What's New at RoastMyResume: A BS Detector, a Bullet Surgeon, and a Better Way to Find It All

A pattern we kept noticing in roasts: most resumes don't have a content problem. They have a language problem.

People with genuinely impressive work histories were still landing C and D grades because their bullet points read like a LinkedIn engagement bot wrote them on its lunch break. "Spearheaded results-driven initiatives leveraging cross-functional collaboration to drive impactful synergies." The accomplishment underneath was real. The language was indistinguishable from every other resume in the stack.

That observation drove the three things we shipped this month. They all attack the same problem from different angles — measuring it, fixing it, and making the whole toolkit easier to find.

Here's the story behind each, what it does, and why we built it.

1. The BS Detector — a 0-to-100 score for resume fluff

Every roast result now comes with a second metric next to the letter grade: a Buzzword Density Score, ranging from 0 (pure substance) to 100 (pure corporate slop), displayed as an animated semicircular gauge with color-coded zones.

The story: we were already detecting buzzwords inside the main roast (one of the five category scores is literally "Buzzword Abuse"). But the score was buried among other category scores, and "7/10" for buzzword abuse doesn't feel like much. It's a number. Numbers don't move people.

A gauge does. So we built one.

The five categories the score measures

The BS Detector classifies every flagged phrase into one of five categories — borrowed from the taxonomy in our resume buzzwords post:

1. Empty adjectives — "passionate," "dynamic," "results-driven," "detail-oriented"
2. Corporate clichés — "synergy," "team player," "thought leader," "self-starter"
3. Verb inflation — "spearheaded," "championed," "orchestrated" used for trivial actions
4. Vague metrics — "improved efficiency," "drove results," "made significant impact" (no actual numbers)
5. Title puffery — "Customer Experience Architect," "Growth Ninja," "Chief of Vibes"

Each detected phrase gets a severity rating (Mild / Notable / Brutal), and the top 5 offenders are surfaced with quoted text and a one-line roast of why each one is BS.

The four score zones

The gauge is colored by zone, with each zone calibrated against the categories above:

• 0–30 — Substance Heavy (green): genuinely substance-dense. A handful of conventional phrases doesn't push you out of this zone if the rest is solid.
• 31–50 — Fluff Creeping In (yellow): real content with buzzwords starting to multiply.
• 51–70 — BS-Forward (orange): tilting into trouble. Reads like a thought-leader podcast intro.
• 71–100 — Pure Corporate Slop (red): buzzword anthology with a name on top.

Most competent resumes land in the 16–30 range. If yours lands above 50, the offenders list shows you exactly which phrases are doing the damage.

The whole thing is free, runs on every roast automatically, and takes the same 30 seconds the original roast does. Get yours scored at roastmyresume.io.

2. The Bullet Surgeon — rewrite one bullet, three ways

The BS Detector solves "what's wrong." It doesn't solve "how do I fix it."

Once you see your 67% score and a list of five offending phrases — "results-driven," "spearheaded," "team player," "drove results," "passionate" — the next move is to rewrite the bullets that contain them. But most users don't sit down and rewrite their whole resume after seeing a roast. They poke at it one bullet at a time, copy-paste each into ChatGPT, and hope the rewrite is better.

That's the gap the Bullet Surgeon fills. It's a single-purpose tool with a single textarea: paste one bullet, get back three rewrites side-by-side.

The three tiers

Most resume rewriters give you one "corrected" version. We give you three on purpose:

• Honest (green) — accurate, professionally-worded. The truthful baseline. "Managed company social media across LinkedIn and Twitter."
• Polished (orange) — recruiter-ready. Strong action verb, quantified if there's a number to use. This is the version you should actually paste back into your resume.
• Shameless (red) — intentionally over-the-top corporate inflation. Full LinkedIn-influencer cosplay. "Spearheaded omnichannel brand storytelling that catalyzed multi-platform community growth, driving measurable lift in qualified pipeline."

The third one is a joke. It's there to teach you where the line is.

When you see all three together, the middle one is obviously the right choice — not too dry, not too inflated. That's the whole point. We could give you only the "polished" version, but then you'd have no reference for whether it was enough or too much. Three versions makes the right level self-evident.

What it won't do

The Bullet Surgeon will not invent metrics that weren't in your original bullet. If your bullet doesn't have a number, the Polished version will use approximate language ("approximately X%") so you can fill in the real number yourself. We deliberately constrained the prompt this way — too many AI resume tools will happily fabricate "47% growth" out of thin air, which sets you up to fail when the recruiter asks "where did that number come from?"

3. The Tools Page — every free tool in one place

The hidden problem behind the first two: we'd already built seven free tools, and most users had no idea any of them existed beyond the main resume roast.

The full list:

• Roast My Resume — the flagship. Letter grade + BS Score + brutal commentary.
• Bullet Surgeon — one bullet, three rewrites (above).
• Resume Battle — upload two resumes, watch them fight, crown a winner.
• Cover Letter Roast — AI critique of your cover letter with every "I am writing to apply for" counted.
• LinkedIn Roast — rocket emojis counted, thought-leader energy measured, third-person About sections publicly shamed.
• Job Title Inflation Machine — drag a slider, watch "Secretary" become "Chief of Staff" across 60 years of title creep.
• World Resume Atlas — click a country, see what goes on a resume there. 15 countries, hand-curated.

Each tool lived at its own URL with no central discovery surface. So unless you knew the LinkedIn Roast existed (most people didn't), you'd never find it.

The fix is the new Tools page, which surfaces all seven in a single grid with the main roast featured at the top as the flagship. Each tool gets a card with a color-coded accent border (green for the new Bullet Surgeon, red for Battle, blue for LinkedIn, etc.) and a one-line description.

It's now linked from the footer of every page and from the homepage below the existing tool callouts. If you're sharing the site somewhere — TikTok bio, Twitter, anywhere — roastmyresume.io/tools is now a stronger destination than the homepage alone. The homepage sells the main roast. The tools page sells the platform.

The thread that connects all three

The BS Detector tells you what's wrong. The Bullet Surgeon helps you fix one piece of it at a time. The Tools Page surfaces the rest of the toolkit you can reach for as you go.

But underneath all three is the same observation: the language you use on your resume matters more than most people realize, and most people don't have a reliable way to see where their own resume crosses the line into fluff. Recruiters can't unsee buzzwords. Once you've used four of them in your summary, you're done before they read your first bullet.

Every tool we've built points at the same idea from a different angle. The main roast tells you the overall verdict. The BS Detector quantifies the buzzword layer. The Bullet Surgeon fixes individual lines. The LinkedIn Roast catches it on a different surface. Cover Letter Roast catches it in the document recruiters read second.

They're all the same fight: making it easy to see your own resume the way a recruiter sees it, and then giving you the right tool to fix what you find.

What's next

A few things on the build queue that we'll likely ship over the next month or two:

• A standalone landing page for the BS Detector so it has its own URL and SEO surface beyond being a feature of the main roast
• A Corporate Clichés content series continuing the buzzword theme on social
• A TikTok video auto-generator that turns every roast into a downloadable 30-second vertical video — a long-standing experiment to remove the manual editing bottleneck for sharing roasts
• Whatever else readers keep asking for. The Bullet Surgeon was directly requested by someone who emailed us asking "can you make a single-bullet version of the rewrite?"

If you have ideas, find us on X or Instagram. We read everything.

In the meantime: if you haven't roasted your resume recently, do that first. The BS Score is the new headline number, and it tells you in one glance whether your resume is competing with the language game or losing to it.