Templates & builder
Parser-safe templates with guided, section-by-section advice. Included for everyone.
For UK graduates & school leavers
Design & create a standout CV. Very well.
The job market has learned to process people at scale. Lantern teaches you to write your own CV, understand how it's read, and run your search as a deliberate campaign — not a scattergun.
No AI writes your content
No account, no card to try
Free this year
The market you're walking into
A hundred applications, and almost nothing back.
A record number of graduates and school leavers compete for a shrinking pool of entry-level roles. The tools built to help mostly made it worse by generating documents faster. Lantern closes the gap by teaching, not generating — so you can speak for yourself when a real person finally reads the page.
~140
applications per graduate vacancy
A–D
readability graded across ten ATS checks
48h
full demo, no account or card
0
ads, investors or data sold
The builder itself
Everything you need to build well, and nothing that writes it for you.
Parser-safe templates, guidance beside the section you're writing, and the checks that tell you how your CV reads before a recruiter's software does.
ATS readability score
Ten checks, graded A to D, so you build for how screening software actually reads a CV.
Built for the real parse, not the mythDate & gap review
Flags overlaps and unexplained gaps in your timeline before an employer spots them.
Evidence store
Keep grades, certificates and references in one place, so every claim traces to something real.
Stay organised
Run the hunt as a campaign, not a scattergun.
Target employers, then the roles under each, with a tailored CV per role kept in one place. An interactive calendar holds deadlines, follow-ups and renewals, with reminders — without the noise.
See what's includedYour early career history is sensitive
We guard it carefully, and say little about how.
Encrypted at rest
Content is encrypted and held on UK infrastructure. Entry points are guarded, and the detail stays private so as not to help the people it's designed to keep out.
Never sold, never shown
Your CV is never sold, never shown to employers without you, and never wrapped in advertising. No affiliate fees either.
A not-for-profit
A UK community interest company in formation, with an asset lock that puts the member's interest ahead of monetising their data.
A+
Independently rated A+ for web security by Mozilla Observatory.
Everything you'd check first
One membership. Every feature. No "pro" plan.
Free this year
No card needed now. When the project reaches production, it's £3 every three months — about a pound a month. No tiers, no add-ons, no AI.
No ads
No investors
UK only
Made by one person
A blank CV and a dozen open tabs sound familiar?
Start in the builder now — no account, no card — and keep whatever you make.