🇿🇦 Built for South African Schools · Early Access 2025

Career guidance tools your counsellors actually need

PathwayIQ is the first counsellor-first platform purpose-built for the South African curriculum — deep psychometrics, AI reports, SA tertiary database, bursaries and TVET pathways in one place.

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500k+ SA learners face career decisions annually
1 in 3 first-year university students drop out or redirect
0 modern counsellor workflow platforms in SA (until now)
The problem

Counsellors are doing critical work with the wrong tools

You're expected to guide hundreds of learners through the most important decision of their lives — with spreadsheets, generic PDFs and outdated databases.

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No workflow management

Tracking student progress across hundreds of learners in spreadsheets or paper files is unsustainable and error-prone.

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Shallow assessments

Most digital tools offer a five-minute interest quiz and call it psychometrics. Learners deserve something rigorous.

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Stale tertiary data

APS requirements, faculty closures and programme changes happen every year. No one maintains a live SA database.

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TVET pathways ignored

Artisan trades and vocational routes are under-served. The best career for a learner might not require a degree at all.

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Bursaries are a maze

Hundreds of bursaries exist — but matching a student to what they actually qualify for takes hours of manual searching.

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No reporting to leadership

Proving the value of career guidance to principals and SGBs requires data you currently have no way to produce.

What PathwayIQ does

Everything a counsellor needs. One platform.

01 — COUNSELLOR DASHBOARD

Your full caseload, at a glance

Manage every learner's assessment status, reports, and action items from a single screen. Cohort analytics give you data to present to your principal.

02 — DEEP PSYCHOMETRICS

Rigorous, SA-contextualised assessments

RIASEC interest profiling, Big Five personality, aptitude screening, values and learning style — combined into a professional narrative report, generated by AI and ready to discuss with the learner.

03 — SA TERTIARY DATABASE

Live APS matching across every institution

Universities, universities of technology and TVET colleges — with APS requirements, faculty details and programme availability, automatically kept up to date.

04 — BURSARY MATCHING

Find funding in minutes, not days

Filter bursaries by field of study, institution, demographics and value. One-click flag to notify a learner's parent. Updated monthly from primary sources.

05 — TVET & ARTISAN PATHWAYS

Vocational routes treated as first-class options

Trade profiles, SETA apprenticeship pathways and scarce-skills badges — so you can confidently guide learners who won't take the university route.

06 — PARENT PORTAL

Bring parents into the conversation

Share approved assessment results and shortlisted options with parents directly, so the family conversation starts before it reaches the counsellor's door.

Founding schools programme

Be the counsellor who shaped PathwayIQ

The first 20 schools to join the waitlist get founding school pricing and direct input into the product roadmap.

Locked-in founding school rate
Priority onboarding support
Feature request priority
Beta access before public launch
Founding school badge on your profile
Reserve a founding school spot
Questions

Frequently asked

Who is PathwayIQ for?

PathwayIQ is built for career counsellors and Life Orientation heads at South African secondary schools (Grades 9–12). Independent career counsellors in private practice can also access the platform via a practitioner licence.

How does the school licensing model work?

Schools pay a single annual licence based on learner enrolment. This covers unlimited counsellor accounts, all assessment modules, the tertiary database, bursary matching and reporting tools. No per-learner fees or hidden charges.

Is learner data POPIA compliant?

Yes. PathwayIQ is hosted on AWS infrastructure in Cape Town (af-south-1 region). All data stays in South Africa, parental consent flows are built in for learners under 18, and data is deleted within 30 days of any removal request.

What happens to our data if we stop subscribing?

You own your data. On cancellation you receive a full export of all learner records, assessment results and reports. We delete your data from our servers within 30 days.

When does PathwayIQ launch?

We're in active development. Founding schools will receive beta access in 2025. Join the waitlist to get a launch notification and reserve your founding school spot.

Can individual learners or parents sign up?

PathwayIQ is a school-first platform — learners access it through their school. If you're a learner or parent interested in career guidance, ask your school's career counsellor about PathwayIQ.