Introducing ACE® - a Career Coach in your pocket. We’ve democratized access to Career Coaching, making it easy for everyone to get the support they need at work.
ACE® has been designed to help you visualize and then activate the career you want. Trained by a globally recognised Careers Strategist, using 10 years of behavioural data, ACE® guides you through a proven career coaching process.
ACE® navigates you to the truth about your needs and capability - so you can make an informed decision about your future career choices.
We de-risk the use of AI for a critical life choice - your career.
ACE® sits inside the Actvo® application, which is hosted on a private server - that means no data is shared publicly or back to Microsoft OpenAI or any other parties. Data privacy and sovereignty is our absolute priority.
ACE® recalls all data and conversations with you and provides the relevant information to our recommendations engine & matching prompts, to ensure all guidance we give you is based on accurate user-validated data.
ACE® is regularly audited by our team to minimise hallucinations and scope creep.
ACE® has been trained in an ‘eclectic dynamic’ coaching style. ACE® only helps with Careers and is not a generic chat-bot. It's available on laptop and mobile, and can be activated by voice or text.
ACE® supports ambitious professionals with advice on how to navigate complex work challenges, prepare for difficult projects, learn new skills, build new experiences, plan different career pathways, and prepare for future roles that suit their personal and professional needs.
Reducing the need for solely relying on managers, friends, or family for career advice.
ACE® is built on the Microsoft OpenAI Azure platform. We use OpenAI as a singular LLM to underpin the Actvo® application.
We are an ‘adapted innovation’ company, utilising the full scope of the Azure GPT inside our application and as a prompted engine for our recommendations.
We offer full transparency and explainability about how we utilise user data.
The world of AI is moving fast - and the future is uncertain.
What we know, is we are committed to building a quality, specialist Careers GPT - to make it easier to use AI to get high value careers advice, for less effort.
Privately owned, built, trained & supervised Career Guide by one of the world's leading Career Designers.
Private personal GPT on secure server
Proven Specialist Process built on 10 years of Behavioural Science
Dynamic integration of personal data to give context
Attached to web-enabled application for visual outputs
Ability with RAG to tailor to organisational cultures and behaviours.
Generic advice on how to build your career, requiring individual prompting and quality control.
Unsecured Data
Prompted Methodology
Generic Process that changes each time - randomized
Low context of individual circumstances unless provided
Limited visual or sharing capabilities
Not safe for teams and no cross-functional reporting.
Users benefit from having available to them 24/7 an online, personal, career guide to support them with both solving everyday challenges, as well as helping them grow new skills and craft career pathways. This type of technology is ideally suited for introverts, neuro-divergent people or those that prefer to interact with technology vs humans on solving complex personal problems in a private and process-driven way
We keep all private & personal data secure and meet global data protection standards of the highest order. No personal data shared on the platform is shared with any other organisation. All reporting is anonymised and permissioned through our T&C's.
Actvo comprises a mobile-optimised web-app and cloud-hosted server components, which together utilise state-of-the-art frameworks and services to deliver a powerful, intelligent virtual career management agent experience. Our databases and AI models are hosted in Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure data centres which are built with the latest in security and safety features (complying with the highest industry security and safety standards), guaranteeing availability and privacy of your data. The Actvo system architecture utilises dynamic, modern cloud provisioning and scaling technologies, designed for scalability and resilience, to ensure uninterrupted service even under challenging conditions.
Actvo is an extension of Start Nows proprietary career planning system, pioneered in 2018 by Melissa Jenner. Trained in Human Centred Design & Design your Life at Stanford D-School Melissa designed a methodology for enabling people to self-direct their careers and learn new skills based on the method of “Disover, Design, Act”. This method has since been producticsed through her world-leading masterclass detailing 18 steps to growth, used by 1000s of people world-wide. The methodology has also been taught at AUT and AcademyEX to a range of students, and as an outplacement & career pivoting methodology for large corporations in NZ and offshore.
Actvo® gives you the clarity, tools, and support your need - to lift your performance and progress in your career, faster.
“This programme gives you an instinctive ability to navigate towards your next move. Cutting through context and data to insights - at speed. Making changing careers, so much more effective”.
“Actvo is a remarkable product - great for validating your direction and more importantly, giving you insights into your unique value and what future career you are most suited to".
