Find work you'd actually enjoy that still pays the rent.
KoolCareers starts with who you are, checks every path against what you need to earn where you live, and helps you test it in the real world before you leap.
Free while it's invite-only. See how it works
A recreation worker near Sarasota earns $36,860 a year. One adult there needs $48,694 to get by.
The jobs that sound fun and the jobs that pay rent are often different jobs. KoolCareers puts both on the same page, so you can see where they overlap and what it takes to close the gap.
Pay: BLS 2025 data for the North Port–Bradenton–Sarasota metro, via O*NET. Living wage: MIT Living Wage Calculator, January 2026 data. Your own city's numbers replace these when you set your location.
From "I have no idea" to a plan you've already started testing
Start with you
Five questions about your edge, the scattered clues of your life, and a two-minute interest quiz. The AI finds the through-line you can't see from inside.
Set what matters
Dial every interest and need from 0 to 5. Anything at 5 is a deal-breaker. Add your own, from "being on the water" to "home by 3".
See paths against your pay line
A short list, never fifty. Each path shows a realistic local pay range next to the income you need and the local living wage. Open one for where to start.
Check your gut
Read a normal Tuesday in each life and react before you think. See where your head and your gut disagree.
Do the math
Stack a day job, your own thing and side income until the total clears your line. Self-employment counts here.
Try it for real
Small experiments you can do this week, with outreach messages drafted for you. Log how each one felt. The feeling is the data.
Every screenshot on this page is the tool as it is today, with the Sarasota starter paths loaded.
An AI that edits the plan with you, not at you
Ask it to add a path, re-weight your interests, rebuild your income mix or draft a message to someone doing the job you're curious about. It shows exactly what it changed, and one tap undoes it. It remembers what you've told it, so you never start over.
- Honest about money. It will tell you when a path can't reach your line.
- Never invents pay data. Estimates are labeled as estimates.
- Changes nothing unless you ask, and lists every change.
Made for the "I could do anything, so I do nothing" moment
The fun-job hunter. You want work on the water, on a stage, around people. You also want to make rent. KoolCareers shows which of those jobs can pay and how to stack the ones that can't.
The career changer. Fifteen years in one field and no idea what transfers. The edge finder names what you're good at that other people pay for, then builds paths around it.
The side-hustler. You've got a thing on the side and a day job you tolerate. The money tab does the math on when the side thing can carry more of the load.
Built for the parts other tools skip
| Feature | Typical career quiz | General AI chatbot | KoolCareers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starts from | Multiple-choice answers | Whatever you type that day | Your edge, your clues, a quick quiz and your real limits |
| What you get | A long list of job titles | Advice that changes every session | Five paths or fewer, each with the reason it fits |
| Local pay vs. what you need | National averages, if any | May be out of date | Real wages for your metro, against your own pay line |
| Self-employment and stacked incomes | Not covered | Only if you think to ask | Built in, with the math |
| Real-world testing | Ends at the report | No follow-through | Experiments, outreach drafts, an energy log |
| Remembers you | No | Not reliably | Your plan and what you've told it, every time |
| Your results | Often behind a paywall | Yours | Yours, and downloadable in one click |
Also in the tool
- Your edge
- Five sharp questions find the combination of skills, access and experience that's hard for anyone else to copy. Paths get built around it.
- Through-line finder
- List the scattered clues of your life. The AI names the pattern underneath and turns it into interests you can dial.
- Three futures
- Sketch three different five-year lives, a method from Stanford's Designing Your Life course. It loosens the grip of "the one right answer".
- Head versus gut
- Your scores say one thing, your reaction says another. The tool puts them side by side and asks the useful question.
- Ikigai, filled in for you
- What you love, what you're good at, what pays and what the world needs, drawn from what you've already entered. One question left to answer.
- Private by default
- Your own login. Your plan is stored under your account and only you can open it in the app.
- Take it with you
- Download your whole plan as a readable file or as raw data, or print it, any time. Leaving is a button, not a support request.
Free while it's invite-only
Private beta
$0
- Every tab and every result. Nothing locked.
- The AI planning partner, with a fair daily limit
- Your own private login and saved plan
Paid plans
To be announced
- Beta members hear first, well before anything changes
- Your results will never be held back behind a paywall
- Your plan stays yours either way
Plant something.
We're letting people in a few at a time. Leave your email and what you're trying to figure out, and we'll send an invite.
We'll only use your email to send your invite.
Good things to ask
Is this a personality test?
No. The short quiz uses the six interest types career counselors have relied on for decades, but it's a conversation starter, not a validated psychometric test. The real work is what comes after it.
Where does the pay data come from?
The federal wage survey. When a path matches a recognized occupation, you get the real figures for your own metro area: what the middle earns, and what the lowest-paid and highest-paid tenth earn. Each one names the occupation it was matched to and links to the official description, so you can see for yourself that the match is right. Where nothing fits well (common for something you'd start yourself), the range is an estimate and the tool says so instead of dressing it up. Check live listings too.
Does the AI make decisions for me?
It never changes your plan unless you ask or agree, it lists every change, and you can undo it. It isn't a lawyer or a financial advisor, and it will tell you when something is a guess.
I don't live in Florida. Will it work?
Yes. Tell it where you live and it builds starter paths for your area, then looks up the real wages for your metro in the federal survey: your city's numbers, not a national average. If you're not near a metro area it falls back to national figures and says which you're seeing. The living-wage line outside the Sarasota area is still an estimate, and it's one field you can correct.
Who can see my plan?
Inside the app, only you. Your plan is stored in a database protected so each account can read only its own row. Like any hosted service, the people who run the servers have technical access to stored data.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes. Every tab works on a phone, and the chat opens as a full-screen panel. A laptop is nicer for the longer writing steps.