RoleShepherd has been retired.

Thanks for stopping by. The product that lived here has been shut down, and this page is what remains — a short, honest record of what it was.

What it was

RoleShepherd was career-intelligence software — a digital shepherd for your career. It watched the companies you cared about, measured open roles against your actual experience, estimated what the market would pay you, and helped you prepare for interviews with the gaps in plain view.

What it tried to do

Most career tools flatter you. RoleShepherd was built around the opposite idea: judge fit the way a skeptical recruiter would. It refused to soft-pedal missing required skills, kept its verdicts conservative when the data was thin, and never inflated a qualification to make a match look better than it was. If a role was out of reach today, it said so — and showed what would change that.

Why it was sunset

The honest answer, in the same spirit the product was built in: it didn't earn its keep. The space moved quickly, genuinely better tools emerged, and what RoleShepherd did best stopped being a reason to choose it. Rather than let it slowly decay, we chose to retire it cleanly while it still worked.