Free · Open standard

One CV for humans and AI.

A PDF is just a picture of your CV — and the software that screens applicants often reads it wrong. Your cv.json is the real data behind it: one private link that AI and recruiters read perfectly. Always up to date. Free.

A PDF is a photo. cv.json is the data.

Same CV, two versions. One is a flat picture that machines squint at and get wrong. The other is clean data they read perfectly, every single time.

PDFWhat software sees in your PDF
  • Your name read as an address
  • Job title merged into the dates
  • Half your skills quietly dropped
cv.jsonWhat software gets from cv.json
  • Every detail, labelled and exact
  • Nothing lost, nothing guessed
  • Always the latest version

Why your CV needs a data version.

More and more, the first thing to read your CV isn't a person — it's software. Give it clean data and you stop getting filtered out by mistakes you never made.

One link, always current

It's a live link, not a file. Update your CV once and everyone who opens it sees the latest — no re-sending PDFs, no stale copies in an inbox.

Beautiful for people

Your link opens a clean web page anyone can read — recruiters, friends, hiring managers. A real page, not a download.

Perfect for AI

The very same CV, served as clean data that AI assistants and hiring tools read without mistakes or guesswork.

Beats the filter

Your skills, seniority, and years of experience arrive already sorted — so the software that screens applicants can't mangle them.

You're in control

Private by default. You choose what shows. Your phone and email stay hidden unless you switch them on.

Free and open

Always free, with no lock-in. It's an open standard any website or hiring tool is free to use.

Three steps. Zero tech.

You build your CV like normal. The AI-ready version comes free with it.

1

Build your CV

Make your CV in the free builder — experience, education, skills, the usual. No account needed to start.

2

Get your link

Claim your link at livelink.cv/you. Your data version (cv.json) switches on automatically — you choose what's public.

3

Share one link

Send it anywhere. People see your page at livelink.cv/you; AI and hiring tools read your data at livelink.cv/you/cv.json — always the latest.

A real one, right now.

This is a live FreeCV link. Open the page a person sees — then the exact data an AI gets from the very same link.

livelink.cv/ashley
Ashley CarterSenior Product Designer · open to work
GET livelink.cv/ashley/cv.json
{
  "$schema": "https://cvjson.com/schema/v1.json",

  "basics": {
    "name":     "Ashley Chen",
    "label":    "Senior Product Manager",
    "location": "San Francisco, CA",
    "summary":  "10+ years leading cross-functional teams...",
    "profiles": [{ "network": "LinkedIn", "url": "..." }]
  },

  "work": [{
    "company":    "Stripe",
    "position":   "Senior PM",
    "current":    true,
    "highlights": ["Increased developer adoption by 34%"]
  }],

  "skills":       ["Product Strategy", "SQL", "Figma"],
  "education":    [{ "institution": "Stanford", "degree": "MBA" }],
  "certificates": [{ "name": "PMP", "issuer": "PMI" }],
  "interests":    ["AI Ethics", "Open Source"],

  "availability": {
    "status": "open",
    "workType": ["remote", "hybrid"],
    "roles": ["Product Manager", "Head of Product"]
  },

  "ats": {
    "keywords":          ["Product Strategy", "SQL"],
    "yearsOfExperience": 10,
    "seniority":         "senior"
  },

  "verification": { "email": true, "platform": "freecv.org" }
}

An open standard, not a walled garden.

cv.json is free, MIT-licensed, and documented. Any site, ATS, or AI agent can read it — no key, no SDK, no permission needed.

basics
Name, title, photo, summary, location, social profiles.
work
Companies, positions, dates, highlights, and a summary per entry.
education
Institutions, degrees, fields of study, scores, summary, and highlights.
skills
A flat array of skill names — simple and searchable.
availability
Job-seeking status, preferred roles, work type, and sponsorship needs.
Extended
ats
Auto-generated keywords, years of experience, and seniority level.
Extended
verification
Email verified flag and platform trust signal.
Extended
meta
Schema version, canonical URL, last modified, and generator.
Extended

Fetch

curl https://livelink.cv/ashley/cv.json

# Response headers include:
#   Content-Type: application/json
#   Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

AI Agent

// For AI recruiting agents:
const cv = await fetch(
  'https://livelink.cv/ashley/cv.json'
).then(r => r.json())

if (cv.availability.status === 'open'
 && cv.ats.yearsOfExperience >= 5) {
  // Candidate matches criteria
}

Give your CV a link AI can read.

Build your CV free, get your live link, and your cv.json comes with it. No catch, no subscription.