A sharp, encouraging mentor in your pocket.
Our mission
Too many people pick a career by vibes, pressure, or whatever their cousin did. We help students and early-career folks find work that's genuinely enjoyable and realistically well-paid, then take a first real step.
How matching works
- Interview: a mix of quick picks and open questions. Follow-ups adapt to your answers (pick "hands-on" and we ask whether you'd rather work on machines, buildings, nature, or health). After 3 questions you get your work personality type.
- Your interest profile: answers become a Holland/RIASEC score (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional), the same framework O*NET uses.
- Scoring every occupation: each of 900+ O*NET occupations is scored on interest similarity (biggest weight), your chosen work values vs. O*NET work-values ratings, training needed (job zone) vs. your tolerance, BLS median pay vs. your goal (a weighted preference, not a filter), and a small boost for Bright Outlook careers.
- Work style, environment, and your current job: your answers on teamwork, pace, structure, people contact, indoor/outdoor, physical demands, schedule, and remote preference are compared with O*NET work-context ratings (remote-friendliness is an estimate). If you have a job, careers that keep what you like about it and reduce what you dislike rank higher, and your current occupation is left out of your matches.
- Variety and hidden gems: near-duplicate occupations are limited, and a strong lesser-known match (under 25k US jobs) is surfaced when one scores well.
- Explanations: every match shows why it fits, its wage source, and a link to its full O*NET profile.
In this prototype, the "AI" is a transparent rules engine running in your browser. In production it could be backed by a language model, with the same data-grounded scoring.
Data sources
- O*NET 31.0 Database (work values from O*NET 30.1), U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, CC BY 4.0. Bright Outlook flags from O*NET OnLine.
- BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 national estimates (annual median, 25th and 75th percentile), via the BLS Public Data API.
- Military roles (SOC 55-): descriptions from O*NET; pay from the DFAS Basic Pay tables effective January 1, 2026 (basic pay only; housing/food allowances and benefits extra). O*NET publishes no interest or skill ratings for military jobs, so those are approximated from a comparable civilian occupation and labeled. At most one military role appears in your top 5.
Trust & honesty
- Wages are BLS national figures for the broader occupation; local pay varies. If BLS has no figure, we say so instead of estimating.
- Sponsored pathways are always labeled and only appear when they match your profile.
- Affiliate links are labeled; we may earn a commission, which never changes your ranking.
- Free results are useful on their own. Upgrading is optional.
Privacy
Your answers stay in your browser (local storage and your share link). Nothing is sent to a server in this prototype, and there are no analytics or tracking. Share links encode your answers in the URL, so share them only with people you trust. Email capture is optional and, here, a demo that sends nothing.