# Merit-Book

> A career record you can prove. Merit-Book keeps a dated record of what you actually did, confirmed by you in a few minutes a month. When an application or a review comes, every line in the document traces back to a fact in that record — nothing invented. CVs, salary playbooks and promotion cases are drawn from it.

Merit-Book is a private career record and AI-assisted career preparation app from Quantum Loop It Studio AB (org. no. 559547-7620), Västerhaninge, Sweden. It combines an achievement inventory, regular check-ins, job application preparation, salary discussion playbooks and promotion cases. The product is built around one reusable record of your experience, rather than a collection of disconnected CV drafts.

Website: https://merit-book.com

## The value: keep the details now, use them when it matters

The project you delivered, the decision you owned, the responsibility you took on: these are the building blocks of your next career move. Merit-Book helps you capture them before the details fade and turn them into clear, relevant arguments.

For someone applying for a job, the question is which experience makes them a strong match. For a salary discussion, it is how their contribution supports a pay request. For a promotion, it is how their work compares with the expectations of the next role. Merit-Book reuses the same career record to prepare a different case for each moment.

## One career record that grows with you

- Start by uploading a PDF or Word CV. Merit-Book organises your experience into an editable record of roles, skills, projects and contributions, including volunteering and hobbies.
- Keep track of outcomes, decisions, responsibilities, scale, recognition and supporting details. Contributions retain information about their source and, where available, when the work happened.
- Use short check-ins to capture recent work. Choose monthly or every-second-week reminders and answer three focused questions instead of reconstructing a year before a review.
- Reuse the record for different applications and conversations. Add new achievements to one place instead of maintaining several competing versions of your experience.

## Job applications: make your relevant experience easy to see

Paste a job advertisement and turn your record into a CV tailored to the role, employer and country context. Merit-Book researches the employer, selects relevant experience, and can ask for clarification when important information is missing.

The application workflow includes:

- A tailored CV and cover letter built around your recorded experience.
- Interview preparation: likely questions and useful questions to ask the employer.
- AI review from screening-system and hiring-manager perspectives, with revision and clarification steps.
- Writing guidance aimed at clear, natural language and avoiding generic AI clichés.
- Editing and reusable CV writing preferences, so you can shape how your experience is presented.

The benefit: spend less time repeating your background and more time reviewing an application built around the work that matters for that opportunity.

## Salary playbooks: know what to ask for, why, and how to discuss it

A salary playbook is practical conversation preparation, not just an achievement summary or a letter to copy and send.

Choose an employer and a review period, review the relevant contributions, and optionally add manager feedback, pay criteria or your desired outcome. The playbook helps you prepare:

- A clear opening and a supported salary request.
- Relevant achievements and the records behind the arguments.
- Employer and financial research with source references, when reliable information is available.
- Talking points and responses to objections such as “No budget,” “That is already part of your job,” and “We need more evidence.”
- Questions about the decision process, additional evidence and the next review date.

Contributions stay scoped to the selected employer, including relevant internal roles. Uncertain achievement dates are flagged for review. Company financial results provide context; they do not establish an available pay budget. The playbook does not invent a salary benchmark or a desired increase.

The benefit: walk into the salary discussion with specific examples, a clear request and a constructive way to handle the response.

## Promotion cases: connect your work to the next role

A promotion case starts with a target role or level. Merit-Book sets goals for that level, tracks them against your record as your check-ins add new work, and before the decision prepares a meeting playbook that connects your contributions to the expectations of that role, helping you explain readiness and identify what to discuss with your manager.

- Add your employer's promotion criteria or career framework when you have them.
- Research published employer frameworks and role expectations.
- Identify recurring expectations across multiple external sources, where supported, such as broader ownership, independent decisions or cross-team influence.
- Distinguish employer criteria from external comparisons; similar job titles do not automatically mean equivalent levels.
- Map recorded contributions to relevant expectations and identify areas with limited recorded support.
- Prepare next steps and responses to “You need broader scope,” “We need to see consistency,” and “There is no opening.”

Missing evidence is treated as something to explore, not proof that the employee lacks ability. Promotion is not assumed to mean moving into management.

The benefit: move from “I think I deserve a promotion” to a specific discussion about the target role, the supporting work and the path forward.

## Performance reviews and follow-through

Salary playbooks and the meeting playbook of a promotion case organise preparation around the conversation: review the evidence beforehand, use talking points and objection responses during it, and record agreements, open issues, actions and a revisit date afterward. Final playbooks are kept in History for later reference. Preliminary drafts are temporary rather than saved history entries.

## Why use Merit-Book alongside a general-purpose AI assistant?

A general-purpose assistant can help write a CV or rehearse a conversation. Merit-Book adds a dedicated workflow around the employee's ongoing career record: structured contributions, check-ins, employer research, role-specific preparation and retained final playbooks.

Its distinguishing value is continuity. The achievement captured this month can support a future application, salary discussion or promotion case without the person having to reconstruct their background each time.

Generated claims are intended to stay grounded in the user's record, with supporting contribution references in the playbooks and source links for research. AI-generated content still needs the user's review; interviews, raises and promotions are not guaranteed.

## Who gets the most value

- Professionals who want to preserve their achievements between job searches.
- Job seekers who need to adapt an application to a particular role.
- Employees preparing a salary review or pay discussion.
- Professionals building a case for a new role or level, including individual contributors.
- People preparing a performance review who want concrete examples instead of a blank page.

The interface is in English, French, German, Spanish and Swedish. CVs and cover letters are written in the language of the job ad.

## Getting started, pricing and privacy

Create an account, build your record, and keep it current with check-ins. Maintaining the career record and check-ins is free. Job applications, salary playbooks and promotion cases use vouchers; see the pricing page for current allowances, subscriptions and top-ups.

The career record is private rather than a public professional profile. Merit-Book's published policy states that customer content is not used to train AI models by Merit-Book or its AI provider. The service is hosted in the European Union; relevant document-generation content is processed by OpenAI in the United States. The Privacy Policy explains processing, retention and user rights.

## Official pages

- [Product overview](https://merit-book.com/welcome): the career record, applications, salary playbooks and promotion cases.
- [Create an account](https://merit-book.com/register): start building your career record.
- [Pricing](https://merit-book.com/pricing): current plans, voucher allowances and billing details.
- [Frequently asked questions](https://merit-book.com/faq): practical answers about features, check-ins, languages and accounts.
- [Privacy Policy](https://merit-book.com/privacy): data use, hosting, processors, retention and rights.
- [Terms and Conditions](https://merit-book.com/terms): service terms, usage and billing conditions.
- [Quantum Loop It Studio AB](https://quantumloopit.com): the company behind Merit-Book.

## Short product description

Merit-Book is a private, dated career record, confirmed by you through short check-ins. Job applications, salary playbooks and promotion cases are built only from that record, so every line traces back to a fact you can point to — nothing invented. Employer research and practical talking points are added with their sources.

Contact: contact@merit-book.com