The questions worth asking before you trust it.

Premise is a research-informed college guidance mentor for high-school students. It helps you work out what is worth pursuing for you and do the college work to pursue it, including choices, applications, costs, activities and essay feedback. You can begin with the problem in front of you.

When you need new experience to decide, you can choose a small experiment, try it, and reflect on what happened. The reflection starts with one tap: tried it, unclear, or didn't happen. What you report helps Premise reconsider the suggestion. This loop is optional; a factual answer, college comparison or essay read can be useful on its own.

Premise focuses on college guidance, with a student record you can correct, official-fact sourcing and essay feedback that leaves every word to you. General assistants vary and may also have memory or useful feedback. Compare the actual help and limits on a task that matters to you.

Premise can help you consider what matters to you, explore options and think through a useful next step. You do not need a settled direction to begin, and you can get practical college or essay help while you figure it out. The decisions remain yours; Premise has not been shown to improve student outcomes.

No grades or test scores are required to use Premise. One optional setup question asks for a broad grade range, such as "A's and B's", and you can skip it. Premise does not ask for a GPA number, test scores or transcripts. You can start with your current question and the information you want to share.

As little as possible. Your email and age group (never your birth date), a handful of getting-started questions answered once you're signed in, what you write to the mentor and build with it, a record of what you agreed to, and which parts of Premise you use as short event names, never your words. One optional question asks roughly how your grades have gone, as a range like "A's and B's", and you can skip it. Premise never asks for a GPA number, test scores, transcripts, documents, exact income, or immigration status. If you're under 18, a parent or guardian confirms by email before Premise opens; we keep a keyed hash of their address, not the address.

Yes. Premise is for ages 13 and up. You enter your birthday before any account info is collected; it stays in your browser and we keep only your age group. The waitlist and Access forms ask you to confirm you're 13 or older before any other field. If you're under 13, we say plainly that Premise is for ages 13 and up, with no workaround. If you're 13 to 17, you agree for yourself and a parent or guardian says yes by email before Premise opens.

Premise has firm limits built in. It marks what it's unsure of instead of bluffing, asks before sensitive areas like money or family, and keeps advice short enough to act on. We check both what you write and what it says back; a reply that fails that check is held back rather than shown, and the flag is kept as a safety record that stores no message text. Premise is not a mental-health provider: if a message suggests crisis, self-harm, or abuse, it stops giving guidance and shows real human resources: the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call or text) and the Crisis Text Line (text HOME to 741741).

Yes. In Account you can delete your account (you confirm by typing your email, and everything tied to it is removed from the live product at once; encrypted backups expire within 30 days) or download your profile, chats, essays, experiments, reflections, consent records and product events as JSON. Because we collect so little, there's never much to remove.

Premise has a free plan. During the private tester phase, an invitation is required and your tester grant sets your limits. The pricing page explains the plans; signing up for the waitlist does not open an account.

Plus is $19/month for more room: 100 mentor replies a month and 3 snapshot refreshes. Experiments and profile updates are included, not metered separately. Plus opens after the tester phase; tester grants have their own limits.

Access exists so cost isn't the reason a student can't get guidance: reduced-cost and free places with the same model quality as Plus. To apply, fill out a short form with a couple of sentences about your situation; no tax forms, pay stubs, FAFSA documents, transcripts, or proof of hardship. We read each one and reply. Asking for support is normal.