Approve your evidence
Upload PDF or Word, or paste your notes. Review your projects, answer the few questions that change an interpretation, and approve the literal facts. They are the only personal evidence Aimvane uses.
For engineers deciding what to take responsibility for next
AI is making answers cheap.
Aim is what’s scarce.
The highest seat your own evidence points to, and the assignment that would prove you can hold it.
Find your direction
No account needed · Saved in this browser · You choose when anything is sent for AI analysis · What leaves your device
$171,270 vs $104,110
Architectural and engineering managers vs mechanical engineers, median annual wage, May 2025 (BLS)
Architectural and engineering managers earn about two-thirds more than mechanical engineers.
Aimvane’s reading: the market pays for held decisions.
Occupation medians, not an offer or a cause. See the evidence
Recent workforce movesDropbox, Microsoft and eBay · announced in the past 30 days
Significant company announcements, with the figures and sources behind them.
Dropbox announces a workforce reduction
About 9% of its workforce
The company announced cuts across its global workforce. Its filing does not identify how many engineering roles are affected.
Sources checkedMicrosoft offers voluntary buyouts
About 60,000 eligible employees
Eligibility for an exit offer, not confirmed departures. The offer covers participating teams in four countries; Microsoft confirmed the eligibility count to GeekWire.
Sources checkedeBay announces a workforce reduction
About 9% of its workforce
A global reduction planned to be substantially complete by the end of Q1 2027, subject to local requirements and business needs. This is an announced plan, not a completed-cut count.
Sources checked
Build your next move before you need it.
Plan my next move These announcements don’t establish your role’s risk or show that AI caused the cuts.
Evidence behind the readingPay, demand and automation: each with its source, its date and what it does not show.
From public dataAimvane’s reading
Pay sits where the decisions are
$171,270 vs $104,110
Median annual wage in May 2025: architectural and engineering managers, $171,270; mechanical engineers, $104,110. Aimvane reads the gap as the market paying for held decisions rather than for analysis alone.
What it does not show: Occupation medians, not an offer or a cause: management is one kind of decision seat, and these statistics do not measure technical release authority on its own.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook: Architectural and Engineering Managers (pay, May 2025)May 2025 data · retrieved 2026-10-29
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook: Mechanical Engineers (pay, May 2025)May 2025 data · retrieved 2026-10-29
An agency’s estimateProjectionAimvane’s reading
The physical build-out is real
485 TWh → 950 TWh
The IEA estimates that data centres used about 485 TWh of electricity in 2025 and projects about 950 TWh by 2030, roughly double. Aimvane’s reading: the cooling, power and hardware behind that load are engineered, commissioned and kept running by people accountable for them.
What it does not show: An estimate and a projection, not a forecast of jobs. The IEA describes its central case as close to the trajectory set out in its 2025 report.
- International Energy Agency, Key Questions on Energy and AI — Executive summaryApril 2026 · retrieved 2026-10-29
A vendor’s own claimAimvane’s reading
The analysis layer is being automated
Agents inside hardware workflows
Engineering software now ships AI agents that, in its maker’s own description, carry out engineering work inside hardware development workflows. Aimvane reads this as the fault line: seats valued for analysis throughput are substituted, while seats valued for judgment, accountability and release authority are amplified.
What it does not show: A vendor’s description of its own product, paraphrased, not an independent measurement; the substitution reading is an inference that Aimvane checks per destination against cited sources.
- Flow Engineering, Agents have reached hardwareJune 2026 · retrieved 2026-10-29
No seat is safe from AI, and Aimvane calls none “AI-proof”. It checks each destination against cited sources and shows what would change the reading.
HOW IT WORKS
From approved evidence to a seat you chose on purpose.
One guided flow. A seat is a role defined by the decisions it holds. You control the facts and the choice; the market evidence stays inspectable.
See your highest seats, ranked twice
Aimvane derives up to three destinations from your approved evidence and researches each from public sources, without your résumé. Each is ranked twice, side by side: how good the seat is (what you’d get to decide and sign off, how long it holds up, how high it goes) and how far your evidence is from its missing rung, the next responsibility your evidence does not yet show. You choose; Aimvane never folds the two into one number.
Earn the missing rung
See which decision your evidence does not yet show, choose an assignment that earns it, aim it at a real open role if you like, and record what would invalidate the path. Aimvane uses your résumé lines word for word; it does not add experience you did not approve.
Want a person to review your path? Apply for a free Path Review during the open test