An AI-powered solution was launched for displaced workers and recent college graduates in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) area.

Talent Capital

Talent Capital, a regional career services initiative of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, was launched in Washington, D.C., by Mayor Muriel Bowser and partners in October 2025, according to a press release.

The new program comes after over 317,000 federal employees lost their jobs in 2025, with defense, agriculture, and treasury departments taking the hardest hits, per Federal News Network. In the DMV area, 34,100 federal employees lost their jobs from January to September 2025, according to Bethesda Magazine.

Furthermore, college graduates have also been challenged in the job market with fewer entry-level positions available, CNBC mentions. Youth unemployment is sometimes an “early indicator that the economy is slowing down or maybe even heading towards a recession,” according to Anders Humlum, assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago, per the outlet.

TalentCapital.AI

Talent Capital is looking to create more hopeful employment outcomes through its technology platform (TalentCapital.AI) that offers free AI-powered job matching, training, reskilling, and career navigation services, according to a press release.

Philip Minardi, co-founder of tech platform BuildWithin — which powers the TalentCapital.AI website — went into detail about AI’s functionality for users during a CES 2026 session titled “Future-Ready: Shaping the Workforce in the AI Era” held on Jan. 5 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in the West Hall.

“We partnered with the government of D.C, the government of Maryland, and the government of Virginia to ask the question, ‘How can we use artificial intelligence to help the people that need it most? Not only find jobs, but find training, find networking, find entrepreneur support. And how can we leverage artificial intelligence to be a catalyst for that endeavor,” Minardi told the audience.

“It’s a front door that gives ’em a one-stop shop to come in to have conversations with a squad of over 20 agents and get to understand, using AI, what really should they be doing with their career. No longer are we talking about just chatbots or job boards or kind of phase one versions of artificial intelligence. We’re going deeper through the use of agents and through TalentCapital.ai,” he added.

Within 24 hours, more than 60,000 residents from across the region had interacted with the agents, and within nearly two weeks, almost 84,000 matches had taken place, Minardi noted.