Taper
AI-powered personal advocacy

Your work should speak for itself

Taper turns your existing work into a polished site, an AI advocate that answers in your voice, and a cited profile that helps people and AI tools understand why you matter.

Free to start · No credit card required

Built for
👤Humans who hire
🤖Recruiters & AI tools
📎Cited evidence

The problem

Strong work. Scattered online. Ready to be understood.

People and brands are often hard to understand online. The strongest evidence is scattered across resumes, portfolios, documents, and links. Taper turns that material into a clear story recruiters, clients, collaborators, and AI search tools can actually use.

01

Strong work

You have the portfolio, the experience, the testimonials

02

Scattered online

Across LinkedIn, your resume, old sites, documents, links

03

Hard to understand

No unified narrative. No clear positioning. Evidence buried.

The difference

Same person, different presence

Traditional profiles bury your best work in noise. Taper puts your evidence front and center — with an AI that speaks for you.

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Ryan Chesnut

🚀 Passionate Leader | 💡 Problem Solver | 🎯 Team Builder | Making an impact one commit at a time

Metro Area•500+ connections
✓ Open to work★ Top Voice

About

I build high-performing engineering organizations by modernizing infrastructure and mentoring teams… see more

Skills

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Node.jsReactAWSLeadership

Activity

Excited to share that I'm thrilled to announce that I'm honored…

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Ryan Chesnut

I build high-performing engineering organizations

My Story

I've spent my career building reliable systems and the teams that sustain them. My work centers on problems requiring both technical depth and human judgment.

About

Engineering leader who scales teams through infrastructure and discipline

I led engineering teams through post-merger restructuring and reduced cloud costs by migrating to serverless architecture.

Ask about my work

JavaScript

Node.js & React

Leadership

Team scaling

Full-Stack

AWS serverless

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How do you scale teams?
Infrastructure & discipline
Buzzword headlines→Clear positioning
Endorsement counts→Cited evidence
Visitors dig for work→AI advocate answers

What you get

Everything you need to be discovered, understood, and chosen

One upload. Three outputs. Your work becomes a professional site, an AI advocate, and machine-readable profile data — all backed by the evidence you already have.

01

Polished personal site

Your work rendered as a professional site at your-name.taper.ink or your own domain. Multiple templates, mobile-ready, SEO-optimized.

02

AI advocate that answers in your voice

Visitors ask questions; your advocate replies with answers drawn from your actual work, with cited evidence — not generic AI filler.

03

AI-readable profile data

llms.txt, JSON-LD, and structured metadata so AI search tools, recruiter platforms, and agents can find and understand you.

04

Evidence-backed claims

Every capability claim links to the source material that proves it. Your positioned story, grounded in real work.

05

Ready in minutes

Upload your resume, portfolio, links, or documents. Taper extracts and organizes the evidence, then generates your site.

06

Auto-generated FAQs

Common questions visitors ask become published FAQ pages — your advocate learns what people want to know.

See it in action

Watch how Taper transforms your work into your advocate

From upload to published site in minutes. See the full journey.

Product Demo

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Dashboard Screenshot

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Your Taper dashboard — manage your site, view analytics, and train your advocate

What you'll see

  • Upload documents, links, and media in seconds
  • Watch AI extract and organize your evidence
  • See your polished site and AI advocate go live

How it works

From scattered work to clear positioning in three steps

Taper helps people and brands be discovered, understood, and chosen — by humans today and AI tools tomorrow.

01
Source

Upload your material

Resumes, case studies, blog posts, links, testimonials, or business docs. Taper organizes the evidence behind your work.

  • Drag & drop upload
  • Multiple file types
  • Link import
02
Mirror

Get clear positioning

Scattered material becomes clear claims, a point-of-view paragraph, and answers — all linked back to evidence.

  • AI-powered extraction
  • Evidence linking
  • Claim generation
03
Publish

Go live instantly

Your site, AI advocate, and machine-readable profile go live. People and AI search tools can find you.

  • Instant deployment
  • Custom domain
  • SEO optimized

Proof

Answers with evidence. Profiles AI tools can read.

Positioning only helps if visitors can verify it. Taper cites your material and publishes the same substance in formats search engines, recruiter tools, and AI agents can understand.

AI advocate reply

With cited evidence

Live

Visitor asks: "How do you lead system work?"

I treat systems as products — tokens, docs, and governance that scale with the team, not slide decks that expire after launch.

Case study · Acme DS
Talk · Config 2024
Essay · Governance

AI-readable profile

llms.txt + JSON-LD

Auto-generated
# llms.txt — alex.taper.ink
> Product designer focused on systems
> that ship with documented decisions.

## Claims
- Design systems as products
- Platform UX for multi-team orgs

## Contact
- https://alex.taper.ink

When a recruiter, client, or AI search tool looks you up, it finds a structured, cited version of you — the same story your human visitors see.

Illustrative · Before → After

Before

"I'm a designer who cares about craft and collaboration. I've worked at startups and larger companies on a variety of product problems…"

After · articulated

  • Rebuilds research → system → ship connective tissue
  • Ships governed token systems with decision trails
  • Writing that advocates for durable craft over deck theater

Pricing

Simple plans for becoming legible

Start free with your controlled source of truth — upgrade when you want more reach.

Free

$0forever

Start your source-of-truth profile.

  • 1 personal site
  • 50 chats / month
  • Taper subdomain
  • Core templates
  • AI-readable profile data
Build your profile

No credit card required

Pro

Popular
$14/month

For professionals actively repositioning.

  • Everything in Free
  • 1,000 chats / month
  • Custom domain
  • Auto-generated FAQs
  • Priority support
Start Pro trial

Premium

$39/month

Maximum discovery, polish, and control.

  • Everything in Pro
  • 5,000 chats / month
  • Remove Taper branding
  • Advanced analytics
  • API access
Go Premium

FAQ

Questions, answered

Can't find what you're looking for? Reach out

It learns from the content you upload, including resumes, portfolios, essays, posts, talks, documents, testimonials, and links. Answers are grounded in your real material and cite their sources.

Start in minutes

One upload away

Your resume, portfolio, or documents already exist. Let Taper turn them into the professional presence you deserve.

Build your profileFree to start · No credit card
3Professional templates
∞Cited answers
100%Your voice