What you bring to the team

Owner mindset, bias to ship, comfort in ambiguity

Ability to design pragmatic architectures that scale cost-effectively

Strong product sense and collaboration with design/growth
Requirements
You have strengths in...
  • numbers, data and logic
  • organizing and keeping stuff tidy
  • pushing and getting things done

What awaits you

Own technical vision & roadmap; evolve MVP to production-grade platform

Build LLM/RAG pipelines (embeddings, retrieval, guardrails, eval)

Ship user-facing features (profile flow, Q&A, virtual mentor)

Hire/mentor the initial engineering team and set best practices

What we offer you

Significant founding-level equity(30-40%); salary ramps when funding

Impact oriented startup, with a strong team

Flexible remote setup, validated, product iterations, preparing for incubator programm

About our project

Democratize access to mentorship through personalized biographical recommendations and informed decision-making for everyone

JourneyBook is anAI-driven mentorship platform that connects users with curated autobiographies of \ordinary people turned extraordinary\ based on their personal and professional profiles. It offers personalized mentorship experiences through literature by transforming these books into interactive, real-time Q&A sessions. This approach aims to provide timely, tailored guidance 24/7 at a fraction of traditional coaching costs

Challenges
Tech & Content: Building a generative AI pipeline of production costs and accuracy and quality,; mitigating risks of misinterpretation or hallucination. Ensuring scalable, high-quality autobiography curation, navigation copy right and content creation guidelines

Market & Business: No brand or marketing establish, cross-country team, under-resourced operations with a very small team, impacting growth and quality output.

Target group
- Students & Early-Career Pros (18–28) needing academic/career direction and relatable stories without high coaching fees.
- Career Pivoters & Growth Seekers (25–40) navigating role/industry changes or side projects, seeking timely insights to avoid missteps.

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