Kollegio AI set out to make college counseling accessible to everyone. A private counselor can cost ten thousand dollars or more, so the students who need guidance most are usually the ones who cannot afford it. The goal was to deliver that same level of help through software, for free, to students anywhere.
Kollegio AI: college counseling for 300K+ students
An AI college counseling platform that gives students the value of a $10,000 coach for free, now serving over 300,000 students.
Challenge
Good college counseling costs thousands of dollars, so most students never get it. Kollegio set out to deliver that guidance to everyone, for free, which meant building AI features that feel personal at a scale of hundreds of thousands of students.
Solution
Sprout's founder joined as founding engineer and built core product features in Next.js and Node.js: personalized college matching, AI essay feedback, scholarship discovery, and direct admission pathways.
Result
Kollegio is Stanford-backed and Reach Capital-funded, and now serves more than 300,000 students.
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Background
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What we built
Sprout's founder joined Kollegio as founding engineer and built the core product in Next.js and Node.js. The platform matches students to colleges based on their profile, gives AI feedback on application essays, surfaces scholarships they qualify for, and maps out direct admission pathways. Each feature had to feel personal while running reliably for a very large student base.
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Outcome
Kollegio is Stanford-backed and funded by Reach Capital, and it is now trusted by more than 300,000 students and families, by its own count. It is a clear example of how Sprout builds AI products that hold up under real scale, not just in a demo.
Our AI college-matching features were shipped fast and clean. What impressed me most was how the code held up as we scaled past hundreds of thousands of students without a rewrite.
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