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Pathly
South Carolina, United States
What it is
Pathly is a web-based college and career readiness platform for students and the counselors who support them. Personality, EQ, and values assessments feed AI career matches from more than 1,000 possibilities. Students can build personalized roadmaps with monthly and weekly milestones, track progress, and adjust plans. An AI mentor is available for guidance on next steps, course selection, and application deadlines. Pathways include college, trade, apprenticeship, certification, and entrepreneurship. Counselors can view assessment results, career recommendations, progress signals, and conversation starters, but cannot view students’ AI conversations unless students choose to share them. The counselor page lists nearly 1,000 careers, more than 4,800 colleges and other training paths, over 2,000 scholarships, and more than 400 free courses. Students have free accounts; counselor plans start with Solo at $199 a month, which includes one seat and 15 active students. A seven-day counselor trial requires a payment card and converts to a paid subscription unless canceled before it ends. Pathly says its platform data is processed and stored in US data centers and is not intentionally transferred internationally. It serves students, counselors, schools and districts, and independent educational consultants, and is headquartered in South Carolina.
For and against
For
- Matches careers from more than 1,000 possibilities.
- Roadmaps include monthly and weekly milestones.
- Supports college, trade, apprenticeship, certification, and entrepreneurship paths.
- Students can use free accounts.
- Counselors cannot see AI conversations unless students share them.
Against
- Counselor trial requires a payment card.
- Trial converts to paid unless canceled before it ends.
- Solo plan costs $199 a month.
The verdict
Pathly pairs student career exploration and planning with counselor-facing progress information across several education and career routes. Student accounts are free, while counselors should review the paid plan and trial terms before signing up.
Who it suits
Pathly may suit students exploring career and education options, as well as counselors who want visibility into assessments and student progress. Its counselor plans are also aimed at schools, districts, and independent educational consultants.
Plans and prices
Students
Assessments · recommendations · roadmaps · AI guidance
Read 15 Oct 2026 · pathly.com
Solo
1 counselor seat · 15 active students · extra students $13/student/month · private dashboard
Read 15 Oct 2026 · pathly.com
Group
3 counselor seats · 50 active students · extra students $11/student/month · shared dashboard
Read 15 Oct 2026 · pathly.com
Enterprise
4+ counselor seats · 50+ active students · multi-office support · centralized administration
Read 15 Oct 2026 · pathly.com
On the record
- AI limitation
- The Terms warn that AI output is guidance that can be wrong and should be checked with the relevant school, program or provider.pathly.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- AI mentor
- Students can chat with an AI mentor around the clock about courses, deadlines, careers and encouragement.pathly.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- AI privacy
- Pathly says AI providers receive limited context, are not allowed to train on platform data and do not receive student email addresses or full conversation histories.pathly.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- AI providers
- Pathly lists OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Cloud, and Perplexity as AI providers, and says providers are not permitted to train models on platform data.pathly.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- API processing
- Pathly calls third-party AI services by API for conversational guidance and recommendation retrieval.pathly.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Audience
- Pathly says it serves students, school counselors, schools and districts, and independent educational consultants.pathly.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- Audiences
- The service serves students, school counselors, schools and districts, and independent educational consultants.pathly.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Availability limitation
- Pathly does not promise uninterrupted access and says maintenance, updates and outages can occur.pathly.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Career assessments
- Students can take personality, emotional-intelligence, values and RIASEC assessments, generally described as taking under 15 minutes.pathly.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Career exploration
- The platform offers personality, EQ, and values assessments and AI career matches from more than 1,000 possibilities.pathly.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- Career library
- The public Career Library contains 923 careers and can be browsed without an account.pathly.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Career matching
- The platform matches assessment traits to more than 1,000 career possibilities and uses labor-market information.pathly.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Company activity
- Pathly's LinkedIn page says nearly 1,000 students were using the service after its first year and mentions backing from an SCRA startup grant.linkedin.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Compliance position
- The Terms say Pathly is built to FERPA standards and designed to support COPPA, PPRA and applicable state student-privacy requirements.pathly.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Counselor dashboard
- Counselors receive live progress, assessment, exploration and roadmap signals, plus follow-up tasks and conversation preparation.pathly.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Counselor features
- Counselors can view assessment results, AI-matched career recommendations, student progress signals, and conversation starters.pathly.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- Counselor visibility
- Counselors cannot see students’ AI conversations or individual messages; the policy says students choose whether to share conversation content.pathly.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- Data coverage
- The counselor page lists nearly 1,000 careers, more than 4,800 colleges and training pathways, over 2,000 scholarships and over 400 courses.pathly.com · read 15 Oct 2026
