For parents · 60 seconds
What this is, before you hand over the phone.
Careers advice usually asks a 15-year-old to name a job. OffLadder does the opposite: it helps them get better at exploring, trying things, and updating what they believe — which is the skill that survives whatever the job market does next.
What it is
- A place your teenager explores what work could look like, tries something small in the real world, and sees how that changes what we think about them.
- A coach that asks questions and suggests small experiments — 15 to 30 minutes, no strangers to phone, stop whenever.
- Built for ages 13 and up, with a shorter, plainer version for 13 to 15-year-olds.
What it isn't
- Not a personality test, not a psychometric assessment, and not a prediction of one correct career.
- Not a service that tells your teenager what to be. Every suggestion is a guess it invites them to argue with.
- Not an advertising product. We don't sell or share personal data, and we don't run ads.
Data, plainly
- What it stores
- Their answers, their conversations with the coach, and what they've tried.
- Why
- So the next visit builds on the last one instead of starting over.
- Who can see it
- Them, and the small team keeping the service running. Nobody else.
- Training
- Their conversations are not used to train third-party models.
- Deletion
- Settings → delete account removes the profile and its history. Email us and we'll do it for you.
- Age
- 13+. Under-13 sign-ups are refused at the door.
The full detail is in our Privacy notice and Terms.
How to read what it says
Treat every suggestion as a starting point to test, not a verdict. The useful moment isn't the read it writes about your teenager — it's the small thing they go and try, and what they notice while doing it.
One ask: don't explain it to them. Send the link and let them poke at it.