AI has collapsed the cost of appearing competent.
Resumes are generated in seconds. Case studies are fabricated overnight. Cover letters written by LLMs are indistinguishable from the ones written by hand. Every surface-level talent signal has lost all meaning.
But the proof of your best work? The things only a handful of people witnessed?
It lives in company messages or Slacks buried thousands deep. In emails locked inside an inbox you lost access to the day you left. Or in the fading memory of a manager who just gave their two weeks notice.
In a world where anyone can look great on paper, the only thing that matters is what you can prove. And for most people, the answer is, sadly: very little.
Your career capital is disappearing.
You have spent years doing the work. Real work. The kind that compounds quietly. Shipping products, closing deals, rebuilding broken systems, making calls that saved the quarter. That effort adds up to something - career capital.
But unlike financial capital, there is no balance sheet for it. No ledger or system that captures what you have built, what it is worth, or how it grows. Worse, it is trapped. Locked inside companies that have no incentive to help you take it with you. The moment you leave, the evidence stays behind.
And the clock is ticking. Every credible forecast points to the same conclusion: AI will restructure or eliminate a staggering share of white-collar roles within this decade.
Meanwhile, the proof is already slipping away. Your manager who championed your biggest launch just accepted a role across the country. The client who called your work the best they had ever seen? That email is in an inbox you will never open again.
The question will not be where did you work?
It will be what can you prove you are capable of?
There is exactly one thing AI cannot fake.
A real human being, putting their name on a specific claim about your work.
Not a skill badge. A named person, with their own reputation on the line, verifying that you did what you say you did.
That is the signal. The only one that holds up when everything else can be faked. Right now, there is no system on earth designed to capture it.
LinkedIn will not get you there. It was built for visibility, not credibility. A feed of self-reported titles and unvalidated claims with no proof layer underneath.
You don't need more visibility. You need validated proof.
That is Trove.
Your Career Capital.
Trove captures your real work, verifies it through the people who witnessed it, and turns it into something you own. Forever.
Not a feed. Not a content platform. A living career balance sheet. You have spent years building equity with your time and talent. Trove makes it visible, portable, and yours.
Not just what you built, but the decisions you made, the impact you drove, and the judgment you showed when it mattered. Verified by the people who were there.
Why I am building this.
I have been that person. Sitting across the table, knowing that what I did mattered, but having no way to show it. My best work never fit neatly into a bullet point on a resume. It never did me justice.
That is why Trove exists.
Your career is the most valuable asset you will ever build. It is time it had a record.
Pete and the Trove Team