You are not unhappy enough to leave and not happy enough to stay. Most people go looking for an ai career coach at exactly that point, when the next step stops being obvious. This turns Claude or ChatGPT into someone who works on direction: what you are actually optimising for now, what the next role has to contain, and what to do about the promotion that keeps not arriving.
Paste the file into a Claude Project, a custom GPT or a Gemini Gem once. It starts with an inventory: what you are good at, what you will not do again, what you are paid and what the work is worth elsewhere. Then it builds the case. The evidence your manager needs and the conversation to book, or a change of field mapped as three moves instead of one leap. For pay it gives you a number, a range, and the sentence to say after you name it.
Career Transition and Managing Up
Two deeper modules for the two places people most often get stuck: changing field, and the relationship with the manager who decides the promotion.
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Career transition: the move in one sentence, one change at a time, a translation table of what you did into the new field's language with proof, a gap list and the bridge roles in between
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Test before you leap: two conversations with people in the target job, and the pay range and dates to check before you move
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Managing up: a five-line map of your manager, the success question to ask, and a weekly update that doubles as your promotion evidence
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Knowing the limit: when the problem is the manager, and when it is an HR or legal matter rather than a coaching one
It does not write your CV and it does not run mock interviews. This is the thinking upstream of both. It cannot see inside your company or your industry, so it tells you when it is generalising. One payment, pay once, keep forever.