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Alpha · Notes from the build

Show the working.

What we have shipped, how our rule engine and language model turn a student’s profile into a plan, and what the AI will do next inside Alpha.

Engineering · 2026-10-07

Shipped: AI Match checks a profile against four rulebooks in under a second

The first module of Alpha is a rule engine, not a chatbot. What it checks for South Korea, Finland, Cyprus and Malta, and why rules run before any language model.

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Architecture · 2026-10-07

How Alpha’s LLM layer works: rules first, model second, counselor last

The language model never sees a student’s name or phone number, answers in a fixed JSON shape, and may only use facts we publish. The design, and why.

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Engineering · 2026-10-07

The student portal: eight stages, one private vault, zero public links

Where the AI hands off to the application itself: an 8-stage tracker, a document vault outside the public web, and a timeline of every change.

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Engineering · 2026-10-07

How a small team shipped Alpha with Claude Code

Website, student portal, rule engine, SOP Coach and the LLM layer: built and tested by a small team working with Claude Code.

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