So my son turns four today.

I marked it by finishing something I've been building for a while, and I wanted you to have it before I put it anywhere else.

It's called The Career Council.

You know how this goes. You're stuck on a career move, you ask one person, and you usually get back one answer, quietly shaped by where they sit. Your mentor wants you happy. A recruiter friend sees the gate. The hiring manager just wants to know you'll make their week easier. Every one of them is right, and every one of them is partial, so you end up making a big call on a thin slice of it.

So I built the whole room instead of the one voice.

You bring it whatever you're chewing on. Take the offer or stay. Pivot or go deeper. Why you keep getting ghosted at the final round. How hard to push on the number. It puts everyone who actually shapes a career around one table: a hiring manager, a recruiter, a bar raiser, the cross-functional folks who quietly veto you, your past self, your future self, and a few more when the question needs them. They each say their honest piece, they argue, and a chairman pulls it into one verdict and a single thing to do next.

It runs in Claude or ChatGPT, takes about two minutes, and it's free. The final call still stays with you... it just means you're deciding with the whole table in front of you instead of one chair.

Here it is: council.careercreators.com

I built it from years with experienced designers, but it isn't just for designers, or just for senior folks. These seats sit at every table, in every field. It's inspired by Andrej Karpathy's LLM Council, rebuilt for the kind of decision a spreadsheet was never going to make for you.

If you put something through it, I'd love a reply telling me what the room said. I read every one.

Joseph

P.S. Honestly, I build things like this with my two boys in mind. I hope some version of it is there for them when they're making their own calls one day... whether or not I am.