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The Mirror

Understand where you stand before deciding what comes next.

"The first tool in the cascade. Without a grounded read of where you are, everything that follows is guesswork."

What It Does

The Mirror is the first tool in the cascade. It works through a structured intake, then a Mirror conversation that calibrates against sector benchmarks, and produces a Position Score with context. The output is a clear, grounded read of your current position, so every subsequent decision has a foundation instead of a guess.

How it works

1. Intake and calibration

The Mirror opens on Start with your CV, before step 1. You can Upload my CV, Continue without a CV, or, on a new run, Use my latest CV. A five-step intake then captures the shape of your career so far. Step 1 is factual: first name, country, sector, role, and years of experience. Step 2 is the situation picker: what is prompting you to be here now. Steps 3 to 5 are calibration questions that surface assumptions you might not have articulated.

One run uses one CV, and only that CV builds your profile and readout. Other files you attach, such as certificates, job descriptions or a LinkedIn export, are supporting documents: the Mirror conversation can see them, but they never change the profile and never trigger a reading. When a second document arrives, the app asks whether it is a new CV or a supporting document, and names the file. You can attach up to five files, each up to 10MB, in PDF, DOCX, TXT, PNG or JPG. The picker also offers .doc, which cannot be read: save it as .docx or PDF. Uploads lock once the questionnaire is complete.

CV extraction

When you upload a CV, The Mirror extracts a structured profile from it: your role history, sector experience, seniority signals, key achievements, and any qualifications or certifications. This extraction runs automatically after upload and takes a few seconds. You will see a confirmation when the profile has been extracted successfully.

The extracted profile is not a summary of your CV. It is a structured read that the AI uses throughout the cascade. Specific achievements, named projects, and quantified results are pulled out and used to ground the conversation and every downstream output. A detailed CV produces a richer extraction; a sparse one produces a thinner starting point.

Check CV readout

After extraction, The Mirror generates a readout that shows you how your CV reads right now. This is a visible trust signal: you can see what the AI has picked up before the conversation begins, so there are no surprises. The readout covers four areas:

The readout also produces a seed question: a specific observation drawn from the CV that opens the Mirror conversation. Instead of a generic opener, the first question the AI asks will reference something concrete from your document, so the conversation starts grounded in your specifics from the first exchange.

Tip: Read the "What is thin" section before the conversation starts. It tells you where the AI will need you to fill in the picture, so you can prepare specific examples rather than answering on the spot.

The readout is cached: if you reload the page, it restores without re-running the analysis. A run's CV is set once, so a new CV means a new run, or Edit my answers on this run. If you choose not to upload a CV, no readout appears and the conversation opens with a standard question. An edited run that keeps its CV also opens with the standard question. The feature is purely additive.

Tip: Be specific about what you actually do day to day, not what your job description says. "I spend sixty percent of my time reviewing contracts for standard compliance" gives The Mirror far more to work with than "I'm a lawyer".

2. Mirror conversation and Position Score

A guided conversation reflects what the intake revealed, pressure-tests framing, and produces a Position Score with plain-language context. This is not a grade, it is a read: where your current position is strong, where it is exposed, and why. The conversation is usually one question, sometimes two, and it is not stored: if you reload part way through, your answers are kept and the conversation starts again.

3. Sector benchmark and insight

Your position is placed against live sector benchmarks, with commentary on where your sector is moving and what that means for you specifically. Three metrics are surfaced: how crowded the candidate pool is, how active hiring is, and how fast AI is changing the sector. Each metric comes with a plain-language note. The output is a grounded read, ready to feed into The Map.

Live Market Intelligence

The sector benchmark uses live market intelligence. The pill at the top right of the app shows the status of the intelligence layer: green for operational, amber for degraded, red for unavailable, and amber while a check is running. It does not show how old the data is. To see when your market intelligence was last checked, and to refresh it, open market intelligence on the home screen.

How It Connects

The Mirror is the entry point. Your Position Score, sector benchmark, and calibration results carry forward automatically into The Map and everything downstream. If you upload documents, the extracted context also carries forward, so you do not need to re-supply it in later tools.

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