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What this is, before you hand over the phone.

Careers advice usually asks a 15-year-old to name a job. OffLadder has them try small pieces of different work and notice what they enjoyed. That habit will outlast any list of jobs.

What it is

  • A place your teenager explores what work could look like, tries something small in the real world, and notices what they enjoyed.
  • A coach that asks questions and suggests small experiments, 15 to 30 minutes, no strangers to phone, stop whenever.
  • A shorter, plainer version for younger teenagers, with age-appropriate suggestions.

What it isn't

  • Not a personality test or a psychometric assessment, and it won't predict 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. The services that help run it, such as hosting and the AI model providers, are listed on the privacy page.
Training
We don't use their conversations to train our own models, and we ask the AI providers we route through not to train on them.
Deletion
Settings, then Delete account, removes the profile and its history. Or email us and we'll do it.
Age
13 and over. We ask for an age range at the start, and if someone picks Under 13, we stop before any personalised guidance is written.

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. 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.

Send it to them

The questions are about whoever answers them. If you fill them in, the read will be about you. So send the link from your phone to theirs.

Or hand them this device

What they write stays theirs. If they want to show you what it said, they can.