Navya Tuteja lives in Fairfax County, and growing up, she watched her mom struggle at work. Her mom is hard of hearing, but that disability wasn't something people could see — so she never got the accommodations she needed.
That stuck with Tuteja. And once she got to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, she started noticing the same pattern with classmates — kids whose brains just work differently, overlooked because their challenges weren't obvious either.
So the rising senior decided to build something about it. It's called Raaha — Hindi for "path" — a free AI tool designed to help neurodivergent job seekers figure out if a job is actually going to work for them before they take it.
Here's how it works. Users paste in a job description, take a quick work-style quiz, and Anthropic's Claude AI — guided by a prompt Tuteja built with neurodiversity specialists — scores things like pace, structure, and communication style to flag whether that environment is a good match.
It's only been live about a month, and already more than 200 people have used it. One user with ADHD said it helped them figure out whether a computer science job was really the right fit. Right now it's web-only, but Tuteja says an app version is in the works.