Coming soonv0.4 · private beta · for tech professionals

Your career deserves more than a static LinkedIn profile and good intentions.

Peakbound is an all-in-one platform for managing your career — practice, prep, upskill, résumé, market intel and coaching, on one profile.

Grounded in real market data, holistic from mindset to personal brand, and fully usable without AI — switch it on and it compounds, every session sharpening the next.

● Free for solo · access opens early 2027 · No card required

◉ PRACTICE · BEHAVIORAL

TrainingRound 2 of 4

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"I" vs "we"

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⌁ Improvements

  • Hedged 4× before naming numbers — “around”, “I think”. State the metric flat, then the caveat.
  • 38s before your first “I” — story drifts into “we” until pressed. Lead with ownership.
  • 3rd answer ran 94s · your hire-bar baseline is 65s. Cut the second example.
Save as InsightDrill the third beatCompare to last session

Practice · Mock interview

◉ VISION

Pressure-test career moves and the decisions behind them.

Tools to support the decisions people lose sleep over: move from data science into data engineering, take the manager job or stay an IC, leave big tech for the startup. Run each as a plan in the Odyssey: set the viability dials, watch five years project out, and see which one holds up. Then take it to your Personal Board — the seven seats whose job is to stress-test it.

  • ◆Three moves side by side, scored on the same four dials: resources, likability, confidence, coherence
  • ◆Stress mode inverts the scenarios, so you find out which plan survives the bad timeline rather than the sunny one
  • ◆A Personal Board of seven named seats — mentor, sponsor, connector, truth-teller and the rest — with the empty chair drawn as an empty chair
  • ◆Each seat carries a cadence and a docket, so the decision reaches the people who should argue with it
See a sample Odyssey run →

◉ CAREER ODYSSEY · TUNING VIABILITY

viability 0–100
Resources0
Likability0
Confidence0
Coherence0
100500
nowyr 1yr 2yr 3yr 4yr 5
DS → Data Engineering74IC → Manager68Big tech → Startup59

◉ PRACTICE

Rehearse the high-stakes moments with an AI that knows your patterns.

Interviews, comp negotiations, the exec readout, the conversation with your manager you keep putting off. The AI plays the other side and reads your résumé, captured principles and limiting beliefs first. Training mode probes around them on purpose — the point is to surface what the real moment will. Comfort mode lets you rehearse what you already know.

  • ◆Interviews: behavioral, product case, system design, technical deep dive
  • ◆Beyond interviews: negotiation, exec presentations, difficult conversations
  • ◆Voice-first or chat; a scored debrief after every session
Try a 5-min session →

◉ PRACTICE · BEHAVIORAL

TrainingRound 2 of 4

DEBRIEF

4.2

/ 5

↑ 0.4 vs last

Words / min

178

fast · aim 140-160

Fillers / min

6.4

↓ from 9.1

STAR cover

3 / 4

missing Result

"I" vs "we"

38%

low ownership

⌁ Improvements

  • Hedged 4× before naming numbers — “around”, “I think”. State the metric flat, then the caveat.
  • 38s before your first “I” — story drifts into “we” until pressed. Lead with ownership.
  • 3rd answer ran 94s · your hire-bar baseline is 65s. Cut the second example.
Save as InsightDrill the third beatCompare to last session

◉ PREP

Gameplans that meet the moment of stakes.

An interview round on the calendar? A difficult conversation with your manager in two days? The Gameplan card surfaces your key talking points, the principles you want to hold to, the limiting belief that keeps recurring in this category, and the drill scenarios that target your growth edge. Captured knowledge meets the actual reps.

  • ◆Per-company prep workspace: brief, interviewers, question bank, prep doc
  • ◆Resume picker, story matcher, JD-match question prediction
  • ◆Gametime brief on the day of — AI-synthesized from everything you've captured
See a sample Gameplan →

◉ MISSION · GOAL TREE

Process → Performance → Outcome

Land Senior PM by Q2 — 7 active goals across 3 tiers

PROCESSPERFORMANCEOUTCOME
◇ On track

5 of 7 goals on pace · 2 trailing target

Open pipeline ▸

Senior PM @ Stripe · Linear · Notion

· $200k+ TC

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Companies

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Drills

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Stories

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Apps sent

Pipeline · 7 companies in flight

◇ 2 cards advancing

APPLIED2PHONE3ONSITE1FINAL1
→ Next

Stripe loop in 2 days

Gameplan ready ▸

Principles to lean on

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Limiting belief to watch

Permission to push backAsks for context too early

Strengths to lean into

Quantified impactSystems thinking
Drill behavioral →Open prep workspace →

◉ MARKET INTEL

Make career decisions in a data-driven way.

