For independent counselors

Your students, your families and every organization that can help them, in one place you do not have to build yourself.

For a private college counselor or a small practice. One flat price a year, with no fee per student.

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Membership: Independent counselor
Annual price: $500 a year
Deposit due today: $250

The deposit is 50 percent of your first year. The deposit is non-refundable and is credited in full to your first year. We refund it in full if your workspace is not ready within 12 months of your payment.

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An independent counselor

Your practice, with the whole map behind it

01Your students are yours alone
No school, community organization or university can see your caseload.
02Find help near a student
Search every listed organization by place and by what it does, and see it on a map.
03Colleges ask through you
A university asks for one student by a private handle. You read the reason and decide.
04The family has the last word
The student, or a parent for a minor, chooses what is shared, and can take it back.

An independent counselor

Mrs. Quintero, parent
Marisol needs help with chemistry before her applications. Do you know a program near us?
You
Yes. I found three tutoring nonprofits within a few miles of you in the directory. I will send the two that take juniors.
Northfield University
Request passed to the family by you.
Mrs. Quintero, parent
We said yes to her name and email. Not her phone number.

See it working

Every opportunity, matched

Each fly-in, summer program and scholarship on one calendar, with which of your students fit and why.

Recorded in the demo workspace. Every person and organization shown is fictional.

If you use Slate today

Keep Slate.org for application status. Run your practice, your families and your search for help nearby here.

Slate.org, the free counselor side of Slate

What Slate does

See application progress and admission decisions for students who applied to participating colleges
Upload materials for those students
Build lists of students, applications and colleges
Colleges choose which information they share

CBOs of America

What you get here on top

A caseload with tasks, notes and last contact for every student, including the ones who have not applied anywhere yet
Messages with students and parents, and staff channels that can be archived, searched and handed over
One calendar of fly-ins, visits, scholarships and deadlines, matched to the students they fit
Introductions to universities that need your decision and then the family's, one request at a time
Packets: what each student still needs for a program, checked off as it arrives
A map and directory of colleges and education nonprofits across the country

We do not show application status or admission decisions. Slate.org does, for colleges that share them.

What Slate does is taken from Technolutions' own public documentation, read in October 2026. Slate and Slate.org are products of Technolutions, which is not connected to CBOs of America.

Who this is for

A counselor who works for families

You are not a school and you are not a nonprofit. Families hire you, and you keep track of each student across spreadsheets, email and a shared drive.

Here you get a workspace of your own. Your students are yours alone. No school, community organization or university can see them unless a family says yes to one specific request.

What you get

The work, in one place

A caseload: Each student with their tasks, notes and what is still open.
Family messaging: Write to a student or a parent. Parents can follow their own student's progress.
The college calendar: Fly-ins, visits, scholarships and deadlines from member universities, filtered to the students they fit.
The full directory and map: Every listed community organization, school, college and other organization, by state, city and focus.
Packets: What each student needs for a program or an application, checked off as it comes in.
Your calendar apps: Send dates to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook.

Find the right help nearby

The directory is the point

A student may need a tutoring program, a first-generation support group or a scholarship fund that you do not run. The directory lists more than 98,000 education nonprofits and more than 4,000 colleges, drawn from public records.

Search by place, by name or by what the organization does, and see it on a map of the country.

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What stays protected

The same rules for everyone

A university never sees a student's name through you without the family's yes. The steps are the same as for every member: a request, your decision, the family's decision, then a release that can be taken back.

There is no fee per student, per referral or per enrollment, for you or for anyone else. Students under 13 cannot have an account.

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