The AI-Readable Résumé: What It Is and How to Make One

Beautiful designs are often the enemy of parsability. These common choices scramble machine reading:

• Multiple columns — text gets read out of order.
• Tables and text boxes — content is skipped or jumbled.
• Icons and images for contact info — invisible to a parser.
• Headers/footers — frequently ignored.
• Creative section names — "Where I've Made Impact" instead of "Experience" confuses matching.

1. Standard headings: Summary, Experience, Education, Skills, Certifications.
2. One role per block: title, company, location, dates on their own lines.
3. Verb + result + number bullets: "Cut checkout latency 38% by caching pricing calls."
4. Single column, no tables.
5. Real text, not images.
6. A machine-readable version: Markdown or clean HTML is ideal for AI.

Markdown is plain text with light structure (headings, lists, bold). AI models parse it flawlessly, it never loses layout, and it's tiny to send. person.bio publishes your résumé as a live resume.md link — a Markdown résumé you can hand to any AI, embed anywhere, or connect directly to ChatGPT and Claude.

You don't need to hand-write Markdown. Fill in the person.bio résumé form once; it generates the AI-readable resume.md, a public bio page, and ATS-friendly PDF/.docx exports — all from one source.