100% AI · Self-updating · For India

Your future isn't a test result.

It's a path, and it changes as you do. Pathways is a living career map for Indian students, run entirely by AI. Start in ten minutes. See what every career is really doing right now. Test-drive the work before you pick a stream. Get a route from Class 8 to your first job, with a Plan B built in.

  • Core map free, forever
  • Zero college commissions
  • Parent consent built in

01 · The old map

Career guidance was built for a world that no longer exists.

One long test. One PDF. One or two expensive conversations. Then a teenager is left alone with the biggest decision of their life, while the job market rewrites itself every year.

2.5hrs

of assessment before a student sees a single insight on a leading Indian platform.

34pages

of one-time PDF report, valid for a year. Students change every month.

₹11,400

for one to three counselling sessions. Out of reach for most families.

40%

of students have never spoken to a career counsellor. Over 85% already ask AI tools that know nothing about them.

Sources: publicly listed plans and process of a leading Indian career-guidance platform, September 2026. IC3 Institute and FLAME University, Student Quest Survey 2024.

Most students can name seven careers.

There are thousands.

In a survey of 10,000+ Indian students aged 14 to 21, 93% knew of just seven career options. Reported by The Tribune, February 2019.

02 · How Pathways works

Not a test. A living map.

  1. 01

    Start in ten minutes

    A short, adaptive conversation replaces the marathon questionnaire. You see your first map the same day, not after two hours of bubbles.

  2. 02

    It keeps learning you

    Two-minute check-ins, marks, projects, what you loved in a test-drive. Your map updates as you grow. Nothing expires after a year.

  3. 03

    Every match explains itself

    See the evidence behind each suggestion, and push back when it's wrong. No black box. No horoscope.

  4. 04

    AI that checks its own work

    A second, independent AI rebuilds every plan from official sources before you see it. Where the two disagree, you see both, with the evidence.

03 · Live career signals

See what a career is really doing. Right now.

A static library of 250 careers ages the day it's written. Pathways tracks hiring demand, pay bands, skills in demand and AI exposure for each career, from new-age roles to skilled trades and government services.

Technology

AI / ML engineer

Sample view

Hiring demand

Rising fast

Pay band (LPA)

₹6 to ₹45

AI exposure

Medium

Time to first income

4 years

Ways in

    Skills hiring managers ask for

      Sample view with illustrative figures. In the app, a signal is shown only where a named source says so, with its date.

      04 · Career test-drives

      Try the work before you choose the stream.

      Twenty-minute simulations drop you inside a real task from the job. What you enjoy, and what you don't, feeds straight back into your map. No questionnaire can tell you that.

      • Robotics20 min

        Debug a delivery drone

        Find out why the drone drifts left, fix the code, fly the route.

      • Medicine15 min

        Triage the ER queue

        Six patients, one doctor. Decide who is seen first, and why.

      • Law20 min

        Argue the bail plea

        Read the file, pick your grounds, face the judge's questions.

      • Finance15 min

        Close a startup's books

        Spot the leak in the cash flow before payroll is due.

      • UX design20 min

        Fix the checkout screen

        Most shoppers drop off on one screen. Find it, redesign it.

      • Climate and energy20 min

        Plan a village microgrid

        Balance solar, storage and budget for two hundred homes.

      Preview of the planned launch line-up.

      05 · Routes, not reports

      Every dream gets a Plan B. And a Plan C.

      India's entrance exams are brutal funnels. Pathways reverse-engineers your goal into subjects, exams, colleges, costs and skills, then maps parallel routes to the same destination. One bad exam day should never end a dream.

      Know the cost before you commit. Fees, loans, scholarships you actually qualify for, and years to payback, for every route.

      Example goal

      Build spacecraft Aerospace engineer

      The summit route

        Illustrative routes and ranges. Your map is built from live admissions and cost data.

        Family Alignment · Example

        72% overlap

        Student's top three

        • Product design
        • Game development
        • Architecture

        Parents' top three

        • Computer engineering
        • Architecture
        • Product design

        Start here: you both value stable income and creative work. Two of your three picks already match.

