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📐 Resume Blueprint: Controlling How Your AI Resume Is Built

Control what the AI can put on a generated resume, in what order, and how much it's allowed to change.

When Sprout writes a tailored resume it decides what to take from your professional profile and how to word it. The Resume blueprint is where you set the rules it works within: what can go in, what must always go in, what's off limits, and in what order.


📐 Where to find it


​Web: Resume blueprint in the profile sidebar, directly under Resumes.

Mobile: the Resume blueprint card in your workspace hub.

Each professional profile has its own blueprint, so the rules behind your marketing resume are separate from your operations one.


🎛️ Start here: "AI chooses what goes in"


One switch at the top of the blueprint decides how everything else behaves.

On: the AI picks from your shown entries for each job, choosing what's most relevant to that posting. Anything you've pinned always goes in regardless.

Off: every shown row goes in, every time. No selection, no judgement calls. Pins, locks and the "pinned" counts disappear, because with nothing being chosen there's nothing to force.

Your rules stay saved either way. Switch it back on and everything you set is exactly as you left it.


🎚️ The three rules


Rules can be set at three levels: a whole section, a single entry (a job, a degree, a project), or an individual bullet.

  • AI decides: in when relevant, may be reworded. The default, and right for most things.

  • Always · tailored: always in, AI may reword it to fit the role. For the experience that defines you and should never be dropped.

  • Always · as written: always in, untouched. For where exact phrasing matters: a formal job title, a certification name, a metric you've worded carefully.

Reading the icons: a pin means the row always goes in. A lock beside the pin means the text goes in exactly as written. Rows on AI decides show no icon at all.

Each entry also counts what's inside it, for example "5 details · 2 pinned, 1 hidden", so you can see the shape of an entry without expanding it.


🚫 Hiding things


​Hide from resumes keeps something in your profile but never puts it on a resume. Hidden rows are greyed out and marked Hidden.

Useful for a role that doesn't fit this career direction, or anything you'd rather not lead with, without deleting it from your profile, where it may still matter elsewhere.


🔒 Parent rules win


Rules apply top-down. Hiding a section or an entry hides everything inside it.

Similarly, an entry set to Always · as written keeps all of its shown bullets exactly as they are, so those bullets lose their own icons and their rule options grey out, with the note "Entry is sent as written". There's nothing left for a bullet-level rule to decide.

You can still hide an individual bullet inside such an entry. And nothing is lost when a parent rule takes over. Relax it and the rules underneath become active again exactly as you left them.


🗂️ Sections and order


Your resume is built from these sections: Title, Summary, Experience, Projects, Education, Skills, Certifications, Achievements, Volunteering, Additional and Attributes. Empty sections simply don't appear.

Order is yours. Drag sections, entries and bullets on web or mobile, or use Move up / Move down.

Order matters more than people expect: whatever sits at the top is what a recruiter reads in the first few seconds.

Skill categories are preserved. A category like Databases keeps its items and prints as "Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis" rather than being flattened into a single list.


👀 Preview resume


​Preview resume shows everything in your blueprint, in your order, as written. It opens immediately, with no AI and no job posting involved.

So it isn't a preview of what you'd send to a particular employer; it's the full picture of what the AI has to work with. Worth a look after any significant change, especially hiding a section, where the effect is bigger than it sounds.


✅ Your rules are enforced, not just suggested


The rules aren't hints the AI can quietly ignore. After it writes, Sprout checks the result and puts back any required entry or pinned bullet that got dropped, restores Always · as written text exactly, and applies your ordering.

If you pinned it, it's on the resume.


🔍 Setting rules from a finished resume


You don't have to configure everything up front. When you review an AI resume, the What changed view shows what it kept, reworded, left out or hid, and the same ⋯ rule menu is available on every row, so you can react to a real resume rather than setting rules in the abstract.

For most people that's the easier way in.


❓ Still have questions?

For how Sprout writes your documents in the first place:
👉 AI Generated Resume and Cover Letters

Otherwise, reply here and someone from the Sprout team will take a look.

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