Built by someone who’s been there.

I started studying for the MCAT with a 499 diagnostic and no real plan. I was juggling spreadsheets, sticky notes, and a dozen open tabs just trying to keep track of where I stood. So I built myself a tracker. Something that showed me what I’d covered, what I was missing, and whether I was improving. That tracker helped me finish with a 520.

After my exam, I kept hearing the same thing from self-studiers everywhere: they were putting in the hours but had no way to know if it was working. No structure, no feedback, no visibility into their own progress. I knew that feeling, and I didn’t want anyone else to go through it alone.

The thing that finally moved me from the mid-500s to a 520 wasn’t more content. It was the way I handled mistakes. Every time I got a question wrong on a full-length, I’d hand-write five new questions targeting the same concept, in three different framings, and review them on a spaced repetition schedule until I genuinely couldn’t miss it. It worked, and it was a massive amount of manual work.

Pulse is that workflow, automated. The dashboard is everything I wished I had: an adaptive plan, a clean score tracker, a mistake log that connects to the AAMC outline, a knowledge map you can actually look at. Imprint is the part of my handwritten process I most wanted a computer to do for me. It’s my version of Anki, built for the way the actual MCAT tests you.

I built this solo over the last 18 months while finishing my master’s in business analytics and taking the MCAT myself. I’m starting med school in the fall. Every feature in here comes from something a real student told me they needed.