Find the right help for your next move.
Choose help for the work you need now, whether that is finding a direction, comparing colleges or reading a draft. Use these questions to examine what a service does, what it costs and which decisions stay with you.
Look at the work you would receive.
Try an assistant on a question you can check.
Start with a small task. Inspect its sources and reasoning, and see whether you can correct it. The result tells you more than a general claim about what AI can do.
Ask a consultant what working together involves.
Ask about their experience, the time you would spend together and the support included. Professional judgment, advocacy and accountability are worth discussing directly.
What to check in an AI assistant.
Assistants vary. Compare the one you use on a task that matters to you. Here are questions to ask alongside the boundaries Premise commits to.
- Memory
- Ask about an AI assistantCan you see, correct and delete what it remembers? Check how that record affects later answers.
- PremiseKeeps a student record you can inspect and correct. Later guidance can use that context.
- Fact vs guess
- Ask about an AI assistantAsk where a school fact came from, when it was checked, and what remains uncertain.
- PremiseSeparates your evidence from its interpretation. Official school facts include a source and review date.
- The bar for advice
- Ask about an AI assistantDoes the advice use your goals and constraints? Ask it to explain the fit and tradeoffs.
- PremiseA suggestion appears only if it can say why it fits, the evidence, what it tests, the tradeoffs, and one next step.
- Admissions odds
- Ask about an AI assistantCheck whether it offers personal odds and what evidence, if any, could support them.
- PremiseGives sourced school context and strategic guidance without estimating your personal chances.
- Your essays
- Ask about an AI assistantCheck whether the help stays with feedback or supplies prose you could submit.
- PremiseGives reader reactions, questions and mechanical flags. No opening, outline, rewrite or translation.
- Built for a teenager
- Ask about an AI assistantRead the age requirements, privacy terms, safety limits and available controls.
- PremiseMade for students 13 and up, with firm limits. On a crisis signal it stops advising and shows real human resources.
What to ask a private consultant.
Understand the service and the person providing it. Premise can support practical college work, but it does not provide a consultant's personal advocacy or professional accountability.
- Cost
- Ask a private consultantAsk for the full fee, what work it covers, and the cancellation terms.
- PremiseA free plan and Plus at $19 a month. During the private tester phase, your invitation sets access and limits.
- How it knows you
- Ask a private consultantAsk who will work with you, how often you meet, and how they learn about your goals.
- PremiseA record of your goals, experiences and current work that you can inspect and correct.
- Passion projects
- Ask a private consultantAsk how they support activities you want to pursue and distinguish your ideas from their suggestions.
- PremiseHelps you pursue real, student-authored ideas, including new ones. It will not invent an ambition as a credential.
- Your essays
- Ask a private consultantAgree on feedback boundaries. Ask whether anyone supplies wording, outlines or rewrites.
- PremiseFeedback only. It never writes or edits a word for you.
- Admissions odds
- Ask a private consultantAsk what an advertised result measures, who is included, and what it can tell you about your own application.
- PremiseNever predicts your odds, and never sells a number.
Ambition was never the problem.
You can want a selective school, a state school or a different route. The help should take your aim seriously and make the work and tradeoffs clear.
- Your aim
- What do you want from this college or activity? Your answer can develop as you learn more.
- What it requires
- Which requirements are published facts? What would the pursuit take in time, money and effort?
- Your own work
- Which experiences and ideas are yours? A real new ambition is welcome; invented achievements and essay prose supplied for you are not.
Premise can help you examine an ambitious idea and work out a manageable first version. The aim remains yours, and the guidance should explain why a suggestion fits what you have shared.
Choosing the help you need.
Can’t I just use a free AI chatbot?
Yes, if it meets your need. Try the same task, check the sources and feedback, and examine how each tool handles your record and its limits. Premise focuses on direction and college work, with essay feedback that leaves the writing to you.
Is Premise cheaper than a consultant?
Compare the consultant's quote and included work with Premise's plans: a free plan and Plus at $19 a month. A lower price does not establish equivalent service. During the private tester phase, an invitation is required and its limits apply.
Does Premise do everything a consultant does?
No. Premise helps you think through direction and do practical work on college options, requirements, costs, activities and essay feedback. It cannot advocate with an institution or take responsibility for your application. A counselor or consultant may offer support Premise cannot.
Start with one thing that’s actually unclear.
When your invite comes, bring the question, decision or draft you want to work on. You can explore direction while getting practical college help.