Stop asking if they've started.
Atla gives your child a month-by-month plan and tracks every deadline in it. You get a live view of whether it's happening — without reading a single draft, and without the Sunday-night conversation.
Free to start · no card · they own their work, always
You see progress. Not their drafts.
This is a product rule, not a setting you can talk them into changing. It's the reason a 17-year-old will actually let you into the account.
The nagging has somewhere else to go.
What you're actually worried about.
Isn't this just having AI write the essays?
No — and it's built so that stays true. Atla never submits anything and never hands your child text to pass off as theirs. It interviews them, saves their own sentences, and gives feedback the way a good counselor does: quoting their lines back, flagging the ones that don't sound like them. Colleges are asking for your child's voice. Atla's entire job is protecting it.
We already have a school counselor.
Good — keep them. The average public-school counselor carries around 380 students and can't be there at 11pm the night a supplement is due. Atla holds the whole two-year project and shows up between meetings, so the time you do get with a human goes to the things only a human can do.
What does it cost?
The plan, the deadlines and the school list are free, with no card and no trial clock. Essay feedback is $10/month and agents that draft between sessions are $22/month. If cost is the reason your family can't use it, write to us — we'd rather you have it.
Where does our data go?
Into a store that belongs to your child alone — never pooled with other students, never used to train a model. You can export all of it as plain files or delete it permanently, any time, without asking us.
Set it up together tonight.
It takes about a minute. They do the intake; you get the view.