About RoastMyResume

We built the resume feedback we wanted and couldn’t find: fast, specific, free, and honest enough to be uncomfortable.

Why this exists

A recruiter gives your resume six to eight seconds. Almost nobody gets to hear what happened in those seconds. You send an application into the void and get either silence or a form rejection, neither of which tells you whether the problem was your experience, your bullet points, or a formatting choice that broke an applicant tracking system.

The feedback that does exist tends to be one of two things. Generic advice that applies to everyone and therefore helps no one (“quantify your achievements!”), or a $300 resume writer whose first move is to tell you the resume is bad. We wanted something in between: a read of your actual document, in under a minute, for nothing, that says the specific true thing instead of the polite vague one.

The comedy is a delivery mechanism, not the product. People will read a roast all the way to the bottom. They will not read a rubric. Underneath the jokes, every score maps to something a recruiter would genuinely hold against you.

Who runs it

RoastMyResume is operated by BMCM LLC, an independent US company. It is a small team, not a venture-backed startup and not a staffing agency with a lead-gen funnel attached. Nobody here is going to call you about an opportunity.

We publish under a masthead rather than individual bylines. Everything on the blog is credited to the RoastMyResume Editorial Team, which is the group that writes, edits, and fact-checks the guides and that also builds and tunes the tools. It’s a deliberate choice: the authority here comes from the pattern data across the resumes we score, not from any one person’s résumé.

If you need to reach an actual human, the contact page goes straight to us.

How the grading actually works

No black box. Here is the whole pipeline:

1. Your file is parsed to plain text, the same reduction an applicant tracking system performs. If your layout falls apart at this step, that’s already a finding.
2. The text is scored by Anthropic’s Claude models against a fixed rubric of five categories, always the same five, always in the same order: First Impression, Buzzword Abuse, Experience, Skills Section, and Formatting & Presentation. Each gets a score out of 10.
3. Those category scores roll up into the letter grade, A+ through F.
4. Separately, the Buzzword Density Score counts offending phrases across five buckets (empty adjectives, corporate clichés, verb inflation, vague metrics, and title puffery) and normalizes them per 100 words, so a three-page resume isn’t punished for length alone.
5. The result has to come back in the expected shape before it renders. If a response comes back malformed, you get an error and a retry rather than a half-filled grade card.

The honest limitations. This is a model applying a consistent rubric, not a hiring manager at the company you want. It can’t know that the role is really about one skill buried in paragraph four of the posting, and it will occasionally be wrong in ways a human wouldn’t be. It is deliberately harsh, because a grader that tells everyone they’re an A is worth nothing. Treat the grade as a signal about how your resume reads to someone skimming, which is exactly the situation it’s modeling, and not as a verdict on your career.

It is also entertainment before it is advice. We say that in the footer of every page and we mean it.

Where our numbers come from

When we cite a statistic like “results-driven appears on roughly 48% of resumes,” it comes from aggregate patterns across the resumes people have voluntarily run through our own tools. It is a large sample, and it is a self-selected one: people who choose to use an AI roast tool are not a random draw from all job seekers.

So we report ranges and approximations rather than false precision, we label the sample every time, and we’d rather be honestly directional than convincingly wrong. Every figure lives with its methodology note on the resume statistics page, each with a linkable anchor if you want to cite it. Journalists and researchers are welcome to ask us about the underlying data.

Editorial standards

• Written and edited by people. We use AI in our products, obviously. Articles are drafted, edited, and signed off by the editorial team, and any AI-generated example is labeled as one.
• Specific over safe. If advice would apply equally to a nurse and a solutions architect, it’s usually not worth publishing. We’d rather take a position and be argued with.
• Claims get sourced or softened. Third-party statistics are attributed. Our own are labeled as ours, with the sample described. If we don’t know, we say we don’t know.
• Corrections are visible. Get something wrong and we fix it in place and note the update date on the post. Tell us about an error via the contact form and it jumps the queue.
• Guides get revisited. Job search advice ages badly. Posts carry a published date, and updated ones carry an updated date, so you can see what you’re reading.

How the site makes money

Worth being upfront about, since it explains what we do and don’t recommend.

• The tools are free. The roast, the grade, the Buzzword Density Score, job matching, all of it. No account, no trial, no credit card.
• One-time paid rewrites. The Pro Rewrite is $4.99 and the Career Bundle is $9.99. Both are single purchases. There is no subscription anywhere on this site and there isn’t going to be. See pricing.
• Ads on articles only. Advertising runs on blog posts. It does not run on the roast flow, the tools, or checkout, because an ad next to your results would be both annoying and a conflict of interest.
• Affiliate links, disclosed. Some outbound links to third-party products may earn a commission. They’re marked where they appear, and a commission has never been the reason something is recommended.
• We don’t sell your data. Not to recruiters, not to anyone. The privacy policy is the long version.

What happens to your resume

It’s parsed, scored, and deleted within an hour. We don’t build a candidate database, we don’t forward anything to employers, and we don’t need your email to give you a grade. If you save a roast, we keep that result for seven days so the link works, and that’s the extent of it.

Say hello

Feedback, corrections, press questions, or a tool you wish existed: contact us or email admin@roastmyresume.io. If you want to see what the site actually does before deciding whether we know what we’re talking about, the fastest answer is to run your resume through it.

RoastMyResume is a product of BMCM LLC. AI-generated entertainment, not career advice.