TryPenguin
From $7.50 AUD · No account needed
TryPenguin
From $7.50 AUD · No account needed
Anyone can get a polished CV from an AI now. We do the harder thing - help you understand what your experience is actually saying, so you can stand behind it in the room. Launch offer - Career Direction Explorer and CV Revision Guide for $7.50.
Message us on WhatsApp →We're not professional career coaches. This is coaching-style feedback generated through AI we've configured and tuned for this work - designed to help you think, not to replace professional advice.
The real problem
An afternoon with an AI can get you fluent, confident copy about yourself. It reads well, and it might even be true, but it's the model's gloss on your experience - not something you've actually worked out. So you end up holding words that sound right that you can't stand behind.
When everyone's CV is polished, polish stops being the thing that sets you apart. Knowing what's underneath it does.
The output is smooth, so it feels done. Smooth and true aren't the same thing - an interviewer can tell the difference in one follow-up question.
You can't stand behind a sentence you didn't arrive at.
You and the next 200 applicants used the same tools on the same kind of CV. The phrasing converges and recruiters have started reading past it for exactly that reason.
Generic polish is now the baseline, not the edge.
Your document looks better and you've learned nothing about yourself. Then the interview asks the one question the AI can't answer for you: "So, who are you?"
You optimised the page and skipped the person.
What actually arrives
An illustrative excerpt from a Career Direction Explorer, modelled on real output. It's one coherent document in six parts - here we've opened the part most tools never reach.
What travels across these directions is real-time operational judgement under constraint and a people-building instinct, in the same person. Most candidates moving into operations have one and get by on the other.
Deciding what the operation should be, not what's flowing through it
Forecasting, replenishment, route optimisation
Judging where the software stops and your call begins
Where this stops being reliable: this read leans on the kitchen chapter doing transferable work, but your CV describes it in duty-list language - covers per service, team size, food-cost budget all absent. It's more confident than the CV strictly supports.
Most CV tools tell you what's wrong with your formatting. A Career Direction Explorer tells you what your experience is already saying - the through-line you couldn't see by reading your own CV.
$15 AUD / £7.50 GBP $7.50 AUD / £3.75 GBP
Two coaching documents built from the specific content of your CV - delivered in minutes.
Understand what your CV is actually saying before you rewrite a single line. Maps the career paths your experience points towards - including ones you might not have considered.
Specific priorities ranked by impact. What to change, what to cut and why it matters. ATS readiness guidance built in.
A prompt that's yours to keep. Next time a specific job catches your eye, paste it into any AI chatbot along with your CV and the job ad - it'll help you tailor your CV to that role using what's already true about you.
Most people jump straight to fixing their CV without knowing what they're fixing it for. This bundle starts with direction so the revisions actually land. Your CV is the raw material. The work is understanding what it's already saying about you.
Message us on WhatsApp →Ready to start?
Message TryPenguin and follow the prompts. Reply with your CV as a PDF or Word doc.
We send a secure Stripe link. Pay in your browser and come straight back to the chat.
Your Career Direction Explorer arrives first, then your CV Revision Guide shortly after. Both built from the specific content of your CV, not a template.
Same process - send your CV through and choose what you need next.
Every review guide comes from your roles, your projects, your qualifications. Nothing is generic.
Most CV tools tell you what's wrong with your formatting. We help you see what your experience is pointing towards - so you can make the call.
Your document arrives in under 10 minutes. No booking a session. No waiting for a human reviewer.
Your CV is deleted after 7 days; your documents are kept for 12 months so you can come back to them. Never used to train AI models. Never shared with employers. Full details in our privacy policy - you can delete your data at any time.
Employers aren't abandoning CVs - they're looking past them. When three quarters of applications are AI-generated, a document alone doesn't prove anything. Recruiters are adding new steps: chat-based assessments, problem-solving meetings, video screening.
Understanding your direction is the foundation. Your CV becomes a vehicle for a story you can actually tell. When the interview comes, that same self-knowledge gives you the answers.
Before you message us
Yes. Your CV is held for 7 days so you can come back and pay without re-sending it, then it's deleted. Your coaching documents are kept for 12 months so you can return to them. Your CV is never used to train AI models and never shared with employers. You can ask us to delete everything at any time. Full details are in our privacy policy.
It's AI-generated coaching, and we're upfront about that. We're not professional career coaches - the feedback is generated through AI we've configured and tuned for this work, designed to help you think rather than to replace professional advice. What you get back is built from your specific CV, not a template.
Two documents: a Career Direction Explorer that maps where your experience points, and a CV Revision Guide with ranked, specific priorities. Both arrive on WhatsApp within minutes. There's a redacted example further up this page.
No. The whole thing happens in WhatsApp. You send your CV, tap a secure Stripe link to pay in your browser, and your documents come back in the same chat. No sign-up, no password.
Your first document usually arrives in under 10 minutes, with the second shortly after. No booking, no waiting for a human reviewer.
Message TryPenguin on WhatsApp to get started.
Message us on WhatsApp → 🇦🇺 🇬🇧 🌍 Australian numbers pay in AUD. UK and everywhere else pay in GBP.* CV Review Bundle (Career Direction Explorer + CV Revision Guide) $7.50 launch offer (normally $15). Interview Prep Guide $20. AUD prices inc GST. GBP equivalent: £3.75 / £10 (normally £7.50 / £10). Numbers outside Australia and the UK are billed in GBP.