        आपका रास्ताஉங்கள் பாதைమీ మార్గంআপনার পথतुमचा मार्गನಿಮ್ಮ ದಾರಿતમારો માર્ગനിങ്ങളുടെ പാതਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਰਾਹ

        06 · Family co-pilot

        Parents aren't a side note. They're co-pilots.

        In most Indian homes, a career is a family decision. Other platforms invite parents to sit in on a call. Pathways gives them their own view, in their own language.

        • Family Alignment. Student and parent answer separately. See where you agree, where you differ, and get a script for the conversation.
        • Evidence, not hype. Why this match, what it costs, what it pays, how exposed it is to AI. Shown plainly.
        • In your language. English, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia and Punjabi. Translations are made by AI and marked as such until a native speaker has checked them.
        • On WhatsApp, by your own hand. Send a route plan, a family briefing or the month's to-do list to yourself or your family with one tap. Pathways never messages anyone.

        07 · The full toolkit

        The best ideas from career platforms worldwide. Rebuilt for India.

        We studied what works for students in the US, the UK, Germany, France, Singapore, China, Brazil and South Africa. Then we rebuilt it around Indian exams, Indian costs and Indian families.

        Seat Radar · Sample

        Your rank. Your real odds.

        Enter a rank or percentile and see your chances for every institute and branch, sorted into reach, match and safe. Built on the official JoSAA opening and closing ranks published since 2016, and on MCC allotment lists for medicine. Every number shows its year, source and range.

        Illustrative model with made-up cut-offs. The real tool runs on official data.

          • Core · free

            Aptitude games

            Five-minute games that measure how you think: spatial, numerical, verbal, memory. Measured ability balances what marks and relatives say about you.

            Proven in US schools, where timed aptitude games replaced self-report quizzes.

          • Core · free

            Stream and subject explorer

            See every door a subject combination opens or closes before Class 11, including CUET domain subjects.

            From Australia's subject-to-career bullseyes and New Zealand's subject navigator.

          • Core · free

            Quests

            Ten-minute weekly missions: interview an aunt about her work, shadow a shopkeeper, build a tiny project. Each one sharpens your map.

            From France and Japan, where students build a reflective career portfolio year on year.

          • Core · free

            Degrees and hands-on routes, side by side

            ITI, polytechnic, apprenticeships and degrees are matched from the same profile, with stipends shown next to fees.

            From Germany, where one free test returns apprenticeships and degree fields with equal weight.

          • Core · free

            Ask the job anything

            What does a day look like? What do beginners get wrong? Answers drawn from official occupation data, real job postings and published interviews, with sources. At 11 pm, in your language.

            From US career question-and-answer communities, rebuilt as a sourced AI that never sleeps.

          • Core · free

            Parent academy

            Five-minute explainers on new-age careers, in Hindi first: what the work is, what it pays, how stable it is.

            England's guidance benchmarks were updated in 2025 to stress parent involvement.

          • Core · free

            Seat Radar

            Odds for every institute and branch from official JoSAA and MCC data, in reach, match and safe bands. Plus adds a strategy builder with what-if scenarios.

            In China, AI admission planners produced over 10 million reports in a single season.

          • Core · free

            Real outcomes by course and college

            Placement rates and median pay as colleges report them to NIRF, shown next to fees. Evidence over brochures.

            From Peru and Mexico, where governments publish pay by degree and institution.

          • Core · free

            Eligibility engine

            Share your marks, category and home state once, only if you choose to. See every seat, scholarship and fee waiver you qualify for.

            From South Africa, where marks-to-eligibility matching serves over half a million learners.

          • Core · free

            Family cost view

            Sticker price, typical price after scholarships, and your family's likely price for every route. Parents can suggest options straight into the student's map.

            From US college planners that give parents their own cost view.

