Laikan
For schools
A structured guidance program for every student.
Laikan gives every student a four-year path to career and university clarity, with cohort-wide visibility for your team. Whether you have a counseling department or no dedicated counselor at all, it runs the same: broad exposure, structured reflection, and decision support at the moments that matter.
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Or see the student experience for yourself:
Two ways schools use Laikan
If you have a counseling team
Your academic and career counselor assistant in one
Your team's expertise is enhanced by always-available guidance between sessions for every student, and by greater insight into each student's development through their evolving profile, so your time goes where it matters most. Approve every recommendation in Review mode, or let it flow through in Direct mode, and it complements the CTE tools you already use.
If you have no dedicated counselor
The guidance program your school doesn't have to build
A complete guidance layer that runs inside the platform. Broad exposure, structured reflection, and decision support at the moments that matter, with no new hire and no new curriculum for your staff to deliver, just cohort-wide visibility into where every student stands.
What Counselors See
We know how hard it is.
Guidance is either split across roles, or it has no home at all
In schools with a counseling team, academic counseling and career or college counseling often sit with different people, on different timelines. What one team learns about a student doesn't always reach the other, so the college and career conversation starts by rediscovering what the school already knew.
In schools without a dedicated counselor, university and career guidance falls to whichever teacher has room for it: a form tutor between classes, a subject teacher covering for a colleague, sometimes no one in particular.
Either way, students make some of their biggest decisions with whatever guidance happens to reach them, and when a student's direction doesn't match where they've landed, there's often no one positioned to catch it early. Every student deserves that kind of attention, not just the ones who ask or whose teacher has time this term.
Not a new startup
The digital version of a proven methodology
Built by the team behind Milestone Institute, one of Europe's most successful in-person mentoring programs, Laikan brings the same methodology to college and career guidance, scaling and amplifying what one-to-one counseling can achieve.
See the guidance dashboard
- Every student's status, at a glance: phase, orientation state, and latest activity for the whole cohort in one roster
- Reports that build over time: watch a student's profile develop from first report through connected pathways
- Discussion topics, ready to use: each report surfaces specific questions to dig deeper with the student, grounded in what they've actually done
- A head start on the conversation: see the worlds and pathways a student is converging on before your next check-in, so you can help shape where they lean
Sample data only: the student profile in the demo is fictional, shown for illustration.
How Laikan Is Unique
Enhanced guidance for teams that have counselors, and a complete guidance layer for those that don't: always-available guidance for every student, with cohort-wide insight into their evolving profiles.
- No dedicated guidance staff required to run it
- A comprehensive assessment framework, not a matching test
- A structured journey across four years, not a one-time checklist
- Future-proof career and pathway exploration, CTE compatible
- Every student gets guided, not just the few who ask
- Parent engagement built in
- Review mode or Direct mode: you choose
- Complements your existing CTE tools, not a replacement for them
An overlay to the CTE tools you already have
Laikan isn't a replacement for your school's existing CTE platform; it provides the foundation for students to use it well. It's not competing for your CTE software budget — it's built to be weighed against counselor capacity: the cost of the guidance your school doesn't currently have the staff to deliver, not the cost of another platform seat. With greater clarity and confidence, students make more focused searches, find more relevant matches, and spend far less time second-guessing their choices.
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What we aim to create together
- Help students build agency and articulate who they are, what drives them, and where they want to go
- Prepare students for more focused, productive guidance conversations
- Support counselors and schools in translating exploration into clear academic decisions
- Document real success stories that reflect meaningful student growth and engagement