iOS GAME · A CAREER, ONE SWIPE AT A TIME

Get promoted.
Or get out.

Try on a whole career, from a student to the top, one swipe a week. Coder, doctor or teacher: keep your life in balance, hit the goal and climb. An AI quietly learns to predict you.

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CAREERS
FLOORS EACH
ADS
IT
The IT character: curly hair, headphones, black hoodie, laptop with a black-cat sticker
Doctor
The doctor character in a white coat, listening to a piggy bank with a stethoscope
Teacher
The teacher character: sweater vest covered in sticky notes, books under one arm

Try a week, right here

Kevin has already guessed your answer.

Every career comes with a helpful AI. Before each swipe it quietly predicts what you'll do. Live three weeks of a CS student's life and try to surprise him.

How it plays

THREE RULES. ONE CAREER.

01 · SWIPE

ONE SWIPE = ONE WEEK

Everyone writes to you: friends, bosses, Mom. Swipe the card toward the answer you pick, or up when there are three. Sometimes Life itself writes, and those yellow cards aren't up to you.

Prof. Grimes: “Surprise quiz on Monday. Those who attend my optional Saturday seminar might get a hint.”

← Sleep in on Saturday Go to the seminar →

Real answers. Never just “yes” or “no”.

02 · BALANCE

YOUR LIFE IS A DIAMOND

Four corners, four things to juggle. Fall to the center and you're out. Push past the dashed edge and you're out too: too much of anything is a problem.

GRADES MONEY SLEEP SOCIAL

The corners tremble before they move. Which way? Guess.

03 · GET PROMOTED

UP, OR OUT

Each level is a job with a goal and a number of weeks. Survive the weeks and hit the goal: you're promoted. Miss it: try again. Here it costs nothing.

ORDER NO. 07 Promote Sam to the position of Junior developer. signature
PROMOTED

Nine rungs per career. Two forks. Two endings.

CONFIDENTIAL

THE AI THAT
PREDICTS YOU

Every career comes with an AI assistant you install on day one. Polite, helpful, learns fast. Before every swipe it quietly guesses what you'll do, then tells you whether it was right.

Lean on it: ask for advice, let it answer for you, chat between weeks. Trust grows. But trust it completely and one day you won't tell your decisions from its own.

You become the AI. That's an ending. A bad one.

CAREER 01 · IT

Dorm → CEO

Write code, attend stand-ups, rewrite the code. Nine rungs from a dorm room to a board seat; the coffee machine is the only constant.

  1. 01CS student13 wks
  2. 02Junior developer13 wks
  3. 03Mid-level developer13 wks
  4. 04Senior developer13 wks
  5. 05Team lead or Product designerFORK
  6. 06CEO52 wks
  7. 07Founder or Shareholder & CEOFORK
G Prof. Grimes
Calculus

“Surprise quiz on Monday. Those who attend my optional Saturday seminar might get a hint.”

← Sleep in on Saturday Go to the seminar →
The player as a senior developer: headphones, black hoodie, laptop with a black-cat sticker
Kevin, the office AI

Kevin, Office AI: “Exactly what I predicted. I'd say I'm proud, but I'm mostly bored.”

WAYS TO GET FIRED

Expelled · Stuck in academia forever · Became a phone reseller · Went broke, went home

Career 02 · Doctor

Med school → Hospital chief

Save lives in between night shifts, paperwork and a hospital chief who loves KPIs. Nine rungs from med school to running the whole place.

  1. 1. Medical student
  2. 2. Intern
  3. 3. Resident
  4. 4. Physician
  5. 5. Head of department or Private clinic doctor ← fork
  6. 6. Chief medical officer (52 weeks)
  7. 7. Clinic founder or Deputy health secretary ← fork
№ 4417
L Dr. Langford
Chair of Surgery

“On rounds, your pocket announces: ‘Differential diagnosis: lupus.’ Dr. Langford stops mid-sentence. ‘Who said lupus?’”

Defend lupus with sources ↑
← Own the lupus Blame the phone →
The player as a tired resident in teal scrubs, holding coffee and a chart
Hippo, the AI diagnostician

Hippo: “Textbook case. Your decisions have very clear symptoms.”

Ways to get fired: Too good for patients. Went broke, sells vitamins.

Career 03 · Teacher

Ed school → Principal

Thirty kids, one projector and a parents' group chat that never sleeps. Nine rungs from student teaching to the district office.

  1. 1. Education major
  2. 2. New teacher
  3. 3. Homeroom teacher
  4. 4. Senior teacher
  5. 5. Assistant principal or Tutor-blogger ← fork
  6. 6. Principal (a whole year)
  7. 7. School founder or Superintendent ← fork
R Mrs. Reed
Supervising teacher, 5A

“Mrs. Reed, 27 years with fifth graders: ‘Here's my lesson plan from 2004. It worked then, it will work now. Do not improvise.’”

Ask about the 2004 class ↑
← Follow it to the letter Add something of your own →
The player as a homeroom teacher, drawn in chalk
Owl, the teaching-assistant AI

Owl: “Predicted. You'd be easy to grade.”

Ways to get fired: Too beloved to pass. Overthrown by fifth graders.

Next floor · in progress

More careers are on the way

We're building the next ladders right now. Enjoying the climb? A rating on the App Store helps us build them faster.

IT Doctor Teacher + ???
UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Climb the ladder

SEVEN FLOORS.
ONE OF YOU.

PERSONNEL FILE · CONTINUED

THE LONG GAME

Money, equity and people carry through a career all the way to the finals. What you do in week three still matters in year three.

SAVINGS

become the runway for your own thing.

EQUITY

becomes your weight on the Board.

PEOPLE

the ones you treated well become the team.

TWO DOORS, TWICE

DOOR A

START YOUR OWN THING

Quit and build a startup. Your savings become the runway, and the people you treated well become the team. Your money, your rules, your risk.

DOOR B

SHAREHOLDER AND CEO

Stay at Pivotly and take real control. Your equity becomes your weight on the Board. And sooner or later you'll have to decide what to do about Kevin.

HOW IT CAN END

PROMOTED FIRED MISSED THE GOAL RESIGNED BECAME THE AI
  • “Ran out of weeks as Intern. The goal didn't wait.”
  • “Quit as Senior teacher. Of my own accord.”
  • “Became the AI as CEO. The job runs itself now.”
  • “Survived Physician. Two doors ahead.”

FAQ

Ads or purchases?
None. No ads, no in-app purchases.
Do I need an account?
No. Open it and start your first week.
Which devices?
iPhone and iPad, iOS 18 or later.
Where is my progress?
Only on your device. Device or iCloud backups may include it. No data is collected.

YOUR FLOOR IS WAITING

Get fired, start over: here it costs nothing. Already know your path? Peek into another one.

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