👋 Editor's Note
Most people are not stuck because they lack skill.
They are stuck because their career story is blurry.
They ship work. They solve problems. They grow quietly.
Then promotion time or job switch hits and suddenly everything collapses into a weak resume and a generic LinkedIn summary.
The waste is brutal.
Years of real work reduced to bullet points copied from Google.
Career AI exists to stop that bleed.
An AI coach that writes your resume and your future.
🦄 The Idea Drop: Career AI
The Problem
Career tools are fragmented and loud. Resume builders focus on formatting, not meaning. Career advice online is contradictory and generic. One voice says specialize, another says pivot, none know your actual work.
People end up underselling themselves, applying late, or chasing roles that do not match who they are becoming. Careers drift not because of bad choices, but because no one helps people translate experience into direction at the right moment.
This is not a motivation problem. It is a narrative problem.
The Solution
Career AI combines two things that should never have been separate. A resume builder and a career coach.
It ingests your real work history, not just job titles. It reflects back what you have actually done in clear, honest language. Then it connects that story to where the market is going and nudges you toward skills that matter next.
No hype. No hustle talk.
Just clarity that compounds over time.
Career AI remembers what you forget to say about yourself.
The Features
Narrative Resume Engine
Turns raw experience into outcome driven resumes recruiters understand.Career Trajectory Mapping
Shows logical next roles based on skills, not wishful thinking.Skill Gap Translator
Explains what to learn next and why it matters now.
💰 Business Model
Free resume creation.
Paid monthly plan for ongoing career coaching and trajectory updates.
Simple. Honest. Sustainable.
🚀 MVP Blueprint
Goal
We are testing for retention, not perfection.
1. Tech Stack
Next.js for fast iteration
Supabase for auth and user data
OpenAI or Claude for narrative synthesis
Pinecone or Weaviate for career memory
Stripe for frictionless upgrades
Speed beats elegance here.
2. Core Features Day 1
Resume rewrite from raw bullet inputs
Career direction summary with 2 to 3 next role paths
Skill gap explanation tied to real job listings
This is the magic moment.
3. Validation Plan & Estimates
Timeline
Week 1: Resume engine
Week 2: Career direction logic
Week 3: UX polish and onboarding
Week 4: Stripe and analytics
Budget
Under $300 for APIs and hosting
Success Metric
30 percent of users return within 7 days to refine or update
If they do not come back, this is not a coach. It is a toy.
🧠 Founder Lesson: Narrative Is Leverage
People do not get paid for skills.
They get paid for how clearly those skills are understood.
Career AI works only if it earns trust. The output must feel like it understands the user better than they understand themselves. Anything generic kills this instantly.
If this becomes another resume spinner, it dies.
If it becomes a memory that grows with you, it wins.
⚡ Quick Tips
The Tool
OpenAI embeddings for long term career memory.
The Competitor
LinkedIn. Not resume builders.
The Book
Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.
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