Ari WorthmanLakeside School
600+ hoursof student reflection captured
132 of 140 juniors completed the full ten-conversation journey before their counseling work intensified.
“It made some meetings feel a lot less rushed.”
AI college counseling platform · Grades 9–12 · Counselor-led
Know every student sooner.Counsel every student better.
Students talk with Addie by phone, browser, WhatsApp, or text. Addie listens at scale and connects what they share with school context—so counselors know every student earlier, spend less time reconstructing the story, and guide better-fit choices.
More students heard. More counselor time for human guidance.
Book a demoSee the student and counselor experience
Reserve your pilotChoose a cohort and launch window
Fits the counseling work already on your calendar. Strengthens - not replaces - the counselor relationship.
Know every student—not only the ones who speak up
Spend scarce counselor time on guidance—not gathering
Build better-fit paths from grade 9 through graduation
Trusted by leading counseling teams
Used by 70+ schools in the U.S. and internationally, including leading ACCIS schools applying Addie to real student and counselor workflows.
Kelly HerringtonUniversity Prep
1 weekto launch through an existing school workflow
UPrep moved its required senior inventory into Addie and connected student voice, teacher comments, and counselor context.
“This actually makes us more human.”
Joe KinneyThe Pingry School
50%+less time preparing multi-hour recommendation letters
Addie helps organize stories, evidence, quotations, and structure while the counselor remains the author.
“I’d say it’s cutting it at least in half, if not more.”
What Addie does
Students reflect. Addie connects the story. Counselors lead.
Addie creates time for students to explain what matters, then turns that context into better-prepared human counseling.
The primary outcome
More human engagement—not less.
Addie handles scalable reflection and preparation so counselor time can move toward relationships, interpretation, judgment, and decisions.
1 · Students reflect
Students say what matters in a richer way
Voice or text conversations happen when students are ready—and follow up beyond the first answer.
2 · Addie connects
Context becomes one living student story
Student reflection joins teacher comments, counselor notes, questionnaires, and approved records.
3 · Counselors lead
Counselors enter important moments further ahead
Prepare meetings, guide better-fit choices, structure recommendations, and focus attention where it matters.
Students reflect and explore
Students move beyond credentials to explain growth, values, interests, support needs, and where they may thrive.
Counselors start prepared
Meetings begin with context, stronger questions, and fewer surprises—not another round of background collection.
Earlier visibility across the cohort
Regular reflection helps counselors see changing priorities, support needs, and follow-up opportunities earlier.
Leadership sees human impact
Schools can see meaningful participation and counselor value—not just whether another tool was technically used.
The counselor payoff
What counselors receive
One schoolwide view of who is engaging, who is ready, and where human attention should go next.
Addie gives counselors both the cohort-level visibility to manage a program and the student-level context to do the human work well.
Across the caseload
Know where a human should step in
See who is active, stalled, ready for a meeting, or asking for support—without manually checking every student.
Before meetings
Start with context instead of collecting it
Know what changed, what matters now, and which questions are worth the student’s limited meeting time.
Before recommendations
Find the stories and evidence faster
Move from scattered forms and notes to organized themes, quotations, teacher evidence, and possible structure.
Across the program
See whether the work is actually moving
Track engagement, conversation completion, upcoming priorities, and whether counselors are receiving useful context.
Without AddieGather, search, and reconstruct before the work can begin.
With AddieEnter ready to counsel, write, guide fit, and follow up.
The core record
The Student Ledger is the student record that actually listens.
Instead of letting student voice, teacher feedback, counselor notes, and school information live in separate places, Addie steadily compounds them into one living record.
Over time, the ledger can grow toward 100,000 words of student context—organized so a counselor can use it for meetings, recommendation letters, course planning, college fit, and human follow-up.
Student voice
Students explain how they learn, what changed, what matters, and what they want understood.
Teacher evidence
Comments and observations become usable evidence instead of isolated documents a counselor must reread.
Counselor continuity
Notes, meeting context, and next steps remain available across years, colleagues, and handoffs.
School records and milestones
Approved records, tasks, and deadlines add practical context without replacing the systems your school already uses.
Counselor-ready insight
The combined record supports meeting preparation, better-fit decisions, recommendation work, and targeted support.
Built around the counseling calendar
How Addie fits what you already do
You already have the work. Addie makes it richer, faster, and more connected.
Addie starts with the forms, meetings, notes, lists, letters, and deadlines your team already owns—not a parallel counseling program.
Student understanding
Junior intake
Before Addie
A static questionnaire often produces brief facts, credential lists, and answers the counselor still needs to unpack.
