I Built a Free, Fully Local AI Resume Builder — No Subscriptions, No Cloud, No Catch

If you've ever tried to use an AI resume builder, you've probably hit the same wall I did. You sign up, poke around, find the one feature you actually need — and then boom: "Upgrade to Pro for $29/month." It's frustrating. Resume help shouldn't be locked behind a paywall. So I built my own. Meet Persona Persona is an AI-powered resume builder that you run completely on your own machine . No deployment required. No subscription. No account on some third-party service. You clone the repo, set it up, and it's yours. It's a fork of the excellent open-source project ResumeLM , but I've added a bunch of features I couldn't find anywhere else — especially around local AI and template variety. 👉 GitHub: github.com/nithiin7/persona (Drop a ⭐ if you find it useful!) The Big Deal: Run AI Completely Offline with Ollama This is the feature I'm most proud of. Most AI resume tools call out to OpenAI or Anthropic and charge you for every request. Persona supports Ollama — which means you can run the AI model locally on your own hardware, with zero API costs and zero data leaving your machine. Here's how simple it is: Install Ollama on your computer Pull any model ( ollama pull llama3 , for example) Open Persona's settings, point it to your local Ollama URL Done — the AI now runs entirely on your machine No OpenAI key. No Anthropic key. No usage limits. Your resume data never touches an external server. If you do want to use cloud models, Persona supports those too — GPT-5, Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Sonnet 4.6, and a handful of open-source models via OpenRouter. But the Ollama path is what makes this genuinely different from everything else out there. It's 100% Free — Everything Unlocked The original ResumeLM had Stripe payments baked in. I ripped all of that out. Every single feature in Persona is available to every user, always. There's no "Pro plan." There's no feature gating. You self-host it, you own it, you use all of it. 10 Resume Templates Persona ships with ten distinct templ