A new career development platform is tackling what its founders describe as one of the most overlooked challenges in the modern workforce: helping professionals document and communicate their ongoing accomplishments between job transitions.
ViaSkill, founded by longtime engineering leader Grace Cupat, combines artificial intelligence with structured tracking tools to help workers capture their projects, extract relevant skills, and build dynamic portfolios that evolve with their careers.
“In order to know where you’re going, you have to know where you are and where you’ve been. ViaSkill helps you connect the dots, own your story, and move forward with clarity,” says Grace Cupat, Founder and CEO.
The platform addresses a common workplace frustration: talented professionals who struggle to articulate their value, especially during critical moments like performance reviews or job searches. Many workers find themselves scrambling to remember accomplishments or lacking the language to effectively communicate their skills.
“I didn’t set out to build another job search tool,” says Cupat. “I built ViaSkill to help people remember where they’ve been, understand where they are, and walk into their next opportunity with clarity. Most people aren’t lacking talent—they’re lacking tools that reflect it.”
The career development platform offers several integrated features designed to work together. The Project Tracker captures ongoing work and uses AI to identify resume-ready skills. A Dynamic Portfolio Generator transforms tracked accomplishments into professional presentations for sharing with recruiters or mentors. The Resume Generator creates tailored resumes from real projects and experience, optimized for applicant tracking systems.
Additionally, the platform includes a SKILDprint Assessment that provides behavioral insights and suggests career roles based on work style. An AI Career Companion feature is currently in development to offer personalized guidance.
Early users have responded positively to the platform’s capabilities. “The biggest thing is the Resume AI Summary works better than any of the previous ones I’ve used! It can actually parse jobs, descriptions, and education properly, where larger companies fail at that,” says H. Kim, a UX Designer using the platform.
Brian B., a Full Stack Developer, found value in multiple features: “The SKILDprint assessment was compact and straightforward, and the insights were surprisingly accurate—it even recommended roles I’ve actually held before. The Project Tracker is also visually appealing, and seeing the skills I gained made me feel so much better about how I’ve been spending my time.”
The founding team brings complementary expertise to the venture. Cupat spent over two decades building software teams and mentoring professionals before creating ViaSkill. Michael Mizuno has led large-scale AI and cloud infrastructure initiatives across regulated industries—including fintech, healthcare, and SaaS—building scalable systems that align technical innovation with business outcomes.
“We’re not just solving for the job hunter—we’re solving for the career itself. ViaSkill gives people a structured, proactive way to manage their growth over time, rather than scrambling to update a resume only when a new opportunity or crisis hits. Yes, we have an AI resume generator—but it’s just one part of a platform designed to make your entire career visible, not just your job titles,” explains Mizuno.
Julia Hendricks has driven enterprise growth through data-led SaaS sales strategies, overseeing over $40 million in revenue and opening scalable channels for customer acquisition and market expansion. She sees the platform addressing a deeper issue than just job searching.
“The cost of not having a system like this isn’t just missing a promotion,” says Hendricks. “It’s internal. It’s watching people lose confidence in themselves because they’ve never had the tools to reflect their actual value.”
The platform’s development stems from Cupat’s observations during her engineering leadership career, where she witnessed capable professionals undervalue themselves due to lacking clear ways to track and express their progress. This experience shaped the platform’s focus on continuous career development rather than episodic job searching.
“Most people aren’t falling short because they lack talent—they’re falling short because they lack tools to make their growth visible. We built ViaSkill to close that gap—not with gimmicks, but with structure, empathy, and clarity,” Cupat notes.
The founders position their professional development platform as addressing invisible work and self-advocacy, the emotional impact of imposter syndrome, and the need for human-centered AI in career empowerment. They aim to reframe professional success beyond traditional job hunting metrics.
“Everyone deserves a system that remembers what they’ve done—even when they forget,” says Cupat, emphasizing the platform’s role in helping professionals maintain a comprehensive record of their achievements.
As the platform continues development, the team focuses on building awareness around the broader mission of structured career growth. They view ViaSkill as both a practical tool and part of a larger movement toward empowering professionals to take control of their career narratives through systematic documentation and reflection.