With Addie
A guided voice or text journey follows up on why an experience mattered, what changed, and what the student wants understood.
Counselor outcome: richer context before the first major meeting.
Human conversations
Counselor meetings
Before Addie
Scarce meeting time is used to gather background, clarify forms, and remember what happened since the last conversation.
With Addie
Students reflect beforehand and the counselor sees a concise brief, important changes, supporting evidence, and questions worth exploring.
Counselor outcome: a less rushed, more meaningful meeting.
Grades 9-10
Course and pathway planning
Before Addie
Course choices are often driven by requirements and grades without enough time to connect learning style, interests, confidence, and future possibilities.
With Addie
Students reflect before course-selection meetings on how they learn, what energizes them, and what junior- and senior-year choices may open.
Counselor outcome: more personal high-school planning that supports better postsecondary fit.
Best fit
College and pathway exploration
Before Addie
Preferences, research, school names, family priorities, and visit impressions live across spreadsheets, systems, and memory.
With Addie
Fit criteria stay connected to years of student voice—learning environments, values, community, location, support, interests, and practical constraints.
Counselor outcome: choices grounded in where the student may truly thrive.
High-value writing
Recommendation preparation
Before Addie
Counselors reassemble questionnaires, teacher comments, meeting notes, activities, family context, anecdotes, and prior drafts.
With Addie
Stories, quotations, themes, teacher evidence, and possible structure are organized in one counselor-ready record.
Counselor outcome: faster preparation with judgment, voice, and authorship intact.
Student follow-through
Milestones and targeted follow-up
Before Addie
Email reminders, spreadsheets, and manual chasing make it hard to distinguish a student who needs a nudge from one who needs a counselor.
With Addie
School-calendar tasks, engagement visibility, student check-ins, and targeted alerts help the team focus human attention where it matters.
Counselor outcome: less undifferentiated chasing and earlier, more relevant support.
Other familiar counseling work Addie can strengthen
Student story
Brag sheets and autobiographies
Before Addie
Accomplishment lists give counselors the facts but often miss the meaning, responsibility, growth, and personal context behind them.
With Addie
Guided reflection helps students explain the moments behind the line items—what they contributed, why it mattered, and how they changed.
Counselor outcome: stronger material for meetings, recommendations, and student-authored essays.
Narrative direction
Essay workshops
Before Addie
The student arrives with a blank page and scarce counselor time is spent excavating basic stories before meaningful workshop work can begin.
With Addie
Student-owned themes, turning points, tensions, quotations, and possible directions are available before the human conversation.
Counselor outcome: a better workshop conversation while the student’s voice and authorship stay intact.
Evidence at hand
Teacher-comment synthesis and refreshers
Before Addie
Comments, notes, and prior observations sit across systems and years, forcing counselors to reread and reconstruct the pattern.
With Addie
Patterns in learning, contribution, growth, challenge, and direct teacher evidence stay organized in one counselor-ready record.
Counselor outcome: holistic context without another search through scattered documents.
Continuity
Family conversations and counselor handoffs
Before Addie
Important context can remain in one person’s memory, get repeated in every family conversation, or disappear during counselor transitions.
With Addie
Student voice, counselor notes, family context, and next steps stay connected and available to the authorized counseling team.
Counselor outcome: continuity across family conversations, team collaboration, and staffing changes.
A whole-high-school counseling platform
Begin understanding students in ninth grade. Deepen that understanding every year. Use it when the most important academic, personal, and postsecondary decisions arrive.
One Student Ledger. Increasing value every year.
Student voice, counselor knowledge, teacher input, school-approved information, and progress accumulate across grades 9-12.
Know
Build the first meaningful understanding of the student’s transition into high school.
Student focus
- Learning strengths and challenges
- Relationships, belonging, and school culture
- Confidence, student-reported stress, and support
- Early interests and goals
What Addie adds
- Age-appropriate reflection between human check-ins
- Teacher comments and counselor context
- Early visibility across the full grade
Counselor gain
- A real baseline for advising
- Earlier transition and support visibility
- Better-fit relationships and school experiences
Explore
Connect learning, activities, identity, and possible futures before junior-year pressure begins.
Student focus
- Academic reflection and learning style
- Course selection for grades 11 and 12
- Activities, values, motivation, and community
- Career and pathway curiosity
What Addie adds
- Structured exploration at student scale
- Ongoing check-ins on confidence and goals
- Connections between present choices and future fit
Counselor gain
- More personal course guidance
- Stronger exploration meetings
- Clearer patterns over time
Plan
Translate accumulated understanding into academic, college, career, and fit-based direction.
