Pre-seedConfidentialUpdated May 2026

The career platform that knows you, not your resume.

One profile. One AI brain. Every screen, jobs, Craft, chat, AI Arena, tracker, calendar, reads the same context. Dilly is built for verified college students through the first job after graduation. .edu-gated at signup, billed direct via Stripe.

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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.

50,184

Active jobs · live in production feed

May 2026 · 7,649 internships

Fields · path-aware advisor lenses

30+

ATS & sourcing integrations

Greenhouse · Lever · Workday · Ashby · Workable + 25

954

iOS builds shipped to production

v1.0.4 · daily release cadence

Thesis

Career tools die the moment status changes. Dilly is engineered for the opposite.

Every other career product re-asks who you are at every transition: from school to first job, between jobs, into management, out of a company. Dilly carries the profile across every state, lets the AI learn from every screen, and only ever tells you what to do next based on what it actually knows about you.

A person has one career. It deserves one system, not a scrapbook of tools.

Core thesis

The wedge

Verified college students. .edu-gated. No exceptions.

We narrowed deliberately. Dilly is the career app for the four years of college and the first year out, not a forty-year career arc. The focus is what makes the wedge fundable.

Who

Verified college students

Signup requires a .edu address from an accredited US college or university. We confirm the domain at signup. There is no general-public flow.

When

College through first job

The user keeps access through a school-specific graduation horizon, covering the first job search and early career. After that they roll off cleanly.

Why now

AI is reshaping every entry-level role

The students entering the workforce now are the first cohort whose first jobs will be co-existing with AI. They want a system that maps the change, not a one-shot resume tool.

Narrowing here is intentional. A focused wedge with a clear gate is what lets a pre-seed check believe in the retention proof we'll show at the next round.

What is shipped

Live system, not a demo.

Every claim below is observable in production today: real users, real jobs ingested nightly, real Stripe checkouts, and AI scoring grounded in a Truth Ledger that maps every resume bullet back to a profile fact.

AppiOS · live on the App Store
BackendFastAPI on Railway · 50+ routers · daily deploys
DataPostgres on AWS RDS · pgvector planned · encryption at rest + TLS in transit
Job pipelineDaily crawl 02:00 UTC · 30+ ATS & niche sources · 50K+ active
BillingStripe across Dilly and Dilly Pro · .edu-gated at signup
AIAnthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 · structured prompt cache · LLM cost target $1.50/user/mo at scale

Home · iOSBuild 954

Roadmap

From one consumer product to a career platform.

Dilly today is the first live consumer system. The roadmap layers field-specific verticals, a B2B layer, and a single profile that ties every product together. Status labels reflect reality, not aspiration.

Q2 2026

Shipped

Dilly Career (Core Dilly) · verified college students

iOS app live on the App Store. Profile spine, Craft, Scout reads, AI Arena, tracker, calendar, Stripe billing. The system you can verify in a 10-minute demo.

Q3 2026

Building

Dilly High School

Field-specific HS vertical timed to the 2026-27 school year. Same profile spine as Dilly Career, with parent-invite and college-target tracker.

Q4 2026 → Q1 2027

Planned

Dilly Medical · Dilly International

Field-specific verticals on the same profile spine. Medical first (med-school, residency, nursing), then International (visa, sponsorship, overseas grads).

Q2 → Q3 2027

Planned

Dilly Recruiter · Dilly Agent

Recruiter B2B layer (verified-candidate API, Blind Audition; MVP scaffolding already in the codebase). Agent (auto-apply, auto-tailor, follow-ups) layers on top after Chat is the daily surface.

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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 across Dilly and Pro tiers with clean monthly cohorts, ready for the next round's diligence.

$1.2M pre-seed. Open now.

Every generation of work had its operating system. This is the one for the AI generation. Shipping daily, billing live, pre-revenue by design until this round funds the first retention proof. If that's the bet you make at pre-seed, let's talk.

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