372:1
Students per school counselor
When support is stretched across hundreds of students, personalized planning is hard to sustain. Your plan should not depend on the next available meeting.
Source · 2026-02-13 ↗Built around who you are. Evolving with who you’re becoming.
From choosing what comes next after high school to building experience in college and making your first career moves, Gateway keeps your goals, options, costs, next steps, and the people you choose to involve connected.
Why Gateway now
Your decisions connect. Your support should too.
College, career, cost, and experience decisions do not happen one at a time. The support around them often does.
61.1%
Only 61.1% complete college within six years
Starting is one decision. Staying on track through changes in majors, costs, priorities, and life is the harder part.
Source · 2025-12-04 ↗42%
Recent college graduates are underemployed
Graduating does not automatically turn into the right first job. Career direction and experience need to start before graduation.
Source · 2026-Q2 ↗One plan that stays yours
Context that carries. Evidence that’s current. Plans that are personal.
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Built around you
Tell Gateway what matters now—your goals, priorities, constraints, skills, and what changed. Update it whenever you need to.
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Evidence you can see
Compare colleges, careers, costs, and tradeoffs with source-dated information instead of black-box answers.
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A plan that moves with you
Save paths, turn decisions into next steps, and change direction without starting over.
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Bring in the right people
Invite family, advisors, mentors, or supporters into the specific decisions where you want help—without handing over your whole planning identity.
ExploreA connected support system
Students keep growing with the people who support them.
We help schools, universities, advisors, and community partners work from shared operating context, coordinate the next step, and spend more time in useful conversations with students.
Explore a partnershipUniversities
Extend advising, career, and transition support between appointments while the student keeps one evolving plan.
Start with a cohort, program, student-success team, or career/advising workflow.
High schools
Give students a continuous planning layer that carries context between counselor conversations instead of replacing them.
Useful for college, affordability, career, and transition planning across the school year.
Student + community organizations
Support a cohort or community with a shared planning workflow while each student keeps control of their own information.
Built for student organizations, college-access programs, nonprofits, and community partners.
No student roster, grades, transcripts, or other sensitive student records are required to start a conversation. Connected access is limited by a verified relationship, role, purpose, and time window; student-only Planning Identity signals remain private.
Built close to the problem
Meet Matthew
We built Gateway from experience across the same transitions it is designed to support. Matthew Castellanos is a Loyola University Chicago graduate who has worked directly with Chicago Public Schools students, led student organizations, and worked in wealth management and banking environments where client trust, reliable systems, and scalable workflows matter.
Those experiences inform Gateway's core approach: keep the student in control, make evidence understandable, connect decisions that usually live in separate tools, and give advisors and partners better context without replacing the human conversation.
- Students
- Direct experience working with CPS students.
- Leadership
- Experience running student organizations and coordinating people around shared goals.
- Systems
- Experience scaling solutions and workflows in banking and wealth management settings.
Pick the space you need
Pick the plan that fits your next stage.
Start free, add capacity when your plan gets active, or scope a licensed team, cohort, campus, or district deployment with us.
Full plan detailsFree does not expire. Paid checkout is available only when Gateway billing is verified and live.
Start where you are
You do not need your whole future figured out. You just need a next step.
Start where you are. Your plan can change when you do.