Student focus
- Junior intake and academic identity
- College, career, and future fit
- Meeting preparation and initial list
- Teacher and recommendation context
What Addie adds
- Guided Conversation Journey
- Fit profile and research context
- Organized stories, comments, and evidence
Counselor gain
- A complete story built over time
- Faster preparation and stronger lists
- Better recommendation foundations
Act
Use the full student story to support applications, decisions, and transition beyond high school.
Student focus
- Essay and application direction
- Recommendations and milestones
- Decision factors and best fit
- Transition plans and support
What Addie adds
- Narrative reflection and progress checks
- Context available across the counseling team
- Fit criteria grounded in years of student voice
Counselor gain
- More efficient and consistent advising
- Better decision support
- A complete student story at graduation
Every year adds context.Every future counselor interaction begins better prepared.
The Conversation Journey
The Conversation Journey
Students choose voice or text, pause and return, and build context that becomes useful in counselor meetings, course planning, college-fit guidance, recommendations, and follow-up.
Voice-firstText enabledMultilingualPause and return
Conversation 1
Starting Point
Addie introduces the experience, builds trust, and learns where the student is practically and emotionally in the process.
A question Addie might explore“What feels exciting, confusing, or unfinished as you begin this process?”
What the student gets
- Preferred name, pronouns, and language comfort
- Prior schooling and current stage
- Research, visits, lists, conversations, and outside support
- What feels confusing, exciting, or hopeful
What the counselor gets
- How to begin the first meeting
- What the student has already done
- One worry or source of overwhelm
- One excitement, curiosity, or hope
ResultEnough context to begin the first meeting warm, not cold.
Conversation 2
Academic Strengths
This is not a grades review. It helps the student explain how they learn, what motivates them, and how they respond when the work becomes difficult.
A question Addie might explore“Tell me about a time you had to change the way you learned.”
What the student gets
- Academic strengths and why they matter
- Challenges and how the student responded
- Motivation, engagement, and learning style
- A proud or meaningful academic moment
What the counselor gets
- Where the student feels most capable
- What support behavior changed
- Which learning environments fit
- Evidence for advising and recommendations
ResultA clearer picture of the student as a learner.
Conversation 3
Life Outside the Classroom
Activities become stories about responsibility, contribution, leadership, family roles, and growth—not just another list of accomplishments.
A question Addie might explore“What do you do outside class that has shaped who you are—and why?”
What the student gets
- Activities, employment, service, hobbies, and family roles
- Which experiences matter most and why
- Commitment, initiative, leadership, and responsibility
- What the student wants to continue in college
What the counselor gets
- The person behind the activity list
- Values revealed through concrete moments
- Stories for recommendations and essays
- Invisible responsibilities worth recognizing
ResultA richer student story beyond the résumé.
Conversation 4
Future Path
Students can be curious, uncertain, or considering multiple paths. Addie connects interests to experiences without forcing an answer too early.
A question Addie might explore“What kinds of problems, topics, or environments could you imagine wanting to work with?”
What the student gets
- Fields, subjects, careers, or problems that feel compelling
- Why those directions appeal
- University, gap year, work, apprenticeship, or multiple pathways
- Family, financial, geographic, and personal context
What the counselor gets
- What feels exciting or meaningful
- What is expected versus student-owned
- Where uncertainty remains useful
- Questions that can move exploration forward
ResultLanguage for what feels possible, meaningful, and unresolved.
Conversation 5
College Fit
Addie treats named colleges as examples of preferences—not recommendations—and helps the student define the conditions in which they may thrive.
A question Addie might explore“What parts of your current school experience would you want again—and what would you change?”
What the student gets
- Academic, social, geographic, and residential preferences
- What to repeat or change from high school
- Community, support, size, setting, and lifestyle
- Family, cultural, financial, and practical influences
What the counselor gets
- What “fit” means in the student’s own words
- Why named schools are appealing
- Which constraints shape the search
- How to ground and refine the list
ResultA student-defined picture of fit—not just a list of school names.
Conversation 6
Pre-Counselor Check-In
Before the human meeting, the student gets one more chance to share important circumstances, support, concerns, and priorities.
A question Addie might explore“What should your counselor understand before you walk into the meeting?”
What the student gets
- Important school, home, or life context
- Outside tutoring, counseling, or test preparation
- What the counselor should understand or emphasize
- How the student feels heading into the meeting
What the counselor gets
- Context that could otherwise arrive late
- Support structures already in place
- What the student wants noticed
- Where the human conversation should begin
ResultFewer surprises and a more prepared counselor conversation.
