Truth Lock
The AI writes. The code checks.
AI models make things up — every honest AI company admits it. Kivo is built so it doesn't matter: a deterministic checker sits between the AI and your export button, and it doesn't negotiate.
Why this exists
Ask any cloud AI to “improve” your resume and watch closely: somewhere in the polish, a number grows, a “helped with” becomes a “led,” a tool you've never touched appears in your skills. Reviewers of mainstream tools report exactly this. It reads great — until an interviewer asks about it.
Most tools answer with a disclaimer: please review before sending. Kivo answers with architecture: the model is never trusted to police itself. A separate, deterministic checker — plain code, same result every time — compares every claim against the facts you confirmed, and blocks what it can't verify.
Six locks, all mechanical.
No AI judgment anywhere in this list — just code that either verifies a claim or doesn't.
Every claim, traced
Headline, summary, every bullet, and the fact-carrying sentences of your cover letter are each matched against your confirmed profile facts.
Numbers can't inflate
A metric is only clean if your profile backs it — and $10K can't quietly become $10M, because amounts are compared by value, not by digits. Spelled-out numbers count too.
Titles can't inflate
"Helped run the project" can't become "Led the project." Ownership verbs are checked against what your facts actually say your role was.
Skills can't sneak in
A skill the model mentions that your profile doesn't hold gets flagged — including short ones like SQL or AWS that other checks gloss over. The resume's skill list itself is filtered against your profile.
Credentials are gated
A license, certification, or degree that isn't in your profile is treated like an unbacked number: it needs your explicit confirmation or it doesn't ship.
The gate is real
This isn't a warning banner. The export button stays locked while any unsupported claim exists. Resolve it with real proof — or remove it, and removal actually deletes the sentence.
This is the actual screen.
Before export, Kivo shows you every detail it couldn't fully verify. “Yes, save it” confirms a true detail and remembers it forever. “Remove” genuinely deletes the sentence from the document — not just the warning. And claims with no support at all stay red until you deal with them.
The point isn't friction — it's that you walk into every interview able to defend every line, because every line came from you.
And it won't sound like AI, either.
Recruiters read hundreds of AI-written letters a week and can smell them. Kivo runs a second, separate cleanup pass: a banned-phrase list (no “passionate,” no “proven track record”), a repeated-phrase detector that catches the copy-paste echo AI writing falls into, and a voice check that compares drafts against how you actually write.
The result reads like a person — because everything in it came from one.
Next: where your data lives — Private by design