How it works — Guide to Uni

Who it's built by

Experts matched to you — not assigned from a pool.

Reviewers are chosen for your field, your target schools, and your goal. Three perspectives sit behind every guide, and each signs off before anything reaches you.

Ex-admissions staffPeople who have read applications from inside universities like the ones you're targeting. They know what an admissions file actually weighs, what it quietly ignores, and what an honest read of your odds looks like.

Ex-MBB consultantsCareer strategy and return-on-investment rigour. They pressure-test the salary projections and payback maths in your guide the way they would a client's business case — and flag the numbers that don't survive it.

Insiders in your fieldPeople who hire and work in the industry you're aiming for. They check whether a programme's promises match what employers actually screen for — and whether its graduates really land where the brochure says.

And yes — AI is on the team. We're proudly AI-augmented and honest about what that means: research AI we built for this work does the heavy gathering, going deeper and faster than any human team could. The experts direct it, check every claim, add the sources, and make the final call. Nothing ships on the model's word alone.

Our experts' backgrounds include

UAL…and more

All marks belong to their respective owners; no affiliation or endorsement is implied.

How a guide gets made

From a 3-minute quiz to a fully-sourced portal.

Six stages, each with a clear owner. The AI gathers; the experts judge; you get a guide where every number can be traced back to where it came from.

Your assessment

A 3-minute quiz — background, goal, budget, constraints — plus your CV. That's everything we need to start; no calls, no forms that take a weekend.

⏱ About 3 minutes

Expert screening of 120+ programmes

Specialists direct our research AI across 120+ programmes relevant to your profile — filtering on entry requirements you actually meet, true cost against your budget, and graduate outcomes that match your goal.

Deep comparison

Up to 12 programmes make the cut, and each gets a full sub-site inside your portal: true all-in cost, who you'd study with, where graduates actually go — and the downsides, stated plainly.

Evidence behind every number

Every figure is linked to a primary source — a tuition page, a salary survey, a visa rulebook — collected on the Evidence tab of your guide and honestly dated, so you can check our work instead of trusting it.

Expert review

Your matched reviewers go through the guide claim by claim — the verdict, the odds, the maths, the shortlist. Anything that doesn't hold up gets reworked. Nothing ships on the model's word alone.

Your guide goes live

A private link, in English and Chinese — for you, your parents, anyone you choose to share it with. Not a PDF: a living site you return to all season.

⏱ Typically ready in ~48 hours · yours for 1 year

Realistically: most guides are live about 48 hours after your assessment. Complex multi-country or bespoke builds can take a few days longer — we'll tell you upfront, not after.

Independence

Why we take no commissions.

Traditional agents are paid placement commissions by universities — so their advice serves that contract, and they will never tell you not to go. We removed the conflict instead of managing it.

Paid only by you

Zero university commission, ever. No partner schools, no placement targets, no referral fees. The only outcome we're paid for is your decision being a good one.

One flat, public fee

From USD 3,000, published on our pricing page. No negotiation, no per-school charges, no hidden extras — the price you see is the price every family pays.

Auditable by design

Independence you can verify, not just believe: every recommendation in your guide traces to the Evidence tab, where each figure links to its primary source.

See it, don't take our word

The best argument for the method is a finished guide.

Meet Chen's guide.

The sample guide is a real, anonymised portal built for Chen — a bank analyst weighing a move into AI. Open it and judge the method yourself: the verdict, the shortlist, the panel, and every number's source.

Open the sample guide → Or hear it from clients — read their stories.

Advice you can audit.