Hundreds of thousands of postings from hundreds of companies, refreshed daily to create a feature-rich business intelligence platform for tech professionals. It answers which functions are hiring right now, which skills are scarce and well paid versus the table stakes everyone lists, which business domains are expanding, and whether AI is absorbing your role or amplifying it.

  • ◆Coverage × pay — the scarce, well-paid skills worth learning, told apart from table stakes
  • ◆Hiring trends by industry, job function, company, and more cuts
  • ◆AI posture per role — competing with it, or multiplying it
  • ◆And more: what to learn next, where a pivot actually leads, and roles matched to your profile straight from company boards — not from aggregators like Indeed and LinkedIn
See what it answers →

◉ INTELLIGENCE · MARKET SIGNAL

Live · Week 19

Product Management openings per week · 26 complete weeks

Same four companies throughout · partial current week excluded.

◉ READING

Over 100 publications, arriving as one feed.

Engineering blogs, design publications, research shops and the handful of people worth reading — each on its own site, its own cadence, its own feed you meant to set up. Peakbound does the unglamorous part: pulls them all in, reads them, and puts them in one place ranked against the skill gaps your profile already showed. You search it by company or by skill instead of remembering where you saw the thing.

  • ◆One feed over Stripe, Shopify, Apple, MIT Sloan, The Pragmatic Engineer and a hundred more
  • ◆Filter by company or by skill — the same skill vocabulary the market data uses, so a search here lines up with a gap there
  • ◆Highlight a passage and it is kept, with your note, against that article forever
  • ◆Ranked by what you are missing rather than by what published most recently
See what it pulls in →

Reading · your feed

107 PUBLICATIONS
Skill · ExperimentationCompany · any41 of 7,900+

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publications

Cloudflare9 min

Introducing Meerkat: an experiment in global consensus

✓ Savedpassage kept
UX Collective6 min

Why 10,000 experiments work better than 10,000 hours for designers

Zalando12 min

Scaling Reliable Experimentation in a Two-Sided AdTech Marketplace

Spotify14 min

Why Spotify Is Not Using Bayesian A/B Testing

DoorDash7 min

Accelerating experimentation with a multi-armed bandit platform

◉ AUDIO BRIEFING

An audio briefing for the big career moment on Monday.

A final-round loop, a comp negotiation, the conversation you keep putting off, a subject you need to hold your own on by Monday — you say what the moment is, and it builds for that. People were already doing this by hand, dropping the documents that matter into a notebook and asking it questions. Peakbound does it over sources the app already holds: mix what it should lean on, and it hands you something to listen to on the way in.

  • ◆A fader per source — turn one down and the briefing genuinely reads less of it
  • ◆Cited throughout, with chapters that land where the player says they do
  • ◆The same sources cut a flash-card deck — graded, spaced, and it remembers the card you were shaky on
See how a briefing is built →

Your prep for Google PM on Monday

MIXING
Sources
Job description ◎0%
Interviewer profile0%
Your last debrief0%
Market signals for this roleauto
Output

Awaiting mix

two hosts · cited throughout

◉ RÉSUMÉ X-RAY

See your résumé the way the machine sees it.

The same parser that reads 300,000+ job postings reads your résumé — no AI key needed, the way most applicant tracking systems do it. Then it shows you, line by line, which bullets surfaced a skill a machine can match and which said nothing at all.

  • ◆Nine scored dimensions, each with the specific line that caused it
  • ◆Your skills against your real cohort — what they hire for, what they pay extra for, what has become table stakes
  • ◆Every gap it finds becomes a question in your next practice session
Scan a résumé →

alex-chen-resume.pdf

READING RÉSUMÉ
17 of 24 bullets readable7 silent
6 technical3 domain3 soft
✓

Redis, Postgres and sharding all came out of one bullet — that line does real work.

!

7 bullets name no tool at all, including the year you led the migration.

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Kubernetes pays +9.4% within employer in your cohort. Yours appears once, in a 2021 role.

Scorecard · 9 dimensions—
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Parse rate
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Impact
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Positioning
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Career Arc
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Market Fit
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Evidence
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Fluency
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Concision
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Mechanics

◉ INDEPENDENCE

Financial Independence calculator so you can price career moves.

Inspired by the Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) movement. Every real career decision — the lower-paying job you’d rather do, the raise you’re deciding whether to chase, the year out — is a trade between money and time. Model your plan once and the calculator solves for the age work becomes optional, then prices each move against it. Taking $20k less costs 2.3 years. The next rung up buys back 1.7.

