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A visitor found that our Aid sample gave the federal FAFSA deadline for the wrong year. We corrected it, and the Who We Are page now lists every FAFSA and CSS Profile date on our public pages, each with the official record it comes from and the day we checked it, beside a dated log of every correction we make.

Our tests fail when an aid form date is typed by hand into a page instead of read from that list, or when a date for a year whose federal deadline is still ahead goes more than 400 days without a fresh check. Each of the eight full samples now ends with a Report a Mistake link, so a mistake you spot reaches us directly.

Every score The Rubric! Studio drafts now cites the words of the student's answer that earned it and the terms it says are missing, and the studio checks both against the answer before the draft is stored: what fails is flagged on the row, the criterion is marked Low, and the row waits for you in Needs Review instead of Accept All. When you change a score you can record why, the comment pass reads your reason, and once a job is finalized the page prints how many of the drafted scores you changed and across how many papers.

On the Rubric page's Evidence section you can read how the drafts compare with two trained human raters on a public dataset of student short answers, measured before and after the check on the same answers, with the method, the date and the size beside every figure, and a file of every answer's result to check for yourself.

Our Terms of Service now say it in plain words: the plans, letters, school profiles, curricula, rubrics, and reports EduFinder makes for your account are yours, for any lawful purpose. A counselor can publish the school profile and give every colleague the same copy, a teacher can share a curriculum with the department, and anyone can send what they made under their own name.

Teachers and counselors told us the old wording left them guessing, so the Terms now list these uses with examples under What You Make Is Yours. Share what you make, not your sign-in: each account is for one person.

Starting today, an EduFinder account is free, and so are the record you keep in it and your first run of every tool: a set of school matches, a chance read, a course plan, an atlas, a playbook and a walkthrough, your first Draft Feedback and Idea Library, and, for educators, a curriculum, a letter, a grading job of up to ten students with its comment pass, a School Profile, a transcript audit and a sign-off draft. Leonardo, EduFinder's AI, answers five messages a week on every account, and one full SAT practice test a month is on us.

The Pro Membership is what runs every tool as often as you need and keeps every loop going: run it again, update what it made, and pick up where it left off, with Leonardo every day and every test in the bank. It is still $39 per month (USD), one price for a student, a parent, a teacher, or a counselor, and everything you already made stays yours to read, export, and print on any account.

Leonardo, EduFinder's AI, is the name of the companion that has sat in the header of every EduFinder account since September, the one you can ask in plain words about anything your account already shows. For a student or a parent it is a patient mentor: it answers from your own list, plans, and numbers, keeps what it learns about you in a notebook you own, where every line is dated and yours to edit or delete, and opens each visit with what changed, one thing for this week, and one question worth thinking about. For a teacher or a counselor it is a practical colleague on your own hub that drafts the first version of a letter, a set of scores, or a curriculum, which you then read and sign. Wherever it works, it reads only what your account already shows you, says plainly when something is not there, never pretends to be a person, and changes nothing without your own click. The name is a small nod to a famous keeper of notebooks.

Starting today, Leonardo also has a face to match: a full plush koala with round navy glasses and its own blue notebook, drawn in six poses. You will meet it waving on the home page, standing beside the headline on the family, educator, Test Bank, and Learning pages, writing in its notebook beside the dashboard preview on the family page, and introduced in full on the Who We Are page. Inside your account the small koala in the header is the same new face, and Leonardo now stands beside an empty list, a finished step, a first visit, and its own panel. Nothing about what Leonardo does has changed; the pictures simply make it easier to recognize at a glance, wherever on the site it is helping you.

Starting today, using an EduFinder service takes a Pro Membership: $39 per month (USD), the same price for a student, a parent, a teacher, or a counselor, and one membership unlocks every service on your own account. Subscribe from Your Membership in your account menu, and cancel anytime; your membership stays active until the end of the month you paid for, and no refunds are issued for the days that remain.

Creating an account is still free, and so is seeing your dashboard. Everything you already made stays yours to read, export, and print, membership or not; anything already queued finishes; and Your Team stays open, because links, messages, and rooms never need a membership (asking a room's AI advisor does), and a student answering a teacher's link never pays.

Since September 10, EduFinder has rebuilt its student side around one idea: your account should remember you. Every student service used to answer once and start over the next time you asked; now each one remembers its last answer and picks up from there, and a companion called Your Mentor sits in the header of your account with a notebook you own. Every tool still works exactly as before, nothing moved behind a wall, and everything remains free for every signed-in student.

