Steel Man Resumes
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Your career workspace.
Free forever.

Five tools, one workspace, zero cost. Everything the Forge learned loads into each tool automatically.
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No credit card. Your progress saves. Come back anytime.

An organized workbench representing the five tools inside the Refinery.

t.ROY is with you in every tool.

It knows what the Forge found, answers questions on every page, and helps you do the work without doing it for you.

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The five tools

One coherent story moves through all five. You never have to explain your situation from scratch again.
Aim your base resume at a specific job.

Application Tailor

Takes the base resume you built in the Forge and aims it at a specific posting -- a tailored resume, cover letter, and disclosure brief, matched to what that job actually asks for. Every version is saved. You own the final document.
No auto-generation, no invented experience. It sharpens what is already true for the role you want.
When to say it. How to say it. How to practice.

Disclosure Planner

A structured approach to the hardest part of the job search: talking about your record. The planner walks you through timing, framing, and rehearsal. The script is yours -- built from your specific situation, not a template.
The disclosure question kills more interviews than the record itself. This is the tool that fixes that.
AI mock interviews tailored to your target role.

Interview Practice

Practice answers to common questions with an AI interviewer that knows your situation. Feedback on clarity and confidence. As many rounds as you need.
Preparation is the only thing you control on interview day.
Employers who are actually fair-chance.

Job Board

Not just a job listing scraped from Indeed. Filtered for fair-chance hiring practices, matched to your situation. Ban the Box employers, WOTC participants, orgs with known JI-friendly hiring.
Applying to companies that don't want to hire you is a waste of time. We cut that list down.
Verified local support, not a Google search.

Resource Hub

Housing, transportation, legal aid, recovery support, reentry services -- verified Wisconsin organizations filtered to what you actually need. Granovetter showed weak ties are the most valuable job leads. The Hub is built on that.
A tailored resume matters more when housing and transportation are stable.
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How it connects

Start without an account. Keep working only when the system has already earned the right to ask.
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Run The Forge

Free, no account needed. Your Career Intelligence Report takes 10 minutes.

2

Create an Account

Everything the Forge learned syncs to your Refinery dashboard automatically.

3

Build in The Refinery

Each tool starts from where you are. No re-entering your situation.

Ready to start?

If you haven't run The Forge yet, start there. It takes 10 minutes and no account. Then the Refinery picks up exactly where you left off.

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