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Getting started
What Standout is and how the tools work.
Standout is a small suite of career tools plus a daily LinkedIn subscription. The free tools write you an ATS-ready CV, a tailored cover letter, and a rewritten LinkedIn profile, and score your existing profile. The paid part, Standout Daily, emails you two ready-to-post LinkedIn posts every weekday morning, written in your voice and anchored to real news in your field. It is run by Impact Change Ltd and built by Will Bryant, a real person who reads every reply.
For the CV Builder, Cover Letter Writer, and LinkedIn Rewrite, yes. You create a free account first, then use the tool. The account is what lets us deliver your document, save every generation so you can come back to it, and keep your revisions in one place. Signing up takes a few seconds and the free tools stay free. The LinkedIn Score is the exception. It needs no account, so you can score your profile without signing up.
The career tools (CV, cover letter, LinkedIn rewrite, LinkedIn score) are free to use. The CV, cover letter, and LinkedIn rewrite have a fair-use limit of three generations per tool for free accounts. The LinkedIn Score is outside that limit, though if a lot of scores come from one connection in a short time, you may be asked to wait a few minutes. Standout Daily, the weekday LinkedIn subscription, is a paid plan at $19.99 a month with a 7-day free trial. Subscribing also lifts the three-per-tool limit, so the CV, cover letter, and LinkedIn rewrite become unlimited.
Two ways at once. We email the finished document or copy to the address on your account, and we save it inside My Account so you can view, download, or revise it whenever you like. You do not have to keep the email, everything is stored against your account.
The CV Builder, the Cover Letter Writer, the LinkedIn Rewrite, and the free LinkedIn Score. On top of those sits the Apply flow, which tailors a CV and cover letter to one specific job at once, and the Standout Daily subscription for weekday LinkedIn posts.
CV Builder
An ATS-ready CV written to the role you want.
It writes you a clean, ATS-ready CV targeted at the role you are going for. You give it your history and the sort of position you want, and it produces properly structured, achievement-led copy that reads well to both a human and an applicant tracking system.
Free accounts get three generations per tool, so three CVs. Standout subscribers have no limit and can generate as many as they like.
Open the CV in My Account and use the revise option. Tell it what you want changed, tighter wording, a different emphasis, a fixed date, and it rewrites accordingly. You can request up to five free revisions per generated document, within 30 days of it being made.
Every CV you generate is saved under My Account, in your CV list and in Downloads. You can open, download, or revise any of them at any time, and we also email you a copy when it is ready.
It is written to be ATS-friendly, using a clean single-column structure, standard section headings, and no graphics that a parser would trip over. As with anything generated, read it through before you send it and check the details are accurate for you.
Cover Letter Writer
A cover letter tailored to the role and company.
It writes a cover letter tailored to a specific role at a specific company. You give it the job and the employer along with a little about yourself, and it produces a focused letter that speaks to what that role is asking for, rather than a generic template.
Yes. Tell the tool, or use a revision, to make it warmer, more formal, more direct, or more concise, and it will adjust. The aim is a letter that sounds like you and fits the company you are writing to.
Open it in My Account and choose revise, then describe the change you want. You get up to five free revisions per letter within 30 days, so you can fine-tune the opening, trim the length, or re-point it at a slightly different angle.
Three per tool on a free account, unlimited if you subscribe to Standout. Each finished letter is emailed to you and saved in My Account.
LinkedIn Rewrite
A rewrite of your Headline, About, and Experience.
It rewrites the parts of your LinkedIn profile that do the most work: your Headline, your About section, and your Experience entries. You give it your current profile and where you are heading, and it returns sharper, more compelling copy for each section.
Copy each rewritten section straight into LinkedIn, Headline into your headline field, About into the About section, and the Experience text into the matching roles. Read it through first and adjust anything that is not quite right for you before you publish.
Three per tool on a free account, unlimited with a Standout subscription. Each rewrite is saved in My Account and emailed to you, and you can request up to five free revisions on any one of them within 30 days.
No. The Score reads your existing profile and rates it with suggestions. The Rewrite actually produces new copy for your Headline, About, and Experience. Many people run the Score first to see where they stand, then use the Rewrite to fix it.
LinkedIn Score
A free score of your profile, with suggestions.
A free assessment of your LinkedIn profile. It reads what you have and gives you a score, a band, and a set of specific suggestions for what to improve, from your headline to how you frame your experience.
Your score falls into one of five bands: Elite, Excellent, Strong, Good, or Needs optimization. The band is a quick read on where your profile sits, and the suggestions beneath it tell you what to change to move up.
Treat it as a well-informed AI estimate rather than an official number. There is no public LinkedIn score, so this is our model's read of your profile against what tends to work. It is most useful for the direction it points you in and the specific fixes it lists.
