Vanilla — a coach that knows you

What Vanilla can do

• Explain your score — ask "why is my score 620?" and it walks the actual dimension breakdown, then tells you which lever moves it most.
• Plan your week — turn a goal ("crack a backend role by December") into concrete courses, assessments, and application targets.
• Practice interviews — mock interview sessions with feedback.
• Review applications — sanity-check a job fit before you apply.
• Nudge you — on your dashboard, Vanilla surfaces the next best action ("finish module 5 tonight and you'll cross 850"), and the floating bubble drops a short stage-aware prompt a few times a day.

Sessions where you set a goal earn 50 XP each — the coach is part of the progress loop, not outside it.

Live artifacts in the chat

When an answer is better shown than described, Vanilla renders an interactive widget inline — a score breakdown, a skill-gap chart, a comparison table, a plan you can tick through. Artifacts stay with the conversation and survive a reload, and the chat you are in is kept in the URL, so refreshing does not throw you into a blank thread.

Memory that compounds

Vanilla learns you over time. It remembers your goals, your preferences, and what you've already discussed, so the tenth conversation is sharper than the first. Its context comes from your platform activity — courses, assessments, applications — so advice is grounded in what you've actually done, not what you claim.

Where to find it

• In the app — the full chat at app.growthcharters.com/user/vanilla, plus the floating coach across the dashboard.
• On the website — a lighter version of Vanilla answers product questions bottom-right on growthcharters.com.
• In Claude or ChatGPT — connect over MCP and talk to Vanilla from there; see Claude & ChatGPT.

Privacy

Coach conversations are private to you. They are never shown to employers and never appear on your public card. See Security & privacy.