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Okay, Next: press kit

Everything you need to write about or feature Okay, Next. Questions, interviews, or anything not here: hello@okaynext.app.

The one-liner

Okay, Next is the plan after the plot twist: a short, ordered guide for the chaotic weeks after a layoff.

Boilerplate

Getting laid off triggers a dozen ticking clocks at once (health coverage, unemployment, severance deadlines, runway) at the exact moment you have the least capacity to think clearly. Okay, Next turns that chaos into a short, ordered plan: what to do tonight, this week, and over the next 90 days, with plain-English guides and AI tools built around your specific situation. It's free to start, and built to work itself out of a job.

The basics

Product

Okay, Next

Tagline

The plan after the plot twist.

What

A web app for navigating life after a layoff

Status

Live, available now at okaynext.app, on desktop and mobile web

Pricing

Free to start; the full plan is $24.99 once for 90 days, no subscription (or $9.99/mo, $49.99/yr for a longer search)

Web

okaynext.app

Press

hello@okaynext.app

Story angles

Three ways in, depending on your beat. Happy to go deeper on any of them, or to give a quick quote on what workers are facing right now.

THE DATA

The layoff numbers, sourced and current

A monthly, cited snapshot of the job market (monthly cuts, the AI-attributed share, time-to-fill, long-term unemployment) plus benefit duration and waiting weeks for all 50 states. Free to embed, updates itself.

THE SERVICE

Where laid-off people can actually go

A genuinely free, no-account, no-PII resource for the admin side: severance review windows, COBRA vs. the Marketplace, unemployment filing by state with the official portals. The thing worth linking in a ‘what to do if you’re laid off’ piece.

THE STORY

A website built to work itself out of a job

Most products optimize for retention. This one is designed to make itself unnecessary: help someone through the layoff, then get out of the way. There is also a free, playable game about getting laid off.

Data for your story

Current figures, all sourced. Cite freely; a link to okaynext.app/layoff-statistics is appreciated but not required. Numbers as of September 2026.

22%

of this year's announced job cuts cite AI, still the No. 1 reason for 2026, though restructuring led in August. August's 52,881 cuts were up from July's two-year low but the lowest August since 2022, and hiring plans were the strongest for an August since 2022.

~39 days

is a typical time to fill a role now, down from 44 a year ago. Faster, but still slow: the silence after you apply is the process, not a verdict on you.

10%

of postings are remote, but they pull 46% of all applications. Flexible roles draw nearly five times the crowd, so cast wider than remote-only.

27.0%

of people out of work have been searching 27+ weeks, about 1.9 million, up from 25.5% in July. A long search is common this cycle, not a personal failing.

Sources: Challenger, Gray & Christmas · Bureau of Labor Statistics · LinkedIn Global State of Remote and Hybrid Work, via Fortune · SHRM Benchmarking. Full links on the live page.

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Soundbites

Attributable to the Okay, Next team, or on background. Reach us for a fresh, tailored quote.

“Getting laid off starts a dozen clocks at once, at the exact moment you have the least capacity to think clearly. We turn that into a checklist you can actually finish.”

“The market is rough right now, but it isn’t a verdict on any one person. The numbers make that concrete, and knowing them changes how you plan.”

“Everything you need to not get burned is free forever. Paid tools exist; nobody needs them to handle the essentials.”

“We're not in the app store on purpose. Most states reset benefit amounts every January or July, and a web fix ships the same hour we verify it, not after a review queue. A stale dollar figure is worse than none.”