Everything You Need to Know

Career Architect AI is a career intelligence platform that delivers comprehensive, data-driven analysis to help senior professionals navigate high-stakes career transitions. Unlike traditional career coaching which relies on subjective advice over weeks of sessions, we provide structured intelligence reports within five business days.

Our platform addresses a critical problem: 40% of executives fail within 18 months of placement. We help you avoid becoming part of this statistic by providing the strategic intelligence you need to position yourself effectively, prepare for interviews, and integrate successfully into your new role.

Our platform is designed for UK senior professionals navigating significant career transitions. This includes:

• HR Directors and Senior HR professionals
• Operations Directors and COOs
• Senior Managers across FTSE companies, NHS, and PE-backed organisations
• Professionals making cross-sector transitions (e.g., private to public sector)
• Executives targeting board-level or C-suite positions

We are particularly effective for candidates facing complex positioning challenges—such as career gaps, sector transitions, or competing against candidates with more traditional backgrounds.

Traditional career coaching typically involves:

• Multiple sessions over 6-12 weeks
• Costs of £500-£2,000+ per engagement
• Subjective advice based on the coach's experience
• Generic frameworks applied to your situation

Career Architect AI provides:

• Comprehensive intelligence delivered within five days
• Pricing from £149-£699 (currently 50% off during beta)
• Data-driven analysis using web-grounded market validation
• Role-specific intelligence tailored to your exact target positions
• AI-powered analysis validated by 20+ years of HR expertise

We call it "Career Intelligence, Not Just Traditional Career Coaching" because we deliver actionable intelligence rather than general advice.

Research shows that 40% of executives fail within 18 months of placement, with the highest vulnerability in the first 90 days. This failure often stems from:

• Inadequate preparation and positioning
• Misalignment between candidate narrative and role requirements
• Poor understanding of the hiring panel's decision criteria
• Failure to translate experience across sectors effectively
• Lack of strategic onboarding planning

Career Architect AI provides the structured intelligence to address each of these risk factors before they derail your career transition.

We offer three tiers:

The Executive Profile Diagnostic is your foundational analysis. It examines your CV against your target role(s) and provides:

• A Strategic Fit Score indicating your positioning strength
• Gap analysis identifying where your experience may fall short
• Strategic reframing suggestions to position existing experience more effectively
• Critical Reflector validation that pressure-tests your narrative against market realities

The Diagnostic forms the foundation for all subsequent reports in higher tiers.

The Critical Reflector is our flagship differentiator—a web-grounded validation component that acts as a "devil's advocate" for your candidacy. It:

• Pressure-tests your claims against current market realities
• Identifies potential "narrative friction" where your story may not land well
• Validates market data using live web sources
• Highlights risks that a sceptical interviewer might raise

This ensures you are not blindsided in interviews by challenges you had not anticipated.

The Panel Simulation creates a realistic boardroom scenario with fictional interviewer archetypes tailored to your target role. It includes:

• Multiple interviewer personas (e.g., the sceptic, the technical expert, the HR professional)
• Likely questions each panel member would ask
• "Trap/Pivot/Hook" frameworks showing how to handle challenging questions
• Strategic talking points for each interviewer type

Note: Panel Simulations use fictional archetypes for preparation purposes and do not predict actual hiring decisions or represent views of real individuals.

The 24/7 Virtual Coach is an AI-powered coaching assistant that knows your complete dossier. It allows you to:

• Practice interview answers at any time, day or night
• Refine your "Tell me about yourself" narrative
• Get strategic advice on salary negotiation and handling gaps
• Run mock Q&A sessions with immediate feedback

Because it draws from your personalised dossier, the advice is specific to your situation—not generic guidance.

The 90-Day Onboarding Strategy (APEX tier only) provides a structured plan for your first three months in the new role. Given that the first 90 days represent the highest-risk period for executive failure, this report includes:

• Week-by-week objectives and milestones
• Stakeholder mapping and relationship-building priorities
• Quick wins to establish credibility
• Risk factors to monitor and mitigate

This can also be used as a negotiation tool—demonstrating to employers that you have already thought through your integration strategy.

Submitting three target roles enables our Cross-Sector Intelligence analysis, which:

• Identifies transferable competencies across different role types
• Reveals patterns in how your experience translates to different contexts
• Provides vocabulary translation maps for cross-sector candidates
• Generates a competency heatmap showing your strengths and gaps across roles

This multi-role analysis is essential for accurate competitive positioning. Single-role analysis would miss important strategic insights.

1. Submit your materials: Upload your CV and provide job descriptions for up to three target roles
2. We analyse: Our AI engines process your materials using 18 proprietary architectural documents encoding decades of HR expertise
3. Quality assurance: Every report passes through our QA Audit Framework (legal compliance, factual accuracy, tone, ethics) and Intelligence Validity Framework
4. Human validation: Emma-Jayne reviews outputs using 20+ years of HR expertise
5. Delivery: You receive your complete dossier within five business days

All dossiers are delivered within five business days of receiving complete information from you. This includes:

• Your CV
• Job descriptions for your target roles
• Any additional information we may request

If we request additional information during the diagnostic process, you have five working days to provide it. If not provided within this timeframe, reports will be issued based on available information unless you contact us to request an extension.

