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A calm command center for the weeks after a layoff. Money and health first, then the part every other career tool skips: what you say about what happened.
Free to start · Your resume and layoff status stay private · Built from lived experience.
A layoff isn’t just a job search. Not at first.
Before you can think about the next role, there’s insurance, severance, and money to sort out, and the generic resume tools skip all of it.
Everything feels urgent
Health coverage, unemployment, severance, savings, all landing at once, with no clear order to work through them.
The tools don’t get it
Resume builders assume you’re calm and “in search mode.” Most people aren’t there yet, and it shows in the output.
You sound like everyone else
Generic AI flattens your story into buzzwords, right when standing out, and explaining the layoff, matters most.
Everything the moment asks of you, grouped by where you are
Start where you actually are. Riffed brings the right things forward for each stage, instead of dropping twelve tools on you at once.
Stabilize
Unemployment, health coverage, severance, and a runway estimate that turns savings into months of breathing room.
Own the story
The two or three sentences that answer “so what happened?”, an interview answer you can say out loud without flinching, and your LinkedIn profile read back to you against your real history.
Find and apply
Search the open market, watch companies you love and see their real openings, reach out to your network in your voice, and tailor a resume and cover letter to each role.
Interview & offers
Your pitch, the “so what happened?” question handled with grace, STAR stories, and a steady hand on negotiation.
Support that remembers what this feels like
Calm, plain-language guidance and honest encouragement — never a cheerful chatbot pretending a layoff is a growth opportunity. Notes from Bill, who’s been through it, show up right where they help.
My dad was out of work for three years. I was twelve.
He sold carpet in an economy where nobody was building houses. What I remember isn’t the food stamps. It’s my parents at the dining room table trying to decode a system nobody had ever explained to them. Thirty years and four layoffs later, I found out how little that’s changed, and that most tools still treat a layoff as a resume problem. It’s a household problem. Riffed is built for the household half first.
The honest version, from the inside
Short, real essays on the parts nobody warns you about. The voice behind the whole product.
Free to start. No card, no pressure.
You’re financially vulnerable right now. We’re not going to pretend otherwise, or trap you in a trial.
Paid plans may come later for power features. The help-first essentials stay accessible.
Your resume and your layoff are sensitive. We treat them that way.
Your data stays yours
Your resume, your finances, and the fact that you were laid off are private to your account. We don’t sell it or trade on it.
No dark patterns
No fake countdowns, no manufactured urgency, no guilt. Just clear, soft suggestions for the next sensible step.
Honest by design
Riffed only ever reframes your real experience. It never invents titles, dates, or numbers, and it checks that every line stayed with the job it came from.
You don’t have to solve everything today.
Start with one thing. Riffed will be here for the rest, whenever you’re ready.
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