SmartShield — AI-Assisted Resume Research

A research assist tool for recruiters. Surfaces information from public sources and AI-assisted analysis to support resume review.

Free for recruiters. No credit card. Start scanning in seconds. SmartShield surfaces public-source information and AI-text signals on every resume — PDF, web page, or document — right inside Chrome. Open a resume, click Scan, and findings appear color-coded directly on the page or PDF, with sources and confidence levels. SmartShield is a research-assist tool. It does not make hiring decisions, score candidates against each other, or recommend outcomes. The recruiter always decides. WHAT IT DOES - AI-content detection — Surfaces resume sections that show signals consistent with text generated by large language models. Methods may produce false positives. - Employment research — Surfaces information about each claimed role from public business and employment data sources. - Education research — Surfaces information about claimed degrees, institutions, and credentials from public sources. - LinkedIn cross-reference — Surfaces snippets from publicly indexed LinkedIn profiles for the recruiter's review. - Consistency analysis — Surfaces internal inconsistencies in dates, roles, and overlapping claims. - OFAC sanctions check — Public US sanctions-list name match against the candidate's name. - Inline highlights — Color-coded findings appear directly on the PDF or page text. Green = public-source match, red = flagged, orange = AI-content signals, yellow = inconclusive. - Summary score (0–100) and risk tier (low / medium / high / critical) for at-a-glance triage. Every finding cites its source and carries a per-finding disclaimer. SmartShield surfaces information for review — it does not make hiring decisions. WHO IT'S FOR Recruiters, talent-acquisition teams, hiring managers, RPOs, and HR ops teams who want a faster way to surface public information during resume review. WORKS ON - PDF resumes opened in Chrome — any ATS, job board, email attachment, file-share link, or local file - Web-based resumes on candidate portfolios, personal sites, and online CV builders - Google Docs resumes (via the document's own export endpoint) - File previews embedded in Google Drive, Google Chat, Gmail, and Slack HOW IT WORKS 1. Install the extension and pin the SmartShield icon to your Chrome toolbar. Click the puzzle-piece icon in Chrome's toolbar, then click the pin next to SmartShield. 2. Click "Get Started" in the SmartShield popup and accept the recruiter attestation. No signup, no credit card — you're in. 3. Open any resume in Chrome — a PDF, a web page, a Google Doc, or a file preview in your team's inbox or chat. 4. Click Scan. A quick content check confirms the page looks like a resume, then six agents work in parallel: AI-content detection, employment, education, LinkedIn, consistency, and identity. Typical scan completes in 60–180 seconds. 5. Review the color-coded highlights and the findings panel. Hover any finding for the source and confidence. Click for the full report. PRICING - Guest — 10 free scans, no signup required. Click Get Started in the popup and you're scanning in under a minute. - Member — Sign up free at https://cadient.ai/smart-shield to continue past the guest limit. No credit card, no paid tier during the early access. PRIVACY AND SECURITY - Resume text is sent over HTTPS to the SmartShield service when you click Scan. Pages you don't scan are never read or transmitted. - The original resume file and its full text are not retained after processing is complete. - The extension does not collect browsing history, form data, keystrokes, bookmarks, or analytics. No cookies, no fingerprinting, no third-party SDKs. - No remote scripts, stylesheets, or fonts load at runtime — every asset ships inside the extension. Privacy policy: https://cadient.ai/smart-shield/privacy Terms of use: https://cadient.ai/smart-shield/terms Candidate-facing summary: https://cadient.ai/smart-shield/candidate PERMISSIONS, EXPLAINED - Tabs — Reads the URL and title of the active tab so the popup can tell whether you're looking at a PDF or a regular web page, and label the Scan button accordingly. - Host permissions — Required to detect resumes on any hiring tool, job board, file host, or document service you open. The extension only reads page content when you explicitly click Scan; it never reads pages in the background. - Storage — Stores your account token, your one-time attestation acknowledgement, your install identifier (so a guest's 10-scan quota persists across disconnect/reconnect on the same device), and your most-recent scan summary locally. - Web requests (read-only) — Inspects Content-Type response headers to detect PDFs whose URL doesn't end in .pdf. Never blocks, redirects, or modifies any request. - Scripting — Used to attach SmartShield's reader to tabs that were already open before the extension was installed or updated, so you don't need to refresh every page to use Scan. SUPPORT Questions or issues? Email support@cadienttalent.com ABOUT CADIENT TALENT Cadient Talent builds talent-intelligence software for high-volume hiring. SmartShield is part of the Cadient platform. Learn more at https://cadient.ai.