A measuring instrument for career moves.

What this is

PivotHop reads live job postings, tens of thousands of them, and works out which roles your existing skills already reach. Type your job, and it draws the map: each route with a match percentage, the salary band, the exact skills you are missing, and how often people actually make that move. Edit your skills and the whole map recomputes around you.

Every number on the site traces back to a posting someone published or a public dataset you can check. When there is not enough data to say something honestly, the tool says so and shows nothing. That rule costs us some impressive-looking screens. We keep it anyway.

Why it exists

Career changes run on folklore. A friend who made the jump, a thread that says design people can do product, a coach with a framework. Almost none of it comes with numbers, and the advice industry likes it that way, because vibes renew monthly and numbers can be checked.

Meanwhile the actual evidence sits in plain sight. Job postings state what each role wants. Labor surveys record where people really go when they leave a profession. Nobody had wired those two things together into an instrument a normal person could use in a minute. That seemed worth fixing.

The goal is narrow on purpose: show the routes your skills can reach, tell the truth about the gap, and let you decide. No pep talks. No course funnels. If a pivot is a bad idea, the graph should be the first to say so.

How it works, briefly

A scraper collects postings daily from job boards and public APIs. A dictionary of 246 skills reads each posting. An adjacency model scores every pair of occupations three ways: skill overlap from the postings, shared underlying abilities from the O*NET database, and observed moves from US and EU labor data. The graph you see is those scores, drawn. The full method lives on the landing page, and the numbers update with every run.

The person behind it

Carlos is an architect. He has spent well over a decade on luxury hospitality projects with international offices, the kind of work where a building takes years and every drawing gets checked three times. Somewhere between the competition boards and the construction sets, the scripts he wrote to generate drawings became more interesting than the drawings.

PivotHop started as the tool he needed during that shift and could not find. Architecture is the first vertical because it is the profession he can verify from the inside, not because the instrument stops there. He runs the project solo, evenings and weekends, around a full-time design job. He also plays bass in a shoegaze band, which has nothing to do with career data and that is the point.

What this is not

No bootcamp affiliate links. No sponsored course recommendations. No investors waiting on growth. No AI-written blog spam. This is a small business run by one person with a day job, which keeps the incentives clean: the only thing PivotHop sells is honest matching, to you for free and eventually to employers who want candidates from adjacent fields.