NextStep

NextStep is an AI-powered platform that helps students discover opportunities, understand their relevance, and turn them into actionable preparation plans. Students often find hackathons, courses, workshops, and competitions scattered across websites and social media. However, discovering an opportunity does not necessarily mean understanding its requirements, potential value, or how to prepare for it. NextStep bridges this gap by combining source-backed opportunity discovery with personalized, evidence-informed guidance. Students can explore opportunities, review their details, import relevant CV or GitHub information, and confirm their actual experience and contributions. Using Meta AI, NextStep helps students understand how their experience relates to an opportunity and generates practical preparation tasks based on their goals and available time. Students review and explicitly accept their plans before tracking progress. The platform preserves completed work, highlights uncertainty, and keeps preparation separate from official participation requirements. Our goal is simple: help students move beyond discovering opportunities and confidently take their next step.