About ThePivotWave

A small team paying attention to where AI meets careers

We built this site because we couldn’t stop thinking about what AI is doing to people’s careers, and because we weren’t reading anything that matched what we were seeing.

Who we are

Between us, we’ve spent years inside product companies, working alongside marketing, design, and product teams. Now we build tools and create content together.

This site is what came out of it.

What we love

Data

The first thing we do with any new dataset is sit with it for longer than is reasonable. There’s almost always a pattern hiding behind the average: the “best result” that’s a fluke driven by one outlier, or the “decline” that’s three steady months and one missing tracker. We’d rather find the truth than write a tidy summary.

Building

New pages, new tools, new dashboards, new processes. Anything that turns a vague intention into a thing that exists. Most of what we’re proud of started as a doc nobody asked us to write.

Building with AI

Not in the buzzword way. In the practical sense of: we needed a dashboard, we needed a research tool, we needed to summarise thousands of pages, we needed to ship something this week. Claude and a handful of small workflows now do things that used to take us a week. That shift is real, and we think most people in knowledge work are about to feel it whether they want to or not.

Why ThePivotWave exists

The conversation around AI and careers has split into two camps that are both wrong. One says nothing will change and you should keep doing what you’ve been doing. The other says everything will change and a six-week prompt engineering bootcamp will save your job. Neither is true.

What’s actually happening, from what we can see and from the people we talk to, is messier and slower than the doomers claim, and faster and more uneven than the deniers claim. Some roles are being quietly hollowed out from the middle. Some are getting better. New roles exist that didn’t exist 24 months ago. The signal is mixed, the advice online is mostly noise, and the people we talk to (including very senior, very competent ones) are not sure what to do next.

That worries us. Not in a doom way. In the way it worries you when smart people you respect are flying blind, and the loudest voices in the room are either selling courses or telling everyone to relax.

We started ThePivotWave because nobody was writing the kind of careers content we wanted to read. Most of what’s out there is either generic (“update your LinkedIn!”) or borderline manipulative (“buy this course or get left behind”). We wanted a site that:

Treats readers like adults who can handle real trade-offs
Tests AI tools properly before recommending them
Names the downsides, including the ones that don’t fit a sales pitch
Tracks what’s changing in the job market, not what people online claim is changing

So that’s what this site is.

What you’ll find here

Free tools and content on to assess your skills and learn new ones, job searching, best courses, and more. Career change content that doesn’t pretend the path from one role to the next is a tidy six-month plan. And occasional opinion pieces when something in the AI-and-careers conversation gets so wrong we have to write it down.

If you want to get in touch, you’re welcome!

Follow along on LinkedIn

Most of what we publish first lives on LinkedIn — tool tests, hot takes on AI and careers, and the occasional rant when something in the discourse gets too wrong to ignore. That’s where you’ll catch us first.