Standards, fairness, and your data.

Most companies route applications through an applicant tracking system before a human sees them. The ATS extracts text from your CV, matches it against the job's required skills, and ranks candidates. If your CV's structure or formatting confuses the parser, you may be filtered out before a recruiter ever sees your name — even if you're a strong fit.

Headers, footers, page numbers, text boxes, multi-column layouts, tables, embedded images, decorative icon fonts, and unusual section labels. Parsers built around traditional CV structure miss content that lives outside the main text flow.

Distil's outputs use industry-standard fonts, sizes, and section labels that mainstream ATS parsers read reliably, with a single-column structure and no decorative elements that confuse parsers. The result is built to be machine- scannable first and human-readable second.

Industry research consistently lands around 30–60 seconds for a first-pass screen. Recruiters scan for fit, not depth. They're checking that you've done the kind of work the role wants and that your outcomes are recognisable — not reading every bullet.

A clear role title and seniority match, recent experience at recognisable employers, outcomes expressed concretely (numbers and results, not just responsibilities), and the specific skills the job description calls out.

Many recruiters filter the ATS results by keyword before reading anything. If the job says "stakeholder management" and your CV says "client relationships", the parser doesn't bridge that gap. Distil's tailoring surfaces the language the role uses — without inventing experience you don't have.

Concise, role-specific, written like a real letter rather than a generic introduction, addressed to the named recipient where the job posting includes one, and signed off properly. It should add context to the CV — why this role, why you, what you'd bring — without restating the CV bullet by bullet.

Distil reads the role, considers the company's context, and produces a letter pitched at this specific opportunity. Everything is grounded in your master CV — we never fabricate experience or claim things you didn't do.

On encrypted cloud storage with AES-256 at rest and TLS in transit. Your CV and applications are private to your account — only you and Distil's service role can read them.

Distil itself doesn't train any AI models, and we don't sell or share your data with anyone outside what's strictly required to generate your documents. Generation is performed by a third-party AI service under their standard terms, which may briefly retain inputs for trust-and-safety purposes before deletion. If this matters to you for a specific application, email hello@curiosum.ai and we'll talk through your options.

Generated CV and cover letter files are auto-deleted after 60 days. The underlying application metadata (job description you pasted, generated content) is auto-deleted after 1 year. Your master CV is replaced when you upload a new one (the old one is removed). These are cron-driven and run regardless of whether your account is active.

Yes. Settings → Danger zone → Delete account. This removes your account, login, and master CV immediately. Generated documents continue to expire on the same 60-day file / 1-year metadata cron, unlinked from your account from the moment of deletion. There's no way to access them after you've deleted your account.

Only you (via your account) and a small number of staff with explicit admin access for operations and support. Admin access is gated by a flag on staff accounts and is not granted by default.