Investment Opportunity

Owning the Future of Career Management

While others fight for scraps in the broken hiring ecosystem, we're building the command center that every professional will use to manage their entire career journey.

The $500B Problem Nobody's Solving

The career management ecosystem is fundamentally broken, with value leaking at every step

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Fragmented Experience

Professionals juggle 10+ disconnected tools: LinkedIn, Indeed, Google Docs, spreadsheets, email. No single source of truth.

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Value Extraction

Recruitment agencies take 20-30% fees. Job boards monetize desperation. Training platforms prey on FOMO. Users get crumbs.

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Reactive Anxiety

Career management only happens during crisis moments. No proactive planning. No continuous growth. Just panic and prayer.

Current Value Chain: Where Money Goes to Die

Employers $180B/year
Recruitment Agencies $80B
Job Boards $60B
Training $40B
Individual Professionals Get anxiety & spam

The individual—the most important part—captures almost no value from this $180B ecosystem

The Kareer Solution: Own the User, Own the Future

We're not building another node in the broken chain. We're building the central hub that makes the entire ecosystem obsolete.

Our Core Innovation

By owning the first and most frequent touchpoint with professionals, we control the entire value chain. Every career decision, every skill update, every opportunity—it all starts in Kareer.

Daily Engagement

Not just for job hunting—for continuous career growth

AI-Powered Intelligence

Proactive recommendations, not reactive searches

Unified Platform

One place for everything career-related

The Command Center

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Living Career Portfolio

Dynamic, always-updated professional profile that grows with you

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AI Career Coach

Personalized guidance based on market data and peer benchmarks

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Career Velocity Tracking

Quantify and accelerate your professional momentum

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Opportunity Radar

Proactive alerts for roles, projects, and learning opportunities

The Network Effect

Every user makes the platform more valuable for everyone else through:

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LinkedIn has 1B users but only 3% are active weekly. We're building for the 97% who need more than a digital resume.

The Playbook: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

How we'll use the incumbents' own infrastructure to make them obsolete

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Phase 1: Embrace

Integrate all major job feeds—LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, AngelList. Become the "super aggregator" that saves users time.

User Value: One place to see ALL opportunities, intelligently filtered by AI

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Phase 2: Extend

Add proprietary features job boards can't match: AI coaching, skill gap analysis, application tracking, salary negotiation tools.

Lock-in: Users' entire career history lives in Kareer, not scattered across sites

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Phase 3: Extinguish

Launch "Kareer Direct"—employers post directly to us. Why pay LinkedIn $10K/month when they can reach engaged users here?

Endgame: We own the user, we own the market

The Great Inversion: From Employer-First to User-First

❌ Traditional Model (Fucked)

  • Employers pay platforms

    LinkedIn, Indeed, etc. optimize for whoever pays

  • Users are the product

    Bombarded with spam, irrelevant opportunities

  • Zero user loyalty

    Why stay? You're just a resume in their database

✅ Kareer Model (Unfucked)

  • Users come first

    Free tier + affordable premium for professionals

  • Employers pay for access

    Want to reach our engaged users? Pay us, not LinkedIn

  • Unbreakable moat

    Users won't leave—their entire career lives here

"When you own the user relationship, you don't compete on features—you set the rules of the game."

A Business Model That Scales

Multiple revenue streams that align user success with our growth

B2C: Freemium + Power Passes

Kareer Free

$0
  • • Basic career portfolio
  • • Limited AI insights
  • • Community access

Kareer Essential

$2.99/mo
  • • Unlimited portfolio & storage
  • • Purchase Power Passes
  • • Priority support

Power Passes (One-Time)

Job Hunter Pass (90 days) $39.99
Skill Builder Pass (60 days) $24.99

B2B: Channel Partnerships

Recruitment Agency Tools

White-label platform for agencies to provide value-add to candidates

$50-200 per candidate/year

Enterprise Solutions

Internal mobility and talent development platform

$10-25 per employee/month

Key Insight: Agencies spend $1000s manually preparing candidates. We automate this, share the value.

Projected Unit Economics (Year 3)

$47
CAC
$1,247
LTV
26.5x
LTV/CAC
89%
Gross Margin

A Massive Market in Transformation

$366B
Global Talent Management
Growing 12% annually
1.2B
Knowledge Workers
Our addressable market
$2,400
Annual Career Spend
Per professional

Why Now?

Market Tailwinds

  • AI anxiety driving demand for continuous upskilling
  • Remote work creating global competition for roles
  • Gen Z expects career development tools from day one
  • Skills-based hiring replacing degree requirements

Competitive Advantages

  • First-mover in "Active Career Management" category
  • B2B2C distribution bypasses consumer CAC challenges
  • Network effects create defensible moat
  • AI-native architecture vs retrofitted competitors

The $77B Productivity Software Market

Live visualization of why letting people get shit done, works.

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Revenue
Today YTD Lifetime EBITA %

Note: This shows the current productivity market leaders. Kareer represents the next generation—AI-native, individual-first.

Let's be part of that $77B market—and do it even better by actually giving a shit about the users.

World-Class Technology, Invisible to Users

Our sophisticated AI operating system works behind the scenes. Users just experience magic.

The Kareer AI Operating System

What Users See

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    Instant Insights

    Career recommendations appear like magic

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    One-Click Actions

    Complex workflows feel effortless

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    Always Current

    Real-time updates without manual work

What's Actually Happening

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    Multi-Agent AI System

    Specialized agents for skills, opportunities, coaching

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    Real-Time Market Analysis

    Continuous scanning of 10M+ data points

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    Personalization Engine

    Individual career DNA mapping & prediction

"The best interface is no interface. Users shouldn't have to think about AI—they should just get results."

— Our Design Philosophy

Built on Battle-Tested Foundations

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Affine Core

Enterprise-grade document & collaboration platform

We've built Kareer as a sophisticated derivative of Affine, the open-source platform trusted by millions. This gives us:

  • • Real-time sync across all devices
  • • Local-first architecture for privacy
  • • Block-based content system
  • • Enterprise security standards

Key Insight: By building on Affine, we saved 2+ years of infrastructure development and inherited a proven, scalable foundation.

AI-Native Architecture

LLM Orchestration

Multi-model approach for optimal performance:

  • • GPT-4 for complex reasoning
  • • Claude for nuanced career coaching
  • • Specialized models for skill extraction

Knowledge Graph

Proprietary career ontology mapping 50K+ skills, 10K+ roles, and millions of career paths

Privacy-First Design

End-to-end encryption, local processing when possible, zero-knowledge architecture

Our Technical Moat

2 years
Saved by building on Affine
100ms
Average AI response time
99.99%
Uptime SLA
$0.02
AI cost per user/day

Our "clean core" architecture allows us to inherit Affine's improvements while maintaining our proprietary career intelligence layer

Join Us in Building the Future

Investment Focus Areas

60%
Product & Engineering
30%
Go-to-Market
10%
Operations

Key Milestones Ahead:

  • flag Scale to 100K+ active users via strategic partnerships
  • flag Build sustainable revenue with strong unit economics
  • flag Launch enterprise solutions for internal mobility
  • flag Establish category leadership in Active Career Management

We're seeking visionary investors who understand that the future of work belongs to the individual, not the intermediaries.