          • Core · free

            Second opinion, from a second AI

            An independent model rebuilds your plan from the same official data. You see every point where the two disagree, and why. Checking is never an extra.

            In China, press tests found AI planners giving different odds for the same score. So ours audits itself.

          • Core · free

            On hard days

            When a result closes a door, Pathways opens with the routes still available, never a ranking. One tap reaches Tele-MANAS, the government's free 24x7 counselling line, on 14416. We never profile a child's mood.

            A 2026 press test found six AI assistants never pointed distressed examinees to a helpline.

          • Core · free

            Counselling-round companion

            JoSAA, CSAB, MCC and state rounds in one calendar. Alerts before every deadline, cut-off movement after every round, and plain-language help with float, slide and freeze.

            From Brazil, where cut-offs are republished daily while students can still change choices.

          • Core · free

            One application tracker

            Every form, fee, document and date across CUET universities, state CETs and private colleges in one checklist.

            Standard in US and UK school platforms, missing for most Indian families.

          • Core · free

            Scholarship tracker

            Matched scholarships with reminders, and a checklist of the papers each one needs.

            From scholarship matchers in the US and South Africa.

          • Plus

            An essay coach that refuses to ghost-write

            It questions, outlines and critiques. It will not write your statement, because admissions teams can tell, and so can you.

            From Singapore-built admissions assistants that brainstorm but will not write essays.

          • Plus

            Interview and viva practice

            Judgement-free mock interviews for college panels, scholarship boards and first jobs, with feedback on structure and clarity. Practice only, never a live copilot.

            From UK work-experience platforms and US speech coaches.

          • Plus

            Abroad or India, compared without an agent

            Total cost in rupees, work rights, loan EMIs and typical outcomes. Nobody earns a commission on your choice.

            Our answer to a study-abroad market that runs on agent commissions.

          • Core · unlimited in Plus

            Work-experience weeks

            Ten hours across two weeks on a realistic brief modelled on the job's real tasks, with AI feedback at every step and a certificate. No sponsored placements.

            From the UK and US, where virtual work experience and job simulations are free for students.

          • Core · free

            Pathways Passport

            A lifelong record of projects, test-drives and skills, with verified marksheets pulled from DigiLocker when you allow it. Share a link and choose exactly what a college or employer sees.

            From Singapore's Careers and Skills Passport and Japan's Career Passport.

          • Core · free

            Skills log

            Eight everyday skills, from teamwork to problem solving, broken into small steps, with evidence you add as you go.

            From the UK's stepped essential-skills frameworks.

          • Core · free

            Apprenticeship alerts

            Openings near you from the national apprenticeship portals, with stipend and eligibility, the moment they appear.

            From Germany's apprenticeship app, which pushes new vacancies for your chosen trade.

          • Core · free

            Free-first learning paths

            Every skill gap links to free courses first: SWAYAM, NCERT's Class 11 and 12 courses, NPTEL. We take no affiliate fees.

            From role-based learning paths on global course platforms.

          • Core · free

            CV and portfolio builder

            Turn your Passport into a clean one-page CV and a shareable portfolio.

            From student CV tools popular in Europe and the US.

          • Schools

            School dashboard

            Every student's map in one place: who is undecided, who changed direction, who needs attention this week. The AI does the tracking, so staff time goes to students.

            From whole-school platforms in the US and UK.

          • Schools

            One-click CBSE reporting

            A career guidance report in the four headings CBSE hub-and-spoke schools use for their monthly activity reports, built from grouped class results only.

            From UK tools that turn careers activity into inspection evidence in one click.

          • Schools

            Bagless-day planner

            Ten days of hands-on vocational exposure for Classes 6 to 8, planned around local workplaces, as NEP 2020 asks.

            Built for NEP 2020, informed by Germany's early vocational orientation.

          • Schools

            Staff AI assistant

            Drafts student summaries, parent-meeting notes and recommendation letters in seconds. A teacher reads, edits and sends.

            From US platforms that added AI agents for school staff.

