Questions students actually ask.

Never. SAGE scores opportunities, recommends, researches, and drafts — but you review every match, choose what to pursue, and hit submit yourself. The student is always the decision-maker.

Like you. Your writing-voice samples are the most important part of your profile, and the drafter reads them before writing. It produces multiple distinct angles as starting points you react to and direct — not one polished essay to copy-paste.

No. Agents never invent biographical facts, quotes, or past winners. When a draft needs a real memory or detail it doesn't have, it flags it inline — [NEEDS FROM STUDENT: …] — for you to fill in.

Anything requiring an application fee or relying on unverifiable third parties is auto-rejected and logged. The scout is tuned to reject aggressively — five real matches beat thirty mediocre ones.

Each candidate is scored on Fit, ROI, and Eligibility Certainty, and ineligible or already-closed awards are filtered out before you see them. You get a short list with the scout's reasoning, not a padded results page.

Sign-in is protected with industry-standard encrypted authentication, each student's data is isolated, and you control what topics are off-limits and can export or delete your data at any time. See our Privacy page for the details that matter for students under 18.

No. The archivist studies publicly published essays and extracts patterns — structure, voice, length, what's absent — without ever reproducing copyrighted prose, and it's honest about how small the sample is.

Finding and deciding is free forever. Paid plans unlock unlimited workspaces and the deep research and drafting that save hours per application. Students on free or reduced lunch get the paid tier at no cost.