  • ◆Not one date but two — what smooth returns promise, and the later date that actually holds across 1,200 simulated futures
  • ◆Replayed against every US market since 1871, start year by start year, with the years that broke it named
  • ◆Seeded from Market Intel: your rung’s median pay, and what the rung above would do to the date
  • ◆Guardrails, a bridge to 59½, college, a mortgage and a partner's own stop date — the things that actually move it
Find your date →

Your plan · today’s dollars

SMOOTH RETURNS

YOUR PLAN

Current age32
Plan through age92
Take-home pay$180k
Core spending$70k
Mortgage payment$2,400
Return while building8%

WORK BECOMES OPTIONAL AT

32the money lasts to 92 in 32% of 1,200 simulated markets

A spreadsheet says 46. The money lasts in only 32% of them.

93 / 93 US markets since 1871 survive this date

WHAT A CAREER MOVE COSTS

−$40k+5.6 yr
−$20k+2.3 yr
−$10k+1.1 yr
+$10k−0.9 yr
+$20knext rung−1.7 yr

The exchange rate between money and time — usually smaller than it feels.

◉ AND THE REST OF IT

More surfaces, all reading the same profile.

Nothing here asks you to explain yourself twice.

Drills

One question, repeated until the answer holds.

Your Network

One record per person, wherever they came up.

Co-Pilot

Knows which page you're on and what it says.

Missions

Goals broken into weekly missions.

Skills & evidence

Every skill you claim, with the proof behind it.

Monthly Pulse

Five career pillars, rated once a month.

Resources

Every artifact your career produces, in one drawer.

Stories & artifacts

Your wins, written once, matched forever.

◉ SOLO OR WITH A COACH

Run it yourself, or bring someone who already knows your patterns.

The AI does the heavy lifting either way — mocks, theme synthesis, résumé critique, gameplans, co-pilot. Hosted on Pro, or bring your own Anthropic or OpenAI key. A coach is optional and never required.

Add one and they arrive having read the same profile you did — your themes, your principles, what you captured last week — and can pull any of it into the session. Their prompt overrides shape how the AI talks to you between sessions, so their methodology is there when they are not.

For coaches →

◉ SESSION PREP · COACH VIEW

Session #7 · Thu 2pm

Context · since last session

0captures·0practices·0themes·0comp talk

Action items · 3 of 4 done

  • Run 3 mock interviewslogged
  • Draft negotiation scriptshared 2d ago
  • Capture Q1 retro5 insights filed
  • Set 2026 anchor goalsstill open

Today's agenda · coach-curated

  • →

    Why “permission” keeps showing up after wins

    theme up to 5 instances this period

  • →

    Pressure-test the 2026 anchor goals

    still open from session #6

  • →

    Friday’s comp talk — debrief

    logged Mon, no insight captured yet

Coach prompt overrides · 3 active
Thomas Modern

Thomas Modern

Founder, Peakbound AI

Modern Way Coaching ↗

◉ THE COACHING PRINCIPLES

Five commitments for the long climb.

  • AdaptabilityTreat change as an opportunity rather than a threat.
  • ResponsibilityOwn the outcome without waiting for permission.
  • Inner GameName the belief that limits you, and dismantle it.
  • Systems ThinkingBuild systems that compound, and the relationships that sustain them.
  • EdgeCultivate an advantage, and keep it sharp at the frontier of your limits.

◉ WHY I BUILT THIS

The big platforms were never built for the person having the career.

I’ve built my career in tech, and alongside it I’ve coached and mentored hundreds of professionals through the parts of it that rarely make it onto a profile. The layoff that arrives without warning. The late night before an interview. The quiet question of which skill is actually worth learning next to advance your career. The conversation with a manager you anxiously rehearsed at 11pm after everyone else in the house is asleep.

I’ve been in those moments myself, and I’ve sat with a lot of people in theirs. What struck me is that the biggest platforms in this space are not built for that person. LinkedIn and Indeed are remarkable products — for recruiters and HR teams. That is who pays them, and it shows in what they optimize for. The tools that are built for the professional tend to be narrow: a résumé scorer, an interview trainer, a job-alert feed. Each one useful on its own, none of them talking to the others, and none of them remembering what you worked out last time.

A career is not a résumé, and it is not a job search. It is decades of decisions often made alone and while the rest of your life competes for the same hours. And it is less of a straight ladder now than a jungle gym — sideways moves, turns nobody planned for, and long stretches where it is hard to see the light on the other side. Peakbound is my attempt at a more holistic platform for the everyday tech professional: one place that holds all of it, and gets more useful the longer you use it.

