A student-built opportunity map
Every student deserves a north star.
Most students never hear about the research programs, scholarships, and competitions they were qualified for. Northstar starts with how you actually think and work — seventeen behavioral questions — and charts a course to real, ranked STEM opportunities with a reason attached to every one.
How you find it
01
Trait profile
Seventeen prompts become six trait signals plus a field-interest map across ten fields. No black box — every score is a sum you can check.
02
Future paths
Your traits are compared against archetypes to surface three directions: the steady fit, the stretch, and the one nobody had time to suggest.
03
Real opportunities
A TF-IDF match engine ranks curated STEM programs against your interests and goals, explains every score, and maps the pathways between them.
FAQ
What is Northstar?+
A career-navigation tool for students. A short behavioral assessment builds a transparent profile of how you think and work, then turns it into future paths, real opportunities with reasons attached, and a plan you can act on.
Is this just an AI chatbot?+
No. The recommendations come from an interpretable scoring engine — every match shows the exact reasons behind its score. Nothing is a black box, and no AI decides who you are.
How much does it cost?+
Nothing. Northstar is free for students.
Where do the opportunities come from?+
They are gathered from public sources through official APIs, then screened by an automated verifier — which checks each one is a real, current opportunity — before it enters the catalog, with human spot-checks. Nothing unscreened is shown as a real program.