Make student work visible, verifiable, and theirs.
Millions of students do meaningful work during college — research, internships, fellowships, peer tutoring, federally-funded MESA placements. Almost none of that work survives the institution. There’s no verified record they can carry forward, no clean audit trail for the colleges and funders who supported them, and no operational system for the host organizations who supervised it.
CareerLauncher is the platform that fills that gap. Students log work and attest to it. Host supervisors approve it. Colleges report on outcomes. Funders see impact. Everyone, including the student, walks away with a permanent verified record of what was done.
What we believe
A student's work is theirs to keep.
Profiles are portable. Skills earned through completed work follow the student wherever they go — including after they graduate, transfer, or leave a program. No vendor lock-in on someone else's accomplishments.
Verified work beats self-reported resumes.
When a supervisor signs off on a task — with a real name, real timestamp, real attribution — that record means something a self-reported LinkedIn skill never will.
Operations should make the workflow simpler, not theatrical.
We're skeptical of every new field, every dropdown, every required column. If it doesn't make the next deliverable easier or the next report faster, it doesn't belong in the product.
Funded programs deserve grant-grade trust by default.
MESA, P-TECH, Perkins V, IBM SkillsBuild — these programs run on grant money and audit cycles. Every signature, every approval, every hour is logged with the metadata an auditor would ask for, without anyone having to think about it.
Colleges, hosts, and funders are all customers.
Each persona has different goals. The platform should serve all three without collapsing them into one another. A research lab supervising one intern shouldn't experience the same product as an IBM CSR director funding cohorts across ten colleges.
Built with
Our design partners are community-college MESA programs, Bay Area host organizations spanning research labs and startups, and (in conversations) the CSR leads at large employers funding academic partnerships. We’re keeping the partner list quiet until each one publicly opts in — see the sign-up formif you’d like to be part of it.
Questions, partnership ideas, or feedback: hello@careerlauncher.ai