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Scholarship Agent

Scholarship searching is mostly unpaid research: finding programs and working out whether the available evidence supports eligibility. This is a private family workspace with a background agent behind it. It sweeps sources daily, reads each program's own page, screens eligibility against a stored student profile, and surfaces only the handful of things that genuinely need a human decision.

Invite-only. Access is limited to approved family accounts.

Scholarship Agent · parent console
Scholarship Agent parent console showing application totals and action queues

Actual console captured locally on September 7, 2026, with an empty database and the background worker disconnected. No private applications are loaded.

A note on the screens below. The interface is illustrated with fictional sample data (invented sponsors, amounts, and dates) to show how it works without exposing any real scholarship pipeline or student information.

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Sources swept daily
39
Opportunities tracked
5
Awaiting a decision
7
Ruled out automatically

Autonomous discovery

It looks while nobody is looking

A background worker sweeps a registry of sponsors, foundations, civic clubs, and aggregators every day, then fetches each candidate's own page and snapshots it as evidence. New programs arrive already read rather than as a list of links to work through later.

Pipeline
Discovered
Harbor Rotary Club
found today · unverified
Lakeside Grange
found today · unverified
Verifying
Coastal Utility Trust
reading official page
Needs a decision
Valley Community Fund
$2,500 · closes Oct 4
Northline STEM Award
$5,000 · closes Nov 1
In application
Summit Merit Award
essay in draft
Ruled out
Mariner Lodge Grant
members' children only

Eligibility screening

Don't spend a Saturday on something you can't win

Scholarship requirements are often spread across a long page or form. The agent extracts each requirement as a structured rule and keeps it only when it can quote the supporting page text. Requirements are shown as met, blocked, or needing review.

Before you start
RequirementStatusQuoted from the program page
Graduating class of 2027Met“open to students graduating in spring 2027”
Minimum 3.0 unweighted GPAMet“applicants must have a minimum 3.0 GPA”
Resident of the countyMet“must reside in the county at time of application”
Connection required: lodge membershipAsk first“open to children and grandchildren of members in good standing”

Clear next actions

A short list, split by who owns it

Everything the pipeline produces resolves into a small number of concrete actions, each assigned to the student or the parent with an honest time estimate. A two-minute eligibility question and a fifteen-minute essay review are different asks, and the list says so.

Open actions
  • Answer: has anyone in the family been a lodge member?
    Student2 min
  • Read and approve the Summit Merit essay draft
    Student15 min
  • Decide: pursue or skip Valley Community Fund
    ParentOct 1

Inbox-driven updates

Status changes arrive on their own

Scholarship programs communicate by email, so the agent reads the replies and moves the pipeline itself. A confirmation advances the record, a request for documents becomes a task, and an interview invitation is flagged as a genuine signal rather than filed away.

Email signals
  • Summit Merit Award
    “We received your application”
    Moved to submitted
  • Northline STEM Award
    “Request for transcript”
    Created a task
  • Valley Community Fund
    “Finalist interview invitation”
    Flagged as a strong signal

Writing support

A first draft built from what it already knows

The student fills in a structured profile once (activities, leadership, work, athletics, academics) and the agent drafts essays and application answers from those facts alone, never invented ones. Drafts are proposals: nothing is submitted, and every one waits for the student to read and approve it.

Essay draft
Prompt

Describe a time you had to learn something in front of people who were already good at it.

Draft · awaiting approval
412 / 500 words

Grounded only in profile facts the student entered. Sources for each claim are listed beside the draft so nothing unverifiable reaches an application.

Daily brief

Email status updates

Each morning both accounts get a short brief: what now needs a decision, what moved forward, what was ruled out and why, and a single line for the routine verification work that needed nobody. The agent's own bookkeeping stays out of it.

Morning brief
Needs a decision

Valley Community Fund ($2,500 · closes Oct 4, 71 days)

Open to county residents graduating in 2027, and the GPA minimum is met.

Ruled out

Mariner Lodge Grant. Restricted to children of members in good standing.

The agent also checked and verified 17 other listings. Nothing needed from you there.

Private by design

Built for one family, not the public.

The workspace sits behind passkey and Google sign-in and is limited to approved family accounts, so a student's academic record, essays, and application history stay private. That is why this page is a walkthrough rather than a login link. The agent proposes and drafts; it never submits an application on anyone's behalf, and every consequential action it takes is written to a tamper-evident audit log.