Free Consultant CV Software & Skills Management

Consultant CV software keeps your firm’s consultant CVs and competence profiles in one place, current and bid-ready, and exports formatted CVs for proposals on demand - CV management software built for the firms that sell expertise, not for recruiters screening candidates. Instead of chasing people for an updated Word CV every time a tender needs one, you maintain each profile once - experience, projects, and skills - and generate a tailored CV whenever a bid asks. SUNAGO’s tool is free (0 EUR, no card required).

It is the people side of SUNAGO’s free tool suite, sharing one database with the project reference manager so a consultant’s CV and the projects they worked on never disagree. If you are comparing options across the market, see the guides to the best CV management software for consultancies and engineering firms and the best skills management software.

Recruiting ATS or firm CV management? Read this first

“CV management software” means two different things depending on who is searching:

• Recruiters and staffing agencies want to store and screen candidate CVs - an applicant tracking system (ATS) job. Tools like Zoho Recruit and ApplicantStack fit that workflow.
• Firms that sell expertise - consultancies, engineering practices, IT services companies - want to keep their own employees’ CVs current for bids, tailored per proposal, backed by a skills matrix.

This tool is built for the second group. If you win work by putting named experts in front of clients and evaluators, and you keep rebuilding their CVs for every tender, it is for you. If you screen external applicants, an ATS is the better fit and this page will not serve you well.

What the CV & skills tool does

• A living CV per person. Store each consultant’s experience, qualifications, and project history once. The projects link to your project reference database, so a person’s CV and a project’s reference sheet stay consistent.
• Competence star ratings. Score skills on a simple star scale that the person and their manager maintain, so a bid manager can find the right expert quickly and defend team selection to a client.
• Company skills matrix. Roll individual competences up into a firm-wide skills inventory and generate a skills matrix from it - the capability evidence tenders increasingly request alongside CVs. A skills matrix template is available if you want to start from a file.
• Tailored CV export. Select the projects and skills relevant to a specific role and export a formatted, consistent CV in your firm’s layout, then regenerate it as experience grows.

Why store CVs as data, not documents

The usual failure is that every consultant owns their own Word CV, formatted differently, updated whenever they remember. When a bid needs five CVs by Friday, the proposal team spends the day reformatting inconsistent files and discovers half are two years stale.

Storing CVs as structured data fixes both problems. Formatting becomes an export setting rather than manual work, so every CV in a bid looks like it came from the same firm. And because experience is entered once, in the same place as the projects, the CVs stay current as a by-product of maintaining the project database - not as a separate chore nobody owns.

Free - and what the upgrade adds

Managing CVs, rating competences, and exporting bid CVs is free (0 EUR), with no expiring trial. Create a free account to save your data and regenerate tailored CVs from your projects whenever a bid needs them. The tool is standalone: exports are normal Word and PDF files.

It is one module of SUNAGO Matrix, the project ERP for consulting and engineering firms. Its CV & References module - listed on the SUNAGO Matrix pricing page - is the same capability integrated with resourcing, so the skills you rate here can also drive who gets staffed on live projects. Firms that want that integration upgrade without re-entering data; those that only need bid-ready CVs keep the tool free.

How it compares

The specialist bid-CV tools - Flowcase (formerly CV Partner), Sprint CV, and CuViBox - are strong products aimed at larger professional-services firms, and AG5 leads on skills-matrix depth for frontline and manufacturing teams. All are demo-gated with pricing on request. SUNAGO’s difference is a free tier and a shared project-and-people database rather than a CV-only tool. For the full, honest breakdown, see the CV database software comparison and the guide to the best CV management software for consultancies and engineering firms.

Use cases

Assembling five bid CVs on deadline. A consultancy selects the relevant projects and skills per person and exports consistent, current CVs in an afternoon instead of chasing Word files.

Proving team capability in a tender. An engineering firm attaches a skills matrix generated from rated competences, showing evaluators the depth behind the named CVs.

Keeping profiles current between bids. As a consultant finishes a project, it is added to their profile once and appears in the next exported CV automatically.

Get your team bid-ready

Start free: create a free account, add three consultants, and export a CV to see the format. Link their experience to your projects in the project reference manager, and use the capability statement builder to combine people and projects into one-page firm credentials. Those CVs supply the key-personnel evidence behind a capability statement, so the same profiles you maintain here prove your team can deliver the work.