About this site
LinkedIn Buddy is a free career toolkit built on one uncomfortable observation: most tools in this niche decorate themselves with numbers nobody can verify. We took the opposite bet.
The bet
Career tools sell trust, and the industry's shortcut is to fake it: invented star ratings on day one, visitor counters that count nothing, screenshots of results that never happened. It works well enough that everyone does it, which created the opening for a site that does not. Every claim here is either true by construction (free, no signup, runs in your browser, nothing stored) or linked to a named public source. Where we have no real number, you see no number. The absence of a wall of borrowed praise is not an oversight; it is the product working.
What runs where, exactly
12 of the 29 tools are pure browser code: formatters, counters, checkers and matchers that process everything on your device and send nothing anywhere. You can verify that in your browser's network tab, which beats any privacy badge we could draw. The AI tools send exactly the text you submit to a language model, return the draft, and keep nothing beyond a ten-minute rate-limit counter. The profile scorer runs entirely in your browser too, and every signal and weight behind it is published on the methodology page.
Who builds this
A small independent team that has spent years writing and fixing professional profiles and resumes for real people, and got tired of recommending tools that greet users with fiction. The scoring signals, word lists and examples across this site are original work, informed by public LinkedIn documentation and practice, not scraped from competitors and not fabricated by a model left unsupervised. Where a page cites behavior we cannot verify, it says so in the sentence itself.
The rules we hold ourselves to
- No invented ratings, counters, or outcome stats, anywhere, ever.
- Deterministic tools must be exactly correct, and they are unit-tested.
- AI tools may only transform what you typed; missing facts become [bracketed placeholders], never inventions.
- Cited claims link named public sources or do not appear.
- Every tool page states what the tool does not do, in its own section.
If you catch us breaking any of these, the contact page explains how to tell us, and we mean it: being corrected with specifics is cheaper than being wrong in public.