The Kaleido Cycle
Users like 15-year-old Lina, 17-year-old Diego in "rebound" mode, 24-year-old Amina in the PAI programme, or 44-year-old Marc reskilling via viamia navigate a six-stage circular journey. From generating "Story cards" and an ESCO-mapped "Skills passport" to exploring an interactive pathway map, trying out "day in the life" simulations, creating an action plan, and safely rebounding from setbacks, the cycle tracks growth through four gentle confidence meters (concern, control, curiosity, and confidence).
Safe, Grounded AI
The provider-agnostic LLM acts as an advisory-only coach that actively surfaces non-traditional options to prevent stereotyping. It grounds answers in curated knowledge bases with visible source links, ensures users control their data, and features automated wellbeing escalation to resources like 147 or ciao.ch. Whether used in parent mode or sharing a summary with a counsellor, Kaleido integrates real data from the ESCO API and opendata.swiss with realistic mock data for LENA apprenticeships, Job-Room listings, events, and mentors.
Key features
Conversational 5-Minute Onboarding
Chat or voice intake uses tappable cards, emojis, and CV parsing to automatically extract skills and fill profiles without tedious forms.
ESCO-Mapped Skills Passport
Visualizes formal and informal skills as a unique constellation, allowing users to export a Swiss-format CV in multiple languages.
Interactive Swiss Pathway Map
A drag-and-drop system map showing personalized routes from school to EBA/EFZ or universities, including adult re-entry bridges and salary data.
Profession Explorer & Simulations
A swipeable card stack of professions enriched with SECO open data, video placeholders, and interactive role-play simulations of a typical workday.
Unified Opportunity Radar
A filterable feed of events, LENA apprenticeships, Job-Room listings, and state services like viamia and LIFT, easily added to region-aware calendars.
Empathetic AI Application Coach
Provides region-aware application toolkits, motivation letter helpers, and interview simulators with friendly feedback and weekly micro-goals.
Safe Mentorship Community
Browse verified mentors from partner programmes via safe group Q&A sessions, ensuring no private one-on-one chats exist for minors.
Seamless Human Counsellor Handoff
Generate a one-tap summary of story highlights, skills, and explored paths via QR code or PDF to instantly prepare for mock appointments.
Rebound Mode & Triage
Empathetic language and immediate concrete options for dropouts, featuring direct links to case management and local guidance offices.
Aggregated Institution View
A separate strategic dashboard for organizations showing anonymized insights like unmet interests and event demand, with small groups suppressed.
Live API & Data Integrations
Built with a clean adapter layer connecting real ESCO and opendata.swiss APIs alongside curated mock JSON directories for scholarships and programmes.
Multilingual & Accessible Design
Supports four national languages plus six AI-translated options, a FALC easy-language toggle, and dark-mode within a WCAG 2.2 AA compliant UI.
What holds for every module.
You never pay for these separately.
Your private cloud in Zurich
Customer data is stored and processed in Zurich. Keys and secrets are kept in a key vault in Zurich.
Encrypted
Your data is encrypted at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS).
Certified infrastructure
On ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC 2/3 certified infrastructure · revFADP · GDPR.
AI that does not train on your data
AI in your processes is Google Gemini via Vertex AI, processed in Zurich, contractually without training on your data.
Your source code
The source code is yours by contract. Cancel any time. Free offboarding within 10 working days, up to four handover meetings and 12 months of e-mail support.