          • Schools

            AI career days

            A ready-to-run kit for one period, a half day or a full day, with activities, a parent letter and a notice, built from Pathways' own career facts. No waiting for a guest speaker.

            From US platforms that bring industry into classrooms, rebuilt so every school can run one tomorrow.

          • Schools

            Destinations tracking

            Where each outgoing class went, as counts by category, year after year, so the school learns what its guidance achieves.

            From destinations tracking in UK schools.

          Planned launch features. Some arrive after launch, and DigiLocker access depends on partner approval.

          08 · Autopilot

          Run by AI. Current by design.

          Exams, colleges, careers and laws change every week. A printed report can't keep up, and neither can anyone juggling five hundred students. Pathways has no office hours and no backlog. A crew of AI agents watches official sources around the clock, tests every change, and updates your map the moment something that matters to you moves.

          • Tested before it ships. Every update runs through automated checks. A change that fails is rolled back, not published.
          • Dated and sourced. Every figure shows where it came from and when it was last checked.
          • Graded in public. Each season we publish how Seat Radar's estimates compared with the real closing ranks.

          Autopilot log

          Sample view
          1. Colleges

            Round 3 cut-offs published by the counselling authority. 1,204 Seat Radar estimates recalculated.

          2. Security

            Fix released for a component we build on. Applied, 312 checks passed, shipped.

          3. Laws

            New data-protection rule notified. Consent screens and privacy notice updated. Families informed.

          4. Careers

            Hiring for EV technicians up in three states. Demand signal raised from steady to rising.

          5. Models

            Odds model re-scored against last season's real closing ranks. Error within range. No retrain needed.

          6. Colleges

            New B.Tech programme approved at a state university. Added with fees, seats and eligibility.

          7. Answers

            Second AI disagreed with a college list. Both versions shown to the family, with sources.

          Sample log with illustrative entries.

          • Security

            Patches itself

            Security fixes for everything Pathways is built on are applied, tested and shipped automatically. Encryption, access rules and consent gates are re-tested on every build.

          • Laws and policy

            Reads the gazette for you

            Data-protection rules, UGC and AICTE regulations, NTA and CBSE circulars, reservation and fee rules. When one changes, the guidance it touches changes with it, and you are told what moved.

          • Careers and professions

            Spots new work early

            Demand, pay bands, skills and AI exposure refresh from live labour-market data. New professions are added as they appear. Shrinking ones are flagged honestly.

          • Colleges and universities

            Seats, fees, cut-offs, approvals

            New programmes, seat matrices, fee revisions, accreditation and rankings, and every counselling round, straight from official sources.

          • Evaluation models

            The models are graded too

            Matching, aptitude and admission-odds models are re-scored against real outcomes on a schedule, and audited for bias across gender, language, board and region. A model that slips is retrained or rolled back.

          • Its own answers

            Every plan is double-checked

            A second, independent AI rebuilds each plan from official data. Disagreements are shown to you, never averaged away.

          Planned launch design. Autopilot publishes data updates and security fixes by itself. Changes to our legal terms are always announced before they take effect.

          09 · Fair by design

          Good guidance shouldn't depend on your pin code or your parents' pay slip.

          • Your full map is free

            No locked results. You never pay to see what we learned about you.

          • Zero commissions

            No college, coaching institute or study-abroad agent can pay to be recommended, listed or ranked. When we suggest a route, it's because it fits you.

          • Private by default

            Built for India's DPDP Act. Verifiable parental consent for under-18s, no ads, no selling data, delete everything any time.

          • Beyond the metros

            Designed for entry-level Android phones and patchy networks, because talent isn't limited to six cities.

          10 · Pricing

          Free where it matters. Fair where it's paid.

          The map is free, forever. You pay only for extra depth. With no sessions to book and nobody to upsell you, a full year of Pathways costs less than one hour of private counselling. No college, coaching institute or advertiser can pay to be recommended, so our advice has one customer: you.

