EduFund

An AI agent that helps students discover, plan, and manage education funding

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Inspiration

Students often find scholarships through scattered portals, university websites, and social media, but still struggle to understand one key question: “How will I close my actual education funding gap?” We built EduFund to turn disconnected opportunities into a clear, personalized funding plan.

What it does

EduFund is an AI-guided education funding workspace that helps students:

  • Build a profile using course, CGPA scale, location, income range, achievements, and funding need.
  • Discover curated opportunities from official programme sources.
  • Screen opportunities using course, academic, income, location, and eligibility signals.
  • Calculate the student’s education funding gap.
  • Rank opportunities using expected value, match, and deadline urgency.
  • Show a Funding Confidence Meter with confirmed, probable, possible, and uncovered funding.
  • Prepare document checklists and application drafts.
  • Check essay claims against the student’s saved profile.
  • Identify reusable documents across applications.
  • Detect deadline collisions and track application progress.
  • Keep the student in control of final review and external submission.

How we built it

We built EduFund as a full-stack web application.

  • React and Vite power the responsive student interface.
  • FastAPI provides the backend API.
  • SQLite stores accounts, profiles, opportunities, and application progress.
  • A modular agent architecture handles Profile, Discovery, Eligibility, Funding Planning, Application Autopilot, and Deadline Tracking.
  • The opportunity catalogue links students to official provider sources.
  • The interface supports global country selection and CGPA scales out of 4, 5, or 10. Challenges we ran into
  • Real scholarship information changes frequently, so we designed the platform to direct students to official sources for final verification.
  • Different countries and universities use different CGPA systems, so we added 4, 5, and 10-point scales and normalized them for eligibility checks.
  • Scholarship applications require many repeated documents with different naming conventions.
  • AI-generated essays can include unsupported claims, so we added an Evidence Checker to flag claims that are not present in the student profile.
  • It was important to make automation helpful without allowing unsafe automatic submission of financial or personal information.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Built an end-to-end funding journey from account creation to a ready-to-review application packet.
  • Added real opportunity records with official source links instead of relying only on placeholder listings.
  • Created a Funding Confidence Meter that explains uncertainty instead of promising awards.
  • Added Document Reuse Map and Deadline Collision Detector features to reduce repeated work.
  • Built an Essay Evidence Checker that promotes honest, profile-supported applications.
  • Designed the platform around human approval: EduFund prepares, but students make final submission decisions.
  • Created a global-ready profile system with country selection and flexible CGPA scales. What we learned
  • Students need prioritization more than they need more search results.
  • Transparency matters in financial planning. Showing uncertainty builds more trust than presenting every opportunity as guaranteed.
  • Responsible AI needs clear limits, especially around financial aid applications and personal documents.
  • A strong product flow connects data collection, decision support, and practical action.
  • Good UI design matters because students may already feel overwhelmed by funding decisions.

What's next for EduFund

  • Add scheduled verification of scholarship deadlines and official source updates.
  • Expand the worldwide opportunity catalogue with more country-specific programmes.
  • Add multilingual support for students from different regions.
  • Improve document analysis with secure OCR and expiry-date reminders.
  • Add institution and advisor dashboards with student consent controls.
  • Support country-specific currencies, income formats, and academic grading systems.
  • Add scholarship recommendation explanations with more detailed eligibility reasoning.
  • Measure outcomes such as applications completed, deadlines met, and funding secured.

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