A glowing red thread winding through a vined stone labyrinth toward a lit archway

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Sick of the silence?

Fix the resume that's costing you interviews. Get a clear score and the specific fixes that'll actually move the needle.

  • A clear score in about 2 minutes. See how your resume reads against the job you want.
  • The specific fixes that matter. Not a wall of tips. The few that move you up the pile.
  • Your score first, then an account. The number is free. A free account opens the tool that fixes it.
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Clients average under 8 weeks to their first interview when they work the plan.

The real problem

You're not underqualified.
You're under‑framed.

A resume is an argument, not a timeline. The quiet fear when nobody writes back is "I'm not good enough." Usually that's not it. Your value is on the page, it's just not framed so a hiring manager sees it in seconds.

One tool, in your browser

The studio asks about your work. You leave with the argument.

No call to book and no file to download. One tailored resume and cover letter, free, and free means finished rather than a preview. One full job every 30 days, no card required.

1:1 clients who run this method average under 8 weeks to first interview. The studio runs the same method, self-serve.

A first run

Four things, and only one of them is work.

  1. Upload your resume and paste one job
  2. Read what a screening model turns you into
  3. Answer questions about your own work
  4. Leave with a resume, a cover letter and their application questions
  • Free first run
  • No card
  • Stop any time
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No resume yet? Start from the job.

About twenty minutes, and you can stop any time.

The same answers make three other things

Thalia

Your LinkedIn

The same stories, aimed at a stranger on a phone.

Daedalus

A portfolio

The thing you made that never fit on a resume.

Asterion

Opening soon

Rapid fire applying, once your stories are banked. He is not open yet.

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Outcomes

The numbers make the price feel small.

"She helped me find the story I didn't realize I was telling. I had all the right experience, scattered across five versions of myself with no central theme. Two and a half months later I landed a founding role with a unanimous vote."

Mike M.Product Marketing Manager

"I used to think of my resume as an inventory of my experience. Katie reframed it as the answer to the hiring manager's question: I have needs, can you solve them?"

Ben S.Engineering Leader

"It's more than a resume edit. It's a strategy session for your career. She changed how I thought about positioning myself, not just what was on the page."

Keara B.International Marketing Manager
AppleDisneyAmazonEA

Where clients have landed. Credible, not a guarantee.

How it works

Three moves. One thread pulled all the way through.

01

Read the target

We read the roles you actually want for what they reward, not what they list. The target defines the argument.

02

Find your throughline

The one idea that makes every role you've held look inevitable instead of random.

03

Build for the reader

Your resume becomes an argument for one specific hiring manager, so your value lands in seconds.

The difference

Most tools hand you a resume. We hand you a plan.

A better-worded resume isn't enough on its own. What gets you interviews is positioning plus a plan: knowing which roles to target, tailoring with intent, and tracking what's landing so you can adjust. That's why clients who run the plan see a first interview in about 8 weeks. You're not buying a document. You're buying a system you run.

A four-step loop in the labyrinth watercolor style: Target the right roles, Tailor with intent, Track what lands, and Adjust and repeat, with a lit archway in the distance as the goal you are heading toward
Katie, the founder of Red Thread Studio

Who's behind this

Hi, I'm Katie.

I've been the hiring manager reading the stack of resumes. I've also been the qualified person getting nothing but silence. That combination is why I built this.

Most people who try to fix resumes have one of three things: a product manager's problem-solving, a designer's eye for how humans read, or real hiring-manager experience. I have all three. So I see your search differently: the human is the product, your resume is the interface I'm designing, and the hiring manager is the user I'm building it for. My whole job is making it effortless for them to see what you can do.

And here's what I want you to walk away with: not just a better resume, but actually knowing how to write one. No one teaches us this. I'd rather you never need me again.

More about how I work →

Work with me · 1:1

When you want it done with you, not just by yourself.

The tools are self-serve: you do the work, guided by the method. 1:1 is the step up. I'm in the room with you, finding the thread that runs through your whole career, then rebuilding your resume (and more) into an argument for the roles you actually want.

A thinking partner who has sat on the hiring side, not a worksheet. Start an intake and I'll read your situation first, then point you to the right path.

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What's included

  • Resume Redesign$650

    The deep dive plus a full rewrite, built as an argument for the roles you want.

  • Full Positioning$1,250

    Everything above, plus LinkedIn, a cover letter, interview positioning, and 30 days of support.

Free starter kit

Find the thread tonight. No charge.

  • A 10-minute positioning self-diagnostic
  • One real before and after, marked up
  • Three things to try on your resume tonight

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The free Starter Kit cover: a self-diagnostic guide titled The resume isn't the problem

Questions, answered straight.

How long does this take?

About twenty minutes for the first job, and you can stop at any point with a finished resume. After that a new job is mostly reuse, because the stories are already banked.

What does free actually get me?

A real resume, a real cover letter and their application questions, tailored to one job you actually want. All yours to keep, with no card and nothing held back at the end. One free job every thirty days.

Does it write my resume for me?

No, and that is the point. It never invents a sentence about work you have not described. It asks you about what you did and puts your own words in the order a hiring manager reads in.

Why do you need the job description?

Because a resume on its own cannot be scored. Good against what is the only question worth answering, and noodling on a resume with no target is the loop that burns people out.

Do I need a resume to start?

No. Give a posting and the basic facts a machine cannot guess, and the studio builds the page out of the conversation. There is nothing to unpick, which usually makes it faster.

Do I have to talk out loud?

No. Typing is the default and it is never treated as the lesser option. Talking is there if it is easier, which it often is at the end of a long day.

Is the 8-week number real?

Yes, and it comes with a condition. It's the average time to a first interview for clients who actually run the plan: targeting the right roles, tailoring with intent, and adjusting as they go. It's a credible pattern from real clients, not a guarantee.

Is this different from the 1:1 work?

Same method, different hands. I built the studio to run what I do by hand. Some moves are too high stakes to do yourself, and I will say so if I read your intake and think that is you.