Where are previous checks stored

On the device you ran them on. The section says so: reports saved on this device. Opening an earlier report does not delete the latest one and does not re-run the check.

Does opening an old report cost me a check

No. It is a stored result, not a new request, so nothing is sent and no rate limit is touched.

How do I know what a fix will be worth

Every check under the score says what it earned and what the full score needs. A completeness check is part of a dimension worth 30% of the score, so a check worth 10 points inside completeness is worth 3 points of the 100.

Did the rewrite invent anything

No. The same four achievements, the same figures, the same two employers. What changed was the heading they sat under, the dates on each role, and an education line.

Will restructuring always be worth this much

No. A document already scoring in the eighties will move by a few points at most, and the checks marked Review will say where those points are before you start.

Blog · Evidence

We rewrote one résumé's structure and the score moved from 70 to 88

The report named what was missing before we changed anything. Then Previous checks kept both reports so the change could be checked against the result.

ConxfolioPublished 2026-09-12 · updated 2026-09-26

— an estimate you can audit afterwards is worth more than a confident one.

Previous checks on the ATS review: two saved checks of the same career, one scoring 88 and one scoring 70 — Two checks in one browser, measured on 26 September. Same candidate, same work, two ways of writing it down.

Re-measured on 26 September 2026. This page first ran the experiment on 12 September, when the first version was held under a ceiling at 40 and the second scored 97. Since 25 September a career written as projects counts as experience evidence and content is graded in proportion, so the same two documents now score 70 and 88. The numbers and pictures below are today's.

A checker that gives advice and forgets it is asking you to take its word twice: once when it tells you what to change, and again when it tells you the change worked. The ATS résumé checker keeps both reports so you can check it against itself.

The experiment

One invented candidate, Ada Fennimore, and one career: a settlement pipeline rebuilt from forty minutes to six, a database bill cut by 31 per cent, an invoicing service at 2.3 million requests a day, incidents down from nine to two a quarter. We wrote it twice. The first version presented the work as project write-ups with no Experience heading and no Education section. The second presented the same achievements as bulleted lines under two dated roles.

What the first report said

The checks under the score, each marked Passed or Review with the points it earned and what would earn the rest — Every check under the score, with the points each one earned.

The first version scored 100 × 30% + 58 × 30% + 57 × 40% = 70. The checks marked Review said why, in their own words: the four projects read as experience evidence but not as employment; no education was detected; none of the four entries carried a date of its own; and on content, two of four lines carried a figure, four achievement lines earned 8 of the 25 depth points, and 197 words earned 8 of the 20 volume points.

What the second report returned

Parseability 100, completeness 100, content 71, published 88. Every completeness check now passes: the roles are employment, each carries its dates, and the education line is back. On content, measurable evidence is at full marks, and what remains is depth and volume, seven achievement lines and 162 words where the full points ask for twelve and 500.

Previous checks is the audit trail

The report's Previous checks section lists the saved checks with when they ran, what was checked and the score: ours read 88 and 70. The section says what it is: reports saved on this device. Opening an earlier report never deletes the latest one and never re-runs the check, so the comparison sends nothing, touches none of the rate limits on the shared endpoints, and stays where you made it.

What actually changed in the document

Nothing about the work. The projects became roles with employers and dates, and the education line came back. That is the whole intervention. It is worth saying clearly because a scoring system that rewards restructuring can look like a system that rewards padding, and the difference here is visible in the counts: 197 words before, 162 after. The shorter document scored 18 points higher, which is the opposite of padding.

Running the same experiment on your own file

It takes about ten minutes. Check the résumé you already send and leave the report where it is. Read the checks marked Review and note which are worth the most. Make only those changes, in the résumé builder or in your own file, and run the check again.

Then look at Previous checks and compare. Two outcomes are useful. If the score moved roughly what the checks predicted, the rest are worth working through in order. If it moved far more, you were under a ceiling and the score card had been saying so all along in two numbers instead of one. If it did not move at all, read the counts: the extraction rather than the writing is where the afternoon should go.

What this cannot tell you

It cannot tell you that the second document performs better in front of a particular employer, because neither we nor anyone else can see that system. It measures readability and evidence in one document against one published set of rules, and it shows its sum, which is the only honest version of this offer. What it did give us was a stated diagnosis, a change, and a second measurement we could put beside the first. The counts behind both are in what the checker read, and the sum itself in why the checker prints its own arithmetic.

Run it again after the fix

Reports are kept on this device with their scores. Open an earlier one to see what a change was worth, without re-running the check.

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Questions

Where are previous checks stored: On the device you ran them on. The section says so: reports saved on this device. Opening an earlier report does not delete the latest one and does not re-run the check.
Does opening an old report cost me a check: No. It is a stored result, not a new request, so nothing is sent and no rate limit is touched.
How do I know what a fix will be worth: Every check under the score says what it earned and what the full score needs. A completeness check is part of a dimension worth 30% of the score, so a check worth 10 points inside completeness is worth 3 points of the 100.
Did the rewrite invent anything: No. The same four achievements, the same figures, the same two employers. What changed was the heading they sat under, the dates on each role, and an education line.
Will restructuring always be worth this much: No. A document already scoring in the eighties will move by a few points at most, and the checks marked Review will say where those points are before you start.

Conxfolio is a free set of four career tools: a résumé builder with 37 rendered layouts, an ATS résumé checker that prints its own arithmetic, a cover letter builder that traces every proof paragraph back to the line it came from, and a portfolio builder with 22 authored designs. There is no account to create, nothing is held back for a paid plan, and no language model is used anywhere in the product, so the readers, the score and the letter are deterministic code you can check.