Atlas Career Guide, Inc

Atlas is a digital platform that assists people in managing their careers and enables organizations to boost their performance. Based on the knowledge and advice of experienced professionals, it offers users a fantastic roadmap for stacking up skills, responsibilities, and compensation to stay ahead in the market while reducing risks.

Pilot implementations with four clients (two universities and two associations).

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Schools, universities, associations, and corporations. Students and employees primarily use the solution to help them make better career progression decisions and, consequently, school and company administrator to improve their competitiveness and awareness.

MVP is well-built. Need capital to promote and participate in conferences.

A better mechanism to define, plan and pursue a professional career is needed.
This mechanism should be accessible, inexpensive, accurate, and capable of evolving with the market. To achieve this, we designed Atlas with three key components:
1. Academic and professional assessments - driven by a comprehensive database of professions and their relevant attributes to help find a suitable career and identify skill gaps that require attention;
2. Curated crowdsourced mentorship - anonymous and private support to individual challenges provided by a network of mentors and a digital curation mechanism.
3. Career progression roadmap - a "Waze-like" application focused on monitoring career progression and guiding when to acquire new skills, take on more responsibilities, and negotiate compensation.

Traditional mentorship and professional development solutions may be seen as competitors at first. However, we have been able to close a partnership agreement with them, as Atlas helps their scalability (mostly beyond the executive level).

Using AI and comprehensive market data, Atlas can provide quick and curated professional recommendations automatically generated yet vetted by experienced mentors. It also complements LinkedIn, as it is a forward-looking engine that builds the path ahead based on patterns and individual circumstances.

Assessments sold by units (individual or package).
Mentorship is based on subscriptions (limited and unlimited).

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The primary commercial channel is currently face-to-face meetings with decision-makers. The goal is to evolve to sponsored events and eventually direct sales online.

Primarily commercial activities such as events, conferences, etc.
The goal is to get Atlas to be known by decision-makers in the education and HR industry.

8.5% stake on Atlas (for the $850k).
Participation in the Board of Directors for investments above $250k.

Running out of funds before the critical mass is achieved.

None.
This is the 3rd company I have started.
I have everything figured out. I need some cash to make it happen.

Not yet. The MVP was completed by late September 2022.

I have a provisory patent on the model implemented.