Your AI Resume

The AI resume: a glossary

AI resume

What is AI resume?

An AI resume is the profile an AI model assembles about you or your business when someone asks, built from everything the model can retrieve and remember.

Who uses the term AI resume?

The term is this book's own. It names something everyone already has rather than a product anyone sells.

The nearest established phrases are entity profile and brand perception in AI search, both of which describe the machinery rather than the document the reader ends up holding.

A CV is written by you and says what you chose to say. An AI resume is compiled by machines and says what the evidence supports.

A knowledge panel is one search engine's visible record. An AI resume is the synthesis any model produces on demand, across every source it can reach, and it is never shown to you.

What does Online Reputation Management for Your AI Resume say about AI resume?

The book's framing is that this reads like a resume because it is used like one: a resume exists to help someone decide about you quickly, which is exactly the job the machine's summary performs. Where your CV and your AI resume disagree, it says, the reader increasingly believes the machine, because the machine has no reason to flatter you.

Read about the book's argument.

Related terms

  • Memory layer

    The memory layer is what a model carries from training: the impression of you already inside it before any search happens.

  • Retrieval layer

    The retrieval layer is what a model fetches live when it is asked about you: your site, reviews, coverage, listings and whatever else it can reach at that moment.

  • Entity home

    An entity home is one page, on a site you control, stating your record completely, so that machines assembling a profile of you have a master copy to reconcile everything else against.

  • The audit

    The audit is reading your own AI resume: asking several models the questions your buyers and employers are asking, and reading the answers as a stranger with money at stake would.