What it is
A free career check and a crisis-resource page. Look at one recurring task in three steps and get a plain-language summary with one practical next step. No account or payment required.
Career
One recurring task, what AI is doing with it, what still needs a person, and changes at your workplace.
Cher Ami
A free directory of U.S. and NYC help resources, with provider sources and review dates. Service costs and eligibility vary.
The discipline
Explain the method, keep uncertainty visible, and distinguish observations from predictions.
The thinking behind it
A job is a mix of tasks. AI might help with one part while leaving another with a person. The check examines one recurring task, what it needs from people, and what you have actually observed at your employer. You can repeat it for another task.
The check is a practical checklist, not a validated prediction model. It uses no percentages, occupational scores, or automatic assurances that a license makes a job safe.
The result explains the answers behind it. AI use and staffing changes remain separate observations. You can read the full method and research background on the career page.
What it took to build
Canary is a solo project — designed, written, built, and maintained by one person. The work spans more than code:
- Product & information design — eight pages designed and built, five live after a deliberate scope cut; a career checklist and a visual system from scratch.
- Editorial judgment — reading fast-moving technical and geopolitical news with a calm, plain-language eye, an approach reflected in the career check’s questions about actual workplace changes.
- Data integrity under change — when a live geopolitical event made the site's intelligence stale, the fix was a sourced, dated, cross-page rewrite — not a cosmetic date bump.
- Full deployment — custom domain, hosting, clean-URL structure, email capture, and payment scaffolding, owned end to end.
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Who built it
Canary is built and maintained by Jim — a systems and IT professional with a background spanning federal law enforcement technology, media, and advertising, plus paralegal work at an AmLaw Top 100 firm specializing in labor and employment law. Canary brings that operational, security-minded discipline to a consumer product: accurate, current, and honest about what it does and doesn't know.