Introducing Work In Progress — A tool for figuring out what’s next

Most career tools are designed to help you look ahead.

They want your goals, your 5 or 10-year vision, your “why.” But in my experience, clarity often comes from looking back.

What have you built that still matters? What patterns keep resurfacing in your work, even when you think you've moved on?

This new GPT was designed to help you explore those questions.

What is Work In Progress?

It’s not a coach, or a personal brand assistant, or a motivational tool. It doesn’t give you advice, and it doesn’t promise transformation.

Instead, it acts a little more like a mirror. One that reflects your past work, roles, creative projects, and more.

It helps you analyze what you’ve done, so you can move forward with more clarity, self-trust, and conviction in what comes next.

Why I built this

Over the past few years, I’ve changed in ways I didn’t expect. Some of us are still rebuilding. Some are quietly pretending we haven’t changed at all. And many are stuck somewhere in the middle, unsure how to move forward without losing what came before.

For me, clarity didn’t come from setting new goals. It came from tracing my path backward through jobs I took, stories I told, things I built, and things I left behind. There was insight buried in all of it, but I needed a system that could help me see it from a slightly different perspective.

That’s what Work In Progress is built to do.

It doesn’t tell you who you are. It reflects who you’ve been and shows you what might still be unfinished, unspoken, or waiting to emerge.

How it works

You start by uploading pieces of your past.

That might include:

• Résumés, bios, or career timelines

• Old blog posts, brand decks, or creative projects

• Social captions, journal entries, or reflection notes

• Unfinished drafts, voice memos, or personal manifestos
  

Work In Progress reads across it all, identifies patterns, contradictions, recurring language, and unexplored themes. Then it asks sharp, emotionally intelligent questions that help you connect the dots and see the throughlines in your story.

Who it's for

This tool was made for people who’ve done meaningful work, but don’t know what they want to do next or how to leverage it for their next opportunity. For people who are quietly tired of reinventing themselves. For people who feel like they’re orbiting something important, but haven’t quite named it yet. And for anyone who isn’t stuck, but isn’t clear either.

Where to begin

You don’t need a vision statement. You don’t need to have everything figured out. All you need is a few real pieces of your past—things you’ve written, made, built, or walked away from.

Once inside the tool, you can upload your files—or simply type:

“I’m not sure where to begin.”

Work In Progress will take it from there. You can try it by tapping here or searching "Work In Progress" in the GPT Store.

Let me know what it helps you see.

— Mike