          The pilot is open, and everything in it is free. Nobody is asked for payment details. The prices below start when the pilot ends, and families who join during the pilot get their first year of Plus free. Features marked soon are planned and are not in the pilot yet.

          Free

          ₹0forever

          Everything a family needs to choose well.

          • Discovery and a map of explainable matches
          • Career pages with honest cost and pay bands
          • Plan A, B and C routes, cross-checked by a second AI
          • AI guide with a daily allowance, and the whole app in eleven languages
          • Speak instead of typing, hear answers read aloud, simple mode and big text
          • Works without a connection after the first visit, and installs to your home screen
          • Family space, parent view and family check-in
          • Course-cost and loan calculator
          • Career signals with a named source, for careers where one exists
          • Test-drives, quests and aptitude games
          • Seat Radar odds on official data soon
          • Eligibility check and exam reminders
          • Opportunities from official portals: internships, apprenticeships, scholarships, government exam boards and free courses, matched to your class or degree year, with a saved list to track applications
          • Choose a stream: the five choices after Class 10 side by side, with the careers each keeps open
          • Colleges on official NIRF data, by state, and three saved
          • Milestones on your map, with no streaks and no rewards
          Start free

          Plus One price, whole family

          ₹1,499a year + GST

          About ₹125 a month for every child in the family. Less than one hour with a private counsellor.

          • Everything in Free, for every child
          • AI guide with three times the daily allowance and a memory note it keeps between conversations, which you can read and erase
          • Seat Radar strategy builder: what-ifs and choice-order lists soon
          • Decision dossiers: one big choice researched end to end from your profile, your plans and our career facts, with official sources and a second AI check
          • Essay coach that refuses to ghost-write: feedback on your own draft, and a guard that rejects a reply it can tell was written for you
          • Interview and viva practice: one question at a time in text, feedback after each answer, and a summary at the end
          • College shortlist and compare (twelve colleges, your notes, printable)
          • Affordability planner: fees and living costs as indicative bands, year by year. Not financial advice.
          • A resume builder with honest AI feedback, a 12-week placement plan for final-year students, and the printable career report
          • Work-experience weeks with certificates soon
          • One family dashboard, and a briefing in your language (English, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Gujarati, Malayalam, Punjabi or Odia)
          Start free, get year one of Plus free

          Schools

          ₹199per student, per year + GST

          Whole-school guidance for Classes 8 to 12.

          • Classes with join codes, and results for the class as a group
          • Staff AI assistant for letters, notices and lesson plans
          • School career guidance report in one click, in the four headings of a CBSE hub-and-spoke activity report
          • Bagless-day planner for Classes 6 to 8, as NEP 2020 asks
          • AI career-day kits for any classroom: agenda, activities, parent letter and notice
          • Destinations tracking, as counts only
          • Free for government and government-aided schools
          Start as an educator

          More ways to pay, when payments start

          Built and switched off during the pilot. Nobody can buy them yet.

          Invited by a family that already has Plus? The second-family discount is applied to your first year at the checkout.

          Pathways Access

          Plus is free for students in government schools, and for any family who tells us ₹1,499 is out of reach. We will believe you.

          Pilot families

          Everything is free during the pilot. Join now and your first year of Plus is free when billing starts.

          Planned prices in Indian rupees, per year unless marked once. There is no monthly plan and no per-child charge. Prices do not include GST. It is added at checkout, and you always see the full amount before you pay. For comparison, a leading Indian platform lists ₹2,400 for a report alone and ₹11,400 with up to three sessions, and independent career counsellors on a large tutoring marketplace average about ₹1,700 an hour (public pricing, September 2026).

          11 · Side by side

          The old way, and the Pathways way.

