The problem: everyone wants a free resume review
If you post career content on LinkedIn, TikTok, or X, you already know the pattern. Every post that performs well fills your inbox with the same message: "Can you take a quick look at my resume?" Each one is a real person with a real need, and each one takes 20 to 40 minutes to do properly. Multiply that by fifty requests a week and you have a full-time job that pays nothing.
The usual workarounds are clumsy. Coaching platforms take 30 to 50 percent and bury you in a directory next to a thousand other reviewers. Cobbling together Calendly, Zoom, and payment links means chasing invoices, eating no-shows, and walking people through three different tools before money changes hands. Most reviewers give up and either ignore their DMs or burn out doing free work.
What to sell on Cheddify
Cheddify is a link you put in your bio. Someone taps it, lands on your page, and pays as a guest in the browser — no account, no app download on their side. You take the call on your phone. A few formats that work well for resume reviewers:
- 20-minute resume teardown. Screen share optional — they read, you react, line by line. Set a per-minute rate with a 20-minute minimum so short calls are still worth answering.
- Live-now feedback calls. Toggle yourself available when you have an hour free. The meter runs per minute; if the conversation goes long, you get paid for every extra minute automatically.
- Booked 45-minute sessions for resume-plus-LinkedIn overhauls, prepaid at booking so no-shows stop costing you money.
- Paid DMs for the quick questions: "Is this summary too long?" A price on your inbox filters fifty free requests down to the five people who value your time. See how paid DMs work.
What to charge
Resume review sits in feedback-and-consulting territory, where per-minute rates on Cheddify commonly land between $2 and $8. If you are newer or your audience skews toward students and early-career job seekers, $2 to $3 per minute is a reasonable start. Established reviewers with strong social proof typically settle around $4 per minute, and specialists — executive resumes, tech, federal — can hold $6 to $8. These are patterns, not promises: your rate should track what your audience will actually pay, and it is easy to adjust from your dashboard. More on this in how to price your 1:1 calls.
The math on a real call
Say you run a 20-minute teardown at $4 per minute. The buyer pays $80 for your time, plus roughly 3 percent card processing on top (about $2.40), so their total is around $82.40. Cheddify's fee is 20 percent plus $2 per paid call: $16 + $2 = $18. You keep $62 — about 78 percent of the face price, paid out through Stripe. Two of those calls in an evening is $124 for work you were previously doing free. Full details on the pricing page.
The honest part
Cheddify does not bring you clients. There is no marketplace, no browse page, no discovery feed — the only people who find your Cheddify link are people you send to it. That is the point: it converts the audience you already have into paying clients without a platform skimming half. But it also means that if you do not yet have an audience asking you for resume help, Cheddify will not fix that; a coaching marketplace or freelance platform is a better first step. If your inbox already has more requests than you can answer, Cheddify is free to claim and takes about two minutes to set up. Here is how it works.