Sample report / Fictional profile
Career Intelligence Report
This is what a Career Readout report looks and reads like. Fictional profile, real structure, real tone. Scroll through it before you decide.
Positioning score
16 points below benchmark
Senior PM candidates typically score above 78.
You Market benchmark Gap
- Prepared for
- Alex M. (sample)
- Move under review
- Senior UX Designer to Product Manager
- Experience
- 8 years
- Chapters
- 10
Executive Summary
Where do I really stand?
Transition difficulty
Moderate to high
Realistic timeline
6 to 9 months
With the plan in Chapter 08.
Best route
Internal move
Highest probability of the three routes.
You are a strong senior designer with real influence on product direction. The market does not see that. Your profile reads as an excellent executor of other people's decisions, and a hiring manager for a PM role needs to see you making them.
You are closer than you think and further than you hope. The gap is not skill. It is proof: no business outcome is attached to your work, and no decision is attributed to you.
Three highest-priority moves
- 1Own one metric in your current team and document the before and after.
- 2Publish one case study that opens with the business decision, not the interface.
- 3Rewrite your CV so every project leads with outcome and role in the decision.
Market Reality
What are my odds?
Competition
High
Many designers target this move.
Odds today
Low to moderate
As the profile reads now.
Odds with the plan
Moderate to high
If the signals are produced.
Recruiters hiring for product roles screen designers as a different category. Most external PM openings go to candidates whose history already includes owned business outcomes. That is why the internal route is stronger for you.
Current Positioning
What do I actually signal?
What you think you signal
“A product-minded designer ready to lead product.”
What the market reads
“A skilled senior designer. Strong craft. Execution-led.”
Recruiter Perception
What happens in the first six seconds?
Red flags
- Every bullet describes deliverables, none describe results.
- No numbers anywhere on page one.
- Title history gives no sign of product ownership.
Ignored strengths
- Cross-functional leadership buried in a project description.
- A research-led pivot that saved a roadmap quarter, mentioned in one clause.
Likely objection: “Who made the calls on this team?”
Target Role Breakdown
What does the role really want?
The posting says user empathy and cross-functional collaboration. The hiring manager is screening for three other things.
- Decision ownershipEvidence that you chose, not only executed.
- Commercial fluencyYou can talk about revenue, retention and cost, unprompted.
- Prioritization under pressureYou can explain what you cut and why.
Gap Analysis
What is blocking me?
You Market benchmark Gap
Strategic Plan
What should I do first?
Own a metric
Take responsibility for activation in your squad.
Measurable business outcome
Write the decision case study
One decision, the trade-off, the result.
Public case study
Lead a prioritization
Run and document a quarterly prioritization session.
Leadership artifact
30 / 60 / 90 Day Roadmap
What exactly do I do, and when?
| Window | Action | Deliverable | Proof | Difficulty | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Days 1 to 30 | Claim one metric | Metric brief | Baseline dashboard | Medium | Low |
| Days 31 to 60 | Ship an experiment | Experiment report | Result with numbers | High | Medium |
| Days 61 to 90 | Publish the case study | Case study | Public link | Medium | Low |
Reality Check
What am I not seeing?
Career Capital Analysis
What am I worth, and what is the gap?
Beyond the ten chapters
Both futures, and the AI question.
Estimates are labelled as estimates.
How we know: sources, labels and limitsTwo futures
Where each path puts you at 6, 12 and 24 months
Sample scenarios for a fictional profile. In your report they are built from your CV, your answers and the market findings, and labelled as estimates.
- Our estimate
If Alex stays in design
Safer and slower. The title holds, the distance to product stays the same.
- 6monthsSame role, with one product decision owned and documented.Milestone: A written case for an internal moveMain risk: The case depends on one manager
- 12monthsAn internal product opening is either offered or closed.Milestone: A clear yes or no on the internal pathMain risk: A no arrives late
- 24monthsLead designer scope, or the same seat with a longer CV.Main risk: The gap to product peers widens
If Alex moves to product
Faster and riskier. It only works once the proof exists.
- 6monthsInterviewing for associate and mid-level product roles.Milestone: Two first-round interviewsMain risk: Screened out as a designer
- 12monthsIn a product role, first roadmap decisions shipped.Milestone: One outcome with a business numberMain risk: A step down in title on entry
- 24monthsProduct manager with a record a recruiter can read.Main risk: Results take longer than a year
Where the two paths split
Around month 6: whether a product decision with a measured result carries Alex's name.
AI exposure
Senior UX Designer, task by task
Overall exposure: Moderate
Sample read for a fictional profile: production tasks are the exposed part of the role, and the decisions around them are not.
- Our estimate
Producing first-draft screens and variations
AutomatesGenerative design tools already cover the first pass.
What to do: Move your proof from output to the decision behind it.
Synthesising research sessions
Shares with AIAI speeds up the summary, a person still judges what matters.
What to do: Own the conclusion and the recommendation.
Aligning stakeholders on a trade-off
Stays humanIt runs on trust, context and accountability.
What to do: Document one of these decisions as a case study.
Your turn
Now imagine this, written about you.
Everything above is fictional. Yours is built from your own CV, your target role and the market: ten chapters, a 30/60/90 day action plan, your two futures at 6, 12 and 24 months, your AI exposure task by task, an ATS-ready Harvard-style CV, and a spoken briefing for the walk home. $19, once.
- 10 chapters
- 30/60/90 day action plan
- Two futures at 6, 12 and 24 months
- AI exposure by task
- ATS-ready CV
- 7 minute audio briefing
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