Soara

98% of students aspiring to study abroad give up due to difficulties due to lack of right information, support and resources. Developing our GenAI model to be like ChatGPT for studying overseas.

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Inspiration

“Young people who will shape the future, through growth and success in studying abroad, hold the key to changing society” We address a social problem regarding helping youth studying/working overseas. Preparing to study overseas is OVERWHELMING, ISOLATING and DIFFICULT TO NAVIGATE due to:

  • Lack of Structured Information
  • Lack of Guidance & Support We are aiming to tackle the Quality of education (SDG4) and the Decent work and economic growth (SDG8) .

What it does

A Community based platform that empowers students to independently pave their way to global education. We are developing a platform to provide personalised support to students wishing to study overseas with our One-Stop-Shop study abroad community-based platform at a fraction of the cost using the power of technology.

How we built it

We are using AI to evaluate essays for students applying to study programs by training our model on essays that got accepted and rejected. The other model is based on the GPT model to create an Action plan and we did train it on action plans that we collected from alumni.

Challenges we ran into

To further develop our product we will need more computational resources to run and train our AI models. We are using AWS to do that at the moment. Once we are able to improve our model performance and develop the other functions , we will be ready to go to the market and make an impact

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  1. Our MVP is ready and we have +10 beta testers. We are growing at the speed of light.
  2. We interviewed and surveyed more than 100 students to validate the need to our product.
  3. We participated in 4 contests and got accepted into J-StarX program (Silicon Valley Program) and ANTLER INCUBATOR.

What we learned

  1. If you have a good team, you can do what you think is impossible.
  2. You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backward to the technology. (Steve Jobs)

What's next for Soara

We have three milestone to achive throgh the coming 3 months :

  1. 100 Paying Customers
  2. Investments for Product development & Commercialization Strategy
  3. Connections & Partnerships with 5 Educational institutions
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