Can you edit an academic resume by just telling an AI what you want? Since 11 July 2026 you can, in Axe Builder. Axe Builder, our resume builder for researchers, turns an ORCID iD into an academic resume with citations, h-index, journal quartiles and Crossref data already in place, and on 11 July its AI assistant went into production. A researcher types an instruction in plain English, such as tightening a summary, re-ordering a section or fixing a date format across forty entries, and the assistant turns it into concrete proposed changes.
The assistant was designed around consent. It shows each proposed change as a diff the author can read line by line, and it changes nothing on the resume until the author accepts; every suggestion is applied or discarded on its own. The facts of the record, meaning the publications, the grants and the dates, remain the author’s, and the assistant does only the editing the author asked for.
Is it safe to let an AI touch a CV?
It is safe when the AI cannot invent, and the assistant was built so that it cannot. It edits wording and structure, and it never adds a publication, a grant or a PhD student that is absent from the record, because the record comes from ORCID, Crossref and the researcher’s own CV, and the model only edits what is already there. Axe Talent holds the same line in its own work: every fact on a resume we present is checked against its source before a university hiring panel sees it, and the assistant was built on that rule. Axe Builder is free to start, and the assistant works on any resume already in it.