--- title: "AI Can Write Your CV Now. So I Built Something Else." description: "Why I stopped building a better CV tool and shipped AI-powered portfolios instead - a founder's take on what comes after the resume." canonical: "https://mortit.com/blog/ai-can-write-your-cv-so-i-built-something-else" --- Insights # AI Can Write Your CV Now. So I Built Something Else. Why I stopped building a better CV tool and shipped AI-powered portfolios instead — a founder's take on what comes after the resume. 6 min read March 2026 TL;DR AI can generate a polished CV in seconds — which means **everyone** now has a polished CV. The differentiator is shifting to **proof of work**: portfolios, public profiles, and structured evidence of what you've actually done. I built an AI agent, portfolio system, and public profiles into MORT to make that shift practical. A few weeks back, I wrote about how 62% of employers now bin AI-generated CVs that lack personalisation. The question I keep hearing since is always the same: *if AI can write my CV but employers reject AI-written CVs, what am I supposed to do?* I didn't have a good answer at the time. Now I think I do — and it involves portfolios, not better CVs. ## The CV Is a Compression Problem Here's the thing about CVs: they were designed for a world where a hiring manager had 30 seconds to decide whether to interview you. So we compress entire careers into two pages of bullet points. “Led cross-functional team to deliver £2.3M project” — what does that actually tell you? Almost nothing. Then AI came along and got really good at generating these compressed summaries. ChatGPT can spit out a perfectly formatted CV in seconds. Which means every candidate now has a perfectly formatted CV. Which means the signal-to-noise ratio has collapsed to roughly zero. Employers responded exactly how you'd expect: they started ignoring CVs altogether, or adding more screening layers. Skills tests. Portfolio reviews. Work samples. A 2025 TestGorilla survey found that 81% of employers now use some form of skills-based assessment, up from 73% the year before. The CV hasn't been replaced yet, but its role as a differentiator is essentially over. ## What If You Could Just Show Your Work? I've been building MORT — an AI-powered job matching platform — for over a year now. The core product matches your skills and experience to relevant opportunities using vector search and NLP. That part works well. But matching only solves half the problem. Getting matched to a perfect role means nothing if you can't convince the hiring manager you're the right person. And a two-page CV is an increasingly poor vehicle for that. So last week, I built something different. ## Agent, Portfolios, and Public Profiles Over seven days, I shipped three interconnected features: **An AI agent** that works like a conversation, not a form. Instead of filling out fields, you talk to it. Tell it about the project you led, the tool you built, the problem you solved. It asks follow-up questions, extracts the details that matter — technologies used, measurable outcomes, team size — and structures everything into a work item. It's essentially interview prep meets portfolio building. **A portfolio system** where each work item lives as a structured record: what you built, what tools you used, what the impact was. Not a bullet point on a CV — a proper entry with context. Think of it as a professional evidence library. **Public profile pages** at `/p/username` — a shareable page that combines your summary, headline, skills, experience, and portfolio items. No login required. Send the link to a recruiter, drop it in your email signature, include it in applications. It's your professional identity in a format that's actually useful. The whole thing was about 21,000 lines of code across 117 files. Solo. In a week. ## Why This Matters More Than You'd Think I'm not claiming portfolios are some revolutionary idea. Designers have had them forever. Developers have GitHub profiles. But for the vast majority of professionals — project managers, analysts, marketers, ops people — there's no equivalent. LinkedIn is a social network pretending to be a portfolio. Your CV is a summary pretending to be evidence. What's changed is the context. When every candidate can generate a polished CV in seconds, the differentiator shifts to *proof*. Can you show what you actually did? Can you demonstrate impact with specifics? Mark Zuckerberg said something interesting in January — that projects which used to require big teams can now be accomplished by “a single very talented person.” He was talking about AI tools, but the implication cuts both ways. If one person can now do more, employers want to see *what* that one person has done. Not a summary. The work itself. ## What I Learned Building This A few honest observations from shipping this sprint: **Conversations beat forms.** The agent approach works dramatically better than traditional form-based input. When people talk about their work, they mention the details that matter — the scrappy workaround, the metric that moved, the tool they chose and why. Forms kill that nuance. **Structured data is everything.** Each work item captures skills, tools, metrics, and tags as structured data, not free text. That means MORT can match portfolio items to job requirements with the same vector search we use for CVs. The portfolio becomes a searchable, matchable asset — not just a pretty page. **Public profiles are scary.** Honestly, I expected more enthusiasm. But several early testers said they felt exposed having their work visible. There's a vulnerability to it that a CV doesn't have. A CV is vague enough to hide behind. A portfolio is specific enough to be scrutinised. That's the point, but it takes getting used to. **The explore feature changed everything.** I also shipped a browse page where you can discover public profiles. It immediately created a network effect I hadn't anticipated. People started looking at how others structured their portfolio items and improving their own. Benchmarking by example rather than instruction. ## The Bigger Picture I think we're in the early stages of a shift in how professional identity works. CVs won't disappear — they're too embedded in hiring workflows. But they'll become table stakes, not differentiators. The real signal will come from portfolio evidence, public work samples, and structured proof of what you've actually done. If that sounds like it gives an advantage to people who do visible, demonstrable work — you're right. It does. And that's a tension worth thinking about. Not all valuable work is easily showcased. Some of the best professionals I know do quiet, behind-the-scenes work that doesn't lend itself to portfolio items. I don't have a perfect solution for that yet. But I'm fairly sure the answer isn't “keep compressing careers into two pages of bullet points and hoping AI doesn't make them all look identical.” ## What's Next The portfolio system is live in MORT now. The AI agent handles the heavy lifting of turning your work experience into structured, matchable items. Public profiles are opt-in — you choose what's visible and what stays private. If you're curious about how AI-powered portfolio matching actually works under the hood, I'm happy to write more about the technical side. But for now, the core bet is simple: in a world where AI can write everyone's CV, the people who can *show* their work will win. And to be honest, I think that's how it should have worked all along. ## Build your portfolio with MORT MORT's AI agent turns your work experience into structured, matchable portfolio items. Create a public profile, share it with recruiters, and let your work speak for itself. [See How It Works](https://mortit.com/features/ai-job-matching) [Try MORT Free](https://app.mortit.com/signup) ## Keep Reading ### [ATS Anxiety Is Making Your CV Worse](https://mortit.com/blog/ats-anxiety-making-cv-worse) 77% of job seekers fear ATS rejection, so they're making CVs longer. Here's why that's backfiring. ### [Best AI Resume Builders in 2026](https://mortit.com/blog/best-ai-resume-builders) We tested 10+ AI resume tools to find which ones actually work for job tailoring and ATS optimization. ### [How to Find Jobs That Match Your Skills](https://mortit.com/blog/find-jobs-that-match-my-skills) Skill-based search strategies and AI job matching tools to find roles you're actually qualified for.