SeedUpdated August 2026

The daily workbench to stay ahead of AI.

Dilly turns changing job demand into demonstrated, AI-ready ability. It shows verified college students what employers need, guides field-specific work, and connects the finished proof to relevant jobs. App Store product and Stripe billing are live. The Skill Engine is in private beta.

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What's verifiable today

Live system, ingestion, and shipping cadence.

These are supply-side and execution numbers. We're explicitly pre-revenue. The first demand-side numbers, downloads, paid conversion, week-4 retention, are what this round funds.

50K+

Active jobs · live in production feed

July 2026 · ~7.6K internships · refreshed nightly

Fields · path-aware advisor lenses

50+

ATS & sourcing integrations

Greenhouse · Lever · Workday · Ashby · Workable + niche

1,100+

iOS builds shipped to production

App Store since May 2026 · v1.1.2 · daily cadence

The problem

The one-and-done diagnostic trap.

Students know AI is eating the first rungs of the ladder. The market answers with doom reports and career tools that feel useful once, then go quiet. Two failure modes keep showing up.

Generic advice

Blanket tips that ignore the person

"Learn Python." "Be adaptable." Advice that never looks at their coursework, projects, or real stack. Noise with a friendly tone.

Passive consumption

Walls of text, opened once

Long static diagnostic dumps. Read once, feel behind, close the app. Churn is baked into the format.

Dilly is not another report about falling behind. It is the daily workbench to stay ahead, and a career defense ledger for the AI era.

Bottom line

The kill shot

Whoever owns the work loop owns the proof.

ChatGPT, Handshake, and resume AI stop at answers, inventory, or polish. Dilly turns real job demand into work students can demonstrate.

ChatGPT

Smart. Amnesiac.

Same answer for everyone. No living profile. No proof. No habit.

Handshake / campus SaaS

Sold to schools, not students.

Job boards and career-center software. Inventory, not judgment. No daily execution.

Resume AI

Polish once. Churn forever.

One PDF, then silence. Invented bullets. No field read against AI.

Dilly

Applied work. Demonstrated skill.

Job demand becomes guided work, a professional artifact, and proof connected to relevant roles.

The thesis: Dilly turns changing job demand into demonstrated, AI-ready ability.

The engine

From job demand to demonstrated ability.

Dilly starts with real job requirements, maps them to the AI capabilities students need, and guides students through field-specific work that creates proof.

The result is not another completed course. It is a demonstrated skill connected to the jobs a student wants.

Real job demand

Dilly reads the skills, tools, and responsibilities employers ask for.

Applied skill

Students build a field-specific AI capability, not generic prompt knowledge.

Guided work

They research, use AI, verify claims, make decisions, and create a professional output.

Proof

The finished artifact becomes evidence connected to the skill and relevant jobs.

The Context Graph personalizes the work. Daily moves bring students back. The Skill Engine creates the evidence.

What is shipped

Live system, not a demo.

Observable in production today: App Store binary, nightly job ingest, Stripe checkouts, interactive Profile, Forecast, Scout, Craft, Home Moves, and a Truth Ledger that maps every resume bullet back to a profile fact. The field-specific Skill Engine is in private beta. Parent-Sponsored Checkout remains planned.

AppiOS · live on the App Store
BackendFastAPI on Railway · 50+ routers · daily deploys
DataPostgres on AWS RDS · semantic job embeddings live · encryption at rest + TLS in transit
Job pipelineDaily crawl 02:00 UTC · 50+ ATS & niche sources · 50K+ active
BillingStripe · Free + $8.99/mo Dilly · .edu-gated at signup
AIAnthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 · structured prompt cache · ~$0.40/active user/mo · ~$0.10/free user/mo

Dilly home screen on iOS: where you stand against AI

Home · Where you standApp Store v1.1.2

Roadmap

Career is live. Education is the mission. Other verticals are planned.

Get into schools and teach the next generation how to stay ahead of AI, safely. Career proves the product. Education is what this seed buys. Field verticals come after schools retain.

Now

Private beta

Field-specific Skill Engine

First applied skill: AI-Assisted Competitive Research. Eight guided steps move a student from real-work context to a Competitive Research Brief and demonstrated skill.

Q2 2026

Shipped

Dilly Career · the proof

iOS live on the App Store (v1.1.2). Profile spine, Forecast, Scout, Craft, Truth Ledger, Stripe at $8.99/mo. The wedge we take into schools: a system that shows where AI is catching up and what to do this week.

Q3 → Q4 2026

Building

Dilly Education · schools & AI literacy

Get into high schools and colleges. Classroom tools for using AI safely. Advisor and teacher surfaces. District and campus partnerships. This is the center of the seed: distribution where young people already are.

Q4 2026 → Q1 2027

Building

Dilly Admissions · the HS path in

High-school college admissions on the same spine: parent-invite, school fit, Craft/Coach. The bridge from “learn AI safely” to “get into the right school with a real profile.”

2027+

Planned

Field verticals · after education retains

Medical, International, Recruiter B2B, Agent: same profile spine. On the map. Not the mission. They ship when schools prove the habit.

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If we're right

A ladder you can argue with. Not TAM theater.

$8.99/mo ≈ $108/yr. Start with paid students. Then multiply through schools, parents, and B2B.

10K paid students

≈ $1.1M ARR · the first retention proof this seed buys

100K paid students

≈ $10.8M ARR · still under 1% of US undergrads

School distribution

One district deal reaches thousands. Consumer habit + campus GTM reinforce each other.

Parents + workplaces

Family plans as their own funnel. Then planned Dilly for Teams and employer pilots with opt-in candidates who completed relevant work.

Theoretical US undergrad ceiling for Career alone is ~$2.0B at $108/yr. We are not claiming we own it. We are showing the ladder.

Why the check looks small

$250K buys distribution on an asset that already exists.

Most seed rounds fund building the product. This one funds proving it. The App Store binary, Stripe billing, job pipeline, Truth Ledger, and vertical spine are already live or shipping. Capital efficiency is the point.

Already built

Solo-shipped platform

1,100+ production builds. iOS live since May 2026. FastAPI, Postgres, Stripe, 50+ job sources, Anthropic stack. One founder, Claude Code, daily cadence.

Unit economics

$8.99 · clear path

B2C at $8.99/mo vs ~$0.40 LLM COGS (~$0.10 free). School seats, Family plans, and planned Dilly for Teams sit on the same spine after the work loop retains.

What $250K funds

Proof, not product

First 10K actives, week-4 retention, free→paid conversion, one GTM hire. Round can stretch to $500K. The next round prices retention. This one is priced to get there lean.

What we're measuring next

The first numbers that will live on this page.

No retention claims yet. This is what the round buys, in order, and what we'll start publishing as soon as we have it.

Milestone 01

First 10K active users

App Store launch, .edu-gated signup at scale, and 25 partner schools with referral GTM.

Milestone 02

First retention proof

Week-4 retention on the Student cohort, plus the free → paid conversion at the .edu price.

Milestone 03

First recurring revenue

Paid base on the $8.99 Dilly tier with clean monthly cohorts, ready for the next round's diligence.

15 minutes. A real student profile, live.

Where they stand against AI, today's move, and a resume grounded in real facts. $250K seed. Open now. Stretch to $500K. Closes when filled.

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