The real world, found.
Project Finder matches your child to real competitions, programs, mentors, and audiences, then coaches the outreach that turns a stranger into an ally.
The working version of this lives in Cora Search. Try it now.
It knows your child
Distinction uses the child's interests, strengths, age, location, goals, and current work to find possibilities that genuinely fit, not pulled from a generic list.
You receive a shortlist
The family receives a shortlist of suitable possibilities with an explanation of fit: why each one matches and what it would ask of the child.
Cora helps you choose
Cora helps the family weigh the options: what each one would build, what it would cost in time, and which is the right next step.
Cora coaches the outreach
Cora helps prepare messages, questions, applications, interview preparation, presentations, and next steps. The child or responsible adult makes the outside contact and decides whether to proceed.
The child does the asking
The child sends the email, makes the call, submits the application. That's the point: the outreach itself is the growth. Every step is visible to the parent.
What Project Finder can find
Possibilities span many categories, matched to your child's actual interests, age, and readiness:
Parents approve every real-world contact before it happens. Every introduction, every entry, every email: visible and parent-gated.
Project Finder does not promise eligibility, acceptance, an introduction, a third party's response, intellectual-property registration, or legal advice. The child or responsible adult decides whether to proceed.
It grows with your child: early wins close to home, real outreach and real audiences as they're ready.
Want to capture where this is pointing?
After a Project Finder session, Cora can walk your child through a short synthesis, what pulled them, what didn't, the question they want to chase next, and save it as a dated direction memo in their portfolio. No pressure; skip it and nothing is created.