◉ PRICING

Free to start. Pay when AI carries weight.

Career intelligence compounds over months. The free tier lasts forever. Pro is for when you want the AI to do the heavy synthesis — themes, critique, gameplans, co-pilot.

MonthlyAnnual

Free

Solo users

$0

  • ◆Unlimited Insights capture
  • ◆Full Identity (Profile / Principles / Vision)
  • ◆Manual themes + lineage
  • ◆3 Practice sessions / month
  • ◆Bring your own AI key (Anthropic or OpenAI)
Join waitlist →

Pro

Solo users · hosted AI

Recommended

$14.99/mo

  • ◆Everything in Free
  • ◆Unlimited Practice sessions
  • ◆Hosted AI — Themes, Resume critique, Gameplan, Co-pilot
  • ◆Per-event Gameplan card on the dashboard
  • ◆Insights → Principle promotion (AI-drafted)
Join Pro waitlist →

Coach

Independent coaches

$99/mo

  • ◆Everything in Pro
  • ◆5 client seats included
  • ◆Coach prep brief with client knowledge built in
  • ◆Asset review modal + prompt overrides
  • ◆Additional seats: $15 / client / month
Join coach waitlist →

Whitelabel

Brand it as your own

Custom

  • ◆Everything in Coach
  • ◆Custom domain
  • ◆Logo + brand overrides
  • ◆Higher coach / client caps
  • ◆Dedicated onboarding + support
Talk to us →

All paid plans include hosted AI up to a fair-use cap · BYOK (bring your own Anthropic or OpenAI key) stays available on every tier · Cancel anytime

◉ FAQ

The questions that come up most.

Don’t see yours? Email info@peakbound.ai.

PRODUCT

Drop in your résumé — that alone gives you an ATS read, a scorecard, and your skills matched against live demand. From there you set your function and level so the market data is scoped to you, then run one practice session on whatever is closest: an interview, a raise conversation, a presentation. Everything after that builds on those three.

The same parser that reads job postings reads your résumé, with no AI key required — so you see it the way most applicant tracking systems do. It shows you line by line which bullets surfaced a skill a machine can match and which said nothing, scores nine dimensions with the specific line that caused each one, and ranks your skills against what your cohort is actually hiring for and paying extra for.

Employers' own job postings, read at the source rather than bought from a listings aggregator — over 300,000 of them from 600+ companies, parsed into skills, seniority and pay, and refreshed nightly. Closed postings are kept on purpose: reading only live jobs hides which roles stopped being hired for, which is usually the thing you needed to know.

No, and most of it isn't about applying. You can see what the next level in your function requires and how far off you are, what you're worth before a comp conversation, which of your skills are becoming table stakes, and whether your role is one AI is absorbing or amplifying. The job-search surfaces are there when you need them.

Yes. Point it at the job description, your résumé, the interviewer's profile and anything you've pasted in, and it produces a cited briefing you can read or hear as a two-host audio episode — plus a flash-card deck from the same sources, graded and spaced, that remembers the card you were shaky on.

Yes — a single feed of around 85 engineering, product, design and career publications, summarized, and ranked against the skill gaps the market data found in your own profile rather than by recency alone.

Notes are tactical — what happened in this one interview. Insights are durable lessons in your own voice that apply across the next ten interviews. We capture insights at debrief moments and cluster them into themes over time so the patterns become visible.

Bring Your Own Key. You can supply your own Anthropic API key and AI calls go directly to Anthropic on your account. Free tier requires BYOK for AI features; Pro and above include hosted AI (we cover the AI cost up to a fair-use cap). Power users on Pro can still flip to BYOK if they prefer.

ACCESS & BILLING

Yes. Cancel from your account in two clicks; access continues through the end of the billing period. We don't lock you in.

Your own domain (e.g. coaching.yourname.com), your logo and brand colors throughout, copy overrides, and higher seat caps. Sales-led right now while we work with our first whitelabel customers — email info@peakbound.ai.

PRIVACY & COACHING

Your insights, themes, principles, and conversations live in your account with row-level security. Our AI doesn't train on anything you put in. You can export everything or delete your account at any time.

Peakbound is the platform. Modern Way Coaching (founder Thomas Modern) is a separate practice that uses Peakbound — you can hire Thomas there if you want a human coach, or you can run solo on Peakbound. Independent coaches can also bring their clients onto the platform on the Coach tier.

Careers don’t compound by default.
Yours can — on purpose.

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