Real salary data, AI disruption risk ratings, and honest pathways for every student: whether they're heading to university, an apprenticeship, the trades, the military, or somewhere they haven't discovered yet.
A-Levels · GCSEs · BTECs · T-Levels · Trades · Apprenticeships · All routes
Most careers tools give students a list of jobs. Pekanga gives them intelligence: real salary ranges, how much AI will reshape each role, and the full range of routes in — university, degree apprenticeship, trade, direct entry. Whether a student is sitting A-Levels, GCSEs, or BTECs, they get a picture built around their actual choices, not a generic interest questionnaire.
And for students who don't know where to start: Explore mode surfaces trades, the armed forces, the NHS, and vocational careers that careers lessons rarely cover. No questionnaire. No assumptions about where they're headed.
Median, lower, and upper quartile salary ranges from UK LMI: not aspirational figures. Students see what the role actually pays at different career stages — trades included.
A five-tier framework that doesn't reassure. We tell students which roles AI will reshape, replace, or create entirely — and what that means for their choices now.
Year 10 and 11 students enter their options and get a territory map of where those choices lead — EBacc guidance, subject combinations, and careers that branch from each path.
Not every student knows what they want. Explore surfaces electricians, plumbers, chefs, the armed forces, NHS roles, and dozens of careers that careers lessons rarely reach — with real employer links and apprenticeship routes.
A student has a career in mind but doesn't know how to get there. They enter the role and Pekanga works backwards: which subjects open that door, which routes exist, and what the journey looks like.
One-click PDF evidence reports for Benchmarks 2 and 4, ready for Ofsted inspection. Session data, subjects explored, careers opened — with authorisation fields included.
Students save careers they like to a personal tray during their session, then receive a formatted PDF report by email to keep, share with parents, or discuss with their advisor.
A live admin view of session activity: which subject combinations are being explored, which careers are most clicked, and which cohorts are engaging — at a glance.
Students enter their A-Levels, GCSEs, BTECs, or T-Levels. Or they skip the subjects entirely and explore trades, vocational routes, and careers by interest.
The platform maps their combination to career pathways, including ones they won't find in a standard search.
Each career shows salary data, AI risk rating, routes in (degree and non-degree), and related pathways.
Careers leaders export a PDF evidence record for Ofsted, automatically generated from session activity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Book a 30-minute demo and we'll show you the platform with your own subject combinations. Schools get access via a demo: we'll set you up with a school code and walk you through the platform live.
Or email us directly: hello@pekanga.co.uk