How intothe.zone uses AI

intothe.zone's core feature — scoring how well a job fits you — is built on AI. This page explains, in plain language, exactly what is AI-generated, what data it uses, and what control you have. Last updated 3 July 2026.

What is AI-scored

Every match you see carries a Zone Score (0–100). It is a weighted blend of five dimensions we compute about the fit between you and a specific role: skill fit, mission fit, work-style (psychometric) fit, energy fit, and career-trajectory fit — plus a small adjustment for how credible the company's role posting looks. Skill fit combines keyword matching with semantic similarity between your profile and the role description, computed using machine-learning embeddings.

The score arithmetic itself is deterministic software, not a chatbot. Large language models are used in two places around it: extracting a structured profile from your CV, and writing the plain-English explanations of a score you see on each match. Match explanations, application drafts, CV suggestions, interview practice, and the career coach chat are AI-generated text — always review them before you rely on them.

If your feedback over time shows you weigh some dimensions differently, your personal scoring weights adapt — only from your own feedback, never from other users' data. Each score also shows an AI confidence figure: the less we know about you (no psychometrics, few calibrations), the lower it is.

What data is used

  • The CV you upload, and any career context or corrections you add
  • A LinkedIn data export or GitHub connection, if you choose to provide them
  • Your psychometric questionnaire answers and zone calibrations (ratings of past roles)
  • Job postings and company information gathered from public sources
  • Your in-product feedback (saved, applied, dismissed matches; match-quality ratings)

We do not collect protected characteristics (such as age, gender, ethnicity, disability, or religion) and do not use them in scoring. Parts of this data are processed by our AI vendors (OpenAI and Anthropic) to extract your profile, compute embeddings, and generate explanations.

Scores are advisory — you decide

A Zone Score is a recommendation to you, and nothing more. It does not gate anything: you can view and apply to any role regardless of its score. No employer or recruiter sees your scores or your profile — they exist only inside your account. intothe.zone makes no automated decision about you that has legal or similarly significant effects (the kind restricted by Article 22 GDPR); the only decision downstream of a score is the one you make yourself. If we ever build features that share any evaluation of you with an employer, they will be opt-in and this page will change first.

How to correct or recalibrate

  • Re-upload your CV or edit your profile at any time — scores recompute
  • If the AI infers a skill gap that's wrong, flag it on your profile; your correction overrides the inference permanently
  • Redo your zone calibrations or psychometric questionnaire to change the energy and work-style dimensions
  • Dismiss matches with a reason and rate match quality — this trains your weights

Limitations we know about

AI profile extraction can misread a CV — that's why corrections override it. The semantic similarity models are built by third parties on data we cannot inspect, so we test our score distributions for disparities across cohorts (for example, people with career gaps) on a recurring basis and publish the method in our engineering documentation. Testing reduces risk; it cannot prove the absence of bias. Treat every score as a starting point for your own judgement, especially when the confidence figure is low.

Your data rights

You can export everything we hold about you (including every match score and its explanation) or delete your account and data at any time. Questions: privacy@intothe.zone.

We are preparing intothe.zone for the EU AI Act's requirements for employment-related AI. This page is part of that transparency work; it is a plain-language disclosure, not a certification of compliance.