At minimum, you need to provide:

• Your current CV (PDF or Word format)
• Job descriptions or links for up to three target roles

To get the most accurate and detailed analysis, we recommend also providing:

• Specific achievements with quantified metrics (budgets managed, team sizes, percentage improvements)
• Context about your career goals and any concerns you have
• Information about career gaps or transitions you want to address

Reports are delivered as professionally formatted PDF documents, typically organised into five main deliverables: Guide (orientation), Foundation (diagnostic), Strategy (interview preparation), Valuation (market intelligence), and Catalyst (cross-sector analysis). You will also receive access to your 24/7 Virtual Coach (Interview Mastery and APEX tiers) and Virtual Interview Simulator (APEX only).

We use a multi-layered quality assurance process:

• Two-Pass Analytical Engine: Primary analysis followed by quality control and narrative refinement
• QA Audit Framework: Every report is checked across four dimensions—Legal Compliance, Factual Accuracy, Tone & Positioning, and Ethical Alignment
• Intelligence Validity Framework (IVF): Six dimensions of analytical defensibility ensure every claim is evidence-grounded
• Human Oversight: Emma-Jayne validates outputs using 20+ years of HR expertise
• Critical Reflector: Web-grounded validation ensures market claims are current and accurate

Our reports clearly distinguish between two types of information:

• CONFIRMED: Information directly evidenced in your CV, job descriptions, or additional documentation you have provided. These claims can be defended in interview.
• INFERRED: Information reasonably deduced from context, industry norms, or logical analysis but not explicitly stated in your documentation. These items are flagged with [REQUIRES VALIDATION] markers.

It is your responsibility to validate all INFERRED information before using it in applications or interviews. This prevents you from making claims you cannot support.

We take AI hallucination risks seriously and have multiple safeguards:

• Every factual claim is cross-referenced against your source CV
• Market statistics require attributed sources
• Inferred information is explicitly flagged with [DATA NEEDED] or [REQUIRES VALIDATION] markers
• Human review catches anomalies the AI may produce
• The Critical Reflector validates claims against live web sources

Our terms of service include explicit disclaimers about AI limitations, and we encourage you to verify all information before use.

No. Career Architect AI is explicitly NOT a psychological, personality, or behavioural assessment. We do not:

• Diagnose personality types or psychological profiles
• Provide psychometric testing
• Make claims about your emotional intelligence or cognitive abilities
• Offer medical, legal, or financial advice

Our reports provide strategic career intelligence and positioning advice only. Any language about how "panels may perceive" you is strategic positioning guidance, not psychological assessment.

During our Beta Expansion, all tiers are 50% off:

APEX pricing varies based on role seniority. Public sector professionals receive an additional 20% discount.

Our guarantee states: If you do not reach the interview stage for any of the 3 role applications covered by your bundle, you will receive one complete rerun at no additional cost.

Important clarifications:

• You are paying for the accuracy of intelligence on your submitted CV against chosen roles—not a guarantee of securing interviews or appointments
• If a role scores 70 or less on Strategic Fit during diagnostics, this automatically triggers a rerun for another role
• The guarantee requires evidence of all three applications (rejection correspondence)
• Claims must be submitted within 90 days of dossier delivery

If any of your submitted roles receives a Strategic Fit Score of 70 or less during the Diagnostic phase, this automatically triggers a rerun for another role at no additional cost. We assess fit before you invest time in applications that are unlikely to succeed.

If we feel submitted roles are likely to be a mismatch based on our analysis, we may ask you to reconsider whether this is a role you want to submit. Our goal is to ensure you receive intelligence for roles where you have a realistic chance of success.

Our Service Guarantee provides a free rerun if unsuccessful in all three applications—this does not entitle you to a refund but rather to additional service delivery.

Refunds may be considered in limited circumstances:

• Cancellation before we begin processing (full refund)
• Significant service delivery failures on our part

Please see our full Terms & Conditions for complete refund policy details.

Our Beta Expansion Program has limited availability (15 spots as of current launch). Beta pricing at 50% off will continue until we have validated product-market fit with paying customers. We cannot guarantee how long beta pricing will remain available, so if you are considering the service, we recommend acting while the discount is in place.

Our platform uses AI engines from market-leading artificial intelligence providers, directed by 18 proprietary architectural documents that encode decades of executive HR expertise. This combination of advanced AI capabilities with domain-specific knowledge creates what we call our "Two-Pass Analytical Engine":

• Pass 1: Structured analysis against your target roles
• Pass 2: Quality control and narrative refinement

We reserve the right to modify our technology stack to improve service quality.

We take data protection seriously:

• All data handling is GDPR-compliant
• Your CV and personal information are processed only for the purpose of generating your dossier
• We do not sell or share your data with third parties
• You can request deletion of your data at any time

Please see our Privacy Policy for complete details on data handling practices.

Upon payment, you receive a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the dossier for your personal career advancement. You may:

• Use the content for your job applications and interviews
• Adapt the strategic positioning for your personal use
• Share sections with prospective employers as part of applications

You may NOT:

• Sell, license, or distribute the dossier to others
• Use our methodologies to create competing services
• Remove proprietary notices or branding

Career Architect AI is operated by Optima Prep Lab Ltd, a UK-registered company (Company No. 16889613).

The founding team includes:

Ricardo Quail

Co-Founder & Methodology Lead

15 years of teaching experience, transforming HR workflows into AI agent instructions

Emma-Jayne Perez Chies

Co-Founder, HR Director, Accredited Coach & Methodology Architect

20+ years of HR expertise across FTSE companies, NHS, and PE-backed organisations

Registered Office: 3rd Floor, 86-90 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NE, United Kingdom