Send a front sheet with the CV
The cover page you staple to a CV before it reaches a client — built from facts already in your workspace, with every one attributed.
A front sheet is the page agencies put in front of a CV: who the candidate is, when they can start, where they are, what they're cleared for, and what the role pays — then your pitch, then the CV. A1 builds it from the role and the candidate record you already have, and you correct it before it goes.
Choosing the shape
On the submission review page, open What the client receives. Three formats, set per submission:
- Front sheet + CV — the full cover page (candidate, role, location, availability, notice, right to work, clearance, IR35, rate) plus your pitch, then the CV.
- CV + breakdown — a short four-fact strip (candidate, rate, location, availability) on top of the CV, for clients who want less.
- CV only — the CV alone, exactly as before front sheets existed.
Packs created before this feature shipped stay on CV only — a client already reading a link doesn't get a cover page appearing under them.
Correcting it before the client sees it
Every fact renders in an editable box beneath each candidate. Type over anything that's wrong and it's stored as your correction; type it back to the generated value and the correction is removed. Saving without changing anything stores nothing — which matters, because it means saving never relabels the candidate's own answers as yours.
Facts we don't hold are never invented. A missing value reads Not confirmed rather than disappearing, because a row that vanishes reads as "no notice period" — a claim you didn't make. If several rows are unconfirmed, the review page names them in amber beside the boxes that close them, and warns you if there's no CV content to attach.
Who said what
A front sheet asserts things about a person, so it says where each fact came from. Answers the candidate gave you themselves — through the claim link — carry a confirmed mark; values you typed don't; the charge rate is the client's own agreed number. The footer states the split in plain English and changes when nothing has been candidate-confirmed. Right to work is never printed as "verified".
Your commercial position stays yours
The rate row is the charge rate you agreed with the client, quoted back to them — never anything derived from what the candidate is paid, and never your margin. On an all-in rate model, where the ceiling is the client's stated maximum rather than an agreed charge rate, nothing is printed unless you type the agreed figure; the row then reads To be confirmed so the page still scans the same way every time. This is enforced in code and pinned by tests, not left to care.
Anonymised packs
If the submission is anonymised, the front sheet obeys it: the candidate row shows the CAND- reference and your pitch is run through the same anonymiser as everything else — including anything you typed into an override box.
What your client receives
One PDF: cover page, then the CV. It's assembled when they open the link, so the preview you check is byte-for-byte the file they get. If any part of it can't be built, they receive the complete CV rather than a cover page on its own — and we're alerted. Opening it costs them nothing; see Does my client have to pay?