What the profile is
Not a static resume replacement. Not a public bio. The profile is the app's living source of truth. It holds identity, academic context, current status, experience, projects, goals, preferences, wins, and the career facts other screens need to make useful decisions.
What writes into it
Name, school, cohort, graduation timing, concerns, role/company for holders, and the initial career state.
Personal details, location, LinkedIn, academic fields, work experiences, projects, certifications, interests, and preferences.
Job landed, job lost, internship started, mode changes, and settings-driven career status changes.
When the AI hears a durable fact in chat ("I led a team of four", "I switched majors last fall"), it writes it back into the profile and surfaces an after-the-fact toast.
Every offer, rejection, and pipeline movement is signal. The profile remembers.
Upload a PDF and the parser hydrates education, experiences, projects, and skills directly into the spine.
What reads from it
- Home decides what next action should rise based on profile depth, mode, and tracker state
- The jobs feed builds fit narratives from cohort, location, degree context, and current movement
- The Forge fills contact and education fields, checks depth, and grounds resume bullets in real facts
- Field Intelligence (AI Arena) reads cohort and career state to generate a relevant lens
- Talk with Dilly opens with the profile already loaded as context
- Tracker, reminders, and wins reflect where the user is actually moving
Why it compounds
A stronger profile improves every downstream screen. Better jobs context creates stronger fit narratives. Better experience detail creates stronger resumes. Better status and wins create better nudges. The app feels more aligned after each useful interaction, not equally shallow forever.
What it is not
- not a leaderboard identity
- not a one-screen summary built for public display first
- not a document that resets when you open a new screen
- not public by default
Design consequence
If a new screen cannot meaningfully read from or write back to the profile spine, it is bolted on. That is usually a sign the screen should be redesigned or cut.