Career planning grounded in federal data

See the path from where you are now to the career you want.

TrajectoryAI turns your current grade, education, or work experience into a step by step career map. See what to learn, which credentials matter, the jobs along the way, how long each stage takes, what it pays, and the alternate routes that stay open. Every published figure links back to a federal source you can open and check.

See it on a real example
“How can I become an Astronaut at NASA from where I AM today?”
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SourcesBLS · O*NET · NCES · IPEDS
VerifiedEvery published figure shows its source and vintage
No guessingIf a figure cannot be retrieved, the map leaves it blank
Real product output · NASA astronaut example · swipe to read
A trajectory map titled NASA Astronaut: eleven steps across seven stages from High School STEM through undergraduate, graduate, early career, application and selection to the goal, with a likelihood percentage on every step and every transition. Header reads 11 steps, about 18 years to goal, average likelihood 23 percent. Footer reads: figures from BLS, O*NET, NCES and IPEDS; likelihoods computed, not estimated.
What you're looking at
Every route from 8th grade to NASA astronaut
11 steps · 7 stages · 3 ways in
The percentages
Computed, not estimated
How often, not whether · from federal data
The wage for the goal
Unavailable
No federal occupation code for astronaut
Why you can trust the numbers

Every number comes with the source. If we can't verify it, we leave it blank.

Every part of a map carries a tag saying what kind of thing it is. Data is a figure from a public federal table, with its vintage and a link. AI is text the model wrote, including how long it thinks each stage takes. That is the one estimate it's allowed. Computed is arithmetic over the two. You never have to guess which one you're looking at.

$134,960 BLS OEWS · MAY 2025 · SOC 17-2011 RETRIEVED, NEVER ESTIMATED CLICK THROUGH TO THE TABLE VINTAGE SHOWN, ALWAYS IF THE FIGURE CANNOT BE RETRIEVED, THE FIELD SAYS UNAVAILABLE.
What you get in every career map

Know what to do next, what it will take, and which other paths stay open.

  1. Know your next step before you focus on the end goal

    See the courses, credentials, exams, and intermediate jobs in order, with the prerequisites for each one so you know what to act on next.

  2. See backup routes before you need them

    Career plans change. The map shows adjacent roles and alternate routes your training can lead to, so one change does not make the work you already did feel wasted.

  3. Compare pay and opportunity where you live

    Switch from national figures to state data where available, so the decision reflects the market you may actually enter rather than a generic national average.

  4. Compare careers without opening ten tabs

    Put two or three careers on the same scorecard and compare pay, growth, education, time to entry, typical costs, and daily work in one view.

8TH GRADEHS PHYSICS BS AEROENGINEER ASTRONAUT SYSTEMS ENGINEERFLIGHT TEST ASTRONAUT NATIONAL CATXFLWA MEDIAN ANNUAL WAGE · AEROSPACE ENGINEERS $134,960 BLS OEWS · MAY 2025 · SOC 17-2011 SELECT A STATE TO REPLACE THE NATIONAL FIGURE AEROSPACE ENG.PHYSICIANPILOT PAY TODAYGROWING? SCHOOL NEEDEDYOU COULD START TYPICAL DEBTA NORMAL DAY $134,960$275,930$232,140 +8%+4%+7% BACHELOR'SDOCTORALBACHELOR'S IN 8 YRSIN 15+ YRSIN 9 YRS N/AN/AN/A 40+ HRSLONG SHIFTSN/A DATA · BLS OOH · MAY 2025 WAGES · 2025 TO 2035 GROWTH COMPUTED · TYPICAL EDUCATION, STARTING IN 8TH GRADE
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Who uses a career map

Start from the decision you are trying to make right now.

STUDENT

I know what I want. I don't know what comes first.

You have a goal and a blank space between here and there. A map fills in the space with real steps, in order, starting from the grade you're in now.

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PARENT

I want to help without guessing.

Advice about careers ages badly. See what the path costs, what it pays, and how long it takes using the same data the government publishes.

See a sample map →
COUNSELOR / CAREER CENTER

I need something I can defend to a family.

Every figure carries its source and vintage. Bring a map into a meeting and click through to the table it came from.

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Why TrajectoryAI exists

Career advice needs judgment. Career decisions also need numbers you can verify.

Asking a chatbot

It answers in three seconds and sounds certain doing it.

A language model produces numbers the same way it produces sentences: by predicting what ought to come next. Sometimes that lands on the real figure. Nothing in the answer tells you which times it did.

Good for talking the idea through, drafting, and naming options you didn't know existed.

A counselor or a coach

A person who reads you, not your inputs.

They hold you accountable, know your school, and catch what no dataset records. They're also rationed. ASCA recommends 250 students per counselor; the national average is 372 to 1, and 571 to 694 in elementary and middle schools. That is where an 8th grader asking about astronauts actually sits.

ASCA · 2024 to 2025 · NCES nonfiscal survey

Good for judgment, encouragement, and every part of this that isn't a data problem.

TrajectoryAI

A model draws the route. It is never allowed to price it.

Structure comes from a language model. This is the part it's genuinely good at. Every figure is then looked up against a federal table, keyed to an occupation code, and stamped with its vintage. What can't be retrieved renders as missing rather than as a guess, so you always know which parts are grounded.

Not a replacement for a counselor. Something to walk in and put in front of one.

Questions

The things people ask
before they sign up.

What does it cost?
Free while in beta, and no card. Each person gets a set number of maps to build during beta so we can watch how they're used; comparing careers side by side doesn't count against it. We'll say what the paid plan looks like well before anything changes.
Where do the numbers actually come from?
Wages and how many people hold a role: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics. Projected openings: BLS Employment Projections. Completion rates: NCES and IPEDS. What a job involves: O*NET, from the Department of Labor. Employer reported wages: DOL H-1B disclosures. Education debt by stage: AAMC, ABA, NSF and NCES. All public, so any figure can be looked up. The one thing the model does estimate is how long each stage takes. That is labelled AI on the map, not Data.
What if there's no data for my goal?
The field renders as unavailable and says so. Astronauts, military officers and many specialised government roles have no occupation code of their own. That is exactly why the astronaut map above carries no wage for its goal instead of a number we made up. Where a close published occupation exists, the map can show it, clearly labelled as a substitute. Where a path contains a step the data can't price, the earnings view says "no realistic salary path" and names the step, rather than showing a zero.
How current is the data?
Federal data lags. Wage tables are published annually and reflect their survey period, not this morning, so rapidly changing fields may have moved. Figures are national and span industries unless the map says otherwise. The same job pays very differently by region and employer. And very small occupations are sometimes withheld by BLS because the sample is too thin to publish safely, so a gap can be the data protecting itself rather than an error. A path is a route people have taken, not a prediction.
What do I need to give it?
A goal, and where you are now. That can be a sentence such as "I'm in 8th grade," or a pasted transcript or an uploaded résumé, from which the map works out its own starting point. Uploads are read to find that point and aren't kept.
Is this only for students?
No. It works from middle school through a career change later in life. The map starts from wherever you tell it you are.
How old do you have to be?
If you're under 13 we'll ask for a parent or guardian's email instead of yours, and we write to them rather than to you.
What happens to my email?
One email, when your cohort opens. It isn't sold, shared, or used for ads.
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Start with where you are.
We'll map what comes next.

Join the beta and answer two short questions about where you are now and where you want to go. We are opening in small groups while we expand career and data coverage.

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