Cybersecurity and Applied AI career insights
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Founded by Julian Calvo, Ed.D., M.S.
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A career platform for cybersecurity and AI professionals. We help you understand which roles are growing as AI reshapes tech, then give you the data, courses, and coaching to get there. Three career paths get more valuable: elite enterprise tech sales, engineers and operators in AI and cybersecurity, and a leaner C-suite.
Tech professionals targeting one of the three career paths. Early-career people use the free AI Risk Score and the Defender plan; active career changers use Operator; CISO-track and AI-security leadership use Frontier.
Built by Julian Calvo (Ed.D. in Learning Sciences from the University of Miami, M.S. in Applied AI at Northeastern). Every salary figure comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Every certification detail comes from the certifying body. Full transparency at /methodology.
Defender ($49/mo) for exploring; Operator ($129/mo, recommended) for active transitions including all seven elite courses; Frontier ($299/mo) for CISO-track and AI security pivots; Squad ($400/mo) for 5-seat teams.
Yes. Free forever for the public career guides, salary data, the Phishing Detector, and the AI Risk Score.
Yes. Cancel from your account dashboard. You keep access through the end of the current billing period.
Tiered by product. Subscriptions: 14 days, under 25% completion. Single elite courses ($497-$697): 7 days, under 10% completion. Foundation courses ($297-$397): 30 days, gated on Module 1 completion. Bundles: 7 days, under 10% bundle-wide completion. Refund issued = 90-day lockout on re-acquiring the same course through any tier.
Two dimensions: AI displacement risk for your current role, and AI security frontier readiness. The output is deterministic (no LLM in the scoring path) and recommends one of the three growing career paths.
Two minutes. Pick your role, answer five followup questions, get the result.
It is a directional signal anchored on BLS occupational projections, NIST AI RMF, McKinsey AI exposure index, and ISC2 workforce data. Sources cited inline on the result page.
Seven elite AI-era courses: Cybersecurity Sales Mastery, AI Sales and SE Mastery, AI Engineering Mastery, AI Product Management, AI Security Operations Mastery, AI Security Engineering, and AI Governance and Risk. Plus foundation cybersecurity courses.
Yes. Self-paced with structured capstone rubrics. No live cohorts, no scheduled time, no founder coaching. Entirely AI-augmented and asynchronous.
Yes. Operator and Frontier subscriptions include every elite course at no extra cost. Defender includes one elite course of your choice per year.
50+ cybersecurity career guides plus 36 Applied AI career guides. Each guide includes BLS salary data, O*NET skills, certifications, and a recommended career path.
Yes. SOC Analyst ($87,400 median), GRC Analyst ($82,500), Security Awareness Manager. The 'cybersecurity is impossible to break into' narrative is overstated; the entry tier is real, just competitive.
For cybersecurity: CompTIA Security+. It is the floor for federal contractor work and unlocks the $75,000-$95,000 SOC Analyst range. For Applied AI: AWS Certified AI Practitioner, the lowest-cost foundation cert that signals working LLM literacy.
Yes, Range Credentials (cryptographically signed Open Badges) and elite-course completion credentials, both verifiable by employers via Ed25519 signature.
Yes. Built on Anthropic Claude. It self-identifies as AI on the first turn, carries provenance headers (X-AI-Generated, X-AI-Model, X-AI-Provider, X-AI-Disclosure), and is governed by the prompt registry at packages/ai/src/prompts/registry.ts.
It is grounded in the DecipherU knowledge graph: 50+ cybersecurity roles, 36 Applied AI roles, 27 cybersecurity certifications and 7 Applied AI certifications, salary data, every elite course's curriculum. It cites our content directly. It also enforces the no-founder-time rule (never offers 1:1, never offers to rewrite your resume).