Manifesto

The career advice
industry is broken.
We're rebuilding it.

Founded
2025, London — built nights and weekends until the user count made it the day job.
Built for
The generation that was told to "follow their passion" and graduated into a hiring freeze, mass layoffs, and a 187-application median to first callback.
Funded by
Users. No VC, no acquisition agenda — just a $15/month subscription from people who decided they were worth the price of a coffee a week.
Why we exist

For two decades, the only people getting career advice that actually worked were the ones who could afford a $300/hour coach.

The rest of us got LinkedIn posts written by people who sold courses for a living. Generic CV templates. Bootcamps. “Hustle harder.” A cottage industry of life-hack listicles from accounts that had never personally landed a job in a recession.

Then a generation graduated into the worst entry-level market since 2008. ATS filters reject 75% of CVs before a human sees them. The average application gets 7.4 seconds of recruiter attention. And the median time to first callback is now 187 applications deep.

“Just network harder” is not a strategy. It's a sentence used by people who already have a job.

Jobless was built because we got tired of watching brilliant, hard-working people get filtered out by software, ghosted by recruiters, and gaslit by influencers. The product doesn't perform empathy. It runs your CV through the same scoring logic the ATS uses. It rewrites your filler phrases. It asks you eight questions and tells you, scored against the STAR method, exactly where your answer fell apart.

It costs less than a coffee a week because that's what's fair. The students using Jobless can't afford $300/hour. They can afford $15/month. So that's what it costs.

What we believe

Six principles, none of them up for debate.

01 ·

Career advice should be free or cheap.

If a 22-year-old can't afford it, it doesn't count. The free tier exists forever. The paid tier costs less than a Pret meal deal.

02 ·

Show, don't tell.

Don't write motivational copy about confidence. Score the actual interview answer. Show the before/after ATS number. Numbers don't gaslight.

03 ·

No dark patterns. Ever.

No "are you sure you want to cancel" guilt trips. No auto-renewal with a hidden checkbox. You can pause your subscription, downgrade, or delete your account in two clicks.

04 ·

Your data is yours.

We don't sell anonymised data to recruiters. We don't train external models on your CV. Delete your account and everything goes — including the backups, in 30 days.

05 ·

Irony is intimacy.

The product is called Jobless. We are not above the bit. If you're not laughing a little while you set up your career, you're doing it wrong.

06 ·

Universities are the leverage point.

One contract gets every graduating cohort the tools their families never could afford. That's where the real impact compounds — not in the consumer plan.

If this resonates,
the rest is easy.

Free forever. No card. Less than a coffee a week if you want everything.