Reads every essay, activity, honor, and letter. Then tells you exactly what to fix.
Over 60,000 students have used Kolly to get into these schools.
Grades on the six dimensions admissions officers actually use. Helps you fix it, one edit at a time.
Last spring, a senator's office called with a problem they couldn't solve: their AI worked in testing but sat unused in production.
The hard part: making sure the people using it can explain their decision.
I grew up near the White House. Treasury, OMB, State.
Notes on every paragraph. What's working, what isn't, what to fix.
Top 13% of accepted Harvard essays
See how your draft holds up against real admitted essays at the school you want.
I've always been passionate about systems that actually work in the real world.
I've been chasing systems that ship and hold up under pressure.
Stuck on a paragraph? Kolly proposes a rewrite that still sounds like you.
Final Read · submission day
4 of 6 readyOne last full pass over every essay, every activity, the night before you submit.
Stanford and Harvard want different things. Kolly tells you which essay to tighten for each.
Last spring, a senator's office called with a problem they couldn't solve. I was twenty-one, a cofounder, and I'd heard this complaint before.
The summer after my freshman year, I was sitting in a basement of the White House Office of Management and Budget, watching a pilot program quietly fail.
Read the admitted essay most like yours, side by side. From a real student who got in.
The honest answers we'd give a friend at the dinner table.
No. Kolly is a writing coach, not a writing replacement. It grades your draft, points out what's missing, and suggests one edit at a time. You write every word. Schools have always allowed tutors, English teachers, counselors, and tools like Grammarly. Kolly is the same kind of help, built specifically for college essays. Hiring a $300 per hour private counselor is allowed. So is using Kolly.
ChatGPT writes essays for you. Kolly helps you write a better essay yourself. ChatGPT has read the internet but knows nothing about what gets students into Stanford. Kolly was built specifically for college admissions and trained on hundreds of thousands of essays that actually got students accepted. It grades your draft on the six things admissions officers care about, proposes one edit at a time, and never replaces your voice. ChatGPT gives anyone an essay. Kolly makes yours stronger.
Yes. Before Kolly suggests anything, it learns your voice from your past writing, your resume, and the personal context you upload. Every suggestion comes one edit at a time. You see the change. You decide what to keep. Most students tell us their final essay sounds more like them after Kolly than before.
No. You're submitting your own writing. Kolly grades and gives feedback, the same way a tutor or English teacher does. There's no AI signature on your final essay because there's no AI writing in your final essay. We even include an AI detector so you can check your draft yourself before submission and rewrite anything that reads off.
Both work. Start from a blank page and Kolly helps you brainstorm topics, build an outline, and write your way through it. Already wrote a draft? Paste it in and get a full review in under a minute. Most students arrive somewhere in between, and Kolly meets them there.
Yes. Share any essay with a private link. They leave comments and suggestions. You decide what to keep. No account needed for them. Most parents tell us this is the first time they've actually been able to help without taking over the essay themselves.
Yes, privately, in your account. Only you can see them, plus anyone you choose to share a link with (a parent, a counselor, a teacher). We never sell your writing. We never use it to train AI models, ours or anyone else's. Delete any essay or your entire account whenever you want, and it's gone for good. No copies, no backups, no recovery.
The college application process favors students whose families can afford a $300 per hour private counselor. That's not most students. Kolly was built so every student gets the same level of expert feedback, on every essay, for every school. Same coaching. Fraction of the cost.
Full refund within 30 days, no questions asked. Email founders@kolly.ai.
Free for one essay and one school. No card to start. See what an Ivy-League-trained coach has to say about your draft.