          Topic Typical counselling platform Pathways
          Getting startedTwo-hour-plus psychometric testFirst map in about ten minutes
          What you getA one-time PDF reportA living map that updates as you grow
          Free tierOne slice of your resultsYour full map
          Career dataStatic library of a few hundred careersLive demand, pay, skills and AI exposure
          Trying a careerSeparate paid programmesTest-drives built in
          The planOne best-fit answerPlan A, B and C to the same goal
          Admission oddsSeparate predictor sites, often funded by college advertisingSeat Radar on official data, no advertisers
          Help when you need itOne to three booked sessions for ₹10,000 or moreAn AI guide at any hour, in your language, no appointments
          ChecksOne counsellor's judgementEvery plan rebuilt by a second AI, with sources
          Staying currentA report frozen on the day it is printedUpdates itself as exams, colleges, careers and laws change
          Price₹2,400 for a report, ₹11,400 with sessions₹0 core, Plus at ₹1,499 a year + GST for the whole family
          ParentsInvited to join the callTheir own view, in their own language
          LanguagesEnglishEleven languages, translated by AI and marked so
          IncentivesCollege partnerships and admissions servicesZero commissions
          Shelf lifeOne yearClass 8 to first job

          "Typical" reflects publicly listed offerings of leading Indian career-guidance platforms as of September 2026. The Pathways column describes the planned launch experience.

          The map is ready when you are.

          12 · The pilot is open

          Start now. It's free.

          No phone number, no password, nothing to download. If you sign in with Google, we keep your email address to sign you in and for nothing else. Eight minutes of honest questions, and your map is on the screen. It opens in your browser and installs to your home screen like an app.

          In the pilot today

          • Discovery, explainable matches and 52 career pages
          • Plan A, B and C routes, each one checked by a second AI
          • The site, the app and the AI guide in eleven languages: English, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia and Punjabi, translated by AI and marked so
          • Speak instead of typing in the guide, and hear any answer, career page, route plan or family briefing read aloud in your language, with the voices on your phone
          • Works without a connection after the first visit: your map, saved plans and the career pages are on your phone. Install it from the Me page and it opens like any other app.
          • Simple mode: a home with three big choices and three tabs, and big text, for a parent who reads little or a shared family phone
          • Family spaces, classes, and a care agent that answers at any hour
          • Career test-drives with AI feedback, thirty real-world quests and three short aptitude games that give a band, never a score
          • An eligibility check for every entrance exam behind your matches, with the usual application window, the official link and a reminder you keep in the app
          • Decision dossiers with a second AI check, an essay coach that only gives feedback, interview and viva practice, a guide that remembers, and a family dashboard with a briefing in your language
          • Internships, apprenticeships, scholarships and government exams from official portals, matched to your class or degree year
          • A stream chooser for Class 9 and 10 that lays the five choices side by side with the careers each keeps open and closes, and never picks for you
          • Colleges as the Ministry of Education's NIRF ranks them, by category and state, with the year of every rank. No fees, no cut-offs, no college paying to appear.
          • With Plus, free for everyone during the pilot: a college shortlist, an affordability planner in indicative bands, a resume builder and a placement plan
          • Milestones on your map, with no streaks and no rewards
          • For schools: career-day kits, a bagless-day planner, a one-click career guidance report and destinations tracking

          Career signals appear where a named source exists. Seat Radar arrives when official data is loaded, and is shown on this page as a preview. Live job listings arrive once a listings service is switched on. Until Google sign-in is switched on, a new space gets a recovery code to keep safe. Already have a code? Open your space.

          Questions

          Straight answers.

          Is Pathways a psychometric test?

          It starts with a short adaptive assessment grounded in established interest, aptitude and personality research. The difference is what happens next. The map keeps learning from check-ins, test-drives and real results instead of freezing you in a PDF.

          Is the core map really free?

          Yes. Your full map, matches, career pages and routes are free, forever, and everything is free during the pilot. We earn from Plus at ₹1,499 a year for a whole family, plus GST, and from schools and institutes that buy Plus for their own students. Never from a college, coaching institute, lender or advertiser paying to be recommended.

          What does Plus add?

