caat
turning the chaos of applying to university into one place that finally makes sense.
- what we did
- product + full build
- sector
- edtech
- stack
- next.js · supabase
- status
- live at mycaat.com
students think in schools. most tools don't.
applying to university is a scramble of moving parts. essays sit under one tab, documents in another folder, scholarships somewhere else again, and a dozen deadlines are scattered across browser bookmarks and sticky notes.
we kept hearing the same thing from students. they don't think in essays or documents, they think in schools. “what does this university actually need from me, and how close am i?” but the tools were built around the pieces, so the student ended up being the glue holding everything together.
“international students shouldn't need a paid agent just to apply to college.”
we made the school application the spine of the whole product.
every school a student is applying to gets its own hub. it pulls together the essays that school needs, the documents on its checklist, the scholarships worth chasing, and a simple readiness bar that shows exactly how close they are to hitting submit.
the libraries didn't go away. essays and documents still live in their own organised spaces, but now they surface in the right place at the right time. nothing is lost, and the student stops being the integration layer.
one tracker for everything
every deadline, requirement, and document for every school, in one honest timeline.
essay workshop
prompts, tips, and drafts that save as you write, so a good line is never lost.
scholarship finder
surfaces scholarships that match your profile and tracks each one from interested to awarded.
resume builder
templates admissions offices actually expect, with a clean live preview.
from a pile of useful tools to one coherent assistant.
caat indexes thousands of universities and reorganises the whole process around the way students actually work. the pieces that used to feel like separate apps now feel like one product that has your back.