OrientaAI
AI-assisted post-secondary orientation. Open, free, transparent.
500,000 students, one blind choice.
Each year, approximately 500,000 Italian students complete secondary school and face a critical decision about their future with limited, fragmented, or biased information. Existing institutional tools are inaccessible to many students, especially those from lower-income families or smaller cities, and are not personalised to individual interests.
Three open components.
Open Dataset (OD-IEP)
The first structured, CC BY licensed dataset on Italian post-secondary pathways: university courses, ITS Academy, apprenticeships, employment data. Published on GitHub and Hugging Face.
Fine-tuned LLM
An open-weight model (based on Mistral or LLaMA) trained on the OD-IEP dataset and validated orientation dialogues. Released on Hugging Face under an open licence.
Web Interface
A lightweight web app with no tracking and no login required. A conversational chat with the model, self-hostable by schools and local authorities via Docker.
Open data, open model, decentralised infrastructure.
Open dataset
The first structured dataset on Italian post-secondary pathways, reusable by researchers, journalists, and policymakers.
Open model
A fine-tuned model for educational counselling lowers the barrier for other European countries with similar systems.
Self-hostable
Decentralised architecture ensures full control over student data, with no dependency on proprietary APIs.
Six months, four milestones.
OD-IEP Dataset v1.0
≥ 5,000 records published on GitHub and Hugging Face
Fine-tuned model
Checkpoint released on Hugging Face with evaluation report
Web Interface v1.0
Docker image, public demo, deployment docs
Final report
User testing with ≥ 2 Italian schools, lessons learned
State of the art.
| Solution | Open? | AI? | Open data? | Self-host? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Universitaly (MIUR) | ❌ | ❌ | Partial | ❌ |
| Skuola.net / Studenti.it | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Commercial chatbots | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| OrientaAI | ✅ MIT | ✅ | ✅ CC BY | ✅ |
Project under development
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