Every job from first seat to senior is being rewritten around AI. People hear they will be replaced. They do not get a way to stay hireable.
Dilly AI LLC · Pre-seed · Tampa · August 2026
Get hired
in an AI world.
AI is rewriting every job. Dilly is how you get hired anyway: explore a role, see what it asks for, learn the skill, prove it, apply with real evidence. All in one pipe. First job or senior seat. Live on the App Store. Shipping from Tampa.
Raising$250K
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02 · The crisis
AI is redefining the workforce. People still apply empty-handed.
We are blind to what to learn
They cannot see which AI skill that job wants, what they already show, or which skill would actually help them get hired.
They apply empty-handed
Chatbots lecture. Courses sit on a shelf. Job boards list openings. You still send the resume with no skill you can point to.
What is missing is not another chatbot. It is one closed loop: see the AI skill a job wants, learn it, prove it, apply with that evidence.
03 · How you get hired
See the skill. Learn it. Prove it. Apply with it.
1 · Explore
Open a real job or role. Look at it. You do not have to pick a forever title first.
2 · See what it asks for
The AI skill the posting wants, what is extra, and what you already show. Not a match score.
3 · Practice, prove, apply
Learn that skill in the app. Save honest proof. Apply with the evidence you toggled on.
Jobs still go to people who can use AI to do the work. Dilly is how you become one of them — then send the proof, not a blank resume.
04 · What Dilly is not
One product. Not a pile of career tools.
Not thisWhy
ChatbotGeneric advice. No job. No proof. You still apply somewhere else.
Job boardEndless listings. No way to learn the skill and apply with it.
Course libraryA catalog with no live job attached.
Resume mill / auto-applyWording and volume. Cannot manufacture the skill. We never auto-submit.
Score machineNo hireability %, match %, or “you are 82% ready.” Profile is an evidence store.
Dilly is not a college-matching or admissions product. Career momentum for people who need to get hired in an AI world.
05 · Live on the App Store Live
You never leave the app.
- 1. Open a real job. Look at it. You do not have to pick a forever title first.
- 2. See the AI skill that posting wants, what is extra, and what you already show.
- 3. Learn that skill inside Dilly. Short. Guided. Tied to the job.
- 4. Save honest proof of the work you finished.
- 5. Apply with that skill, from the same app.
Next Move is the product signature. Free users keep a Subscription tab (Spotify Premium pattern). Screenshot is the live iOS app. Guided AI skills are in private beta.
06 · One job. One skill. Live
This job wants this AI skill. Learn it. Apply with it.
Not a match score. Not “you are qualified.” A plain read of one posting: the AI skill it wants, what you already show, what to learn in the app so you can get hired.
Growth Marketing Associate · Acme
Job Check
- You already show · campaign reporting
- This role needs · AI-assisted research
- Worth learning next · 12-min AI-assisted research path
- Not yet shown · lifecycle email
Do this nextLearn AI-assisted research, then apply with it
- What this job wants · tools, skills, and AI from the posting
- Your evidence · only when your profile actually supports it
- Worth learning next · only if we have a guided path ready
- Why people pay · Free gets a few checks. Premium does more of the work: learn the skill, apply with it.
07 · Apply with Dilly Live
Send only the evidence you turned on.
Candidate
Each profile item has Use in applications. On = included. Off = never sent. Server-enforced. Recruiter-backed jobs only. Submit freezes a snapshot into Postgres.
Recruiter
Open the packet: proof, a pinned LLM brief, and also-good-for their other jobs. Gaps say “evidence is missing.” Never a hireability %.
Privacy hard rule
Toggled-off items never appear in the packet, inbox, brief, emails, or apply web. The client cannot override this.
Not auto-apply. Not a score. The closed loop ends here: explore → practice → prove → apply with real evidence.
08 · One pipe Live
iOS, apply web, recruiter web. Same evidence. Same jobs.
iOS Dilly
Evidence store. Next Move. Apply with Dilly. Profile toggles. App Store live.
apply.hellodilly.com
Apply desk: published recruiter jobs, Get the app, sign-in, already-applied, view-only eligible profile, Open in Dilly. Deep links. No LLM on apply web.
api.trydilly.com
Railway. Privacy filter application_eligible. Recruiter applications in Postgres.
recruiter.hellodilly.com
Hire desk /hire: login, inbound applications inbox, status, request-update, submit-to-client. System sans / SF Pro. Live HTTPS.
Apple-ecosystem feel: one candidate, one packet, one recruiter desk. Not an ATS embed. Recruiter-backed jobs only.
09 · What is real today Live
The product is live. We will not invent users.
App Store
v1.1.2 · live since May 202650K+
Public jobs · refreshed nightly · 50+ sourcesApply rail
iOS + apply.hellodilly.com + recruiter.hellodilly.com1,100+
iOS production builds$8.99 / $12.99
Premium · .edu / standard · StripePre-rev
Honest. No invented downloads or waitlists.We will not invent downloads, paid conversion, or whether people come back. Guided AI skills are in private beta. Exclusive partner density is on the next slides — labeled strategy, not live count.
10 · Why now
Hiring already asks for AI. The way people get hired did not.
+55%
In one year, US job postings that mention AI skills jumped 55%. Employers want people who can use AI to do the work. Stanford HAI / Lightcast, 2026 AI Index.
A talent crunch, not a slogan
Record new US startups. They hire a few people each. The easy talent is gone. Everyone else is behind on the skills the posting already names.
The loop is finally possible
Phones, cheap AI, and nightly job data mean we can inspect a live posting, teach the skill it wants, and apply from the same pipe.
