About Bodha App

Bodha App began from a personal question — what if changing careers didn’t have to mean starting over?

A few years before the pandemic, I was already rethinking my own path. Then COVID happened, and it became clear how fragile work could be. Many people in hands-on roles suddenly lost income — not for lack of talent, but because the world shifted. It made me wonder: could people find new directions without giving up their identity or lifestyle?

What if we looked beyond job titles and résumés — and started from who people are?

Real-life strengths that rarely show up on a résumé

  • Solo travel: resilience, cultural awareness, self-reliance, navigating uncertainty.
  • Community organizing / volunteering: coordination, facilitation, empathy, leadership under constraints.
  • Parenting or caregiving: time management, emotional regulation, negotiation, prioritization.
  • Hobbies & routines (gaming, cooking, gardening, fitness): strategic thinking, systems awareness, patience, iteration, discipline.
  • Making & tinkering (DIY, open-source contributions): problem decomposition, documentation, learning agility, collaboration.

These align with research in self-determination theory, positive psychology, and career adaptability — fields showing that curiosity, meaning, and flexibility are strong predictors of long-term success.

Back then, this wasn’t an app idea. It was a research project — to connect everyday behaviors, personality patterns, and emerging work trends, so people could see how their lived experiences translate into new possibilities.

Fast forward four years, AI made that vision actionable. I realized I didn’t need to tell people what to do — I could build something that helps them reflect, connect the dots, and design their own next steps.

What Bodha App is (and isn’t)

  • Not a job-matching quiz or fortune teller.
  • It is a guided reflection space that uses AI as a facilitator.
  • Built on a simplified design-thinking journey: understand yourself → define your focus → explore possibilities → test small, real-world experiments.
  • Independent and evolving, with privacy-minded practices and no need for personal identifiers.

Belief: Clarity starts when we begin to understand ourselves differently.

— Rohan