Boost

Your magical advisor for career success

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Your magical advisor for career success

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This is badass! Way to go guys🙂 Would be awesome to apply this concept to brand ambassadors and sales people who want to crush their goals. A couple questions: How do you guys source the experts? And do they get paid to provide assistance?

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9yr ago

Embra - The AI Operating System

Maker

@justin_ezor Thanks Justin! 👊 - Goal tracking and encouragement is something we think about often... it's hard to pitch people on it though. We do think there is a huge opportunity for the advisor to play a more pro-active coaching role. Love the idea. - We manually recruit experts. We have people who work on SpaceX's Falcon9, Google's Self-Driving Cars, and experts in open source. - Experts do get paid to provide assistance. The amount varies depending on *how* they help, but if you do the calculations it usually comes out to about $50/hr.

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9yr ago

@zachtratar so dope!! How long have you guys been working on this? And what was your original inspiration?

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9yr ago

Embra - The AI Operating System

Maker

@justin_ezor that's quite a long story... maybe over coffee sometime, else I'll write a huge wall of text and people are going to spawn a magical downvote button out of necessity. ;) We've been working on the coaching/advisement/mentorship problem for about 2 1/2 years now. It's gone through many, many iterations -- and that's how we ended up with this awesome product. :)

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9yr ago

Enki

Hunter

I've been following Zach and his team for years. They've helped hundreds of people land jobs at the likes of Google, Facebook, etc with job-hunting products. Seeing them expand into on-demand career advice is exciting. It's a much larger market and I haven't seen anything like it before. Pricing seems fair too :) Why doesn't everyone have a "talent agent"? Hope this can help a lot of people.

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9yr ago

Embra - The AI Operating System

Maker

@rogerdickey Thanks for the Hunt and kind words Roger! As mentioned, we've been tackling the "job hunt" through coaching for a while now. After you talk to hundreds upon hundreds of people personally, you find patterns. People, every day, every week, are making decisions that affect their career trajectory. We would always think "wow, If they had know this one piece of information 4 months ago, they'd be in such a good position now." Boost is a service that helps you make the smartest decisions all the time. It's your own personal advisor -- powered by both real people and technology -- that understands your unique situation, taps into the data of the world, and gives you professional superpowers. We invite you all to try it out and let us know what you think. :)

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9yr ago

Great idea - democratizing talent agencies that normally only already rich and powerful people have. Feels like everyone could use this. Is it focused on tech people first? There are probably many other industries that may benefit even more.

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9yr ago

Embra - The AI Operating System

Maker

@andrewomatic Our specialties are definitely in Software Engineering, Design, and Product Management. That being said, we're currently working with experts to design coaching playbooks for other fields rapidly. Thanks for the question!

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9yr ago

This looks super interesting! Just signed up! Quick question: Is Boost able to advise clients that don't live in/or around SF? The example conversations on the website seemed to focus on clients in SF.

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9yr ago

Boost

Maker

@andyeskridge Absolutely! We are actually quite interested to see how boost will do in other places that are less flooded with technology. We are particularly interested in seeing how the product will do in the midwest :)

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9yr ago

@andrew_rhyne Awesome! Well let me in and let's test Texas!

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9yr ago

Boost

Maker

@andyeskridge Nice! I am from Austin :D. Moved to San Francisco a few years ago to do the startup grind! (Lead Engineer here at Boost)

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9yr ago

Great idea! I'm a little unclear on the difference between pricing options. Are topics a 1:1 match of chat sessions or can one have an ongoing topic over time?

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9yr ago

Boost

Maker

@derek78756 Great question! Topics can be thought of as complete AI-augmented conversations that happen over time help clients solve a particular problem with their careers. There isn't any sort of matching system. Topics occur between the client and the Boost platform, which is powered by a mixture of dedicated coaching team, a network of industry experts, and AI.

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9yr ago