A college student spends the summer not fetching coffee or sitting through meetings, but labeling edge cases for an AI model, running evaluations, and helping shape how a system behaves. No office. No title. No single employer. Just dozens of paid tasks, stacked into something that looks a lot like experience.
That shift, according to Drafted co-founder and CEO Andrew Kozlovski, is already underway.
“The core mission of the company in the beginning was to solve the entry level hiring crisis,” Kozlovski told Refresh Miami. What he found was a system that wasn’t just inefficient, but broken. The average graduate takes six to nine months to land a first job. Of those who do, more than half end up underemployed.
At the same time, early-stage startups struggle to hire at all. “We would post a job to our career page and get zero applicants,” he said. Meanwhile, thousands of candidates pile into a handful of brand-name roles with slim odds.
Drafted’s initial product tried to fix that mismatch. Students create a single profile that pulls in everything from a video resume to LinkedIn. Employers upload a job description, and the platform surfaces top matches automatically. A startup in Miami, for example, can recruit from top universities without relying on traditional pipelines.
But over the past year, Kozlovski and his team started seeing something else emerge: a new category of work tied to AI.
“What we saw is there’s this new job category that opened up in the last twenty four months,” he said. “It’s contracting for AI work, data labeling, annotation, all of these tasks that models need to improve.”
The common narrative focuses on specialists, but the reality is broader. Training AI systems requires input across languages and everyday scenarios. And there’s a large, underused workforce ready to do it.
“There’s four million students finishing university every year,” Kozlovski said. “That means there’s sixteen million college educated or in process students that can contribute to this effort.”
That insight led Drafted to expand its platform. Instead of only focusing on job placement, it now offers “microjobs”, short, paid tasks tied directly to real AI systems. Students can start early, build experience over time, and transition into internships or full-time roles.
“The way that we’re thinking about it internally is these micro jobs are kind of what the internship was a decade ago,” said Kozlovski, who co-founded Drafted with Rodrigo Pecchio.
The company is now working with AI partners to onboard initial cohorts, with plans to scale. Students from schools like USC and Berkeley are already opting in, in some cases choosing this path over traditional internships. Instead of one role, they complete multiple tasks tied to real systems.
Drafted itself is still early. The company has raised around $300,000 to date through a patchwork of family and friends and is currently part of Techstars, with plans to open a formal seed round after demo day.
There’s growing anxiety around what AI means for entry-level roles. Kozlovski doesn’t dismiss it, but sees a shift instead of a collapse.
“There’s millions and millions of jobs and tasks in this space,” he said. “It gives students an opportunity to get inside of how these systems work, and that in itself is experience.”
The first line on a resume may no longer be a company name. It might be a set of contributions to systems most people never see, but rely on every day.
Pictured above: Drafted co-founders, left to right, Rodrigo Pecchio and Andrew Kozlovski.
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