AI-powered career intelligence for secondary schools

Your future,
honestly mapped.

Real salary data, AI disruption risk ratings, and hidden career paths, all mapped to your students' actual subject combinations.

Free access during beta · No commitment required

Gatsby Benchmark 2 & 4 aligned
Baker Clause compliant
Ofsted EIF ready
UK GDPR compliant
Built for all secondary schools and MATs

Career guidance that doesn't
pull its punches.

Most careers tools give students a list of jobs. Pekanga gives them intelligence: salary ranges, how much AI will reshape each role, non-degree routes their teachers haven't mentioned, and hidden gem careers their combination unlocks.

It takes two minutes. Students enter their subjects. They get a report built around their actual choices, not a generic interest questionnaire.

The name
Pekanga
From te reo Māori: a fork in the road, a branching path, a moment of choice. The name that sits at the heart of our social mission: honest guidance for every young person, wherever they begin.
Beta · Free Access
Step 1: Your subjects
Which A-Levels are you taking?
✓ Biology ✓ Chemistry ✓ Psychology Mathematics History Geography
Top career match
Clinical Psychologist
NHS & private practice
£52,000
median salary
◆ Low AI risk No degree route available Strong subject match

Everything a careers advisor
wishes they had time to say.

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Real salary data

Median, lower, and upper quartile salary ranges from UK LMI: not aspirational figures. Students see what the role actually pays at different career stages.

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AI disruption ratings

A five-tier framework that's deliberately honest. We don't reassure students that every job is safe. We tell them what the evidence actually shows, with context.

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Hidden gem careers

Every subject combination surfaces careers students and advisors rarely discuss. High-demand, well-paid roles that fall outside the standard shortlists.

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Non-degree routes

Degree apprenticeships, professional qualifications, and direct entry routes. Not as an afterthought: a first-class option alongside traditional university paths.

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Gatsby evidence export

One-click PDF evidence reports for Benchmarks 2 and 4, ready for Ofsted inspection. Session data, subjects explored, careers opened, with authorisation fields included.

Two-minute experience

Students get a full personalised careers report in under two minutes. No login required during beta. No lengthy questionnaires. Instant, actionable intelligence.

From subject choices to career
intelligence in minutes.

1
Enter subjects

Students select their A-Levels, BTECs, T-Levels, or mixed qualifications from the subject picker.

2
Get matched

The platform maps their combination to career pathways, including ones they won't find in a standard search.

3
Explore the report

Each career shows salary data, AI risk rating, routes in (degree and non-degree), and related pathways.

4
Advisor evidence

Careers leaders export a PDF evidence record for Ofsted, automatically generated from session activity.

Built around the frameworks
you're already judged on.

Pekanga doesn't ask you to change how you work. It fits the statutory guidance your school already operates under and creates the evidence trail to prove it.

2
Gatsby Benchmark 2
Labour Market Information
4
Gatsby Benchmark 4
Careers in Curriculum
EIF
Ofsted Education
Inspection Framework
Baker
Baker Clause
Technical Education
One-click Ofsted evidence

Every Pekanga session generates an audit trail. When an Ofsted inspector asks for evidence of Benchmark 2 or 4 compliance, your careers leader exports a signed PDF report (session counts, subjects explored, careers opened, and authorisation fields) in under 60 seconds.

Gatsby Benchmark 2
Gatsby Benchmark 4
Ofsted EIF Ready
Our mission

Guidance that reaches
every young person.

Pekanga started with a founder's frustration: his own children didn't know what they didn't know. Careers guidance in most schools is underfunded, overstretched, and skewed toward well-trodden paths. The students who most need honest intelligence are the ones least likely to get it.

We're building a platform that works for every school. For those who can pay, it pays for itself many times over in staff time and Ofsted evidence. For those who can't, we intend to make it free or near-free, funded by the schools that can.

And beyond the UK, our longer-term ambition is simpler still: honest, high-quality career guidance for young people who have access to none at all.

"Pekanga": te reo Māori for a branching path. A name chosen deliberately: every young person deserves a fair choice at the fork in the road.

Every school in the UK

Independent schools, academies, sixth form colleges, and MATs. The platform is built for all of them. No school should have to choose between Ofsted compliance and giving students genuinely useful guidance.

Under-resourced schools, subsidised or free

Schools with limited budgets shouldn't give their students worse guidance. Our commercial revenue funds subsidised or free access for schools that need it most.

Young people with no guidance at all

Longer term, our ambition extends beyond the UK. Millions of young people worldwide make life-defining choices with no career guidance whatsoever. We intend to change that.

Simple, honest pricing.
No per-student charges.

Flat annual licence per school. No usage caps, no per-student fees.

Single-school pricing reflects school size. MAT pricing depends on trust size, school roll, and phase — every trust is different enough that a tailored proposal is the honest approach.

Free Access
£0
During beta
  • Full platform access
  • A-Level, BTEC & T-Level subject combinations
  • Salary data and AI risk ratings
  • Hidden gem career pathways
  • Email reports for students
Get free access
MAT Licence
Tailored
proposal
Based on trust size, school roll, and phase
  • Everything in School Licence
  • Trust-wide reporting
  • Centralised Gatsby evidence
  • Cross-school analytics
  • Dedicated account management
  • Single contract, all schools
Request a proposal

Ready to see it
in your school?

Book a 30-minute demo and we'll walk you through the platform live, with your own subject combinations.

Or email us directly: hello@pekanga.co.uk