Ethics & Artificial Intelligence Statement

Our platforms use artificial intelligence to help users explore careers, understand academic pathways, and assess how a changing world of work may affect their futures. We are deliberate about how we deploy AI — and equally deliberate about what we refuse to do with it.

We believe AI in career guidance carries real responsibility. A recommendation that steers a young person away from a field they are suited for — or fails to flag that a chosen field is being disrupted — has consequences. We take that seriously.

We do not use black-box AI. When our platforms make a recommendation or provide an assessment, we design for explainability:

• Career match logic is based on disclosed interest and personality inputs, not inferred behavioural signals harvested without user awareness: Career match logic is based on disclosed interest and personality inputs, not inferred behavioural signals harvested without user awareness
• AI career impact analysis cites its reasoning: users can see why a role is assessed as growing, stable, or at-risk
• No hidden scoring: we do not assign users hidden scores, compatibility ratings, or risk profiles that influence what they see without their knowledge

Users can always ask "why am I seeing this?" and receive a meaningful answer. We are committed to ongoing transparency audits of our AI features and will communicate material changes to how our recommendation systems work.

We do not sell user data. Ever. This is a founding commitment, not a policy subject to revision based on business conditions.

Student data (Findmino)

• Students own their career exploration data
• Institutions that license Findmino receive access to aggregate, anonymised analytics — they do not receive individual student data in identifiable form
• We collect only what is necessary to deliver the service
• We do not use student data to train third-party AI models
• We do not share individually identifiable student data with advertisers, data brokers, or third parties outside our direct service delivery
• Students and their guardians may request deletion of their data at any time
• Data is retained only for as long as necessary to deliver the service or as required by applicable law

Professional users (CareerCube)

• Working professionals using CareerCube retain ownership of their career exploration data
• Employer integrations, where applicable, are governed by explicit consent and disclosed terms
• We do not surface individual employee career pivot data to employers without the employee's explicit consent

Our platforms are built with compliance as a foundation, not a retrofit. We maintain active compliance with:

Compliance documentation is available to institutional partners upon request. We engage independent review of our data practices and update our policies as regulatory requirements evolve.

Career guidance has historically reflected and reinforced existing inequalities — directing students from under-resourced communities toward narrower sets of options, and leaving working adults without the support that professionals in elite networks take for granted. We are committed to doing better.

• Our career database represents a wide range of pathways — skilled trades, entrepreneurship, public service, creative fields, and emerging roles alongside traditional professional careers
• We do not allow demographic proxies (ZIP code, school type, inferred income) to narrow the career options presented to any user
• We actively work to identify and mitigate bias in our AI outputs, including regular review of whether certain career fields are being systematically under-recommended to particular groups
• We offer pricing tiers and pilot programmes specifically designed to make Findmino accessible to under-resourced schools and districts

We acknowledge that bias in AI is an ongoing challenge, not a problem to be declared solved. We will publish updates on our equity review process and welcome external scrutiny.

Our career database is human-curated. Real-world career information — role descriptions, salary ranges, education pathways, day-in-the-life content — is researched, reviewed, and updated by a team of subject matter contributors, not generated wholesale by AI.

• AI assists in the organisation, search, and personalisation layer; humans are responsible for the accuracy and integrity of the underlying content
• School counsellors, career advisors, and HR professionals remain essential
• Findmino and CareerCube are designed to support those professionals — not replace them

Ethics in technology is not a statement; it is a practice. We commit to: