About this project
A calm editor for the most serious résumé.
Built in Chile by one person who got tired of fighting Word and paying subscriptions that wouldn't cancel. No VC, no shady growth hacks, transparent pricing.
Why Harvard Resume exists
In 2026, it's still easier to find contradictory advice about how to write a CV than to actually sit down and write one. The resume-builder market splits between free apps with hideous templates and $24/month subscriptions that silently auto-renew.
The format that Harvard's Office of Career Services has published for decades resolves most of that noise. One page, serif type, clean hierarchy, no icons, bullets in the X-Y-Z formula. Boring — and precisely because of that, effective. It's the format consulting, banking, academia, and medical recruiters have spent years learning to read.
This site exists so building a CV in that format takes 10 minutes instead of a whole Saturday fighting with tabs in Word. Editing and live preview are free. You only pay to download a clean, watermark-free PDF — from USD 3.99 once, or USD 39 a year if you'll be applying often.
Important notice
We are not affiliated with Harvard University.
Harvard Resume is an independent project. We have no contractual, commercial, or academic relationship with Harvard University, its schools, or its Office of Career Services. We have no endorsement, sponsorship, or license from them.
When we say "Harvard format" or "Harvard CV" we are describing a public layout convention the university publishes freely in their official guide. This is descriptive nominative use — equivalent to saying "Chicago Manual of Style" or "metric system" without being affiliated with the city of Chicago or the French government.
If you want to consult the original source, it is publicly available in Harvard OCS's Resumes & Cover Letters Guide. If you represent Harvard University and believe any part of our use needs adjustment, please email us at hola@harvard-resume.com — or contact the Trademark Program directly.
What we do · what we don't
Five principles.
- 01
No trial-trap
There is no subscription that auto-renews unless you explicitly activate it. No "7 days for $1.95" that's secretly $24.95/4-weeks hidden in the small print.
- 02
Your CV stays yours
We don't use your content to train models. We don't share it with third parties. You can delete your account and all its data from your dashboard with one click. We comply with GDPR and CCPA.
- 03
Watermark you can't bypass
The clean PDF is generated on our server after validating your payment. It's not a React prop you can edit from devtools. If you want the watermark-free PDF, you pay — but only that.
- 04
No lock-in
Cancellation is one button in your Stripe portal. What you already paid doesn't refund (except the 30-day refund on annual plans), but you keep access until the end of the period.
- 05
No dark patterns
If you find anything on the site that feels deceptive — confirmations hard to find, abusive fine print, surprise charges — email us. It's a bug, not a feature.
Talk to us
Bugs, ideas, feedback about the format, or legal claims — all go to the same email.