UNITED KINGDOM / AGILITYPR.NEWS / May 11, 2026 / For all the talk of preparing young people for the future, most are still leaving school with little understanding of the working world they are about to enter.

They are expected to choose subjects, courses, and career paths while knowing almost nothing about the industries around them, the jobs within those industries, or what those jobs entail in real life.

A staggering 84% of young people still have no idea what they want to do when they leave education - and when they do make a choice, an eye-watering 96% will change jobs within three years. This needs to change, and a new platform called Working Eye is set to do just that with the launch of its £75,000 crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.

Part AI platform, part video-driven discovery experience, Working Eye has been designed to give people something that career advice has struggled to provide for years: visibility. The company describes its mission as moving beyond traditional "careers advice" and into what it calls "career discovery".

Instead of pushing students towards generic pathways based on broad assessments and outdated information, the platform helps users explore the reality of different careers through intelligent recommendations and immersive video content.

AI helps users identify careers, industries and opportunities they may never otherwise have considered. Video then brings those roles to life, allowing users to hear directly from people inside those industries about what their work is really like - the routines, pressures, challenges, progression and realities that are rarely discussed in schools.

The aim is not simply to tell people what jobs exist, but to help them understand where they may genuinely fit. For founder and CEO Peter Cayless, the current system has left generations of young people trying to make life-shaping decisions with only fragments of information.

“We’ve normalised asking teenagers to make enormous choices about their future while showing them almost none of the world they’re choosing from,” he said. “Most still don’t know the basics - what industries exist, what opportunities sit inside them, or what working life looks like from one role to the next.

“That creates uncertainty, poor decisions and, ultimately, wasted potential. Working Eye changes that dynamic. AI helps people discover careers that may genuinely suit them, while video helps them understand those careers properly before making decisions. Together, that has the power to change forever the way people find work that fits who they are.”

The £75,000 campaign is intended to help bring the platform to market, expand its growing video library and support rollout into schools and homes. Education figures who have seen the platform early believe it could represent a major shift in how career education is approached.

Clive Barnett, Former HM Inspector, Ofsted, said Working Eye is “the most innovative thing to happen in careers advice for years”.

“There’s simply nothing else like it,” he added.

Mary Keeling, Partner at IBM Consulting, said, “This is the holy grail; it’s the one we’ve been waiting for.”

Students who have used initial versions of the platform have responded strongly to hearing directly from people in different roles, particularly when those accounts challenge expectations or reveal aspects of a job rarely discussed.

The campaign arrives at a time when concerns around job readiness and skills gaps are becoming harder to ignore. As careers become less linear and more subject to change, the need to revisit and rethink direction is only expected to grow. Working Eye is positioning itself not as a replacement for existing systems, but to strengthen them - starting with something simple: letting people see what they are choosing.

The campaign is now live on Indiegogo: www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/working-eye/working-eye-reimagining-careers-education-for-the-21st-century-powered-by-ai