NextStep

We built the biggest professional services brand, and now we're building its career platform.

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The Vision

Recruitment is a trillion-dollar industry that technology has barely touched. AI is about to change that.

Job boards digitized listings. LinkedIn digitized networking. But the core of hiring still runs on cold outreach, gut feel, and expensive middlemen. Despite decades of incremental tech, the process hasn't fundamentally changed.

AI changes the equation entirely. For the first time, software can actually match people to what they want, not what they typed into a search bar. This is the first real change in how professionals find their next move.

That's what we're building.

The Problem

A $1 trillion industry that still runs on spam and guesswork.

A senior consultant opens LinkedIn. 47 recruiter messages. None relevant. Meanwhile, a growth-stage startup has been searching for that exact profile for 6 months. Both sides lose.

Candidate Side

60-hour weeks, zero time for a real job search

Hundreds of applications. A handful of responses. None that fit.

Drowning in irrelevant alerts and recruiter spam

Employer Side

The talent they want doesn't show up on job boards

Flooded with unqualified applicants for every role

The best consultants are passive. They never apply.

The Gap

The best talent never applies. The best companies never find them.

The Product

NextStep is a personal AI agent that runs your entire job search.

From finding roles to applying to prepping for interviews. You set it up once. It does the rest.

STEP 01

Tell it what you want

Chat with your AI agent like you'd message a recruiter. Share your CV, your ambitions, what matters to you. It learns everything in one conversation.

STEP 02

It hunts for you

Your agent scans thousands of roles, scores them against your profile, and sends you only the ones worth your time. Every week, automatically.

STEP 03

Apply, prep, land

Your agent tailors every application, preps you for interviews, and keeps the pipeline moving. You just show up to the calls that matter.

Free for candidates

Unit economics that scale

Traction

10 weeks. 4,000 users. Zero dollars spent.

Soft launch numbers. No ads, no sales team. Creator-driven distribution and a product consultants want.

4,000+

Registered

CAC

50%+

MoM Growth

Cumulative users, weeks 1-10

Why We'll Win

Three unfair advantages that compound over time.

01 — Distribution

We own the largest channel directly into this audience.

Consulting Comedy

The #1 consulting brand online. An organic community that trusts us.

2M+ followers

across Consulting Comedy + creator partner network

While competitors spend millions on paid acquisition, our community brings users to us for free. Every piece of content is organic distribution with zero cost.

02 — Creator Partnership Programme

Equity, not ad fees. Creators promote because they own it.

Our CPP gives creators a stake in NextStep instead of paying for promotions. They become long-term partners, not hired ads. Distribution compounds for free, instead of costing more each time we grow.

More creator partners in the pipeline. Ambition to grow this network significantly.

03 — The Team

A successful track record across startups, recruitment, and creator-led businesses.

Luke Tyrrell

CEO

Associate Director at Propel (Recruitment GTM & Strategy). Chief of Staff at PEP Health, scaled ARR to $3.4M in 18 months.

Ahmed Eltom

CPO

Scaled multiple creator-led brands. 6+ years in consulting.

Ana Colak Fustin

COO

Launched and scaled a job search marketplace to 10,000+ customers. 12+ years in the recruitment space.

Advisors

Alexandra Didio

Advisor

Helped scale Diary of a CEO from podcast to global media business. Advising on creator monetization.

Christian Arnstedt

Advisor

Founder of Blazar Capital. Scaled creator-led brands with Logan Paul and Emma Chamberlain.

Ryan Nelson

Advisor

Founder of Jobi Brands. Launched creator-led brands with Courtney Cox and Kaley Cuoco.

The Journey

We're starting with a community of 2M consultants.

Most marketplaces die chasing users. We start with 2 million.

Milestones

Live Now · Alpha

Consulting career matching

We're here. 4,000+ users, zero paid acquisition.

4,000 candidates

12,000 matches

120,000 jobs

Q2 2026 · MVP

Full talent marketplace

Employer dashboard, applicant tracking, interview invites.

10,000 candidates

20 companies

$10K MRR

Q4 2026 · Growth

AI matching at scale

LLM semantic matching, AI mock interviews, advanced analytics.

50,000 candidates

200 companies

$100K MRR

Q2 2027 · Expansion

Adjacent verticals

Finance, legal, accounting. Premium employer and candidate tools.

500K candidates

2,000 paying employers

$1M MRR

Endgame

Replace the $1T recruitment industry

A world where talent finds opportunity automatically.

We're building the layer between talent and opportunity.

The Opportunity

A massive market. No clear winner.

Recruitment is a trillion-dollar industry with no dominant player. The winner will be whoever cracks distribution. We already have.

TAM

$1T

Global professional recruitment spend

SAM

$92B

Consulting-adjacent recruitment

SOM

$3B

UK/US consultant recruitment fees

The Investment Thesis

Why NextStep will win where others haven't.

Zero cost of acquisition

While competitors burn millions on paid ads and sales teams, we reach our users through an organic community that already trusts us. Our CPP model means distribution compounds, not costs.

A product curated for an audience we know

We're focused on consulting because it's an audience we understand deeply. We'll build the best possible experience here first, then expand using the playbook we've proven.

A team that's done this before

Founders who have scaled startups, built creator-led businesses, and operated in the recruitment space for over a decade. Backed by advisors from Diary of a CEO, Blazar Capital, and Jobi Brands.

The Raise

$750K

Advanced Subscription Agreement (ASA) · Angel Round

Use of Funds

Product

40%

Expanding the current product and training the AI matching model

Employer Acquisition

25%

Integrating into the company ecosystem (SaaS)

Creator Network

20%

Onboarding new creator partners and expanding CPP reach

Operations

15%

Legal, infrastructure, compliance, team tooling

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