          Depth for the decision years: decision dossiers with a second AI check, the essay coach, interview and viva practice, a guide with three times the daily allowance and a memory note you can read and erase, a family dashboard with a briefing in your language, a college shortlist, the affordability planner, a resume builder, a placement plan and the printable career report, all live in the pilot and free for everyone during it. The Seat Radar strategy builder and work-experience weeks come later. One price, ₹1,499 a year plus GST, covers every child in the family. Plus is free for students in government schools, and for any family who tells us the price is out of reach.

          Where do Seat Radar's numbers come from?

          From official public data: JoSAA's opening and closing ranks for every round since 2016, and the Medical Counselling Committee's allotment lists. Every estimate shows its year, source and range, because past cut-offs guide a decision but never guarantee a seat.

          Is there a human counsellor I can talk to?

          No, and that is deliberate. Pathways is AI from end to end. That is what keeps it awake at 11 pm, fluent in your language, free of commissions and priced for every family. Instead of asking you to trust one person's opinion, every plan is rebuilt by a second, independent AI from official sources, and any disagreement is shown to you with the evidence. If a hard day is about more than a decision, the app points you to Tele-MANAS on 14416, the government's free helpline.

          How does Pathways stay up to date?

          Autopilot, a crew of AI agents, watches official sources around the clock: exam bodies, counselling authorities, regulators, colleges, labour-market data, new laws and security advisories. Every change is tested before it reaches your map, and every figure shows when it was last checked.

          Can I trust an AI with a decision this big?

          Trust the evidence, not the machine. Every match explains itself, every number carries its source, year and range, and the app says so when it does not know. Each season we publish how our admission estimates compared with what really happened. The decision always stays with the student and the family.

          Which classes is Pathways for?

          Class 8 to the first job. The pilot is open to students aged 13 and older, to parents and to educators. A student under 18 needs a parent or guardian to agree first.

          How is my child's data protected?

          A student under 18 can only start after a parent or guardian agrees. Students are never asked for a phone number, and an email address is kept only to sign in. Pathways never records audio: speaking instead of typing is your browser's own feature, and only the words reach Pathways when you tap Send. We show no ads, sell no data, train no AI on what you type and let you delete everything at any time. In the pilot the parent check is a declaration. Verification through DigiLocker is planned before public launch. Our privacy notice says exactly what we collect and why.

          Can I use it today?

          Yes. The pilot is open and free: open the app. It has discovery, matches, career pages, route plans checked by a second AI, the AI guide, family spaces and classes, career test-drives, quests and aptitude games, an eligibility check with exam reminders, opportunities from official portals, a stream chooser, colleges on NIRF data, the Plus tools and the school tools, in eleven languages. It works without a connection after the first visit. Career signals appear where a named source exists. Seat Radar arrives when official data is loaded.

          How do I sign in?

          With the Google account that is already on your phone: one tap, nothing to remember. We keep your email address to sign you in and for nothing else. We never ask for a phone number or a password. A student aged 13 to 17 signs in with their own Google account after a parent has added them or given them the family code. Until Google sign-in is switched on, a new space gets a recovery code instead, and spaces made before 23 September 2026 keep opening with their recovery code.

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          Which languages does Pathways speak?

          Eleven: English, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia and Punjabi. Translations are made by AI and marked as such until a native speaker has checked them. The career facts, the privacy notice and the pilot terms are in English with a "Read this in my language" button.

          Does Pathways find me a job or an internship?

          Pathways shows you where to look and whether you seem to fit: official portals such as the PM Internship Scheme, the AICTE Internship Portal, the National Career Service and the National Scholarship Portal, with the rules in plain words. You apply yourself on the official site. Nobody pays to be listed, and Pathways never applies for anyone.

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          Do you recommend colleges?

          No. Pathways shows institutions as NIRF ranks them, with the year and the source, and lets you keep a shortlist. It takes no money from any college and recommends none. A rank is one measure among many.

          Can Pathways tell us if we can afford a course?

          It can lay the bands out year by year so the family can talk it through. It does not know your income, gives no financial advice and names no bank or lender.