Discover. Compare. Choose your path.
Find career and education options weighed against your student's interests, strengths, academic performance, and financial reality. Get researched recommendations, a comparison of four paths, and a dated plan for what comes next.
View a sample report or, if you have already decided, start here.
For students in 9th grade through their second year of college.
The process
What you don't have to do yourself
Discover
Your student doesn't need to know what they want before they start, and there is no call to get through. An AI tool drafts the follow-up questions from their own answers, and I approve each one before I send it. An AI tool, Claude, drafts the report, and I rewrite and check every page.
Delivered through: my read of your student, and career possibilities, each with its pay and long-term demand.
Compare
You don't have to line up four paths yourself. Schools and programs sit in one list, each with its cost, or a note to confirm it at the source.
Delivered through: the school and program list, and the money section.
Choose
You don't have to build the deadline list or type the dates in. The action plan is already dated, and you import the calendar file into Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook. The decision stays with your family.
Delivered through: the dated action plan, the tracker spreadsheet and the calendar file.
From the pilot
“Coming into our son's senior year, we realized that we were a bit behind in the application process and had no idea where to start. His Overlap Report was a lifesaver. It guided us step by step through the process and gave us options we never knew we had. Thank you!”
Parent of a student in our free pilot cohort. Published anonymously, at his request.
Sample report
Read a full report before you pay for one.
It is written for a composite student who is not a real person, with every factual claim marked the way yours would be. Start with the part you care about most:
Read the whole sample, or download it as a PDF from that page.
Four possible paths. No default winner.
All four are weighed on the same terms: your student's interests, grades and scores, and natural ability, next to pay and long-term demand. Nothing here assumes a bachelor's degree is the answer.
How it works, in short
Two rounds of written questions, then the report.
- Round 1: your student fills out a broad questionnaire, and you fill out a separate parent intake.
- Round 2: an AI tool drafts follow-up questions from your student's answers, and I approve each one before I send it.
- The report: about 48 hours after your student's Round 2 answers come back.
The full process, including exactly where I use AI · More about me
The short version
What's included in your $500 report
- My read of who your student is, and the things they said that led me there.
- Career possibilities, each with its pay and long-term demand.
- Schools and programs, each with its cost, or a note to confirm it at the source, the money section, and a dated action plan.
- A tracker spreadsheet built from the report.
- A calendar file built from the report, for you to import into Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook.
Plus one revision: email what you want changed to bryan@overlap.report within 30 days of getting the report.
Cost
$500
No hidden fees.
Next step
Email bryan@overlap.report with your student's name, email address and their graduation year. A form will be sent to you and your student to complete, along with payment information.
Overlap works with students 13 and older, and does not currently work with families in Washington state. If your student is 18 or older, they decide whether you receive the report, whoever pays.
Before you email
Do I have to talk about money in front of my kid?
No. Round 1 on How it works sets out exactly who sees what, including what you tell me about money.
Does this replace my student's school counselor?
No. See What this is, and what it is not, on How it works.
Where does AI come in?
The full account, including exactly what goes into the AI tool, is on How it works.
What if something in the report is wrong?
The revision and correction terms are under What you can hold me to, on How it works.
Who sees what my student writes?
It is set out on the privacy and safety page, including when I would tell you something outside the report.
If you are the student reading this
Nothing here gets decided about you without you. You get the red pen on my read of you. If I have you wrong, tell me within 30 days of getting the report, as part of your family's one revision, and your correction wins. What you get out of it is a list of options, each with its cost, or a note to confirm it at the source.