Counselor PippIn development
A counselor you can actually talk to.All season.
Not a blank chat box. Counselor Pipp already knows your schools, drafts and deadlines, remembers your season, and answers the way a counselor should: concretely, from your own material, with a next step.
November · 12 days to the early deadline
My Stanford why-us still feels generic, and it’s due in 12 days. I don’t know what to fix first.
Reading your workspace: Stanford, Why-us · draft 3, Robotics club, Nov 1 · early round
Generic usually means another school’s name would fit, and draft 3 does that twice: the rankings line, and the closing about the campus. What it never uses: two years of robotics in your activity log, and the note on your Stanford card about the intro design seminar you watched. That connection is yours alone.
Next step: Tonight, replace the rankings paragraph with the robotics link. That leaves eleven days for one more revision and one AI Review.
Wait, what did that note actually say? It was weeks ago.
Here it is, from your Stanford card in October: “they let first-years design the project from week one. I want that.” Your words, kept where you left them. You never have to re-explain yourself to me. (Stanford · your note)
Counselor Pipp is in development.
An example conversation with a fictional student. No real student data, and no finished feature: this page describes what we are building.
All season
The same counselor in September and in January.
The questions change every month; the counselor does not. It is designed for long-term memory across the season, summarized as it goes, so October’s conversation starts where September’s ended.
Sep · School list
Example conversations with a fictional student. One season, one counselor.
Context
It already knows where you are.
Ask a question and it retrieves only what matters to that question: this school, that draft, the deadline behind both. Nothing pasted in, nothing re-explained.
- Retrieval, not a dossier: only what is relevant, never the whole workspace.
- No blank box: it starts from where your application actually stands.
“Is my why-us specific enough?”
One question pulls two cards, never your whole file.
Private by architecture
Conversations live outside your application file.
Counselor conversations are kept in their own private store, separate from the workspace where your application lives. Reading goes one way: the counselor sees your context, and nothing you tell it is written back into the file.
What the counselor reads
Application workspace
A separate, private store
Counselor conversations
Yours to control. The history is yours to keep or to clear, on your terms.
It survives a pause. If a pass lapses, your conversations stay retained, waiting for you.
Where it fits
Free organizes the application.Pro understands the application.The Counselor understands the student.
Free
Organize the application
The workspace: schools, essays, activities and timeline in one place. Free today, and where every tier starts.
Pro
Understand the application
A deeper read of the work itself, like Deep Review going through a draft inside your whole application.
CounselorIn development
December · late night
Honestly? Every draft I write sounds like someone else.
Your October activity log doesn’t. Three plain sentences about the robotics loss, honest about what broke. That is your voice. Write the next draft in it. (Activity log · October)
Understand the student
A counselor that knows your context, remembers your season, and talks it through with you.
The Counselor Pipp Pass is listed on the pricing page as coming soon. No dates, and no promises until it is real. See pricing
What it will not be
It counsels an application, not a life. Heavy things deserve people, and PeerPath keeps real ones close: mentors who sat exactly where you sit, and the small team building this, who you can actually reach.
It will talk a decision through with you for as long as you need, and write none of it for you. Your application, your words. Essays only work that way.
No tool on this planet can honestly predict an admissions decision. The ones that pretend to are guessing with your hopes. This one never will.
Day to day it feels unlimited: talk whenever you need, for as long as you need. Fair-use thresholds are part of the design so the counselor lasts to January. A firehose just runs out.
My rules, in writing. Hold me to them.
Start today
It will arrive already knowing you.
Everything the counselor will read is the workspace you can use free today. Add schools, draft essays, log activities: every card you fill in now is context it starts from on day one.