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Building Elevatr: Treating Professional Experience as Structured Data

Most career software models employment.

I became interested in modeling something different:

experience itself.

I built Elevatr after dealing with the complexity of documenting professional experience for licensure.

A résumé might say:

Company
Role
2024–2026

But a licensing process may care about what actually happened during those years.

Projects.

Hours.

Responsibilities.

Experience categories.

Supervision.

Verification.

That requires a different data model.

Modeling Experience

Conceptually, Elevatr looks more like:

Professional

Employer

Project

Experience Entry

Category + Hours + Responsibility

Evidence

Verification

Now experience becomes queryable.

How many hours were accumulated in a category?

Which projects demonstrate a particular competency?

Which entries have been verified?

Who supervised them?

Which requirements remain incomplete?

Multiple Platforms

I’ve been building Elevatr across:

  • Desktop
  • Web
  • Mobile

The interfaces serve different purposes.

Mobile → capture
Desktop → dedicated workspace
Web → manage/access

They ultimately revolve around the same professional record.

I’ve also worked on verification workflows, including DocuSign integration.

That’s important because there’s a major difference between:

"I recorded this experience."

and:

"This experience was verified."

Why This Gets Interesting With AI

Once professional experience has structure, AI can potentially help convert natural descriptions into categorized records.

For example:

Prepared an ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey draft, incorporated legal and surveyor comments, updated Exhibit A and Schedule B, and revised plan notes.

That can potentially be transformed into structured experience rather than disappearing inside a timesheet.

The model becomes:

Natural-language work description

Extraction

Project + Tasks + Categories

Experience Record

Verification

That’s the technical direction I find most interesting.

Elevatr isn’t intended to be another employee timesheet.

A timesheet belongs primarily to the employer.

Your professional experience belongs to your career.

https://elevatr.dev

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