How it knows, and when it says it can't tell yet.

Where your work history meets the postings

A résumé is a draft of what you say you did, aimed where you decided to aim it. A Clarity Map is a check. It reads what you can show and what employers are asking for in current job postings, and it says where the two meet.

If your job search is stalling, the reason usually sits upstream of effort, in whether your work history is read the way you mean it. The document is a fine starting point. The question it can't answer alone is which direction fits your work history, and what is most in the way.

What a Clarity Map is

The Map answers three questions, in order. Which directions your confirmed work history supports. What is most in the way, named plainly. And the next thing worth doing: one thing, chosen because your work history and the postings support it.

Every answer carries its receipts. What the conclusion rests on is listed beneath the conclusion. What the Map can see, what that points to, and what it can't tell yet sit on the same page, at the same size. You can judge each for yourself.

The check only you can run

What we read from your documents or your answers starts as a proposal. You see each line with what it's based on, and you confirm, correct, or remove it. Only what you confirm counts. If you don't have a résumé, we ask instead, and the interview covers the same ground.

This step is slower than guessing, and it makes the answer yours. Every fact in the Map is one you have seen and said yes to. The career story on the page is the one you would tell.

What a check finds, and what it looks for and misses

Confirming what you've shown is one kind of check. Looking for something and finding it absent is the other, and it appears the same way: stated plainly.

An absent item is one input the check weighs alongside everything you did show. It stays visible so you can add context if there is more to say.

The piece only you can supply

Then we ask what you've already tried: how many applications, over how long, what came back. No document holds your job search history, so you supply it.

Silence is data too. Thirty-one applications into silence says something different than three applications with two replies. It shows where your work history is being read a certain way, and that shapes what we look for. The interview asks the minimum it needs.

The other half: what employers are asking for

We check current postings in the directions your history points to. Postings show what employers are asking for, and the Map marks where the postings stop. A posting on an employer's own site counts differently than one circulating on a board for months, and the Map keeps that difference visible.

Postings expire, so each opening carries a check-by date and stays on the page only while we can verify it.

How it weighs what it found

Reading is half the work. The other half is deciding how much each thing counts, and the Map does that in the open. You can watch it make one call, receipts included, in the sample Map.

1. Evidence beats assertion

   A line from your confirmed work history counts more than a general claim about your field. Whatever the Map says about you traces to something you confirmed.

2. Fresh beats stale

   Postings expire, so each carries a check-by date, and the check keeps only the ones it can still verify.

3. More than one source beats one

   A role that shows up on an employer's own site and across several sources counts for more than a single listing.

4. A required piece must be backed

   Before the Map names a direction from the market, the things that direction depends on have to be supported by sources, or named as missing. If they aren't, the Map labels a guess as a guess.

If something goes wrong behind the scenes, like a slow or unavailable source, your progress is kept. The Map says what could not be checked.

What honest looks like when it comes back

The answers and the open questions share a page. When your work history and the postings leave something open, the Map says so in the same size as everything else.

When your work history is thin

Sometimes your work history is short, or the postings point several ways. The Map says so in writing. It also names what would change the answer: the piece of information that would turn it, or the search that would build it.

That gives you a direction you can steer by, drawn from what your work history and the postings both show.

What's yours stays yours

Your work history, your job search history, and your Map are private by default. A parent, a partner, or anyone who wants to help sees only what you choose to share, when you choose to share it.

If you later choose the follow-on program, paying buys the program. Your job search stays private to you.

The founder checks it before you see it

You may have tried tools that rewrite the résumé and hand it back. The check reads your work history against the postings, and the founder reviews every Map for clarity and supporting detail before it reaches you. If you've verified an email, we email you when it's ready, and the result waits for you when you come back.

What it costs, and what happens when you ask

You may have been promised a version of this before: something that would finally read your work history fairly. So the Clarity Map is free, because the answer is the one thing that can prove itself. You can check what it says about your actual work history, and whether it says "can't tell yet" when that is the truth.

Here is the whole of it: leave an email, and a confirmation arrives. When your group opens, you share the document or answers you already have and confirm what your Map shows. A complete sample Map is public if you want to see a full one first. How the system is built is public too, measured, with its scope stated. What you get back is yours to act on or set aside, and if it earns your trust, the follow-on program is there.

Whether the aim or your work history is holding your job search back is a question your own work history can already answer.