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A career coaching method became its own platform.

RISEUP@work, Career development / AI coaching SaaS.

Partner

Jul 2026

Results

250

users in the first week after launch

500+

professionals signed up

Partner

RISEUP@work

Industry

Career development / AI coaching SaaS

Service

Partner

Headquarters

Houston, USA

Timeline

Mar 2026 - Jul 2026

Stack

Next.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL + Prisma, LangGraph + OpenAI, TanStack Start, AWS (ECS, S3, Cognito)

RISEUP@work moved its career coaching method off a generic course platform onto a product it owns, and reported 250 users in its first week live.

What Kodeful did

Kodeful joined RISEUP as a product partner and built the platform together with RISEUP's technical founder. Kodeful led the AI coach, interview simulator, journal and goals, made the resume builder feel like RISEUP, and after launch worked through the issues RISEUP's own technical review raised, from billing to member access.

The problem

RISEUP@work is built on Dr. Deepak Bhootra's career methodology: four published books and, per the partner, 1,500 coaching sessions. In early 2026 the community, books and tools ran on LearnWorlds, an off-the-shelf learning platform. Resume, interview and LinkedIn sections were set up there, but they could not talk to each other, so a member's story never followed them from one tool to the next. To give every member guidance built on their own history, RISEUP needed to own the platform and the data.

Where they are now

Live at riseupatwork.com, with 500+ professionals signed up according to the partner's site. In October 2026 RISEUP announced it was selected for the AWS-supported Apex Lab AI Accelerator program.

Dr. Deepak Bhootra
The partner

Dr. Deepak Bhootra

Founder, RISEUP@work

Leadership coach, B2B sales strategist and author with more than 30 years of global experience at companies including HP, Sun Microsystems and Capgemini. A Sandler certified sales coach and founder of Sandler by Jabulani Consulting in Houston, he has coached more than 1,500 professionals on promotions, compensation and career strategy.

RISEUP AT WORK LLC is a Houston-based company building a career operating system for professionals, from early career to executive level. It combines Dr. Deepak Bhootra's coaching methodology and books with AI tools for diagnostics, coaching, journaling, interview practice and resumes, and offers an optional human coaching add-on.

How Kodeful helped

What RISEUP@work brought

The RISEUP coaching methodology and COACH framework, four published books, Dr. Bhootra's 30 years of Fortune 100 leadership and ICF-certified coaching, an existing community of members, and RISEUP's own technical founder building alongside the team.

What Kodeful brought

The product build: the first version of the member app and everything behind it, the AI behind the RISE Career Coach, the interview simulator, journal and goals, a resume builder made to feel like RISEUP, and a round of fixes after launch that made billing, member access and admin records more reliable.

The product today

Members get one career operating system: an AI career coach, a journal that picks up themes and intentions, goals and accountability, an AI interview simulator, a diagnostic and a resume builder. The tools share what the member has already told RISEUP, so nobody re-enters their history. There is a free Explorer tier and a paid Builder tier with a 14-day free trial.

RISEUP@work product
Module 01

Career OS dashboard

One home for the member's career: what to do next, recent journal activity, goals and every RISEUP tool one click away.

Career OS dashboard
Module 02

RISE Career Coach

An always-on AI coach built on RISEUP's COACH framework. It remembers the member's journal, goals and history, so every conversation starts from where they actually are.

Tested by RISEUP before launch: 24 coaching conversations across 9 scenarios (June 2026)

RISE Career Coach
Module 03

AI Interview Simulator

Members rehearse real interviews out loud with an AI interviewer, then review past sessions and feedback to see how their answers improve.

AI Interview Simulator
Module 04

Journal with AI insights

Members write or record short reflections. RISE picks up recurring themes, mood over time and the intentions they state, and turns them into suggested goals.

Journal with AI insights
Module 05

Goals & Accountability

Turns intentions into goals with milestones, so members can track follow-through and the coach has clear targets to work toward.

Goals & Accountability
Module 06

RISEUP Resume Builder

Members build a RISEUP-branded resume by chatting with AI or dictating by voice, and can upload any resume they like as a template for their own CV.

RISEUP Resume Builder
Kodeful product delivery
Deliverables

What was delivered

The first version of the member app and everything behind it (April 2026)

RISE Career Coach, an AI coach RISEUP tested against its own COACH framework

AI interview simulator that keeps every practice session and its feedback

Bring your own template: members upload a resume they like and their CV takes on its look

A 37-page help center for the resume builder, in RISEUP's brand

Billing that never grants the same plan twice, plus a record of every admin action

A check that members only see what they are allowed to see, and long lists that stay fast

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