The human outcome
AI should create more room for human counseling - not less.
Students get time to reflect. Addie prepares the context. Counselors use their limited time for relationships, interpretation, authorship, judgment, and decisions.
“It makes our students more reflective. It allows them to know themselves and be themselves.”
“Addie is another thought partner. It’s not replacing anything I would do.”
“We’re asking students to do this so we can help them. That’s, at the end of the day, what it’s all about.”
They have time to explain what matters in their own words.
The meeting starts closer to insight, not background collection.
Stories, teacher context, changes, and next steps stay connected.
Counselors interpret, author, advise, and lead the relationship.
See Addie through the eyes of counselors
Three respected independent-school counseling teams show how Addie supports real students, real meetings, and real recommendation work.
Lakeside School, University Prep, and The Pingry School are active Addie power users with different starting points and the same goal: more context and more room for human counseling.
Ari WorthmanDirector of College Counseling, Lakeside School
Before: a static junior questionnaire. After: ten guided conversations and richer meetings.
“I didn’t initially think of AI as helping us get to know students better. It’s become fascinating to see how it can help with the qualitative parts of our jobs.”
132 of 140juniors completed
600+ hoursstudent context
4.5+ hoursaverage reflection per completer
Most useful workflows
- Ten themed conversations replaced the junior questionnaire.
- Summaries, teacher comments, grades, and notes prepared counselors before meetings.
- The same Ledger supported recommendations, college suggestions, career exploration, and rapid refreshers.
“It probably cut my recommendations down from three to four hours to an hour and a half.”
Kelly HerringtonDirector of College Counseling and Student Services, University Prep
Before: an existing senior inventory. After: a familiar workflow with deeper counselor context.
“One of the people who gave me the most pushback, within a week, said: ‘I can’t do my job now without this.’”
1 weekfrom setup to use
Existing inventorybecame the entry point
Skeptic → advocatewithin one week
Most useful workflows
- Surface what a counselor might otherwise overlook, with direct teacher evidence.
- Turn memorable details and student voice into recommendation material.
- Use the student’s own words to scaffold essay-direction conversations.
- Summarize notes into Scoir so colleagues can continue the story.
“What will I miss or overlook as a counselor that is secretly awesome about this student?”
Joe KinneyThe Pingry School
Before: student evidence scattered across forms and notes. After: one daily counselor workflow.
“I’m not using it to write the letter. I’m using it to help me really structure the letter.”
295 hoursstudent reflection
1.06M wordsstudent-authored
50%+less recommendation prep
Most useful workflows
- Bring student conversations, parent letters, staff reflections, counselor notes, and forms into one Ledger.
- Check each morning which students have enough reflection to begin a letter.
- Identify openings, central stories, evidence, quotations, and conclusions while retaining authorship.
- Use Addie for meeting preparation, essay direction, and recommendations alongside Scoir.
“In the morning, one of the first places I go is Addie… ‘That means I can probably start her letter.’” — Amy Cooperman
Quotes lightly edited for clarity. Metrics reflect reported implementation use at the time of each conversation.
Safety is designed into the workflow
Privacy, control, and human judgment
Built so schools can use AI without surrendering student privacy, counselor judgment, or control of the counseling process.
The school stays in control
The school determines participating students, enabled information, users, communication, and launch timing.
Student information stays purpose-bound
Counselor notes remain restricted, access is role-based, and student data is not used to train public models.
Human-reportable concerns reach humans
Under the school’s agreed protocol, Addie can alert designated staff when an interaction needs human review. A trained adult decides what happens next.
Context is not diagnosis
Student-reported stress, belonging, confidence, relationships, or support needs can become visible for counselor follow-up. Addie is not therapy, clinical care, or emergency response.
Humans make the decisions
Addie organizes, summarizes, and proposes. Counselors interpret, author, advise, decide, and lead the relationship.
Frictionless onboarding
A simple, low-lift pilot
Bring an always-ready counseling assistant onto the team—without a training marathon, curriculum rewrite, or months-long technology project.
Like adding a deeply informed assistant who arrives ready to work
Addie comes with proven grade-level journeys and counselor workflows, stays available whenever students are ready to reflect, and keeps the student story organized between meetings.
Name the school lead
One person coordinates the cohort, communication, and school calendar.
Choose the students
Select a grade, counselor caseload, or meaningful cohort.
Align for 30 minutes
Match proven journeys to your terminology, guardrails, and dates.
