The copilot for UK Civil Service job applications.
Land yourAdmin Officer (AO)Administrative Officer (AO)UK Civil Service role.
Most applicants already have the evidence. They're just not presenting it in the way Civil Service assessors evaluate it.
Koda uncovers the strongest evidence from your experience, aligns it to the role you're applying for, and builds interview-ready CVs, statements and interview preparation calibrated to your target grade.
Find out what's likely stopping you from being invited to interview, before you apply.
Discover in under 2 minutes
Underselling
Missing criteria
Behaviour & Strength
Grade readiness
Trusted by applicants across 20+ UK Civil Service departments, from AO entry level to Senior Civil Service.
The real challenge
Success Profiles, decoded.
Every UK Civil Service application is scored against the official framework regardless of how strong your career actually is. Most applicants don't fail on experience. They fail because they never learned to write in the language the panel is scoring.
Behaviours
9 official behaviours, like Delivering at Pace and Seeing the Bigger Picture. Every statement is scored against them.
Strengths
36 recognised strengths, tested mainly at interview. Koda ensures required strength is demonstrated in your real evidence.
Essential criteria
Job-specific requirements. Miss one and your application can be screened out before anyone reads it.
Grade calibration
The same achievement reads differently at EO vs Grade 7. Koda calibrates scope and tone to your target grade.
Koda maps every CV bullet, statement and interview answer to this exact framework, so your application speaks the panel's language from the first line.
How it works
From CV upload to application-ready in minutes.
Upload your CV
Koda extracts your roles, achievements and evidence in seconds.
Paste the vacancy
Koda identifies the grade, behaviours and essential criteria, and benchmarks your evidence against every one.
See your gaps and strengths
Know exactly what's covered, what's missing, and how to position what you already have.
Generate your full application pack
CV bullets, personal statement, EOI email and interview prep — grade-calibrated, evidence-grounded.
How Koda Thinks
Every application is built from evidence you can genuinely stand behind at interview.
Your experience. At the right grade level.
The same experience, written two ways. Koda doesn't invent evidence. It presents what you've done at the behaviours, strengths, scope and impact the panel needs to see.
Managed a team and dealt with issues as they came up, helping to keep projects on track.
Led a cross-functional delivery team of 8 through a period of organisational change, resolving 14 escalated blockers within agreed SLAs and maintaining 97% on-time milestone delivery across a £2.4m programme.
Find the gaps holding your application back before the interview panel does.
What applicants say
Real applications, real gains.
"After several unsuccessful applications, Koda helped me identify what I'd been underselling. I got to interview on my next attempt."
HEO applicantDepartment for Education
"The before/after was eye-opening. My bullets were fine. They just weren't reading at the right level."
SEO applicantHM Treasury
"Saved me weeks of redrafting. The STARR answers alone were worth it."
Grade 7 applicantHome Office
Everything You Need to Build Stronger Applications
Turn your experience into interview-winning UK Civil Service applications.
From CV upload to complete application pack, every step is built around your evidence.
CV Analysis
Koda reads your CV and extracts roles, achievements and evidence atoms, surfacing the strongest examples you have been underselling.
Experience Builder
Build an evidence library that gets richer over time. Add roles manually or narrate aloud. Every application makes the next one stronger.
Vacancy Benchmarking
Paste any job description. Koda scores your evidence against every behaviour, strength and criterion and shows you precisely where the gaps are.
Application Generator
Behaviour statements, CV bullets, personal statement in minutes. Every output grounded in your real evidence, calibrated to your grade and UK Civil Service word counts.
Interview Preparation
Likely panel questions with STARR-shaped answers drawn from your evidence library, and a one-page summary sheet ready the night before.
Application Tracker
Kanban across draft, applied, interview, reserve list and offer. One place for every application you are managing.
Why Koda
The right tool for the job.
Generic AI is capable. Koda is specific. Here's what that means in practice.
Grounded in your real CV
Not just what you paste into a prompt — extracted directly from your career history.
Every claim is evidence-linked
Trace any bullet, statement or answer back to something you actually did.
Built around the framework
Behaviours, strengths and essential criteria — Success Profiles is the foundation, not an afterthought.
Calibrated to your grade
The same achievement is framed differently at EO and Grade 7 — automatically.
Generic AI generates words. Koda uncovers your evidence, aligns it to what the interview panel is assessing, and builds every part of your application from evidence you can confidently discuss at interview.
FAQ
Questions applicants ask us.
Is it OK to use AI help on a Civil Service application?›
Koda works only from your real experience — it surfaces and structures evidence you already have, and you review, edit and own every word before it goes anywhere. Nothing is invented, and every claim remains something you can genuinely discuss at interview. Think of it as a professional application coach, not a ghostwriter.
Is my CV data safe?›
Your CV is processed only to build your evidence profile. It's stored in your own account, never shared or used to train models, and you can delete your data at any time from Settings.
Does it work for my profession and grade?›
Yes. Koda calibrates to every grade from AA to Senior Civil Service, and understands how scope reads differently across professions — from operational delivery and policy to technical, clinical, finance, legal and trades roles.
What does free actually get me?›
Upload your CV, see your evidence profile, benchmark a real vacancy and preview how Koda rewrites your experience at your target grade — free, no card required. Upgrade only when you're ready to generate full application packs.
Will my application sound like AI wrote it?›
No. Koda builds a language profile from how you actually write and speak, keeps your voice, and bans the hollow phrases panels are tired of reading. Evidence first, in your words.
Your next UK Civil Service application should be your strongest one yet.
Upload your CV and discover the evidence you've been underselling.
No credit card required. It takes about two minutes.