Career CoPilot:
AI-Powered Career and Hiring Platform

"The biggest thing this project taught us is that a demo is not a product. We inherited a version of Career CoPilot that looked impressive on screen but kept its AI keys in the browser, trusted users to count their own usage, and had never really been tested. Almost all of the hard work sat in the gap between something that performs in a demo and something that can be trusted with people's resumes, payments, and job searches. Turning that demo into a secure, multilingual, and operable platform, while staying honest about what we could measure and what still depends on the client funding the paid model tier, is the part of the work we are proudest of.

Working as a team of six across different time zones, we found that clear structure mattered more than we expected. We kept the plan and its status in Jira instead of scattered chats, wrote our meeting notes next to the code they discussed, and rotated QA so the person testing a feature was usually not the one who built it. What carried us was a willingness to adapt and to take feedback seriously, both from each other and from the client at every review. If we did it again, we would set up our automated tests and the admin tools earlier, and agree on who owns each part of the system from the start, so the engineering and the client's goals stay aligned throughout."