In brief
Career guidance for every student, from Grade 8 to matric.
Reorganise the work. Keep the human.
A private career companion for every student, a console that lets your counsellor see the whole cohort at a glance, and the Family tier included free for every family at your school. R45 per student per year.
Why this matters
The problem
South Africa averages roughly 200 students to every career counsellor. At no-fee schools it's worse. At every density, structured per-student guidance is mathematically impossible. Schools aren't failing at career guidance. The math of one adult to two hundred students has been failing for two decades.
Key takeaways
The product
Career guidance for every student, from Grade 8 to matric.
Who it's for
Students — Grade 8 through matric, with a private companion on their phone
Two products, one backend.
Students get a private, longitudinal companion on their phones that handles the time-consuming parts: exploration, mark trajectory, bursary tracking, application drafting. The counsellor gets a desktop console that does what only a human can support. On Monday morning the console sorts the cohort by attention severity: who's drifting, who's on track, who's quietly excelling. A six-hour weekly review becomes a 25-minute scan. Nudge fifteen students who fit three bursaries in one click. The quarterly board pack builds itself. And every student gets the R99/month Family tier free.
Built for
Who it's for
- Students — Grade 8 through matric, with a private companion on their phone
- Parents — a private parent thread, separate from the student's
- Schools and counsellors — cohort visibility and intervention tools
- Universities and bursary funders
Why Arc
Why it's different
Arc doesn't replace the counsellor. It hands them back the hours the admin was eating, so the adult does the highest-value part: noticing the kid who's drifting, and stepping in while it still matters.
Get started
See your cohort on one screen.
A 30-minute call walks your senior team through the console with a live 47-student demo cohort. We pilot three schools per province each term, free for one term, Family tier included. Quintile 1 to 3 schools are free, permanently.
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