An AI career coach, for the months after a layoff.

Most generic AI assistants will give you career advice if you ask. The advice is fine — and that is the problem. Fine advice is the most common reason a search stalls. CareerCanopy is built differently because the job is different. A general-purpose AI does not know what your runway is, what is actually true about your industry this quarter, or what is happening to people who left the role you are leaving. It will treat your question the way it treats every question — with average confidence, average specificity, and an unwillingness to say a hard thing. A purpose-built AI career companion holds a tighter rule: every answer references your specific background, names the trade-off, and refuses to offer false hope. The product is honest first, useful second, encouraging third — in that order.

The one thing

Specific to you, not to everyone

The companion does not run on a generic prompt. It is built around the actual context you provide — your role, industry, runway, what has worked, what has not, what you would not give up. Every plan, every nudge, every honest read is shaped by that. If a sentence could apply to anyone unchanged, it does not ship.

What it is not

The limits, listed up front.

It is not a human coach. If you need a person who has worked in your sector for twenty years, hire one. CareerCanopy is the steady thing in the hours nobody is on a coaching call.
It is not a therapist. CareerCanopy provides emotional support but is not a mental health service. If you are in crisis, please call or text 988.
It cannot guarantee outcomes. Career guidance from CareerCanopy is generated by artificial intelligence for informational purposes. It does not guarantee employment outcomes — no honest product can.
It is not a job board. The companion will not list jobs at you. If you are looking for listings, the boards exist. CareerCanopy is for the work that comes before the listing search and the work that comes after the listing search.

Questions

Common questions

Is an AI career coach worth it?

It depends on what you want. If you want someone with sector relationships who can introduce you to a specific hiring manager, a human coach is the right tool. If you want a steady, specific, available-at-2am companion who will help you build a real plan, name what is actually working and what is not, and stay honest about the market — a purpose-built AI coach can do that better than most humans can do it cheaply or at all hours. CareerCanopy is built for the second case.

Can AI replace a human career coach?

Not entirely — and CareerCanopy does not try to. It replaces the parts a human coach is bad at, which are availability, pricing, and unflinching honesty. It does not replace the parts a human coach is great at, which are sector relationships, in-person rehearsal, and someone who has lived the specific transition you are trying to make.

How does CareerCanopy use AI differently?

The companion is constrained to one job: helping someone in the post-layoff window navigate to something better. It does not optimise for time-on-app or daily streaks. It does not nudge you to use it more. It is built to be used when you need it and put down when you do not — because the goal is your next role, not your engagement.

Your plan is built around what you tell us — not a template.

Start with a few questions. The plan follows.

Start your plan

Less than one session with a career coach.