StepUp
Career infrastructure for schools

Find your path. Build your future.

Build a personalized career roadmap based on your interests, strengths, academic performance, and goals. Discover the courses, skills, internships, and experiences that can help you reach the career that fits you best.

Personalized guidance. Clear next steps. No private career coach required.

See how StepUp works

Built for schools, districts and community colleges

  • Public high schools
  • Community colleges
  • District guidance teams
  • Career & technical centers
  • College access programs
The guidance gap

Planning your future shouldn’t feel like guesswork.

Students are expected to make major decisions about what to study and which careers to pursue, often with limited personalized guidance. This challenge doesn’t end after high school, many college students also struggle to connect their majors, interests, and experiences to a clear career path.

400:1

Average student-to-counselor ratio in many schools

30%

of students never use their career center

29%

of students say career guidance was very helpful

1 in 3

students have chosen a career by the time they graduate

StepUp helps schools provide personalized career guidance at scale.

The solution

Meet StepUp: a personalized roadmap to your college major and career.

StepUp turns uncertainty into direction. By learning about each student’s interests, strengths, favorite subjects, goals, and preferences, the platform recommends college majors and career pathways that fit their profile and explains why they may be a strong match using transparent, data-driven recommendations.

Assess · student view
How StepUp works

Find your direction in three steps.

01

Tell us where you are

Select your current stage and answer approachable questions about your interests, strengths, experiences, and goals. There are no right or wrong answers.

02

Discover paths that fit

Receive personalized recommendations for college majors, career pathways, or both based on your individual profile.

03

Build your roadmap

Understand why each option fits, what it involves, and which courses, skills, internships, certifications, clubs, and experiences can help you move forward.

Student experience

Answer honestly. See where it can take you.

  • A 48-item Holland RIASEC inventory that takes about twelve minutes, with autosave and a 30-day retake window.
  • College major and career matches explained in plain language, why this fits, and what it involves.
  • A living roadmap of courses, clubs, certifications, internships and experiences you can add to My Path.
  • Grade tracking against the GPA your target path actually requires.
48 items
Holland RIASEC inventory
~12 min
Typical completion time
3 routes
Safe, balanced and ambitious
Live GPA
Tracked against entry requirements
420
Students per caseload, triaged
R / Y / G
Automatic risk flags
1 click
Generated meeting notes
Weekly
Refreshed priority queue
Counselor experience

Spend your hours on the students who need them.

  • A priority queue that names the students who need a meeting this week, and why.
  • Automatic red / yellow / green risk flags from GPA gaps, prerequisites and interest alignment.
  • Generated meeting notes you can copy into your SIS in one click.
  • Caseload and roster management across an entire school or district.
Roadmap preview

Every signal a school already collects, connected.

Assessments, grades and prerequisites flow into one roadmap. StepUp re-solves it continuously and pushes the result to the two people who can act on it, the student and their counselor.

12,480
Students mapped in a pilot district
74%
Assessment completion in the first term
142 hrs
Counselor hours returned each month
Algorithm transparency

Every recommendation shows its work.

StepUp never returns a black-box result. Each suggested major or career carries four published scores, so students, counselors and families can see exactly why it appeared.

Fit

How closely a student's Holland RIASEC profile matches the interest profile of the major or career.

Readiness

Current GPA and completed prerequisites measured against the real entry requirements of the path.

Feasibility

Whether the remaining courses, credits and experiences can realistically be completed in the time left.

Confidence

How much weight to give the profile itself, based on completeness, differentiation and engagement.

Read the full scoring methodology
Pricing

Free for students. Licensed by the school.

Student
Freeforever

For individual students and families exploring pathways.

  • Select Testing Options
  • Partial Career Roadmap*
  • One career match
SchoolMost schools
$4per student / year

For a single high school or community college guidance department.

  • Everything in Student
  • Counselor risk radar
  • Priority queue and meeting notes
  • Roster import and caseload assignment
  • Term progress reporting
District
Customannual licence

For districts and post-secondary partners.

  • Everything in School
  • Multi-school analytics
  • SIS integration and SSO
  • Outcome reporting for the board
  • Dedicated onboarding
FAQ

Questions boards ask first.

Everything below is answered the same way in a procurement review as it is in a homeroom.

Find your path. Build your future.

Explore the student workspace or the counselor risk radar with a fully seeded demo: no setup, no credentials.