Your AI career coach
Upload your resume, tell your full story through structured interviews, get dedicated coaching, and build ATS-optimized resumes tailored to every role you want.
Keyword screening is outdated
Spotted Owl exists because resumes can't capture the depth of your experience. Careers get compressed into keywords, applicant tracking systems filter on the wrong signals, and the people behind great work disappear into the pile. Candidates and hiring teams both deserve better than that.
For Candidates
- ✗Forced to cram everything into one or two pages
- ✗Side projects and defining moments gets ignored
- ✗Resume keyword gaming feels dishonest
- ✗Can't show the "why" and "how" of your work
For Hiring Teams
- ✗Drowning in 200+ applications per role
- ✗Keyword filters miss great candidates
- ✗Can't assess cultural fit from resumes
- ✗Dedicated recruiting agencies are expensive
How it works
Spotted Owl builds your profile through conversation. Chat with Athena AI about the work you've actually done, let it translate your experiences into a rich professional profile, and use that profile to put your best, truest self in front of every opportunity.
Chat with Athena AI
For Candidates: Add unlimited experiences
Athena will guide you through all of your defining professional experiences.
For Hiring Teams: Specify what you truly want
Tell Athena what you would tell a recruiter.
Let Athena summarize and translate
For Candidates: Semantic understanding
Our AI analyzes your complete profile to understand your capabilities, achievements, and work style.
For Hiring Teams: Role-specific summaries
Generates tailored profiles highlighting the relevant experiences.
Find better matches
For Candidates: Roles and companies that fit
No more guessing about the work environment.
For Hiring Teams: See why they match
Understand exactly how each candidate's experience aligns with your role and team.
Your career coach, available today
Spotted Owl is an AI career coach that helps you show up as who you really are. Recruiters chase purple squirrels — fantasy candidates who don't exist. We help you stand out as a spotted owl instead: real, rare, and worth finding. It starts with your story, told properly.
Upload your resume
Start with what you already have. Spotted Owl reads your resume and turns it into a living profile you can build on — no blank page, no starting over.
Structured interviews
Guided conversations capture what never fits on a page: the context, the decisions, and the details that draw out who you are as a worker.
Dedicated coaching sessions
Work through your story with a coach built on a structured rubric and archetype system, so you understand how you come across to others — and how to sharpen it.
ATS-optimized resumes
Point your profile at a specific job and build a tailored, ATS-friendly resume in minutes — honest, complete, and formatted to make it past the filters.
And this is just the beginning — the same profile will power a hiring platform where employers discover you for who you are, not which keywords you used.
About the Founder
Spotted Owl was founded by Chris Winton, a career Chief HR Executive who spent 29 years leading talent strategy for some of the world's largest companies — and who has coached and mentored professionals through career transitions for just as long.
Chris Winton knows the system is failing you.
As Chief HR Executive at FedEx, Tesla, and Comcast — leading talent strategy for over 500,000 people — he implemented Applicant Tracking Systems globally. He configured the filters. He set the parameters. He watched brilliant, capable people disappear into the pile before a human ever saw their name.
Not because they weren't qualified.
Because they weren't legible to a system that was never designed to find them.
That's why he's building Spotted Owl.
Chris is also the author of C4 Leadership, a book on leadership he's relaunching with a new focus on career transitions — and he has spent his career coaching and mentoring people through exactly those moments. Spotted Owl puts that coaching within everyone's reach.
Shaped by 29 years inside the rooms where careers get decided. Powered by Athena AI. Grounded in C4 Leadership.
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about Spotted Owl, the AI career coach that helps you tell your full story and land the roles you actually want.
What is Spotted Owl?
Spotted Owl is an AI career coaching platform. You upload your resume, complete structured interviews that capture the experience behind it, and work with a dedicated AI coach to tell your story and build ATS-optimized resumes tailored to specific roles.
How does the AI coaching work?
Athena, Spotted Owl's AI coach, guides you through structured interviews about your work history — then turns what it learns into a rich profile, professional summaries, and coaching sessions that help you present your experience with confidence.
What makes the coaching different?
Spotted Owl's coaching is built on a structured rubric and archetype system that shows you how you come across to others — not just what's on your resume. The same framework will shape how our hiring platform matches candidates to roles in the future.
How does the resume builder work?
Give Spotted Owl a job description and it builds an ATS-optimized resume from your full profile — selecting the experiences that matter for that role and formatting them so applicant tracking systems read them correctly.
Is it free to start?
Creating your account and building your profile is free. AI-powered features like coaching sessions and tailored resume generation use AI credits, which you can top up whenever you need them.
Can employers use Spotted Owl?
Today Spotted Owl is focused on candidates. A hiring platform is coming next, where employers will discover candidates through deep profiles rather than keyword filters. Hiring teams can join the waitlist for early access.