This is not AI hype. Hiring already asks for the skill. Getting hired still happens in five disconnected apps.
11 · Exclusive partner jobs Strategy · not live count
Hottest roles on the same pipe. Density is the next unlock.
What we will not claim
We do not have 800 live partner jobs on Dilly today. That number is the density target from a new recruiter relationship — mostly US, some Europe, VC-backed / sponsor-friendly.
What is already built
The Apply with Dilly rail is live and recruiter-backed. When those jobs land, candidates apply in-app and recruiters work recruiter.hellodilly.com. Same evidence. Same privacy filter.
What proof looks like
First hires with this partner. Weeks, not invented volume. Until then: the pipe is real, the 800 is the plan.
Nightly 50K+ public jobs are live. Exclusive partner density is how Dilly becomes a pipe, not another tool. Do not confuse the two.
12 · Who needs this next Strategy · near-term wedge
Same Dilly. Jobs that sponsor. People on a clock.
The clock is real
F-1 graduates have months to land a sponsoring employer. H-1B holders often need a transfer when a three-year window closes. They already live on LinkedIn.
Not a second app
Same loop: see the skill, learn it, prove it, apply. The difference is which jobs show up — companies willing to sponsor — once partner density is on the platform.
Why it belongs in this pitch
High urgency. Same product. Fast expansion if exclusive jobs sponsor. Not “next year.” Not a college-matching product.
Visa policy is a market fact, not fear copy. We do not promise interviews, sponsorship, or a live H-1B job count today.
13 · How money can work
Free is real motion. Premium does more of the work.
StreamStatusWhat it is
Consumer PremiumLive$8.99 .edu / $12.99 · more Job Checks, learn the skill, apply with it. Stripe. Subscription tab for free users.
Recruiter deskLive productInvite-only seat on recruiter.hellodilly.com. Inbound inbox, LLM brief, also-good-for, request-update, submit-to-client. Not billed as a SKU yet.
PlacementStrategyIf a partner hire closes through Dilly, a commission is possible. No take-rate invented here.
Sponsor-job accessStrategyH-1B / F-1 wedge on the same rail once exclusive jobs that sponsor are on the platform.
Exclusive unlockStrategyLadders / FlexJobs analog for partner roles only: teaser of title and pay; company, location, and package stay behind subscribe. Not shipped. Not the public 50K+ board.
University enterpriseLaterCareer services buy access for students. Not a college-matching product. Not the cover story.
If 10,000 people pay about $108 a year, that is about $1.1M. That is a later proof point, not a number we have. First customers: people looking for work, first job through senior.
14 · Everyone else
Everyone owns a piece. Nobody owns getting hired with the skill.
AlternativeWhat they leave undone
ChatGPT / coachesGeneric advice. No posting. No proof. Apply somewhere else.
LinkedIn / IndeedJobs at scale. No way to learn the skill and apply with it.
Course librariesA catalog with no live job attached.
Resume / auto-applyWording and volume. Cannot manufacture the skill.
DillyThe AI skill this job wants, learned, proved, and applied in one pipe — including a live recruiter desk.
We win the whole path. Not the chat. Not the board. Not the catalog.
15 · How we grow
Job seekers first. Then the people on a clock.
Now
Anyone looking for work, first job through senior. App Store. See a skill → learn it → apply with it. Demo is a live job through the pipe.
Near-term
When exclusive jobs that sponsor are on the platform: LinkedIn, Reddit, Discord, GitHub to H-1B / F-1 communities. Same app. Same loop.
Later
University career services as enterprise. Workforce “hire someone who can make AI do this.” Not campus matching. Not a college-admissions product.
This check buys proof people come back and some of them pay — not a school-district rollout and not a college-admissions brand.
16 · What this check buys
Built in Tampa. Product live. Pre-revenue on purpose.
Florida, live
Shipping from Tampa. University of Tampa founder. App Store, Stripe, apply desk, and recruiter desk are live. This is not a concept hunting for a city.
Pre-revenue, not pre-product
The app, the jobs crawl, billing, and the apply pipe exist. Guided AI skills are in private beta. This check buys proof people come back and pay.
In about 6 months
People open a job, learn the skill, come back a month later, and some of them pay. Partner jobs on the pipe. Then a larger round priced on those numbers.
$250K base: runway, AI costs, tests to reach job seekers, first go-to-market hire. $500K stretch: faster growth, more learning capacity, exclusive-job coverage. Path to the next professional round.
17 · Founder
Dilan Kochhar · Founder & CEO
- 20 · Sophomore, University of Tampa Honors College · B.S. Data Science (May 2028)
- Solo-built the iOS app, backend, AI pipeline, apply desk, recruiter desk, and marketing site
- 1,100+ production builds · App Store since May 2026 · shipping daily from Tampa
- President, UT Data Science & AI Club · Chairman of Technology, Alpha Kappa Psi
- Kochhar Education Foundation: $20K raised, 60 computers to 6 schools in Tamil Nadu, 100K+ reached
Florida founder. Solo operator. Building the thing people actually need to get hired in an AI world: see the skill a job wants, learn it, prove it, apply with it.
Built in Tampa · Pre-seed open · Closes when filled
Get hired with the skill
the job wants.
AI is redefining the workforce. Dilly is how you get hired anyway. Product live — iOS, apply.hellodilly.com, recruiter.hellodilly.com. Guided AI skills in private beta. $250K to prove people come back and pay.
ProductApp Store + apply pipe live
SkillsGuided AI skills in private beta
This round$250K · stretch $500K