frnklyjoin the waitlist →some career stuffis too personal for LinkedIn.too real for Reddit.
frnkly is the group chat you wish you had at work — private, AI-matched, one-on-one peer guidance for the moments you can't post anywhere. no audience. no performance. just chai and a person who's been there.
most people don't need louder advice. they need a quieter place to explain what's actually happening.
frnkly exists because the questions that matter most — the ones about your manager, your money, your next move — are exactly the ones you can't post anywhere.
the AI doesn't give you advice. it finds a person who's been there.
just write it.the way you'd explain it to a friend at 11pm.
no forms. no tags. no dropdown menus asking you to categorise your life. the AI reads nuance from how you write — seniority, domain, situation, and what kind of help you're actually looking for.
we don't match on keywords. we match on lived experience.
same domain. similar seniority. comparable company stage. and the big one — someone who has actually navigated a moment like yours. a PIP that got reversed. an offer weighed against a home loan. a manager relationship that ended well.
these questions are time-sensitive.
a PIP conversation doesn't wait a week. an offer deadline doesn't care about your research timeline. median match time in our beta: under 14 minutes. most first responses come within an hour.
in private beta
the conversation is yours.
no thread. no upvotes. no audience. you talk, they respond when they can, you close the loop when it's done. everything stays between the two of you.
"I'm on a PIP at a large product company. my manager says it's 'just a process' but my skip-level has been cold for weeks. I don't know if I should start interviewing or try to fight it internally. I can't ask anyone at work."
a senior engineer, 9 years in. went through a PIP at a comparable-stage company in 2024. stayed through it. negotiated her exit on her own terms six months later.
"the fact that your skip-level has gone cold is the signal. not the PIP itself. PIPs are sometimes recoverable. skip-level distance is almost never. here's what I'd check this week before you decide anything — and three questions to ask your manager on your next 1:1 that will tell you everything you need to know…"
is this actually private?and who's on the other side?
anonymous by design.
your handle is your identity here. no employer. no real name. no ad model — so no commercial reason for us to know who you are either.
verified, not just signed up.
every peer is vetted. domain, seniority, career stage — confirmed privately. you stay anonymous to each other. we make sure they're real.
your chat. your call.
close it, archive it, delete it. nothing gets indexed. nothing becomes public. what happens on frnkly stays on frnkly.
built for
the specifics.
generic global platforms don't get indian tech. PIP culture inside large MNCs. the startup-vs-stability math when there's a home loan and a joint family in the picture. manager dynamics shaped by hierarchy you can't pretend isn't there. negotiation that's relationship-first, not transactional. frnkly is built by people who've navigated this — and the peer network is too.
honest about who this is for.
- ✓you're in tech, 2+ years in — startup, MNC, or product company.
- ✓you have a question too personal to post anywhere public.
- ✓you want nuanced, situation-specific guidance — not a thread.
- ✓you value privacy over audience.
- —you want generic career advice. there's better free stuff for that.
- —you want public validation or a big audience. we don't do reach.
- —you're hiring, recruiting, or selling. not this platform.
- —you want an AI chatbot to give you answers. frnkly connects you to humans.
early users get priority matching and permanent access to the core experience — even after we introduce paid tiers. we'll tell you before anything changes. no surprises.