Your Mentor opens from the header of your dashboard, every area of The Roster! Board, and every plan, atlas, playbook, walkthrough, and report you open (each generated document now carries your account's own header, with the Page Guide and your account menu beside the mentor), and from a Mentor tab on your phone. Ask what to do this week, why a plan recommended what it did, or what moved on your chance read, and it answers from your own list, plans, and numbers, citing what it read and teaching the domain through them rather than talking past them. It reads only what your account already shows you. Anything it suggests doing (refreshing a chance read, refreshing the opportunities in your atlas, checking off a milestone, marking an essay's status, pinning an angle to an essay, saving a note) arrives as a card that does nothing until you approve it, and no card can email anybody. It never writes a line of your essay, never says a chance is good or bad, never names a dollar figure, and never sees your Team Space.

Your Notebook is what your mentor learns about you, kept in plain sight: what you want, what you are good at, what you are working on, and what worries you. Every line is dated, says whether you wrote it or your mentor did, and can be edited or deleted. If you like, it starts from the answers you already gave in your Idea Library, your atlas, and your profile notes, and from then on it grows on its own from what you say in conversation. Once it has grown, Write My Chapter turns it into a page called Who You Are Becoming, yours to edit or delete like any other line. Nothing in it reaches anyone unless you choose: you can post one note at a time into your own Team Space, where it arrives frozen exactly as it read the moment you posted it.

Every visit to Your Mentor opens with a check-in: what changed since the last time you came, one thing to do this week with a Learning guide beside it, and one question worth thinking about. Once a school year, if the grade on your profile looks out of date, it asks whether you have moved up a grade and changes nothing until you say yes. The Learning guides now reach you inside your account as well: Read More About This sits under the next-move banner on your dashboard and your college list, up to three guides wait at the foot of every plan, atlas, playbook, and report, and your mentor can point you to one by name.

The four services on the student path now pick up where they left off. On the board, Draft Feedback remembers the earlier draft of the same essay and opens with Since Your Last Draft, saying what moved, and the chance report's momentum card offers Ask Your Mentor. The Resolve! Planner gains Update This Plan, which re-asks your course plan from your own saved answers with only what you change and prints What Changed Since Your Last Plan beside the new plan, keeping the old one. The Pursuit! Atlas lets you check off the milestones in each grade's plan, and Re-Read My Identity re-reads your application identity from the milestones you checked off and what your notebook says, beside the original rather than over it. The Aid! Playbook gains Refresh This Playbook on the same terms and says when a new aid cycle opens. And every course plan, atlas, chance report, and set of essay ideas or school matches now says what grade it was made in, so a document from an earlier year is never mistaken for a current one.

Your weekly digest, the Monday email, now covers your whole path rather than the board alone: what moved on your board, your course plan, your atlas, your playbook, and the form walkthroughs, with the week's question at the end for students. It is still sent only when something moved, and one click unsubscribes. All of it is free for every signed-in student, and none of it changes anything outside your notebook without your own click. Your Mentor and your notebook are not on the family panel: a parent never reads a conversation with your mentor, a line of your notebook, or the page it writes about who you are becoming, and what a confirmed family or counselor connection shares has not changed at all.

Since the end of August, EduFinder has rebuilt its educator side so that the tools do more of the work. The documents you sign your name to (recommendation letters, curricula, the School Profile, and grades read from scanned handwriting) are now written by a frontier-class model, the most capable generation we run, and several supporting passes moved up with it. Every tool still works one item at a time exactly as before; what is new is that each can also work a whole class, season, or caseload in one pass.

The Letter! Desk now works a whole recommendation season at once. Tell Me About Them opens the interview from one narrative you type about the student, filling every field it can and showing what still needs you, and the evidence picker opens with your strongest items already checked. Draft All Ready queues a draft for every request whose materials are in, up to twenty-five in one click; Remind Everyone Missing Materials shows who is still missing what and sends only the reminders you approve; and a Word export now sits beside the PDF. Counselors get the same season board on their own desk.

The Rubric! Studio now grades from one class stack. Drop in a single PDF or a pile of photos of the whole set, confirm how the pages group by student, and the studio scores every answer, sorts the review by confidence, uses your first few finalized grades as calibration anchors for the rest, and accepts the confident ones in one click. You can refresh comments where a score changed, release grades to students who submitted through an online collection, download the gradebook, and, once half the class is finalized, read a Class Insight Brief that names the shared misconceptions and writes a re-teach mini lesson with warm-up questions. Work a scanner cannot read (a project, a performance, an oral defense) can now be scored by hand in the same review table.

