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.
Questions & answers
FAQ
How Northstar works, and what it will and won't do.
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?
Most of the high-school shelf is hand-picked and checked by a person. The rest of the catalog is gathered from public sources through official APIs and screened by an automated verifier before it enters the catalog. Either way a real program is behind every entry — nothing unverified is shown as one.
Is my data private?
Your profile is private by default. Public evidence pages and friend comparisons are opt-in, and negative outcomes are never made public.
Who built this?
Northstar is a student project — built, and its algorithms designed and tested, by one person.