Cover letter generator

Turn the resume and role into a focused cover letter.

Choose the resume, add the job, and set the tone. Ori prepares a concise draft around the most relevant examples, ready for you to review and edit.

Free browser check · No account or email · One Ori draft included in the free account

In short

This cover letter generator starts with two inputs: the resume you choose and the real job posting. It selects the examples most relevant to the role and organizes them into a focused opening, body, and close.

You stay in control of every fact. The free tier includes 1 letter, once, with no card and no clock on it.

Check the letter you already have

Paste it and get the real score, the cliches by name, and which of the posting’s words you actually used. No account, no email, and nothing you paste leaves this browser tab.

Worth 20 of the 100 points. Leave it blank and we cannot grade it, so we will say so rather than give you the marks.

Checks the letter is unmistakably for this job.

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How it works

  1. 1

    It reads the resume you already built

    No second questionnaire about your career. The letter is drawn from the roles, bullets and numbers already in your resume - the material it argues from.

  2. 2

    You paste the real posting

    It reads what the job actually asks for and picks the two or three things in your history that answer it, rather than restating your resume in paragraph form.

  3. 3

    You polish and own the draft

    It proposes wording; you edit every line. Where a metric would land harder and you have not written one yet, it leaves a clear bracket so you can fill the real number.

Why the resume and posting change the draft

The strongest letters are short arguments from evidence. The full editor starts with your resume and the posting, selects the most relevant work, and gives each example a reason to be there. You review and edit every line before download.

Pair it with the free checker on this page to catch cliches, leftover brackets, and supported posting terms you have not used yet, then open the full editor to draft and review the complete letter.

When a cover letter earns its place

A useful letter carries something the resume cannot hold cleanly: the bridge into a new field, context around a return to work, a specific reason for this role, or one strong example that deserves more room. That is where a grounded draft can save the hardest part: deciding what belongs in the letter at all.

The full argument, including how to tell the two cases apart, is in tailoring one application, end to end.

What it costs

One cover letter on the free account, with no card. It does not refill. The letter and its paired resume share one released-document unit. Downloading that released pair again does not use another export. Paid plans keep the same generator available throughout the plan.

How to edit generic cover-letter language

The tells are consistent enough to list. An opening that announces itself (“I am writing to express my keen interest in the position of…”) spends the most valuable sentence on the page saying nothing. A middle paragraph that restates the resume in longer words gives a reader who has already seen the resume no reason to keep going. Adjectives with no evidence behind them (passionate, dynamic, results-driven) are unfalsifiable, so they carry no information.

The structural cause is the same in each case: a generator with no material has to produce volume from nothing, and confident filler is what that looks like. Given your actual bullets and an actual posting, there is something specific to say, so it says that instead. The letter is also fully editable, and it should be reviewed line by line before you send it because it goes out under your name.

What a good one contains

Three things, in about 250 words. Why this employer specifically, in a way that could not be pasted into an application to a competitor. The two or three pieces of your history that most directly answer what the posting asks for, with the numbers attached. And anything the resume structurally cannot explain: a change of field, a gap, a relocation, a title that undersells what you did.

Everything else is optional and most of it is padding. If you find you have none of the three, that is the signal that this particular application does not need a letter, and the hour is better spent on the resume itself.

Write one against a real posting

Build the resume first (that part is free and uncounted) and the letter has something true to argue from.

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Questions people ask

Will the AI make things up about me?
No. The generator argues only from your resume and the job posting you paste in. It cannot invent an employer, a date, a degree or a metric, and where a specific number would strengthen a sentence it leaves a bracketed prompt asking you for it instead of inventing one.
Do employers care about cover letters in 2026?
Its importance varies by employer. A focused letter is especially useful when the posting asks for one, when you are changing fields or returning to work, or when one strong example needs more context than the resume can hold. The best letter connects evidence to this role instead of repeating the resume.
Is the AI cover letter generator free?
Yes. The free tier includes 1 cover letter, written against a real posting, with no card and no clock. It does not refill; a paid plan removes the count, and every letter you have written stays yours to edit either way.
Will it read as AI-written?
It is built to avoid the tells: no "I am writing to express my keen interest", no restating the resume in longer words, no adjectives it cannot support. It is drawn from your own bullets, so the specifics are yours. You should still read it before sending, and it is fully editable.