Our Story

StylingCV was founded in January 2014 by Yasser Khateeb in New Castle, Delaware. Yasser had spent years watching talented professionals — engineers, teachers, designers, recent graduates — get passed over for jobs not because of their skills, but because they could not translate those skills onto paper. Resume writing was opaque, expensive to outsource, and the tools available were clunky and generic.

The problem was even more acute for non-English speakers. Job seekers in the Arab world, Southeast Asia, and Latin America had almost no resume tools built with their language and culture in mind. StylingCV set out to change that from day one — building not just a resume tool, but a genuinely global career platform.

Over the following decade, the team grew to 51–200 employees, the product expanded to support 15+ languages including full right-to-left (RTL) support for Arabic, and the user base crossed 6 million people in more than 150 countries. Today, StylingCV is powered by 11 specialized AI agents that guide every user — from the blank page to a polished, ATS-optimized resume — in under 60 seconds.

Why StylingCV?

There are dozens of resume builders. Here is what makes StylingCV different:

• 11 specialized AI agents — Not one generic AI, but a coordinated team: a content writer, an ATS optimizer, a keyword matcher, a formatting expert, and more. Each agent is built for a specific job.
• The only major resume builder with full Arabic/RTL support — We natively support right-to-left layouts, Arabic typography, and Gulf-region CV conventions. No workarounds, no broken formatting.
• Resume in under 60 seconds — Our guided flow takes you from blank to polished faster than any alternative, with no design experience required.
• Free tier with real value — You do not need a paid plan to create a professional resume. We believe access to opportunity should not cost money.
• 15+ languages, one platform — English, Arabic, French, Spanish, Indonesian, Turkish, Portuguese, Tagalog, and more — all with culturally appropriate templates and language-aware AI.

Our Mission & Values

“Help every job seeker — regardless of background, language, or budget — create a professional resume that gets them hired.”

That mission shapes everything we build. Our values reflect the people we serve:

• Inclusivity first — Every feature we ship should work for a job seeker in Cairo as well as one in Chicago. Language, location, and budget are not barriers here.
• AI with purpose — We use AI to save time and improve outcomes for real people, not to replace human judgment. Our AI surfaces the right words; the story is always yours.
• Radical simplicity — Career tools should not require a manual. If it takes more than 60 seconds to start, we have done something wrong.