Do not trust the honest resume builder. Audit it.
Every AI tool now claims it will not fabricate. That is a promise about a black box. Here are three things you can actually check.
Studio works from the resume you gave it, anything you banked in Your Story, and facts you affirm. It will not move your bullets under an employer you did not work for, and a term the posting wants that your own words do not support is kept out of your keyword list, stripped from the summary, and printed in the gap list so you can see what was asked for. Your bullets are rewritten from your own material rather than filtered term by term, so read them before you send: that is what the gap list is for.
When a posting wants something that is nowhere in your history, you get told, in a list. Most builders quietly fill that hole, because a model asked to maximize a match will always find a way to match.
Export the resume, open our public scanner, read the literal parsed text. No account, nothing uploaded. Resumes built in Studio get no special treatment there.
What actually happens when AI invents experience
The fear is that a system detects AI writing and rejects you. As of 2026 the research consensus is that no mainstream applicant tracking system runs reliable AI-authorship detection and auto-rejects on it, and the detectors are not accurate enough to be used that way. The real exposure is a human asking a follow-up question. A skill you never had, on a resume you did not read closely, becomes a question you cannot answer in an interview you worked for weeks to get. That is the failure mode worth designing against, and it is why Studio would rather hand you a gap list than a match score.
The three rules Studio follows
These are constraints in the prompt, not aspirations in the marketing.
- It never adds a skill, tool, employer, title, date, or metric you did not give it. Not even when the job description asks for it. Especially not then.
- Every real number and proper noun survives exactly. No rounding a 12 into "over 15", no upgrading a coordinator into a manager.
- Gaps are output, not hidden. If the posting wants five years of something you have never touched, that goes in the gap list where you can decide what to do about it.
What you do with a gap list
Three honest options, and none of them is "let the AI handle it".
Sometimes the gap is real and disqualifying, and the most valuable thing a tool can do is save you the evening.
Name it in the cover letter with what you would do instead. Hiring managers respect this far more than software expects.
If the same gap appears across ten postings you want, that is not a resume problem. That is your next month of learning, identified for free.
What is free and what costs money
Stated plainly, because vagueness here is how the category earns its reputation.
| What it is | Price | |
|---|---|---|
| The ATS scan | Unlimited, no account, runs on your device | Free forever |
| The one free repair | One real rebuild of your worst line, same model as paid | Free |
| Bounce Pro | Studio, tailoring, cover letters, the AI follow-up drafts, Landed | $29/mo, $57/quarter, or $149/year |
| Your Journey | The application tracker, its stages, follow-up dates and CSV export | Free on any Bounce account |
| Your Story | A spoken session that banks your real accomplishments, in Blaise's voice | Free daily, Pro lifts the limit |
| All Access | Everything above plus Blaise and Career Watch, permanently | $399 once |
The yearly plan is a single payment, not an auto-renewing subscription. There is no subscription behind it, so there is nothing to cancel or pause, and nothing renews without you choosing to buy again.
What Bounce cannot do
It cannot promise you interviews or offers, and we will never put a number on that. It cannot replicate any one company's private screening system, because those are not public. It cannot make you qualified for a job you are not qualified for, and it will tell you when that is the situation instead of writing around it. What it can do is make sure the software reads what you actually did, accurately, every time.
Guides from the Library
More in the Library, free and without an account.
Questions
Can an ATS tell that AI wrote my resume?
Almost certainly not, and we think it is the wrong thing to worry about. As of 2026 the consensus is that no mainstream applicant tracking system runs reliable AI-authorship detection and rejects on it. The real risk is a human asking you about a line you cannot defend, which is why our rule is that every line traces to something you actually said.
Does Bounce ever add skills or experience I do not have?
No. Studio works from the resume you gave it, anything you have banked in Your Story, and facts you affirm, and from nothing else. It reorders, re-emphasizes, and rewrites your real experience to match what a job is asking for. It does not invent an employer, a date, a tool, or a number, and a term your own words do not support is kept out of your keyword list, stripped from the summary, and listed as a gap instead. Your bullets are rewritten from your own material rather than filtered term by term, so read them before you send.
What happens when the job asks for something I do not have?
You get told. Studio produces a gap list: the things the posting wants that are not anywhere in your history. You then decide whether to skip the job, address the gap directly in your cover letter, or go learn the thing. That decision is yours and it should be.
Is Bounce Studio free?
Partly, and we will be specific. The ATS scan is free forever, unlimited, and needs no account, because it runs on your device. One real repair of your worst resume line is also free. Studio, the part that rebuilds and tailors your whole resume, is paid: $29 a month, $57 a quarter, $149 for a year as a single payment, or $399 once for All Access.
How is this different from Rezi, Teal, or Zety?
Honestly, they are good at what they do, they are fast, and most of them are not trying to make you lie. The difference is a constraint and a receipt. The constraint is that Studio cannot write a line without a source you gave it, so it hands you a gap list instead of filling the hole. The receipt is that you can verify any export in our free public scanner without an account.
Will using Bounce get me more interviews?
We do not know, and we will not promise it. Nobody selling you a resume tool knows, because interviews depend on the market, the role, timing, and your competition. What we can claim and you can check: your resume will parse cleanly, and every line in it will be something you can defend out loud.
Can I try it before paying?
Yes, and without an account. Run the free scan to see what the machine reads from your current resume, then use the free repair to watch Studio rebuild your worst line with the same model paying customers get. If that is not convincing, do not pay us.