MedSchool Copilot

What it is

MedSchool Copilot takes a medical school applicant through the whole application: the AMCAS narrative foundation and fifteen activities, the personal statement, secondary essays tuned to what admissions committees at 200+ schools actually ask for, and adaptive mock interviews in both traditional and MMI formats.

The product bet is specific: secondaries are the choke point. An applicant applying broadly faces dozens of schools, each with its own essay prompts, on overlapping deadlines, after already writing a full primary application. The system drafts from the applicant’s own primary application data so every essay starts from their real experiences, in their voice, aimed at that school’s stated mission.

My role

Co-founder and product lead. I define the product, own the roadmap and pricing architecture, and manage the dev team that builds it. This is the delegation version of the job: on my other projects I write the code, and here my output is specs, priorities, and review.

The business design

Five tiers, from a free plan through self-serve SaaS to two hybrid tiers where AI drafting is combined with human review by admissions committee members and physicians, up to a white-glove tier with an acceptance guarantee. The hybrid tiers are the deliberate part: applicants at this stakes level want a human in the loop, and the AI’s job is to make that human’s hour count.

Users have been admitted to programs including the Medical College of Wisconsin, Ohio State, Temple’s Katz School of Medicine, and the University of Cincinnati.

What I would do differently

Price the hybrid tiers first and build backward from them. We built the self-serve product first because it was the obvious SaaS shape, and learned that the willingness to pay concentrates where human judgment enters. The free tier earns its keep as an acquisition engine, but the company economics live at the top of the ladder.