Ambees — a hyperlocalized agentic data layer for colleges
Turning freshman indecision into a career map.
- Role
- CEO & Founding Product
- Context
- Ambees Technologies
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- 9 min
"I don't know what I want to do with my life, and I have a meeting with my academic advisor in four hours." That was Maya, a sophomore at Georgetown, texting me at 6am on a Tuesday in October. She wasn't an edge case. In our first thirty interviews, twenty-six students described some version of the same loop: take a quiz, get a list of five careers, Google each one for ninety seconds, close the tab, feel worse.
Career exploration tools had been built on a premise from the 1960s — that what students need is a better taxonomy. What they actually needed, we came to believe, was a better conversation. Ambees started as a bet that a career-exploration product could feel less like a personality test and more like the good version of talking to an older sibling who'd already figured it out. Twelve months, one $10K Georgetown SLI check, two campuses, and roughly 4,000 student conversations later, this is what we learned about what works, what didn't, and the two decisions I'd make differently.