For Independent Consultants & Coaches

Parents pay you thousands to guide their student. What if you had better data on day one?

My Signal Path gives your students a 20-minute AI-guided interview and a 6-8 page personalized report — before your first session. You get a head start. They get a better outcome. Everybody wins.

The Problem You Already Know

Your first three sessions are spent figuring out who this student actually is.

You've seen it a hundred times. A parent hires you because their teenager needs direction. You sit down with the student and they give you the rehearsed version — the AP classes, the extracurriculars, the "I'm thinking about business or maybe engineering." Surface-level. Filtered. Performing for the adult in the room.

It takes you two, three, sometimes four sessions to break through that front and get to who this student really is — how they actually think, what actually gives them energy, what environments will actually work for them. That's hours of your time and hundreds of dollars of your client's money spent on discovery that should have happened before you ever met.

What if you could skip straight to the insight?

The Tool

A 20-minute interview that does your intake before you walk in the room.

My Signal Path is an AI-guided interview — 20 open-ended questions designed by a recruiter with nearly 30 years of professional interviewing experience. It's not a personality quiz. It's not a career assessment with color-coded labels. It's a structured conversation that adapts in real time, follows up on the interesting threads, and surfaces patterns the student has never been able to see in themselves.

When the interview is done, the student receives their Signal Snapshot — a 6-8 page personalized report covering how they naturally create value, where they'll thrive, where they'll struggle, what directions are worth exploring, and concrete next steps they can take immediately.

That Snapshot becomes the foundation of your first real conversation. Instead of spending three sessions figuring out who this student is, you walk in already knowing. You add your own expertise, your own observations, your own recommendations — layered on top of a data-rich portrait that would have taken you hours to build on your own.

Why This Makes You Better

You're not outsourcing your expertise. You're amplifying it.

Let's be direct about what this is and what it isn't. My Signal Path doesn't replace you. It can't do what you do — the relationship, the judgment, the nuanced guidance that comes from years of experience. What it does is hand you a running start.

Your first session transforms. Instead of asking "so, what are you interested in?" and getting a shrug, you open the Snapshot on screen and say "the interview flagged that you're a systems thinker who thrives in small-team environments but shuts down in high-pressure competition — does that feel right?" Now you're having a real conversation in minute one. The student feels seen. The parent feels like their investment is already paying off.

Your recommendations get sharper. You're not guessing at school fit based on a GPA and a list of extracurriculars. You have a detailed map of how this student operates — their energy patterns, their learning style, the environments that will bring out their best. Your school list gets more specific. Your major guidance gets more confident. Your value goes up.

Your differentiation becomes obvious. Most independent consultants use the same tools — Naviance, MBTI, StrengthsFinder, maybe a proprietary questionnaire. My Signal Path gives you something none of your competitors have: a personalized, AI-generated interview report that's more specific than any assessment on the market, delivered before you've billed a single hour. That's a differentiator you can put on your website, mention in your intake call, and reference in every parent conversation.

How It Works For Your Practice

Simple. No training required. No extra work for you.

01‍ ‍You purchase access for your student.

Buy a single interview. Each student gets a unique link to the guided interview. No accounts, no software to install, no platform to learn.

02‍ ‍The student completes the interview on their own time.

20-30 minutes, on any device. You can assign it before your first meeting, over the summer, or at any point in your engagement. They talk or type — most students prefer using the mic on their phone.

03 ‍ ‍You receive the Signal Snapshot.

A 6-8 page personalized report lands immediately after the student finishes, student will see it. You review it before your next session. You'll know more about how this student operates than most counselors learn in a semester.

04‍ ‍You add your expertise on top.

Use the Snapshot as a launchpad for your own guidance. Annotate it with your observations. Reference it in your school recommendations. Share it with the family as part of your deliverables. It becomes part of your process — branded by your relationship, not ours.

The Math

A small addition to your process. A better student conversation.

Individual access codes: $89 per student.

Volume pricing for practices with 10+ students:

  • 10 codes — $790 ($79/each)

  • 25 codes — $1,750 ($70/each)

  • 50 codes — $3,000 ($60/each)

Each code gives one student the full Signal Path interview and a personalized Signal Snapshot. Codes don't expire.

That's less than 2% of a typical engagement fee for a tool that transforms your intake process, sharpens your recommendations, and gives your client a deliverable they'll reference for years.

If My Signal Path saves you even one hour of discovery per student, and you bill at $200/hour, the tool pays for itself before you've opened the Snapshot. Everything after that is pure upside — better outcomes, happier parents, faster referrals.

Your competitors are using the same personality tests everyone's used for 20 years. You'll be using a tool nobody else has.

Who Built This

Not an ed-tech startup. A recruiter.

My Signal Path was built by Brian Hughes — a professional recruiter with nearly 30 years of experience interviewing thousands of people across healthcare, manufacturing, and engineering. He founded Great Bay Staffing Group in 2008 and is a father of three high-school-aged sons.

The interview questions aren't based on psychology research or personality theory. They're based on the questions that actually reveal how someone thinks, works, and creates value — the same questions Brian has refined across thousands of professional interviews. The patterns the tool surfaces are the patterns that predict real-world career fit, not abstract type categories.

This isn't an assessment built by academics. It's an interview built by someone who's been reading people for a living since 1997.

Want to verify? See Brian's LinkedIn or read his full story.

See The Product

Don't take my word for it. Read a real one.

Here's a partial preview of an actual Signal Snapshot — a high school junior who came in with no plan. This is the kind of report your students will receive, and the kind of foundation you'll build your guidance on top of.

Read a sample Signal Snapshot →

Questions

What consultants want to know.

  • The Signal Snapshot is delivered under the My Signal Path name, but you're welcome to present it as part of your process and add your own annotations, commentary, and recommendations on top. Most consultants frame it as "the first step in my intake process" — the tool does the excavation, you do the interpretation.

  • No. Student interviews and Snapshots are private. I don't share, sell, or reuse their data for any purpose. Your client relationships are yours.

  • Families who buy directly at $149 receive the same AI interview and Signal Snapshot, plus Brian's personal annotated review. The consultant version includes the interview and Snapshot only — because you're the expert adding the human layer. That's your value, not mine.

  • Those tools sort students into predetermined categories based on fixed-choice questions. My Signal Path is an open-ended guided interview that adapts in real time and builds a report from scratch based on what the student actually said. No labels, no types, no acronyms. Every Snapshot is unique because every student is unique. The depth and specificity of the output is on a different level — read a sample and you'll see immediately.

  • Absolutely. Reach out and I'll set you up with a complimentary interview plus three access codes for your students. You won't want to recommend it until you've been through it yourself — and I wouldn't want you to. The codes are good for 30 days, which gives you time to experience it yourself and see how a few of your clients react before we talk about anything else.

  • Yes. The High School version is designed for juniors and seniors navigating school selection, major exploration, and post-graduation options. The College version is for juniors, seniors, and recent grads looking for career direction and a starting point. Same interview quality, different framing and recommendations. You choose the right version for each student.

Add My Signal Path to your practice.

$89 per student · Volume pricing available · No contracts, no minimums

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