Hat Stack: A Smarter Way to Shape Your Career Story Across Different Roles
How a single profile can produce many resumes, many directions, and a clearer way to organize your search
Career paths rarely move in a straight line. Many professionals work across several roles, shift between part-time and full-time opportunities, or build portfolios that span different skills and industries. Yet the tools we use to present our experience still assume one resume can represent every direction. Hat Stack was created for a more flexible reality.
A Workspace Designed for People with Range
Hat Stack gives you a clear, organized system for creating personalized resumes, cover letters, and application materials from one accurate profile. Instead of rewriting documents for each opportunity, you can generate focused versions for different roles and refine them until they reflect your experience in a way that feels precise and natural.
Everything begins with your profile. You can add your experience manually or import it from LinkedIn. This becomes your central foundation. Once your information is in place, Hat Stack uses it to generate role-specific resumes that shift emphasis based on the direction you choose.
You select tone, template, and language. Hat Stack supports eight languages and several writing styles, from formal to conversational. The app produces a structured draft, and you can edit every line. Version history lets you compare variations or restore earlier work. When you are finished, you can export documents as PDF, Word, or clipboard text for online applications.
Cover Letters, Templates, and Complete Editing Control
Cover letters follow the same process. You choose a role, select tone and language, generate a draft, and revise it until it feels right. You can save versions for different companies, different types of roles, or different stages of your search.
If you prefer speaking to typing, Hat Stack supports voice notes that are transcribed and converted into draft content. This makes it easy to capture phrasing, ideas, or examples you want to include. Everything is editable, so spoken ideas can become polished writing.
The app also includes photo-to-text capture. You can take or upload a photo of printed text, handwritten notes, or past project descriptions. Hat Stack extracts the text through OCR and saves it to Notes or Files. You can pull this material into your documents whenever you need it.
Career Insights and Role Matching
Hat Stack includes Career Insights, which analyzes your profile and highlights roles that align with your background. It identifies strengths, possible gaps, and directions you might want to explore. This helps you understand your real range and gives you a clearer sense of where your experience fits.
When you find a job posting you want to apply for, the Job Analyzer becomes especially useful. You paste the job description into the app, and Hat Stack highlights key responsibilities and repeated themes. You can use these insights to adjust your resume or cover letter so they match employer priorities while remaining accurate and grounded in your work.
Tools to Support Your Entire Search
Hat Stack also supplies features that support organization and preparation. You can track opportunities on the Application Board, organize networking contacts in the Contact Manager, log interactions, set reminders, and attach relevant documents. The Interview Simulator and Salary Intelligence tool help you prepare for conversations and negotiations. The File Manager keeps your materials in one place, and Notes and voice notes let you record ideas to use later. Each feature connects back to your single profile, which keeps everything consistent and easy to update.
A System for People Who Wear Many Hats
Hat Stack gives you a way to generate and customize documents for the many roles you may want to pursue. You can adjust, refine, and revise everything the app produces. You remain the editor, and the app becomes a workspace that adapts to your process.
It offers structure, clarity, and support during a search that often feels scattered. It keeps everything organized, reduces repetitive tasks, and saves a significant amount of time. For anyone who works across multiple roles or industries, Hat Stack provides a practical way to manage the many professional hats you wear and produces personalized, accurate resumes for each one.
Explore the app at: https://hatstack.app
This article is part of the An App for That a series on thoughtfully designed tools for how we live, work, and create. Hat Stack was created by 9& Studio.