The Syllabus! Planner now builds a rubric for every assessment type, not only the ones a scanner can read, each with a student-facing task brief and the same one-click handoff into a grading job, and that handoff now carries your class roster with it. A finished Class Insight Brief can be added to next week's plan, or Re-Plan Week N rebuilds that week around what the class got wrong, with the re-teach lesson as its first meeting.

The counselor caseload now sorts itself: the board opens on a Needs Attention queue that names who needs what and why, with filters and a sort above it, and two batch controls invite a pasted class list or remind everyone behind in one approved pass. Each confirmed student gains private notes and a meeting log (with a summary drafted from your own pasted notes), a transcript audit that reads a transcript you already hold once and keeps only the courses, GPAs, and flags it found, Draft My Sign-Off on a shared course plan, which suggests a verdict and comment per course for you to record, a printable Student Packet, and a summary email that goes only to your own address or to the student's address on the link. Students can also share their application tracking with their counselor now, as a third, separate yes, and every caseload link keeps exactly what its student agreed to.

Both hubs also gain Your Aide, a side drawer where you ask in plain words: it reads only what your account already sees, answers citing what it read, and turns any suggestion into a card that does nothing until you approve it, listing who would be emailed before a second click sends. A Your Calendar section gives you one link to paste into the calendar you already keep (letter deadlines and collection due dates for teachers; plans awaiting review and shared students' application deadlines for counselors), and a Monday email tells you what needs you that week, sent only when something does. All of it is free for every signed-in educator, and nothing here emails anyone, releases a grade, or records a decision without your own click, or shares anything a student did not agree to.

EduFinder has just finished a site-wide streamlining, folding related tools into the single places where you actually use them. No tool went away and nothing moved behind a wall; every account, saved plan, and connection carried over untouched, and everything remains free.

The biggest change is the student workspace. Finding schools now lives inside The Roster! Board: run Find Schools and you can send your generated school matches straight onto the college list you already keep there, with your admission chances reading from that same list. The board now has three areas (Schools, Profile & Chances, and Essays), and the sidebar from your dashboard follows you into all of them, so you are never more than one click from the rest of your account.

Your Team is now one page as well. The people connected to your account, the private conversation each connection carries, and the student's optional Team Space now live together on the dashboard and on the counselor hub, instead of being split across separate link and Messages screens; the old addresses forward automatically. What a confirmed connection shares has not changed at all.

The student path is now four services in order: The Roster! Board, The Resolve! Planner, The Pursuit! Atlas, and The Aid! Playbook, with The SAT! Series beside them in the Test Bank. Two additions round it out: a finished Pursuit! Atlas can now file its essay angles into the Idea Library in the board's Essays area, and the SAT! Series page now links a live sample that draws from the same question bank as the full practice tests.

Because the path went from five stops to four, a few progress numbers changed scale once (your journey percentage now averages the four services, and the board's meter gained a school-matches milestone); no work was lost. Under the hood, every public page is now built from a single source and family and counselor connections run on one shared engine, so the site reads the same everywhere. Every retired address forwards in a single hop, so old links and bookmarks keep working.

Every student on EduFinder can now open a Team Space: one room that seats everyone already connected to their account through a confirmed link, so a parent and a counselor helping the same student can finally talk in the same place. The student owns the room, opens and closes it, and can post cards into it: frozen snapshots of their own practice scores, shortlist, course plan, or college list, exactly as their dashboard showed them.

The room widens nothing a connection already shares; what is posted in the room is visible to the room, and that rule is stated plainly before anything is shared. The student can also turn on an optional AI advisor that anyone in the room can call by typing @advisor, and it reads only what is already in the room and answers there for everyone. When new posts are waiting, an email lets you know, at most one per room per day, and it never quotes what anyone wrote.

Every EduFinder account now has a Messages page, holding one private conversation with each person already linked to it: a parent or guardian on a confirmed family link, and a counselor and student on a confirmed caseload link. Conversations are text only (emoji welcome, no attachments), and either person can pause one at any time.

You will find Messages in the sidebar on your dashboard or the counselor hub, so a question about the work you already share can stay in one place instead of moving to a separate app. When new messages are waiting, an email lets you know, at most one per conversation per day, and it never quotes the message itself.

Every EduFinder account can now carry a profile: a display name, an optional photo, and the role you already declared (student, parent, teacher, or counselor). The next time you open your dashboard, a one-time prompt suggests a name you can adjust or skip, and a profile button stays in the header so you can finish or change it whenever you like.

Your profile appears only to people connected to your account, such as a linked parent or child, a counselor you agreed to share with, or a teacher whose assignment or brag-sheet link you opened; there is no public profile page. Wherever your name shows, your email address stays beside it, so the address people trusted is always the one they see.