I've spent 29 years watching people start over because nobody helped them start right.

The pattern I kept seeing

I've interviewed thousands of people for a living. Healthcare executives. Manufacturing engineers. Department heads. New grads. Mid-career changers. People at every stage of every kind of career.

And the same thing kept showing up: smart, capable people who were in the wrong place. Not because they lacked talent — because nobody helped them understand how they were wired before they started making decisions. They picked a major because it sounded practical. They took a job because it was available. They built a career by accident and then spent years trying to course-correct.

The ones who thrived? They usually got lucky. Someone gave them a project that happened to match how they naturally worked. A mentor noticed something about them that they couldn't see themselves. The match was accidental, not intentional.

Then my own sons hit high school

Three boys, all different. One is analytical and systems-minded. One is creative and relationship-driven. One is physical and practical. And all three of them are being pushed through the same pipeline, the same college counselor, and the same "what do you want to study?" question they couldn't answer.

I realized: I've been professionally trained to see these patterns for 29 years. My own kids are getting the same generic guidance as everyone else. The tools that exist — personality tests, interest inventories, career quizzes — they categorize. They don't excavate. They give you a label, not insight.

So I built the thing I wished existed. Twenty questions, designed the way I've run my best interviews for three decades. An AI that listens and follows up like a good interviewer would. And then my own read on what the patterns mean — because that part can't be automated.

What this actually is

My Signal Path isn't a tech company. It isn't a startup trying to scale and flip. It's a tool built by a recruiter who noticed something important: the people who struggle most in their careers aren't the ones who lack ability. They're the ones who never understood how they were wired.

I review every single Signal Snapshot personally. Not an algorithm. Not a team. Me. Because the whole point is combining what the AI excavates with what 30 years of pattern recognition reveals. That combination is the product.