🪂Parachute
A VISION TALK · NOT A FUNDRAISE
What we're building
Safely land your next job through people you trust.
The moment we're fixing
Losing a job — or wanting a better one — is the loneliest moment in a career.
And we hand people... job boards. Two hundred applications into the void, recruiter spam, ghosting. The tools are built for volume, not for people.
The open secret
Careers don't move through postings. They move through people.
Everyone knows it. But your real network is invisible, and activating it is awkward — announcing you're looking feels like standing on a chair at your own funeral.
The idea
One status. Three colors.
Visible only to people you trust.
Red · Not looking
Settled and happy. Your circle knows not to ping you. Silence as a feature.
Yellow · Quietly open
The magic state. Not searching — but your people know you'd take the right call.
Green · Actively looking
Your circle rallies. Referrals, intros, opportunities — pulled toward you.
The product insight
There are no modes.
The app reshapes around your status.
Red: home is just your people and their moves. Not one job listing.
Yellow: a couple of picks "worth a look," each via someone you trust. No feed, no noise.
Green: jobs-forward, matched through your network, referrals one tap away.
A detail we're proud of
Hiring is a badge, not a status — because the person hiring is often quietly looking too.
Your search posture and your hiring role are different axes. Flattening them into one "status" makes people lie. We didn't.
The trust model
Your status is a whisper,
never a broadcast.
You choose the circle
Hand-picked people. Not followers, not "connections." The kind of list that fits on one screen.
Never public, never scraped
No employer sees anything you didn't approve. No recruiter database. Ever.
Trust is the moat
LinkedIn optimized for reach and lost the signal. We optimize for truth inside small circles.
The AI layer
A personal career operating system that knows you — and works while you don't.
It knows your circle, your history, your posture — and quietly matches: "two people you trust could land this role"; "Marcus would be perfect for the job Alex just posted." Matchmaking, not feed-ranking.
Bigger than one app
One engine. Every community that runs on trust.
Executive circles
The quiet market for leadership, mapped.
Faith communities
Parish-anchored networks of professionals and businesses.
Industry workforces
Dealers and trades, hiring through their crews' phones.
Yours
Alumni groups, unions, veteran networks — anywhere trust already lives, white-labeled.
Everyone deserves a soft landing.
We're building it now — live prototypes, first communities forming in Kansas City. We're not raising; we're listening. If this resonates, come talk to us.
The working app is one click behind this slide.