Career exploration and planning, grade 6 to adult

See every path, and what it will actually take.

Career exploration and planning for students, and one place for the people who guide them.

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

Four kinds of teams

Find your version.

Each team uses PlannedQuest a little differently. Start with yours.

Middle and high schools

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

Every way in. The four-year degree, the two-year degree, the apprenticeship and the job-first route, side by side.
The bar before they commit. Prerequisites, how programs choose, limited seats and cost.
Ready to run. Activities of 10 to 35 minutes, checklists by grade, reports for your plans.

See how it works for schools

Career Routes for software development: a traditional academic route and a coding bootcamp route, each with a short description and a Save button. — Career Routes: every way into software development, side by side

Colleges and universities

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

Career center. Mission control for career services: check-ins, follow-ups and meetings in one place.
CTE programs. The bar and every way into the field, from the first class.
Intro and first-year courses. Exploration that launches from your LMS and becomes part of the course.
Student success programs. Caseloads and check-ins for TRIO, EOPS and programs like them.

See how it works for colleges

A major's overview at the bachelor's level: typical yearly earnings of $95,504 four years after finishing, and a typical federal loan payment of $249 a month. — A major's overview: what graduates earn and what loans cost

Nonprofits and access programs

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

A starting point. The Career Profiler gives students words for what they like, with pay and outlook for each match.
The road from where they are. Community college first, a job first, or a bridge from the job they have.
Support beside the plan. Resources for foster youth, first-generation and other students, by state.

See how it works for programs

A student's three strongest interest clues, saved to their profile

Workforce and job centers

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

Who needs you this week. Check in soon and Follow-ups due, on one screen.
Every conversation on the record. A check-in is one line, with the next step and the next meeting.
Reports in your funder's words. WIOA, Perkins, Strong Workforce, CAEP and your grants.

See how it works for workforce

A staff activity tracker: six fictional learners, each with Done or Not started for each assigned activity. — Who has done what, across a whole caseload

The one idea

Same goal. Different roads. A different bar on each.

Three people say "I want to be a nurse." One is a ninth grader, one already works as a nursing assistant, one just heard no from the first program they applied to. PlannedQuest shows each of them every real way in, what each one asks of them, and a next step they can take this month.

A nursing Reality Check: the list of checks on the left, and the open check "Minimum GPA is not the same as competitive GPA" on the right, with a common belief and why it matters in their own cards. — A nursing check, in the Reality Check card layout

For the people who guide them

The work around the plan, in one place.

Who needs you this week
See who has gone quiet, who is stuck, and what is due.
Every conversation on the record
Log a check-in in one line, set the next step, book the next meeting.
In your funder's words
Report what students did in the terms your grant uses.

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.