Job offer coach (free startup idea - step by step)
A senior product manager, a sales lead, an ops director all get one night to judge an offer worth $185K. They cannot read the company's risk signals themselves, and the people who can charge $4,000 and take a week.
You can build this idea this week. Here is the full business plan.
The problem
It is 5pm on a Thursday. A senior PM has an offer in her inbox: $185K base, RSUs, a signing bonus, 48 hours to sign. The recruiter has already told her the number is final.
She sat through 20 interview rounds to get here. That is up 42% from 2021, when the average was 14.
She has also watched 176,800 tech workers get laid off in 2026. So her real question is whether this company still exists in twelve months.
Her options tonight: pay an existing premium salary aggregator platform and wait a week, pay a salary negotiator, or open ChatGPT and hope.
The product
A 48-hour job offer review for $100K+ professionals priced at a flat fee plus 15% of any comp increase, capped at year one.
The client sends 3 things: the offer, the recruiter's emails, and a link to the company.
An AI agent builds an Employer Risk Report inside 10 minutes. Layoffs, funding, exec turnover, reposted listings, Glassdoor patterns.
A human coach then spends 45 minutes on video with the client going over the counter script, the questions to ask the hiring manager, the contract clauses that matter.
The honest ceiling is $1.8M to $3M ARR. Coding agents ship the dossier in a week, so the moat is the name on the door.
Founder fit
The ideal founder is an ex-tech-recruiter or ex-comp-analyst with 5+ years inside FAANG or a Series C+ startup and 10K+ LinkedIn followers. A career-content YouTuber with 50K+ subscribers is second best.
Final Thoughts
The first steps is to begin manually combing through reddit and find a thread where somebody pasted an offer, and send back a free risk report on the company.
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