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Included
- College Exploration
- Spike Chat
- Weekly parent update
- Autonomous Spike
How it works
How Spike works
from first notes to deadlines.
One conversation becomes a profile, a college list, essay work, opportunities and a calendar. Here is each step, what is underneath it, and what each plan unlocks.
01
Talk to Spike
There is no intake form and no questionnaire. You talk about your classes, your team, the thing you quit, the school your mother keeps mentioning. Spike asks the next question a good counselor would ask.
- Works by text or voice
- Asks follow-ups in the moment
- Nothing to fill in twice
02
It remembers everything
Every detail lands somewhere. Spike files what you tell it as specific facts rather than a summary of the conversation, so a remark you made in September is still exactly itself in January, not a paraphrase of a paraphrase.
- Specific facts, not vague labels
- Yours to read and edit
- Nothing is re-guessed from a chat log
03
A list built on verified data
Spike compares your profile against 300 colleges whose deadlines, requirements, costs and essay prompts are checked against each school's own website, then explains school by school why it belongs on your list.
- Reach, target and likely, each with a reason
- Real deadlines, not last year's
- Risk as one input, never the verdict
04
It finds what you should apply to
Scholarships and programs you actually qualify for, filtered on your grade, age and eligibility before you ever see them, chosen because they strengthen your particular profile. Then it tells you how and when to apply.
- Eligibility checked before it is shown
- Chosen against the gaps in your story
- Added to the plan with a deadline
05
Essays coached, never written
Spike helps you find what is worth writing about, pressure-tests the idea, and tells you honestly what a draft is communicating. The sentences stay yours, because a college can tell, and because a ghostwritten essay stops being about you.
- From first idea to final read
- Evidence before judgment
- Your material, your words
06
It works while you sleep
Spike does not sit and wait to be opened. It tracks every deadline and test date, works backwards from each one, and looks for what is thin in your profile overnight, so the next thing to do is already waiting in the morning.
- Deadlines turned into dated tasks
- Gaps found before you notice them
- Reminders before work is late
07
Everything, seen together
Your essays, activities, list and profile are read as one application rather than seven separate jobs, which is exactly how a holistic admissions committee reads it. Practice the interview against the same picture.
- Essays checked against your activities
- Fit updated as you change
- School-aware interview practice
Why not just use ChatGPT?
What a general assistant cannot do.
SpikeChatGPT01Built for admissions
An AI built on over 300 colleges' admissions data, real student applications, and real essays.
Trained on the whole internet, including last year's deadlines.
02Works while you sleep
Spike acts autonomously. It fixes gaps in your story, revises your essays while you sleep, and optimizes your strategy until the last second.
Opens when you open it.
03Remembers everything
In admissions, details are crucial. Spike remembers every detail it has ever been told, and uses your entire story to craft an application that is truly yours.
Keeps a few notes on you. It decides which ones.
04Finds what to apply to
Before application season, Spike finds the scholarships you qualify for and the opportunities that strengthen your profile, then tells you how and when to apply.
Suggests programs without checking whether you qualify.
05Holistic Intelligence
Spike sees everything relevant to your situation, and the full picture flows into every decision. A coherent profile is what holistic admissions is reading for.
Sees one conversation at a time.
Underneath
How it is actually built.
- Memory
Your profile is a graph, not a transcript
What you tell Spike is broken into atomic facts and linked to each other, and numbers are stored as numbers rather than sentences. Spike reasons over that structure directly. There is no scoring algorithm sitting between you and the advice.
It can answer about you, not just search what you said.
- Context
One state, read by every part of Spike
Your situation is assembled once on the server and handed to every surface: chat, the essay coach, recommendations, the admissions simulation. No feature builds its own private picture of you, and none of it is passed up from the app where it could go stale.
The essay coach already knows your college list.
- Grounding
College facts come from the college
A federal baseline from the Department of Education for 300 schools, then each school's own admissions pages read directly for deadlines, requirements and current essay prompts, re-checked on a schedule rather than trusted forever.
Last year's deadline is the most common wrong answer in admissions.
- Reasoning
The model is chosen per question
A fast classifier reads each turn first and decides whether it is high-stakes. A quick factual question is answered immediately by a light model; a read of your essay or your list is routed to a deeper one that costs more and takes longer.
Speed where it does not matter, thinking where it does.
What you get
How much of this you want.
Pro
$29/moYour AI college counselor
Everything in Free, plus
- College Exploration
- Spike's Recommendations
- School-by-School Fit Analysis
- Spike Chat
- Voice Counselor
- and 5 more
Holistic
$59/moYour whole application, working together
Everything in Pro, plus
- Voice Counselor
- Essay Reviews
- Interview Simulation
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