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Elevator Pitch

Three lengths. Use the one that fits the door you're standing in.

The one-liner (7 seconds)

WorkWingman is the "Common App" for jobs — a free, private, local-first Career Concierge that runs your entire job search from your own machine.

Alternates by audience: - To an engineer: "It's a local-first, BYOK job-application Career Concierge — your data never leaves your machine, and it never auto-submits without you." - To a job seeker: "It's a free assistant that fills out your job applications, tailors your resume, and tracks everything — and it keeps all your info on your own computer." - To an investor: "It's the trusted, privacy-first candidate operating system — freemium to job seekers, paid by the coaches, schools, and orgs who help them."

The 30-second version

Job seekers today juggle a dozen application portals, re-type the same information a hundred times, and hand their most personal data to tools that spam employers and monetize by selling it. WorkWingman flips that. It's a free, local-first Career Concierge: all your data lives on your machine, it tailors your resume and fills applications with a human always in the loop, and it never auto-submits or scrapes. It's free forever for the core job-seeker. We make money on convenience (encrypted cloud sync, a managed AI option) and by selling to the people who help job seekers — career coaches, bootcamps, universities, outplacement firms. The long game is to become the standard, portable, verified candidate profile — the Common App for jobs.

The 60-second version

The problem: Applying for jobs is miserable and getting worse. Every company uses a different applicant-tracking system — Workday, Greenhouse, iCIMS, Lever, SuccessFactors — and each one makes you re-enter the same work history from scratch. The AI tools that promise to help mostly "auto-apply to 1,000 jobs a day," which floods employers with spam, gets users banned, and quietly harvests personal data.

The insight: The winning product isn't the one that applies to the most jobs. It's the one job seekers trust with their whole career. Trust is the moat.

The product: WorkWingman is a free, local-first, privacy-first job-application Career Concierge. Your profile, history, and credentials stay in a vault on your own machine. It tailors resumes and fills out any ATS application, but a human is always in the loop — it never auto-submits, never scrapes, never sells data. Bring your own AI key, or don't; either works.

The business: Free forever for the core job seeker. We charge for convenience — encrypted multi-device sync, a zero-setup managed-AI option — and, more durably, we sell seats to the institutions that guide job seekers: career coaches, bootcamps, university career centers, workforce boards, outplacement firms. Later, and only with the user's consent, a portable verified-credential layer and direct employer integrations.

The vision: Become the Common App for jobs — one trusted, portable, user-owned candidate profile that works everywhere — while always keeping the job seeker, not the recruiter, as the customer.

Taglines (pick-list)

  • Your job search. Your machine. Your rules.
  • The Common App for jobs.
  • A Career Concierge, not an autopilot.
  • Private by default. Helpful by design.
  • The trusted operating system for your career.

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