Your Master Profile: One Source of Truth
Why editing a tailored resume should never silently rewrite your canonical career data — and how VeriWorkly enforces that.
Your Master Profile: One Source of Truth
Most resume tools quietly assume you have one resume. In practice, everyone who's actually job-hunting has several — one tailored for a startup, one for a big-company ATS, one that leads with a side project instead of a job title. The problem those tools never solve is: where does the real version of your career data live, and how do you stop your tailoring from corrupting it?
VeriWorkly's answer is the Master Profile.
One record, every document
Your Master Profile is a single JSON record — basics, experience, education, skills, projects, certifications, languages, awards, publications, volunteer work, references, and more. When you create a new resume, cover letter, or portfolio with no content yet, it auto-seeds from this record. No re-typing your work history for the fourth time this month.
The one-way rule
Here's the part that actually matters: editing a document never writes back to your Master Profile. Trim a section for a specific job, reword a bullet to match a job description, delete an entire experience block you don't want a particular recruiter to see — none of it touches your canonical data.
Only two things update the Master Profile:
- Directly editing the Master Profile page itself.
- Importing GitHub or LinkedIn data with "Replace my Master Profile with this data" explicitly checked.
Everything else is a one-way seed, not a two-way sync. That's a deliberate design choice, not a missing feature — it means you can tailor as aggressively as you want for one application without any risk of quietly degrading the profile every other document depends on.
Where you manage it
Studio has two editors for it: /profile/master for structured, section-by-section editing, and /profile/advanced — a raw JSON editor — for bulk changes or fields the structured UI doesn't expose yet. It's available to every account today, with no plan-based lock on reading or writing it.
If you're building on the API directly, GET/PUT /profiles/master gives you the same access programmatically.
Why this is worth calling out
A lot of "unified profile" features in other tools are marketing language for "we'll pre-fill some fields once." The one-way rule is what makes VeriWorkly's version actually trustworthy to use aggressively — you can experiment with a resume without ever worrying you've damaged the source of truth everything else pulls from.