How Idynic works
Five steps, start to finish: what you give it, what it builds, what you get back, and how it stays true after the first job search.
The walkthrough
Give Idynic a resume, or just tell it a story.
Upload a resume you already have and your biographer reads it for the skills, projects, and achievements it can find. No resume handy? Talk it through in chat instead. Describe a project, what you built, what happened, and it takes the same notes from your own words.
- Upload a resume, a performance review, or a project spec
- Or tell a story in chat, in plain language
- Both land in the same portrait
Review the career portrait it builds.
What it found comes back as individual, evidence-backed claims (a skill, an achievement, a project), each one linked to the file or story it came from. You confirm what is right, fix what is off, and remove what you do not want. Nothing gets used anywhere until you have seen it.
- Every claim shows the sources behind it
- Confidence scores show what is well-evidenced and what is thin
- Edit, confirm, or delete anything
Add or discover an opportunity.
Paste a job URL or the description text, forward the posting to your own intake address, or save it in one click with the Chrome extension. Forwarded job alerts arrive parsed and ranked in a review queue, so a week of postings is one pass instead of twenty tabs. However it arrives, the role gets scored against your portrait, requirement by requirement, including the ones you do not match.
- Paste a link, forward an email, or save it as you browse
- Job-alert emails arrive parsed and ranked for review
- A match score that shows the gaps instead of hiding them
Get a grounded application kit.
For that specific role, your biographer composes a tailored resume, a cover letter, drafted answers to the application's questions, and talking points to take into the interview. Every line is drawn from evidence already in your portrait, your own facts reframed for the role, and every line is yours to edit before it goes anywhere. Idynic never submits anything on your behalf.
- Tailored resume and cover letter for that role
- Drafted answers to the application's own questions
- Interview talking points, drawn from the same evidence
- Share as a link or export to PDF
Keep the portrait current through check-ins.
A portrait is worth more the second time than the first, but only if it is still true. Every few weeks (you pick the cadence, three weeks by default) your biographer emails a short nudge asking what you have shipped or driven lately. It is a brief conversation, not a form, and it drafts the story for you to approve before anything joins your portrait. Not a good time? Dismiss it and the nudges stretch out; ignore a couple in a row and the loop pauses itself until you switch it back on.
- An email nudge every two to six weeks: your choice, or off entirely
- A short conversation, capped at a few questions
- You approve the drafted story before it joins your portrait
- Dismiss or ignore it and the cadence backs off on its own
That last step is the whole difference between a document you rewrite from scratch every time and a record that is already current when the next thing comes up: the next role, a promotion case, a review self-assessment, or a short bio.
What keeps the output honest
Anything can generate a paragraph about you. The parts worth checking are where the words came from, who approved them, and who can see them.
Sources link to every claim
Open any claim in your portrait and you can see the document or story it came from, and when it was last confirmed. If a detail cannot be traced back to something you gave Idynic, you should not send it.
You review and edit every output
Your biographer drafts; you decide. Every resume, letter, and answer is editable before you use it, and nothing is submitted on your behalf.
Extraction, not invention
Idynic uses AI to identify structured facts in the material you give it. The model is prompted and constrained to extract from your material, not to invent experience, and confidence scores flag the claims that rest on thin evidence.
Private until you share it
Your portrait is private to your account. Recruiters and hiring managers see only what you send them through a link you generate, and you can revoke any shared link at any time.
You own the data
Your documents, parsed data, and profile history belong to you. Export them or delete your account whenever you want. We do not sell your personal data to recruiters or third parties.
Read the privacy policy and terms for the binding versions of the storage, deletion, and sharing commitments above.
Ready to start your portrait?
How confidence scoring works
The scoring internals, for anyone who wants them. None of this is something you have to think about to use Idynic. For the full engineering account, including retrieval weights, the match arithmetic and which model runs each step, read how Idynic thinks.
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The Confidence Score
Every skill and achievement in your portrait carries a Confidence Score, a measure of how well you can prove it. The stronger your evidence, the higher the score.
Confidence is calculated from two factors: quality of evidence (a performance review weighs more than a self-written resume) and recency (recent experience carries more weight than older experience).
Think a score is too low? Tell your biographer a story. Walk through a project, explain the context, describe what you built. Stories become evidence, and evidence raises confidence.
Keeping confidence current
Evidence ages, and the scoring says so: an exponential weighting curve gives recent evidence more pull than older evidence, so the portrait reflects what you can back up now. This is a statement about the evidence on file, not about you. A new story or document about the same work brings the score straight back up.
| Type | Year 0 | Year 4 | Year 8 | Year 15 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Skill (tool)4 years half-life | 100% | 50% | 25% | 7% |
Achievement7 years half-life | 100% | 67% | 45% | 23% |
Skill (competency)15 years half-life | 100% | 83% | 69% | 50% |
Attribute15 years half-life | 100% | 83% | 69% | 50% |
Education∞ half-life | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
Certification∞ half-life | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
Half-Lives by Evidence Type
| Type | Half-life | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Skill (tool or framework) | 4 years | Technology stacks and best practices evolve rapidly. |
| Achievement | 7 years | Business impact is durable, but market context changes. |
| Skill (competency) | 15 years | Architecture, leadership and strategy do not expire like a framework version. |
| Attribute | 15 years | Core character traits (e.g., leadership) are stable. |
| Education | ∞ | Degrees and foundational knowledge do not expire. |
| Certification | ∞ | Credentials are permanent; expiry is tracked separately. |