Launch on your calendar
Addie configures accounts, supports the rollout, and makes engagement visible.
The school brings
- A named lead and participating students
- A secure roster and counselor assignments
- School dates, terminology, and communication approval
- Counselor participation and an outcomes review
Addie brings
- Configuration, accounts, and ready-to-use journeys
- Counselor alignment and student launch materials
- Progress visibility, reminders, and support
- Evidence review and a recommendation for expansion
See the experience—or reserve a launch window.
We will quickly map Addie to your students, calendar, and counseling priorities.
No platform fatigue
Your systems stay. Addie fits around them.
Addie works alongside the SIS and college-counseling platforms your team already uses. Start with a secure roster, reuse approved context, and deepen connectivity only when it creates real workflow value.
No rip-and-replace. No platform reset. Addie adds student reflection and counselor-ready context around the workflows already living in your school ecosystem. These logos identify systems Addie can work alongside; no partnership or endorsement is implied.
Secure roster
The fastest path for verified students, counselors, grades, IDs, and assignments.
Roster + approved context
Add transcripts, teacher comments, questionnaires, and approved records without a systems project.
Recurring export or OneRoster
Refresh rosters, assignments, and approved fields on an agreed cadence as deployment grows.
API, SSO, or writeback
Go deeper only when scale, governance, or workflow value clearly justifies the added complexity.
Implementation principleChoose the smallest reliable dataset that creates correct accounts, permissions, and counselor routing.
A deeper integration is never required to begin safely.
Vendor names and logos are trademarks of their respective owners. No partnership or endorsement is implied. Technical paths vary by school configuration and approved access.
Help every stakeholder evaluate Addie
Choose the role closest to yours for the essential answers on this page - and the supporting PDFs to share in the next internal conversation.
Will this improve the work my team already owns?
See the student experience, counselor outputs, workflow improvements, and peer evidence that matter to a counseling director.
- Conversation Journey and student engagement
- Meeting, fit, course, essay, and recommendation workflows
- Customer stories and counselor quotations
Will Addie increase capacity and strengthen student support?
Understand the whole-high-school model, human-engagement outcome, evidence, pilot path, and commercial picture.
- Grades 9-12 continuity and institutional memory
- Earlier visibility, better fit, and counselor preparedness
- A measurable path from pilot to adoption
Can we launch safely without creating an IT project?
Review school control, data paths, access boundaries, launch safeguards, and the official policy language.
- School-controlled fields, users, and communication
- Secure roster-first implementation
- Clear privacy and integration paths
What happens after we decide to begin?
See the simple responsibilities, alignment meeting, roster setup, counselor preparation, student launch, and evidence review.
- Name the school lead and participating students
- Align terminology, calendar, communication, and guardrails
- Launch with progress visibility and support
Frequently asked questions
The questions counseling teams ask when deciding whether Addie is worth bringing into the program.
Does Addie replace college counselors?
No. Addie gives students structured time to reflect, connects school-approved context, and prepares counselor-ready summaries. Counselors retain the relationship, interpretation, authorship, judgment, and every consequential decision.
Will students actually engage?
At Lakeside School, 132 of 140 juniors completed all ten conversations and generated more than 600 hours of reflection. Strong school framing, a real deadline, and visible counselor use are central to engagement.
What do counselors receive?
Counselors receive cohort-level visibility, a living Student Ledger, meeting preparation, recommendation support, fit insight, and clear signals about who may need human follow-up.
Can Addie help counselors notice concerns earlier?
Yes. Regular reflection can surface belonging, confidence, stress, relationships, or support needs, and human-reportable concerns can be routed to designated adults under the school’s agreed protocol.
Do we need an SIS integration to begin?
No. Most schools can begin safely with a secure roster and approved context. Deeper integrations are added only when they create useful operational value.
How quickly can a school launch?
A roster-first launch can often move in days rather than months. The school names a champion and cohort, completes a 30-minute alignment session, approves communication, and launches around its existing calendar.
How is student information protected?
The school controls purpose, scope, cohorts, enabled information, access, and communication. Student data is not used to train public models. Read the Privacy Policy.
What makes a pilot successful?
A strong pilot shows meaningful student engagement, useful counselor insight, stronger or less-rushed human conversations, operational fit, and a clear continuation or expansion decision. See the pilot page.
See where Addie fits your counseling program
Give your counselors more time - and your students more opportunity to be heard.
In a 30-minute demo, we will map Addie to your students, calendar, and counseling priorities, then show exactly what students experience, what counselors receive, and how a frictionless pilot could begin.
Book a demoSee the student and counselor experience
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