AI Career Coach

An AI career coach that starts with what drives you

Most career advice is written for an average person who does not exist. Coach Marlee, your AI coach, works from your own motivations, so the next step it suggests fits you, not the crowd.

Free to start. No credit card needed. Career advice grounded in your own data.

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A career move is only as good as the fit behind it

Plenty of people chase the next title and find out a year later that the work drains them.

Marlee starts with the Marlee Motivational Analysis. It measures 48 work motivations, so you see what energizes you and what wears you down before you commit to a direction. Coach Marlee, your AI coach, then works with that picture. It coaches 1,000+ goals across work and personal life, and careers are one of the places it earns its keep.

Ask Marlee

Ask which roles you would thrive in, and which would drain you

Ask Marlee is where you chat with Marlee about your own career. Because it uses your unique analysis, the answers come from what drives you rather than from a generic list of job titles.

Ask it which kinds of roles suit you best. Ask which ones to avoid. Ask how you come across to a manager who works very differently from you, or how to prepare for a conversation about moving up.

Some motivations point clearly at a type of work. Belongingness, for example, is described as especially helpful where relationships matter, such as selling and coaching. Need for Structure shows up in roles built around planning and process.

Questions people bring to Ask Marlee

A few ways to start the conversation:

  • Which roles would suit me, and which would wear me out?
  • What should I say in my next promotion conversation?
  • What kind of manager would bring out my best?
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Where it helps most

Three career moments, three kinds of coaching

Careers rarely move in a straight line. Here is how Coach Marlee supports the moments people ask about most.

Promotion

You want the next level

Being good at the job and being ready for the bigger one are different things. Your analysis shows which of your motivations help at the next level and which might need attention.

How Coach Marlee helps: it turns the gap into small weekly actions and helps you practice the human skills that bigger roles lean on.

Direction

You are not sure what is next

When nothing feels wrong but nothing feels right either, the answer usually sits in what you want more or less of. Coach Marlee helps you name it.

How Coach Marlee helps: it asks the questions a good coach would, and checks your answers against what your analysis says about you.

Interviews

You have an interview coming

Knowing your strengths in plain language makes the hard questions easier. If self-doubt gets loud, the Personal Power program is built for exactly that.

How Coach Marlee helps: it helps you rehearse how you talk about your strengths, and where you tend to undersell yourself.

Building confidence along the way? Try Personal Power, an 8-week program for stepping into influence.

AI coach and human coach

Start with your AI coach, add a person when it matters

Coach Marlee is available whenever you are, including the evening before a big conversation. It coaches to more than 1,000 goals, across professional goals such as career, leadership and delegation, and personal ones too.

Some decisions deserve a person in the room. A certified human coach works from the same data, so you do not have to explain yourself from scratch. Every coach on the bench is trained in an evidence-based methodology co-developed by Marlee's founder, Michelle Duval, a pioneer in coaching since 1997.

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Start for free

A career coach used to be a luxury

Create a free account and you get your Motivational Analysis, a complete 8-week AI coaching program and the option to compare your profile with up to 3 teammates.

Starting early matters most. If you are at the beginning of your working life, Marlee's book Find Your Workverse is a playbook for Gen Z to thrive at work, written by Michelle Duval, Dan Negroni and Coach Marlee.

How it works

From a hunch about your career to a plan you can act on

You do not need to know where you are going before you begin. You need a clear read on yourself.

1

See how you are wired for work

Complete your Motivational Analysis and see your results instantly. You get your read on 48 work motivations, with up to 98% reliability.

2

Ask Marlee about your options

Put your real questions to Ask Marlee, from which roles fit to how to approach your manager. The answers draw on your own analysis.

3

Work a career goal with Coach Marlee

Pick a goal such as a promotion, a change of direction or a stronger interview. Coach Marlee works through it with you, week by week.

4

Bring in a human coach for the big calls

For a decision that carries weight, a certified coach picks up from the same data and helps you test your thinking.

90%

of coaching users achieve their goals within just 4-8 weeks

48

work motivations measured in the Marlee Motivational Analysis

1,000+

coaching goals Coach Marlee supports, across work and personal life

16B

data points behind every coaching recommendation Marlee makes

“Never could I have imagined an AI coach being this good, as if you are talking with a real human.”
Negari, age 25
Trusted by individuals and teams in 194+ countries, including 500 Startups, Accenture, Amazon, Atlassian, Canva, Google, HubSpot, KPMG, L'Oreal, Meta, Microsoft and SAP
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More ways to grow your career with Marlee

See how teams use Marlee in High Performance in ICs, Managing & Coaching and Leadership Development, or read the Marlee blog.

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FAQs

Can an AI career coach really tell me which job suits me?

It cannot make the decision for you, and a good coach would not either. What it can do is show you patterns. Ask Marlee uses your Motivational Analysis to tell you which kinds of roles you are likely to thrive in and which are likely to drain you, based on what drives you.

That gives you something concrete to test against real job descriptions, real managers and real teams. You still choose. You just choose with better information than a hunch.

How is Coach Marlee different from a chatbot that gives career tips?

A general chatbot answers the question you typed, the same way for everyone. Coach Marlee starts from your own analysis of 48 work motivations, so the same question gets a different answer for a person who is driven by results than for one who is driven by relationships.

It is also built as coaching, not search. You work through structured programs and goals across more than 1,000 topics, with check-ins, so the advice turns into action over weeks instead of staying a good idea.

What if I am early in my career and have no idea what I want?

That is a common starting point, and it is a good one to coach from. Your analysis shows what you want more and less of at work, even before you have a job title in mind. The Goal Catcher program helps you work out your values, your life vision and your life mission, which is a good way into the question of what will make you happy at work.

If you are a Gen Z reader, Find Your Workverse is Marlee's playbook for your first steps, and Coach Marlee can talk through the same ideas with you.

Does Marlee help with interview nerves and imposter syndrome?

Yes. The Personal Power program was made to help people who feel like they are not quite enough for the room they are in. Over 8 weeks, Coach Marlee helps you build comfort and confidence in positions of influence and leadership.

For interviews, the useful part is knowing your strengths in plain language and where you tend to undersell them. You can rehearse that with Coach Marlee, and a human coach can add a second set of eyes before a big one.

Will I be able to talk to a person as well as the AI coach?

Yes. Coach Marlee is your day-to-day coach, and certified human coaches are there when a decision calls for a person. They work from the same Marlee data as your AI coach, so the conversation starts further along.

Every coach is trained in the evidence-based methodology co-developed by Michelle Duval, a pioneer in coaching since 1997. You can see the bench on the coaches page.

Find the career that fits how you are wired

Run your free Motivational Analysis and put your first career question to Marlee.