Launching Chrysalis: an AI chief of staff for your career move

I'm launching the first public MVP of Chrysalis, an open-source AI operating system for job search, interview prep, and career transition.

The public repo is here: github.com/notbotanand/Chrysalis

Chrysalis started with a simple frustration: job search is not one task. It's a system.

You're juggling recruiter conversations, company research, calendars, resume positioning, interview prep, follow-ups, and decision-making across too many tools. I wanted something that behaves less like a chatbot and more like a chief of staff for your career move.

What Chrysalis is

Chrysalis is a personal AI operating system for career transition.

It keeps your pipeline, company research, interview prep, market signals, debriefs, and daily planning in a repo-backed knowledge base. The public MVP runs with Claude Code and local files, so your data stays in your own repo.

The goal isn't to replace your judgment. It's to remove operational drag so you can focus on preparation, positioning, and decisions.

The mental model: a career chief of staff

A calendar app tells you when you're free. A chief of staff tells you what matters most in that free time.

That's the bar Chrysalis is aiming for: using context from your inbox, calendar, recruiter conversations, and pipeline to think strategically, not just tactically. The real question is — given who I am, where I am in each process, and what changed since yesterday, what should I focus on today?

What the MVP does

The MVP focuses on the job-search and interview-prep loop.

1. Onboard your profile

Fork the repo, clone it locally, and run Claude Code inside it. Then type Onboard me. Chrysalis builds your profile from your resume, asks a few clarifying questions, and can pull in email and calendar signals to identify companies already in flight.

2. Run your first brief

Once setup is done, the main daily command is simple: Brief. The brief gives you a focused view of what matters today: pipeline health, upcoming interviews, stale research, market signals, and the next most important action.

3. Let Chrysalis sweep email and calendar signals

Chrysalis sweeps connected email and calendar sources for recruiter emails, interview confirmations, follow-ups, and new events. Instead of leaving those signals buried in your inbox, it updates the system and regenerates your dashboard.

4. Get automatic prep and debrief blocks

When Chrysalis detects a new interview, it can automatically create a prep block before it and a debrief block right after.

5. Use the dashboard as your command center

Every brief regenerates a self-contained dashboard.html. No server, no login, no extra app. The dashboard shows your active pipeline, upcoming calls, weekly density, industry pulse, prep readiness, and company-level detail.

Why this is open source

I'm making the MVP public because this workflow should be inspectable, forkable, and adaptable. Every career move is different, so Chrysalis isn't meant to be a closed black box. It's a framework you can inspect, modify, and make your own.

What's included in the MVP

• Profile-based onboarding from your resume
• Pipeline cards for companies in flight
• Profile-aware company research
• Daily brief
• Industry and market signal tracking
• Interview prep planner with round-specific prep
• Calendar-aware study planning
• Interview debrief workflow
• Automatic email/calendar sweep
• Automatic prep and debrief calendar blocks
• Dashboard with Today, Overview, and Companies views
• Local-first, Claude Code-first workflow
• Optional connector paths for email and calendar

It's early and not polished like a commercial SaaS product — but it's functional enough to test with real users and real workflows.

What's next

The current public MVP is Claude Code-first. Next, I want to make Chrysalis easier to use from ChatGPT as well.

Long term, the goal isn't a tool-specific version. It's a portable career operating system where your context belongs to you and your assistant doesn't have to start from scratch every time.