the contact form. Real reports are how we tune the prompts. This disclaimer is part of our Terms of Service.