YES

As of 11 August 2026, AI can write a cover letter.

Most people should do this themselves — here’s the prompt.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

15 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill needednone

Who has to check ityou

What the alternative costsA professional CV-writing service charges £50–£150 per letter (checked 2026-08-11).

If this goes wrong: the letter reads as generic and the recruiter skims past it — you lose one application, not the job hunt.

Do it yourself
The route this page recommends
A chat interface, no skill needed, and roughly 15 minutes until you can act on the result.
The prompt
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Write a one-page cover letter for the attached job description. Use my CV below for facts — invent nothing. Plain tone, no adjectives about myself I could not defend in an interview, and open with why this company specifically.
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Run it in ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini (paste it there).
Tested with claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) on 2026-08-11.See the receipt — the raw output, stored.
Use a tool built for this
Second choice
A purpose-built tool would carry this, but none has earned a place on this page yet.
Hand it to a person
The distant third
A person who owns the outcome does this end to end — worth it when the failure is dear.

Invents achievements when the CV is thin — every claim needs checking against your actual history.
Defaults to a breathless tone that reads as AI-written; the prompt pins it down but drift returns on regeneration.
Cannot know the company beyond its public surface — the "why this company" line needs your one true sentence.

No product earns a place here — a free chat interface is the honest recommendation.

The rubric, the thresholds and the routing rule are published in full at/method.

The four questions readers actually bring to this task are hand-written per ruling and land with the next corpus update.