Navya Tuteja鈥檚 mom is hard of hearing, but when she was younger, she didn鈥檛 really understand what that meant.
But as she got older, she realized that at work, her mother’s disability 鈥渨asn鈥檛 visible enough for people to take seriously, and she never got the accommodations she needed,鈥� Tuteja said.
Now a rising senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia, Tuteja observed a similar pattern at school. Students who approach problems differently were 鈥渓ooked down upon or didn鈥檛 get as much support as they needed, because their disability wasn鈥檛 visible, and they were often seen as less capable,鈥� she said.
Those experiences prompted Tuteja to create Raaha, a free artificial intelligence tool that assists neurodivergent job seekers in determining whether a potential job will fit the way they work. Raaha means 鈥減ath鈥� in Hindi, Tuteja said, and the product鈥檚 tagline is, 鈥淔ind your way.鈥�
鈥淚’ve worked with lots of neurodivergent, like, students and families, and I think one thing I kept noticing is getting the opportunity wasn’t necessarily the hard part, but it was ending up in an environment that isn’t built for how your brain works,鈥� Tuteja said.
While several jobs platforms detail salary, location and benefits, Tuteja said it鈥檚 much less clear whether the work environment will be a good fit.
The free site asks users to paste a job description and take a short work-style quiz.
The data is processed by Anthropic’s Claude AI, using a prompt Tuteja created with the help of neurodiversity specialists.
The site then generates personalized results.
Factors such as tasks, task structure, work pace, communication, work environment and schedule predictability are all scored.
The project has been in the works for a year and launched about a month ago. So far, over 200 people have used the site.
鈥淩aaha obviously begins with neurodivergent job seekers, because they bear the greatest cost when information is missing,鈥� Tuteja said. 鈥淓veryone deserves to know what a workplace will actually be like.鈥�
The tool is web-based now, but it鈥檚 pending App Store approval, Tuteja said.
Tuteja recently received an email from someone who said they have ADHD and came across Raaha. They were searching for a computer science job, and the site 鈥渞eally helped them figure out if it鈥檒l suit their environment.鈥�
鈥淲hat I’ve learned is job descriptions contain a lot of hidden information,鈥� Tuteja said. 鈥淲hen a company says something like self-starter, like or fast-paced environment, they have consistent meanings.鈥�
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