Yes, the LinkedIn Score is free. If you want to act on it, the LinkedIn Rewrite will turn the suggestions into finished copy for your Headline, About, and Experience.
Standout Daily
The weekday LinkedIn subscription, $19.99 a month.
It is the subscription. Every weekday morning we email you two ready-to-post LinkedIn posts, written in your voice and anchored to real, current news in your niche. You skim them, edit if you want, and publish in seconds. It is for people whose careers benefit from being visible on LinkedIn without the appetite to become a full-time creator.
It is $19.99 a month, and every new subscriber starts on a 7-day free trial. You are not charged during the trial and you can cancel at any point within it without paying anything.
You start the trial, and the daily posts begin arriving straight away so you can judge them properly. If you cancel before the 7 days are up you pay nothing. If you stay, the first monthly charge is taken when the trial ends, and $19.99 monthly after that.
On weekday mornings by default. In Preferences you can set the delivery hour, choose one or two posts a day, and turn weekend delivery on if you want posts on Saturdays and Sundays too. Timing follows the timezone on your account.
They are written from your profile information and your style settings, so they land in your voice rather than a generic one. You are always the editor, tweak anything before you publish, and the more you tune your preferences the closer the fit gets.
Each post is anchored to genuine, current developments in your field, so you are commenting on something real and timely rather than posting into a vacuum. That is what tends to earn attention on LinkedIn.
Applying to a role
Tailor a CV and cover letter to one job at once.
Apply is the fast route when you have a specific job in mind. You give it the role, and it tailors both a CV and a cover letter to that one job in a single pass, so the two documents are aligned to the same position rather than generated separately.
In My Account, under Applications. Each job you apply for is listed there with the tailored CV and cover letter attached, so you can see everything you have sent out in one place.
The standalone CV Builder and Cover Letter Writer each produce one document. Apply does both together, pointed at the same specific job, which keeps your CV and letter consistent for that application.
Preferences & account
Tune the voice, timing, and rules Standout writes to.
Quite a lot. You can choose your English variant (British or American), your delivery time, whether posts arrive at weekends, how many posts a day you get, and the post length. You can add style rules (no em dashes, no emoji, no exclamations), list topics to avoid, control email notifications, and upload a profile photo.
Yes, that is the point of them. Your English variant flows through every writing tool, and your style rules, post length, and topics to avoid feed directly into how Standout Daily writes your posts. Change a setting and the next generation follows it.
Set the English variant in Preferences and every tool writes to it, spelling, phrasing, and punctuation included. It is a single switch that the CV, cover letter, LinkedIn, and daily posts all read.
Yes. Email notifications are a toggle in Preferences, separate from your subscription. You can turn off product-update emails and still receive your daily posts, or adjust what lands in your inbox without touching your plan.
Both live in Preferences. Pick your delivery hour, choose one or two posts per day, and switch weekend delivery on or off. The scheduling reads your timezone, so set that correctly and the posts arrive when you expect them.
Billing & cancellation
Trial, monthly price, and how to cancel.
Standout Daily is $19.99 a month. New subscribers get a 7-day free trial with no charge during it. If you continue, the first payment is taken when the trial ends and monthly thereafter. Payments are handled by Stripe, which shows your local currency at checkout, and we never see or store your card details.
Go to the subscription page in My Account and cancel there at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period, so you keep your daily posts until then and are not charged again after that.
They stay free. Canceling Standout Daily only ends the subscription, your account and the free tools (CV, cover letter, LinkedIn rewrite and score) remain available, back on the free-tier limits.
No. Nothing is charged during the 7-day trial. If you cancel before it ends you pay nothing at all. The first charge only happens if you carry on past the trial.
Troubleshooting
When something does not arrive or work as expected.
First check your spam or promotions folder. Our sender address is standout@joinstandout.com, so adding that as a contact helps future emails land. Remember that everything is also saved in My Account, so you can open your generation there even if the email is delayed. If it still has not arrived, reply to any Standout email or write to standout@joinstandout.com and a real person will look into it.
Occasionally a generation does not complete, usually a brief hiccup. Try running it again from the tool. A failed attempt should not use up one of your free generations, and if it does, or it keeps failing, email standout@joinstandout.com and we will sort it out and put things right.
Make sure you are using the same email you signed up with, and use the reset-password link on the login page if you are unsure of your password. If you signed up with a link from an email, request a fresh one, as those can expire. Still stuck, email standout@joinstandout.com and we will get you back in.
Reply to any Standout email, or write to standout@joinstandout.com. Will reads every message himself, so you are not talking to a bot or a ticket queue. The more detail you give (what you were doing, which tool, any error you saw) the faster we can help.
Still stuck?
Reply to any Standout email, or write to standout@joinstandout.com, and Will (a real person) will read it.
