Unscript your life. Unscript IKIGAI®.

Retrenched?

Or worried about what a restructure could mean for you?

It can be hard to see where your experience could lead you next.

6
honest questions
AI
strips what's generic
3
paths you can explore

IKIGAI (生き甲斐) - The origin

Read more about IKIGAI →

The word comes from iki (to live) and gai (worth). In Japan, it has no grand formula. It's about finding quiet meaning - a morning ritual, a craft, a role you play for someone you love. It is not a career framework, but a reason to get up in the morning.

What about the four-circle Venn diagram most people know? Researcher Nicholas Kemp spent years tracing it - and found it was never Japanese. It was invented by a blogger in 2014 who misread a TED Talk.

The hardest conversation during the layoff isn't with HR.
It's the one with yourself.

Most tools give advice because advice is easy. We run uncomfortable questions instead.

Deeper Than Traditional IKIGAI

We go beyond the four-circle model to capture your full complexity — including unconventional drivers most frameworks ignore.

Pattern Recognition Across Your Whole Self

Non-obvious intersections between your skills, interests, and real-world opportunities — mapped across your full complexity, not just the obvious parts.

Three Strategic Directions

Not one vague suggestion — three specific paths with honest earning potential, realistic entry points, and concrete first steps.

How It Works

01

Tell us about yourself

Answer a series of questions about who you are — your interests, strengths, aspirations, and more. Be raw, be honest — the more real you are, the better the analysis.

02

AI analyzes your profile

We find convergence points between what are your internal drivers, capabilities, skills and know-how, and what your future could look like.

03

Get 3 unique opportunities

Three specific paths — whether building a side gig, scaling back, starting a new venture or redesigning what already exists.

04

Choose one path to explore

Select one of your three directions and work it through with trained AI Coach for a concrete action plan tailored to your life, career stage and skills.

For workforce transitions

You just laid off eighty people because a model told you to. Now what?

Outplacement will give your departing employees the CV-rewrite service that is no longer working, and a mentor who gives generic advice. Unscript IKIGAI® asks them what they are actually good for — before they send two hundred desperate applications with your company name at the top of the résumé.

See how Unscript supports workforce transitions →

What You'll Discover

Here's a glimpse of what a real analysis looks like

Example for Senior Sales Director

Fractional Commercial Lead — Specialist Hardware or Infrastructure Vendor

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Strategic fit: Two decades selling complex products through partners, plus the scar tissue of a corporate exit. You already know how a long cycle dies and how a thin team has to pick three accounts, not thirty.
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Unexpected intersection: Smaller vendors cannot hire a full VP; they will pay a two-day-a-week operator who can open the same logos you used to own.
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Earning logic: Retainers first, success fee later. Not a full-time job hunt.
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Market opportunity: Two or three clients at retainer fills a working week. The vendors who need you most are the ones stuck on the same three accounts for two years, wondering what they are missing.
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First move: Build your audience before you need it, monetize it later. You already know the ecosystem — from events, from customers at the side of the room after the panel, from the conversations that did not make it into the CRM. Start with two people you trust. Not to announce yourself, but to listen. Share what you have seen recently, what has worked, what the market is doing that the pipeline does not yet reflect. Then offer to look at their numbers — not as a consultant, but as someone who can tell them whether what is in the forecast will actually close in twelve months.
Strategic FitUnexpected IntersectionRevenue ModelFirst MoveActionable
FOR COACHES & ADVISORS

Partner with Unscript IKIGAI®

Help your clients discover what truly drives them right now. Integrate our AI-powered life orientation tool into your coaching practice to offer deeper, more personal insights and enrich your sessions with tailored Unscript paths.

Become a partner coach →

What people are saying

Read The Slow Boil — the story behind why this exists →
OD Running — watercolour print shirtodrunning.com →

It wasn't obvious until it was obvious! Once I went through Unscript IKIGAI, it showed me something that immediately I felt great about: a running shirt business. The AI Coach gave me the momentum to get it started and OD Running was born — and now I have orders, a website, and the belief to make this work.

Ned Phillips

The Sales Movement

“Way better than I expected. It actually gets very close to what I want to do — and the next steps are aligned with what I am already doing. Useful as a validation tool for someone at my level.”

— J, Corporate Energy Leader, Singapore

“As a lawyer who is also an exhibiting photographer, I was surprised by how Unscript IKIGAI revealed a compelling intersection between law and art that I had not imagined. I am keen to explore this further, perhaps even with the support of a human coach.”

— K, Lawyer, France

“I feel like the money for the AI Coach was well spent as I came away with a smile on my face and a real idea.”

— E, Energy Trader, UK

Ready to find your Unscript Path?

It only takes 6 honest questions to get started.