Helping students see the futures their decisions create

A data-driven guidance platform that replaces guesswork with foresight β€” in a labor market being reshaped faster than any generation has faced before.

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Financial Systems
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Life Loops
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Future Scenarios
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Alex, 17
Exploring career paths
Age 25
$48k
Age 35
$82k
Age 45
$105k
State University β†’ Marketing $52k @ 25
Community β†’ State β†’ Nursing $68k @ 25 βœ“
Trade School β†’ Electrician $58k @ 25

The Quiet Collapse of the American Dream

For most of the 20th century, education led to work, work led to stability, and stability led to upward mobility. That script has quietly broken.

We still ask teenagers to make decisions with six-figure financial consequences β€” based largely on anecdotes, rankings, and hope.

The guidance students receive has remained largely unchanged even as economic outcomes have deteriorated for decades. Small differences in early decisions have long produced uneven results, but those consequences were rarely made visible to students in advance.

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College tuition has risen faster than median wages over the last several decades
$1.7T
Student loan debt now carried by millions well into midlife
2Γ—+
Housing costs in real terms in many metro areas
$100K+
Consequences from college decisions made at 17 with incomplete information

Replace Guesswork with Foresight

You can't make good decisions about a future you can't see. Launch Plan lets students step into plausible versions of their future selves and see how life unfolds under different choices.

See Your Future

Step into plausible versions of your future self and see how decisions compound over time.

βœ“ Life at 25, 35, or 45 under different choices
βœ“ Income, expenses, debt, savings trajectories
βœ“ How early decisions compound β€” or constrain

Reconnect the Pieces

College, major, career, location, finances β€” treated as one integrated system.

βœ“ School–Major–Career–Location integration
βœ“ Tradeoffs instead of slogans
βœ“ Opportunity costs revealed

Data, Not Hope

Data-grounded scenarios with probability ranges and uncertainty signals.

βœ“ All pathways modeled honestly
βœ“ Risk signals without fear-mongering
βœ“ AI-adaptive labor market projections

The First End-to-End Platform

Today, students piece together their future using disconnected tools. Launch Plan is the first platform that integrates search, exploration, and planning across all dimensions β€” building a solid foundation where education, major, and career form the base; finances and location provide the structure; and your life story emerges at the top.

Today's Fragmented Approach
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College Search
Naviance, Scoir, CollegeBoard...
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Major Exploration
BigFuture, MyMajors, school websites...
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Career Research
O*NET, BLS, Indeed...
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Location Planning
COL calculators, Zillow, Numbeo...
❌ No connections. No tradeoffs. No financial reality.
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Launch Plan's Integrated Approach
Your Life
Finances
Location
Education
Major
Career
βœ“ One platform. All connected. Financial outcomes visible.
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Search & Explore

Find colleges, majors, careers, and locations β€” all in one place with consistent data.

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See the Connections

Understand how each choice affects the others. Major impacts career. Location impacts cost of living. Everything connects.

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Project the Outcomes

See the financial reality of different paths β€” not just rankings and reviews, but actual projected life outcomes.

AI as the Forcing Function

For the first time, a technology is transforming cognitive work β€” not just physical or routine tasks. The students entering adulthood over the next decade face a fundamentally different landscape.

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Faster Disruption Cycles

Career half-lives are shrinking. Skills depreciate faster. Entire job categories may be reshaped within a single decade β€” sometimes within a few years.

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Greater Outcome Dispersion

AI tends to amplify top performers, compress middle tiers, and automate routine tasks. Two people with the same degree may experience radically different trajectories.

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Higher Cost of Misalignment

Mismatches between education and occupation, skills and demand, location and opportunity become harder to recover from. Detours are more expensive. Debt is less forgiving.

What This Means for Students
↑ More uncertainty
↑ More rapid change
↑ Wider outcome dispersion
↓ Fewer second chances

The problem is not that the future is unknowable. It's that we've never given students tools to reason about uncertainty at all.

A Systems-Based Model for Financial Life

More than an app β€” a complete learning system that gives students a durable mental architecture.

The curriculum gives students the map. The simulations let them walk the terrain.

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Universal Financial Systemsβ„’

All financial decisions fall into seven interconnected systems that constantly interact and influence each other.

Income: Earnings from work and investments
Consumption: Spending on needs, wants, and lifestyle
Housing: One of life's largest expenses
Debt: Borrowed money creating future obligations
Risk: Protection against unexpected events
Wealth: Assets and savings for security
Taxes: Government obligations affecting all decisions
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Life Loops

People move through recurring life patterns β€” often multiple times throughout their lives.

Education Loop: Schools, majors, and training choices
Career Loop: Job changes, promotions, and skill development
Housing Loop: Moving, renting, and buying decisions
Family Loop: Marriage, children, and caregiving
Health Loop: Medical needs and insurance changes
Savings Loop: Emergency funds and investments

Built for Schools

Launch Plan is designed for seamless integration into existing guidance and career readiness programs. Turnkey implementation with comprehensive support.

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IMPLEMENTATION CHECKLIST
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Complete Curriculum
Lesson plans, activities, and assessments aligned to standards
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Turnkey Implementation
Easy onboarding, training for counselors, ongoing support
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Measurable Outcomes
Track engagement, decision quality, and financial literacy gains
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Seamless Integration
Works alongside existing career guidance platforms

Ready to see your future?

Launch Plan is now in beta. Sign up for early access and be among the first to explore the platform.