Career Reconstruction Lab
YOUR STORY IS
THE STARTING POINT.
Free AI career tools built on behavioral science -- for people with records, gaps, and situations the standard resume advice ignores. t.ROY, your AI guide, walks you through every step.
A decade of direct service. 150+ research citations. Free, always.
WHERE DO YOU START?
Three doors, one system.
Job Seeker
Build a career story you can defend.
Upload your resume. Get a Career Intelligence Report in 10 minutes. No signup, no credit card. t.ROY guides you through the whole thing.
Start The Forge →Partner Organization
Better clients. Measurable outcomes.
Send your participants through The Forge before their first appointment. You start with better information. They start with a plan.
Learn About Partnering →Returning Home
Your plan survived the gate.
Started a career plan inside? The Mini Forge gives you a 6-character code. Enter it here and pick up exactly where you left off.
Import Your Plan →THE STEEL MAN SYSTEM
t.ROY guides you through every step of the Forge and Refinery. Troy steps in when you want a human. The system is built so the work compounds.
Your experience, your barriers, your goals
THE FORGE
FREENarrative reconstruction. Understand your story, surface your strengths, map your barriers.
No signup. No credit card. 10 minutes.
THE REFINERY
FREETroy -- When You Want a Person
Human review, real attention, honest strategy.
t.ROY
Your AI guide -- on every page of the Forge and Refinery
THE TOOLS
THE FORGE
FREENarrative reconstruction in 10 minutes. Not a resume scanner. A tool that helps you understand your story and tell it strong.
- Build a strong base resume -- upload or guided, yours to download
- Behavioral-science analysis of your strengths
- Career paths matched to your situation
- Career Intelligence Report -- yours to keep
- No signup, no credit card
THE REFINERY
FREEYour career workspace. Five tools, all pre-loaded with what the Forge learned about you.
- Application Tailor -- aim your resume at a specific job
- Disclosure Planner -- when and how to talk about your record
- Interview Practice -- AI mock interviews
- Job Board -- fair-chance employers
- Resources -- verified local support
REAL RESULTS
Troy's human resume service has been placing people for over a decade. Platform outcomes from live pilots are coming -- they'll show up here as they happen.
"Troy's turnaround getting my resume cleaned up and back to me was absolutely astonishing. Not to mention jaw dropping after I saw what he did. Thank you very much Troy for everything."
Dave Baron -- Google Review
"Turned my resume from a bland resume and gave it life. They used the Steel Man approach and got me back into the workforce after years of gaps."
Berto R -- Google Review
Troy's resume service has been placing justice-impacted workers for a decade. See case studies →
BUILT ON SCIENCE
This isn't a resume template with a chatbot bolted on. The Forge is built on peer-reviewed research from six scientific traditions.
Desistance Theory
Maruna (2001): Successful reentry requires a redemption narrative -- a coherent story connecting past and future self. The Forge surfaces that story.
Stages of Change
Prochaska (1992): Interventions matched to readiness stage produce 2-3x better outcomes. The Forge assesses your stage before it gives advice.
Cognitive Transformations
Giordano (2002): Four cognitive hooks predict desistance -- openness to change, hooks for change, envisioning a new self, devaluing old patterns. The Forge creates these hooks.
Structural Barriers
Pager (2003): A record reduces callback rates by 50-64%. The Forge addresses this directly -- not by hiding the record but by building around it.
150+ peer-reviewed citations. Auditable AI. Read the full methodology →
"The system broke people's ability to tell their own story, then blamed them for not having one."
Incarceration damages the hippocampus -- the part of the brain that turns scattered experiences into a coherent narrative. That's peer-reviewed neuroscience, not a metaphor. The Forge is the tool the system should have built.
Every tool is designed for someone on a cracked phone, in a library, with 10 minutes. If it works for them, it works for everyone.
YOUR FREE REPORT TAKES 10 MINUTES.
No credit card. No commitment. Just upload your resume and see what t.ROY finds.
Start Free Report Now →Already have a Refinery account? Go to your dashboard →