AI-Powered Scholarship Intelligence

Stop searching for scholarships.
Let your story find them.

Archway uses Claude AI to read a full profile — academics, athletics, background, goals, life experience — and surfaces funding no checkbox tool would ever find. For high school seniors, returning adults, career changers, veterans, and everyone in between. The same AI professionals pay per-query for. Free to start. And it does not stop at one search — Archway keeps looking every week and emails you when new matches appear.

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Designed to complement platforms counselors already use

Going Merry
Common App
Bold.org
Fastweb
Canvas / Schoology
Naviance
College Board
The Problem

Scholarship search is broken.
The tools match checkboxes,
not students.

Every student is a combination of things no checkbox captures — a sport, an instrument, a cause, a background, a goal. Today's tools ignore all of it and return the same generic list to everyone. Archway reads the whole story and finds the scholarships written for exactly that combination.

$4.4B
in Pell Grants the high-school class of 2024 left unclaimed by not filing the FAFSANCAN, 2025
372:1
students per school counselor nationwide — vs. the 250:1 the ASCA recommendsASCA, 2024–25
$29,910
average yearly cost of a public four-year college, in-state (tuition, fees, room & board)College Board, 2025–26
$173.7B
in grant aid is awarded to students every year — the hard part is finding what fits youCollege Board, 2024–25
How It Works

Three steps from profile
to funded.

1
🧩
Build the Story Profile
Enter academics, sports, music, community involvement, intended major, background, and goals. The richer the profile, the smarter the matches. Takes under five minutes.
2
🔍
Run the Scout
Archway matches the student's full profile against a scholarship database we refresh through search-grounded discovery and review, surfacing thousands of funding sources — including niche, lesser-known funds most students never find.
3
✍️
Track, Apply, Win
A built-in tracker manages deadlines, status, and notes — from first search to award notification. When an essay is required, draft it in the student’s own voice without leaving the tracker.
What You Actually Get

Not a search. A plan.

Other tools hand you a list and wish you luck. Archway organizes every match into a working plan — ranked by fit, grouped by what to do next, deadline-aware, and tracked from first search to award.

M
Maya's Scholarship Plan
First-gen · Nursing-bound · Soccer · Community volunteer
23
Matches
$148k
Potential
5
Due this month
⭐Best Matches
9
First-Generation Nursing Futures Award
Why this fits: first-gen + nursing + service hours
$5,000
96% fit
Compassion in Care Scholarship
Verified active
$3,500
92% fit
⚡Quick Wins
4
Community Service Spotlight Grant
No essay · ~10-minute application
$1,000
Verified
Student-Athlete Leadership Micro-Grant
One short answer · rolling deadline
$750
Verified
⏳Deadlines This Month
5
Regional Healthcare Pipeline Award
Essay 70% drafted
$4,000
6 days left
Women in STEM Persistence Fund
Not started yet
$2,500
4 days left
🔎Needs Review
3
State Nursing Board Legacy Scholarship
Confirm state residency to qualify
$6,000
Pending review
Frontline Family Fund
Verify deadline at the source
$2,000
Confirm
♻️Essay Reuse
2
3 scholarships share your “why nursing” essay
Write once, apply to all three
~4 hrs saved
2 accept your leadership essay
Same prompt, minor edits
Reuse
📋Tracked End-to-End
7
Every stage in one board
Not started → In progress → Submitted → Awarded
2 submitted
Deadline reminders
Email nudges before each due date
On

Every Scout run builds a plan like this. Grouped by what to do next, ranked by fit, deadline-aware, and tracked end-to-end — so a student (or a counselor managing hundreds) always knows the next move. Sample plan shown for illustration.

What Makes Archway Different

Scholarship intelligence
that reasons, not filters.

🧠
Narrative Matching
Archway understands that a student's combination of traits — an instrument, a sport, a field of study, a background, a cause — is a story, not a checklist. It finds scholarships at the intersection of who that student actually is, not just what boxes they tick.
Core Differentiator
🔎
AI-Ranked Scout
Claude AI ranks every match against a database we expand through search-grounded discovery and review. Archway surfaces recently verified scholarships with real deadlines — not a list last updated in 2022.
Always Current
✍️
Voice-Matched Essay Bank
Add a writing sample and Archway drafts starting essays that sound like the student — real details from their profile, [placeholders] for the moments only they can add, never a template.
Coming Soon
💜
Underserved Category Awareness
Survivor scholarships, trauma-informed care funding, first-generation awards, and identity-specific funds are systematically underutilized because no tool knows to look. Archway does.
Hidden Funding
📋
Application Tracker
Full lifecycle management: Not Started → In Progress → Submitted → Awarded. Deadline calendar, status board, and notes — everything a counselor needs to manage a student's portfolio at a glance.
End-to-End
🏫
Institution-Aware
Bake in the student's college destination and Archway surfaces that institution's own aid programs alongside external scholarships — a complete funding picture in one place.
College-Specific
Who It's For

Built for the whole
funding ecosystem.

For Students & Families
Your story is your advantage.
Stop spending hours on scholarship databases that don't know you. Archway turns your full profile into a targeted, ranked list of real opportunities — with application tracking built in.
  • Profile built in under 5 minutes
  • Regularly refreshed results, not a stale database
  • Essay drafts in your voice, not a template
  • Track every application in one place
For School Counselors & IECs Roadmap
400 students. One AI co-pilot.
The average counselor handles 400+ students. At public launch, Archway will let you generate a full scholarship strategy for each student in minutes, not hours — and look extraordinary doing it. Counselors piloting with us today can request a Counselor Pilot.
  • Multi-student dashboard (planned)
  • Shareable student reports (planned)
  • Counselor-branded white-label option (planned)
  • Target pricing: $2–5k/year per school
For Colleges & Workforce Programs Roadmap
Fund your pipeline.
At public launch, nursing schools, healthcare workforce initiatives, and admissions offices will be able to embed Archway directly in their student onboarding — reducing financial barriers before enrollment begins. Pipeline programs interested in piloting can request a pilot.
  • Embeddable scholarship widget (planned)
  • Institution-specific funding surfaced first (planned)
  • Grant-fundable for healthcare pipeline use
  • API access for integration (planned)
Why We Built This

"We built Archway for a student in our own family — someone with a rich, specific story that no scholarship tool came close to capturing. Every search returned the same generic list as everyone else. Her story deserved better."

The insight that drove Archway was simple: scholarship committees are looking for compelling stories, not matching algorithms. The student whose unique combination of traits creates a vivid, specific narrative — that student wins.

The tools that exist today optimize for breadth. Archway optimizes for fit. There's a meaningful difference between "here are 200 scholarships nursing students can apply to" and "here are 18 scholarships that were practically written for you."

We're building Archway in public with real students and counselors. Every student can start free with Claude-powered matching — and a direct line to shape what we build next.

Simple, Transparent Pricing

Plans that fit every stage.

Start free — no credit card. Upgrade when you're ready. No hunting for the price.

Students & Families Scholar $19/mo Everything one student needs. Growing Families Family $39/mo Up to 3 students, one household. Counselors & IECs · Popular Counselor Pro $149/mo Up to 50 students, one dashboard.
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