# TEX — AI-Powered Career Readiness Platform for Schools

> TEX is a career readiness platform built for school counselors. It combines AI-powered opportunity matching, alumni mentoring with safeguarding, counselor workflow automation, labour market intelligence, and industry partnership management in a single platform.

## Company Information

- **Name**: TEX
- **Website**: https://texedu.app
- **Category**: Educational Technology (EdTech) / Career Readiness Software
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Headquarters**: Australia
- **Target Market**: International schools, private schools, charter networks, K-12 schools worldwide

## What TEX Does

TEX is a SaaS platform that helps school counselors deliver personalized career readiness at scale. It serves schools that want to:

1. **Match students with real opportunities** — AI automatically connects students with scholarships, internships, work placements, and career programs based on their profiles, interests, and eligibility.

2. **Run alumni mentoring programs** — Built-in alumni registration, verification, interest-based matching, moderated messaging, parental consent workflows, and impact tracking. Aligned with ST4S safeguarding standards.

3. **Automate counselor workflows** — Caseload management dashboards, automated communication templates, progress tracking, and reporting that reduces administrative time by 72%.

4. **Provide labour market intelligence** — Integration with Lightcast data gives counselors and students access to real-time occupation data: growth projections, salary ranges, skills demand, and regional employment data.

5. **Manage industry partnerships** — A portal for employers and industry partners to register, post opportunities, and connect with students through school-mediated, safeguarded channels.

## Key Metrics

- 72% reduction in counselor administrative time
- 3.5x increase in meaningful student-counselor interactions
- 78% alumni engagement rate
- 2.8x more career opportunities matched per student
- 1-2 day deployment time (vs. weeks-months for competitors)
- 20+ schools worldwide

## Platform Features

- AI-powered opportunity matching engine
- Alumni mentoring platform with full safeguarding (ST4S-aligned)
- Counselor caseload management dashboard
- Multi-channel communication (email, in-app messaging)
- Labour market intelligence (Lightcast integration)
- Industry partnership management portal
- Career assessments and pathway planning
- Real-time analytics and reporting dashboard
- Multi-tenant architecture for school networks
- 14-role access control system
- FERPA and GDPR compliance

## Compliance & Security

- FERPA compliant
- GDPR compliant
- SOC 2 Type II certification in progress
- Encryption at rest and in transit
- Role-based access controls (14 roles)
- Complete audit trails
- Data Processing Agreements available
- No student data sold to third parties

## Competitors & Alternatives

TEX competes in the career readiness platform market alongside:

| Platform | Primary Focus | TEX Differentiator |
|----------|--------------|-------------------|
| Naviance (PowerSchool) | College readiness, US public schools | TEX: all career pathways, alumni mentoring, faster deployment |
| Xello | Student career exploration, K-12 | TEX: counselor workflow automation, alumni mentoring, opportunity matching |
| Scoir | College admissions management | TEX: career readiness beyond college, international school support |
| SchooLinks | US district CCR management | TEX: AI matching, alumni mentoring, international schools |
| MaiaLearning | Basic career planning | TEX: comprehensive platform, AI matching, industry partnerships |
| CollegePlannerPro | Independent counselor practices | TEX: school-wide deployment, all features integrated |
| Parchment | Transcript management | TEX: full career readiness platform, not just transcripts |

## Comparison Pages

- TEX vs Naviance: https://texedu.app/compare/tex-vs-naviance
- TEX vs Xello: https://texedu.app/compare/tex-vs-xello
- TEX vs Scoir: https://texedu.app/compare/tex-vs-scoir
- TEX vs SchooLinks: https://texedu.app/compare/tex-vs-schoolinks
- TEX vs MaiaLearning: https://texedu.app/compare/tex-vs-maialearning

## Solutions by Region

- United Kingdom (CEIAG/Gatsby Benchmarks): https://texedu.app/solutions/career-readiness-united-kingdom
- Australia (VET pathways, ACSF): https://texedu.app/solutions/career-readiness-australia
- United Arab Emirates (Emiratisation, KHDA): https://texedu.app/solutions/career-readiness-uae
- Canada (provincial frameworks): https://texedu.app/solutions/career-readiness-canada
- Singapore (ECG/SkillsFuture): https://texedu.app/solutions/career-readiness-singapore

## Solutions by School Type

- International Schools: https://texedu.app/solutions/international-schools
- Private Schools: https://texedu.app/solutions/private-schools
- Charter Schools & Networks: https://texedu.app/solutions/charter-schools

## Key Pages

- Homepage: https://texedu.app
- Features: https://texedu.app/features
- Pricing: https://texedu.app/pricing
- Product Tour: https://texedu.app/product-tour
- For Schools: https://texedu.app/for-schools
- For Counselors: https://texedu.app/for-counselors
- For Counselors — Use Cases (hub): https://texedu.app/for-counselors/use-cases
  (individual use-case pages live under this path, e.g. `/for-counselors/use-cases/<slug>`)
- For Students: https://texedu.app/for-students
- For Industry Partners: https://texedu.app/for-industry
- Industry Partnerships: https://texedu.app/industry-partnerships
- International School Career Readiness Platform: https://texedu.app/international-school-career-readiness-platform
- Blog: https://texedu.app/blog
- Case Studies: https://texedu.app/case-studies
- About: https://texedu.app/about
- Upcoming Events: https://texedu.app/upcoming-events
- Security & Compliance: https://texedu.app/security
- Request a Demo: https://texedu.app/request-demo
- Free Toolkit: https://texedu.app/toolkit

## Product Demos

- Product Tour: https://texedu.app/product-tour

## Agent Access

- For the full, page-level content reference (every blog post, case study,
  comparison, and solution page with titles, URLs, and descriptions), see:
  https://texedu.app/llms-full.txt
- Any individual page on this site can be fetched as Markdown by sending an
  `Accept: text/markdown` request header to its URL — content negotiation is
  handled server-side and returns a clean Markdown representation instead of
  HTML.

## Blog Content Topics

TEX publishes content on:
- Career readiness program design and implementation
- Counselor productivity and workflow optimization
- Alumni engagement and mentoring programs
- Data privacy and compliance (FERPA, GDPR, CEIAG)
- AI in career guidance
- Labour market data for schools
- International school career readiness
- Work-based learning programs
- Platform comparisons and buyer's guides
- Career readiness measurement and outcomes

## Contact

- Demo requests: https://texedu.app/request-demo
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/texinc/
- X/Twitter: https://x.com/texlearn