For superintendents and principals

Start where the deadline is.
Stay for the whole arc.

Senior year has a hard deadline and, in more states, a legal requirement. GPS for Life meets it this semester, then reaches down to middle school, where belief in what's possible is actually formed.

The four questions your board will ask

Does it work?Measured against your own prior-year baseline, reported by an independent referee. Not our dashboard.
Is student data safe?You choose where it lives, down to your own hardware. Never sold, never advertised against, never used to train a model.
What does it cost?Pricing on request, per student per year, paid by the school. Families never pay. Foundations can cover districts that can't.
What does it ask of staff?A roster export. No new data entry. It gives counselors time back rather than taking it.

The requirement is already in the building.

Four states now tie financial-aid filing to graduation or publish completion rates. Caseloads don't allow one-to-one follow-through at that scale.

ConnecticutCLASS OF 2027No diploma without a completed FAFSA, state alternative, or signed waiver.
New JerseyCLASSES OF 2026–2027Counselors may authorize waivers for students whose parents are unavailable.
New YorkEVERY SENIORCompletes FAFSA, TAP, or a waiver, with school notification.
MassachusettsPUBLISHED RATESDistrict completion rates are published.

Sources verified September 2026.

Starting is small

A roster, not an IT project.

Student identifier, grade and school, which most districts can export today. From that alone, on day one, every student has:

  • What college actually costs her familyNet price by income range across 6,273 institutions. Never sticker price.
  • Every deadline that carries moneySourced for every state and DC. Where a state publishes none, we say so rather than guess.
  • Scholarships she can actually getA curated, dated catalog, re-verified daily. Expired entries are removed, not left stale.
  • FAFSA, before she sits downWho must take part, what each needs, and a private route when parents can't. That route is invisible to parent accounts.

Where your data lives

You decide, before anything else.

Four options, from shared hosting to your own hardware. Each role sees only what it should, enforced by the database, not by the screen.

TIER 1 · OPERATING TODAYHosted by usShared infrastructure, separated per district. You control which categories are shared and can withdraw any.
TIER 2Your database, your keysWithdraw the key and the data is unreadable to everyone, including us.
TIER 3In your cloudRuns inside your account. Network and audit logs are yours.
TIER 4On your hardwareOpen-weights models on district machines. No student data leaves the building.

The pilot

One semester. Measured against your own baseline.

One or two high schools, grades 11–12, starting in FAFSA season, with your counseling lead as sponsor. Paid per student by the school. Families are never billed. If you stop, the records are not deleted.

  • PRIMARY MEASURECompletions and documented waivers
  • SECONDARYDeadlines met · counselor hours saved
  • THENExtend down to grades 6–10, where the thread begins