NameTBD reads your course catalog, remembers every student conversation, and tracks every deadline — so counselors spend their day on the one thing software can’t do: counseling.
312 students, 47 tasks, and 8 charts is not information — it’s homework. A counselor’s scarcest resource isn’t data; it’s attention. NameTBD spends the computer’s attention watching all 312, so the counselor can spend theirs on the four who need a human today.
Not schools in general — yours. Which courses run, what the prerequisites are, which programs are free, where your graduates actually went. Built from the documents a school already has.
2026–27 Course Catalog, p. 47Through real conversation, not a 40-question form. It notices that a student loved the labs but hated the memorizing — and that’s a more useful fact than “Interest: STEM.” No horoscopes; specifics, with evidence.
Not “seven clubs and a national award.” The next useful thing for this kid at this school: a free research program, one course, a three-hour conversation with someone in the field. Sometimes the advice is to do less.
Counselors don’t distrust software because it’s new. They distrust it because it’s confidently wrong — an AP course that no longer runs, a prerequisite that doesn’t exist. One wrong answer costs a student a semester.
So NameTBD follows one hard rule: if it doesn’t know, it says it doesn’t know. Every institutional fact carries its source. Every recommendation separates what’s verified, what’s inferred, and what’s still uncertain.
Everyone else brags about how much their software learns about students. We think the winning move — with families, with school boards, with the law — is restraint. NameTBD keeps what counseling needs and leaves the rest unrecorded.
A pilot begins with documents a school already has. From the course catalog and handbook alone, the first meeting shows a school its own knowledge base — every course, club, and years of outcomes, already built and citing its sources.
Pilots stay deliberately small: one school, a couple of counselors, ninety days. The measure of success is simple — whether the counselors would be upset to lose it.