RISEUP@work is a career operating system that provides AI-driven coaching, simulations, and strategic career design to help professionals navigate performance reviews, promotions, and difficult workplace conversations. The platform builds a 360-degree view of each user's career through diagnostics, journal entries, resume drafts, and goals, enabling personalized guidance that adapts over time. It offers a free Explorer Tier and a 14-day Builder trial, making executive-caliber coaching accessible beyond the traditional $3,000+ VP-level luxury market.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Mid-career and early-career professionals face high-stakes career decisions—performance reviews, promotions, and difficult conversations—without a structured system, relying on generic advice from mentors, friends, or internet searches that rarely connects to their specific situation. This gap leads to burnout, stalled growth, and a productivity loss for companies, especially in remote work environments where the informal check-ins that once provided timely guidance have disappeared.
Solution
RISEUP@work provides a scalable career growth studio that combines AI-driven simulations, automated coaching loops, and strategic career design to guide professionals through real workplace challenges. The platform builds a 360-degree view of each user—capturing every diagnostic, journal entry, resume draft, goal, and interview practice—so its AI guide, RISE, delivers personalized advice that fits the user's unique story and career stage. Unlike generic AI chat, RISE runs on proven executive coaching methodology, offering specific questions and structured prompts that replace the missing managerial oversight. The system is built around actual career stages—Launch, Foundation, Dividend—and stays with users year after year, sharpening its guidance as the relationship deepens.
Target Audience
Primary users are mid-career and early-career professionals in remote or hybrid work environments who lack consistent managerial guidance, as well as companies seeking to close the career development gap and improve retention across their workforce.
Features
- AI-driven coaching engine based on ICF-certified executive coaching frameworks, not generic chatbot responses
- 360-degree career profile that aggregates diagnostics, journal entries, resume drafts, goals, and interview practice into a unified view
- Career-stage-specific modules (Launch, Foundation, Dividend) that adapt guidance to the user's current professional phase
- Automated coaching loops that schedule specific, well-aimed questions to prevent task avoidance and maintain momentum
- Implementation-intention prompts that force users to name tasks, write manager-style questions, and assign accountability
- Private, user-owned data system with no re-explaining of context across sessions
- Free Explorer Tier with a 14-day Builder trial, no credit card required