生き甲斐 · Your reason for being
Find your reason to work.
Build the career you deserve.
Your path starts here.
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The philosophy
Ikigai is a Japanese concept — your reason for being. It lives at the intersection of four dimensions of a meaningful life. ikigai.career is the platform that helps you find and build it, one career decision at a time.
What you love
Track your skills, certifications, and courses. See your mastery grow and get AI suggestions for what to learn next.
What you're good at
Manage multiple tailored CVs for different roles. AI-generate the perfect CV for any job posting in seconds.
What the world needs
Track every application, stage, question, and task. Never lose context between interviews again.
What you can be paid for
Your career history in full. AI-benchmarked salary suggestions based on your experience and market data.
The path
Every Samurai walks a path. Bushido visualises your entire career journey — where you've been, where you are now, and where you could go next.
All possible futures. AI-calculated readiness for each. The skills you need to get there. And Ronins who've walked the same path ready to guide you.
What's inside
Every feature exists to help you understand where you are, where you're going, and what it takes to get there.
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Your entire career on one scrollable timeline. Past roles, education, certifications — and AI-suggested future paths with readiness scores for each.
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Every application, every stage, every question asked, every task given. Full context preserved across every process you run simultaneously.
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Stop sending the same CV everywhere. Generate a tailored version for any role in seconds, built from your actual career history and competencies.
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Are you earning what you're worth? AI calculates your market value based on your experience, skills, location, and live market data.
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Connect Zoom, Teams, or Google Meet to auto-capture interview questions and tasks directly into your application stages. Never type from memory again.
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Connect with experienced professionals who walked the path you're aiming for. Matched by AI based on your target career node, not a generic search.
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A Ronin is a seasoned professional between paths — someone who has walked the journey you're aiming for. They are available on ikigai.career to guide, mentor, and accelerate yours.
Built and sold two developer tools startups. Specialises in the engineering-to-founder transition and early-stage product decisions.
Principal Engineer at Stripe. Helps senior engineers navigate the Staff and Principal track — technical strategy, scope expansion, and influence without authority.
Director of Engineering at Linear. Specialises in the individual contributor to people leadership transition — managing without losing technical credibility.
Early access
ikigai.career is in development. Sign up to be among the first Samurais on the platform — and to help shape what it becomes.
Your path begins.
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