Career exploration and planning, grade 6 to adult

One place, from first interest to first job.

Students explore, choose, plan and apply. The counselors, coaches and teachers who support them see it all and act on it.

Illustration of a student, seen from behind, at a fork with three paths leading to a campus, a workshop, and a workplace

See every path, and what it will actually take

Six steps. One student. Nobody guessing.

Explore

Interests, careers, pay and videos.

The student
Takes a short interest assessment, then opens careers with pay and outlook.
Their counselor, coach or teacher
Sees who has finished and each student's strongest interest areas.
Interest results: the code IRS, Investigative, Realistic and Social, with a plain explanation of what the answers point toward.
Interest results

For the people who guide them

Every student and every step on one grid.

Open the day knowing who is moving, who has gone quiet and what you promised. Notes from a meeting land in the student's own home screen as next steps.

Counselor dashboard: a caseload grid with a row for each student and a check mark for each step they have done.
The counselor dashboard, by caseload. Sample accounts.
A counselor's note shared with the student: goals and suggestions for child care during clinical days.
A coaching note, shared with the student

Who do you work with?

Same journey. Your team starts in a different place.

  • Middle and high schools

    College and career readiness that shows students what to actually expect.

    Most schools start at Explore and Plan, in an advisory class or a counselor's caseload.

    Start with one counselor's caseload.

    See how it works for schools
  • Colleges and universities

    Help every student choose a direction and see what it will actually take.

    The career center starts with the staff grid. A course or CTE program starts at Choose and Plan.

    Start with one office, one program or one class.

    See how it works for colleges
  • Nonprofits and access programs

    Help students figure out what they want, and what it will actually take, into work or school.

    Most programs start at Explore, with support resources beside the plan.

    Start with one advisor or one group.

    See how it works for programs
  • Workforce and job centers

    Mission control for your caseload, with the career planning your learners need built in.

    Workforce teams start with the staff grid and check-ins, then use Plan through Land the job with each learner.

    Start with one coach and their caseload.

    See how it works for workforce

Built for education workflows.

PlannedQuest is built for education teams that need clear staff roles, no advertising trackers, and a first pilot they can actually run.

  • Plug In Ventures founder ecosystem
  • Supported through OCIE SBDC advising
  • Chapman University Leatherby CenterInstantaneous Accelerator participant

Privacy, security, and procurement

PlannedQuest is FERPA aligned. We have taken the 1EdTech TrustEd Apps Pledge. We have also signed CISA’s Secure by Design Pledge and work to keep our cybersecurity practices current. We maintain a completed HECVAT for higher-education review, and our standard data privacy agreement is available to any district. We use no advertising pixels, session replay, or third-party marketing trackers, and our first SOC 2 audit is planned for January-February 2027. We work to each institution’s own requirements, and where they fit our mission we adopt them.

Also
No advertising trackers
No ad pixels, session replay, or third-party marketing trackers
In placeVerifiable in any browser
Data privacy agreement
Our standard agreement for districts
On requestSent on request
SOC 2
Independent security audit of our controls
PlannedJanuary-February 2027
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