LaunchPoint
For Students Everywhere · Grades 6–12

Find your Career
Neighborhood.

LaunchPoint Navigator is a proprietary career navigation system that maps every student to their Career Neighborhood, builds a personalized pathway, and equips them with the financial intelligence to make it happen.

3,888
Careers
50
States
60+
Schools
10
FI Modules
LaunchPoint Navigator
Dashboard
Careers
Workforce
Aid Plan
Fin Lit
Software Developer
Technology & Software
$95,000
+11.2% Rapid
Registered Nurse
Healthcare & Medicine
$65,000
+8.4% Fast
Aerospace Engineer
Engineering
$105,000
+6.3% Fast
Cybersecurity Analyst
Technology & Security
$88,000
+14.3% Rapid
Click any career for a complete Career DNA profile →
BLS-verified career data
Real local employer data
FAFSA & scholarship guidance
Career stability analysis
Grade-calibrated Financial Intelligence
Available through schools & parents
Understanding Your Future

Job vs. Career: What's the Difference?

A job is something you do today. A career is the path you're building for tomorrow.

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A Job
What you do today

A job helps you earn money right now. It's a position you hold, tasks you perform, and a paycheck you receive. Jobs are important — they build experience and teach responsibility.

Example
Cashier at a grocery store
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A Career
What you're building

A career is a series of jobs, experiences, skills, and education that help you reach your long-term goals. It's the bigger picture — the pathway you're building over time.

Career Path Example
CashierCustomer Service LeadStore ManagerRegional Director

Every career starts somewhere.

LaunchPoint Navigator helps you explore careers, discover pathways, and take the next step toward your future.

Explore Careers →
The LaunchPoint System

A proprietary career navigation system

From Career DNA discovery to Financial Intelligence — a connected system that turns self-awareness into a concrete, funded plan.

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Career Neighborhood Assessment
24 research-backed questions identify your primary career domain and sub-field, unlocking over 3,888 personalized career matches from real Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
Grades 6–12
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3,888 Career DNA Profiles
Click any career for a full Career DNA profile: entry-to-top-earner salary tiers, career stability analysis, education requirements, a day-in-the-life schedule, career ladder, and top employers by region.
BLS Data
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Workforce Signal Engine
Real local workforce signals — top employers, hiring trends, salary benchmarks, key industries, education options, housing costs, and quality of life — all local, all verified.
Nationwide
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Personalized Education Roadmap
Browse 4-year universities, community colleges, trade schools, and bootcamps. Compare real costs, admission standards, majors, and every scholarship and grant — mapped to your Career Neighborhood.
60+ Institutions
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Financial Aid Plan Builder
Build your personal aid plan. Add scholarships and grants, watch your net cost drop in real-time, see your monthly loan payment, and link directly to apply for every dollar of aid.
Real Savings Calculator
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Financial Intelligence System
Nine grade-calibrated modules that build real Financial Intelligence — income, cost of living, budgeting, debt, investing, insurance, and decision-making. 20 questions per module, tracked across grades 6–12.
180 Questions · Grades 6–12
The Seven Pillars

Seven things every student deserves to have

LaunchPoint Navigator was built around seven equally important pillars — the same seven things its founder never had growing up, and built to give every student.

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Career DNA Discovery
A proprietary two-stage assessment that maps your Career DNA to one of seven Career Neighborhoods — revealing not just what you could do, but where you belong.
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Opportunity Engine
3,888 Career DNA profiles with real salary data, career ladders, and day-in-the-life detail — filtered to your Neighborhood so you see what matters first.
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Education Roadmap
Know which school, which program, and which pathway fits your career goals and your financial reality — with costs, aid, and outcomes mapped together.
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Scholarships & Grants
Find every dollar of free money available — so no scholarship goes unclaimed and no loan is taken that didn't have to be.
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Financial Foundry
The real-world money knowledge most schools never teach — paychecks, debt, interest, and how decisions at 18 can follow you for decades. Tracked from 6th through 12th grade.
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Real-World Budgeting
Understand what adult life actually costs and how to plan for it — so you start strong instead of struggling.
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Workforce Signal Engine
Real local data on employers, salaries, hiring trends, and cost of living — so students see what's actually happening where they want to live and work.
Workforce Signal Engine

Any county.
One dashboard.
Made for you.

Pick any county in the country and get a full opportunity dashboard — the local economy today, who’s hiring, what’s coming, education, and cost of living — plus a personal match score, built on government data.

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Your County Match
A personal fit score for any U.S. county, drawn from your assessment and saved careers — so you see where you fit, not just where jobs exist.
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Economy & Who’s Hiring
What drives each local economy (USDA ERS), its major employers and leading industries, and the careers with the most local openings.
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What’s Coming
Recent federal contracts and grants — live from USAspending.gov — plus announced projects and investment still on the way.
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Education, Housing & Life
Local colleges, trade schools, and apprenticeships (IPEDS), with housing costs, median income, and what life in that community is really like.
🗺️ County Opportunity Dashboard
Eight views of any county in the country
County Overview
Snapshot + your match score
Economy & Employers
What drives it · who’s here
Careers & Hiring
Your careers matched · local openings
What’s Coming
Federal awards & projects
Education & Training
Colleges · trades · apprenticeships
Life in the County
Housing · income · cost of living
Sources & Updates
Every figure, cited
Nationwide — thousands of counties, every figure sourced and cited
Education Explorer

Every path to a great career

Compare real costs, admission standards, scholarships, grants, and available majors for every type of institution — from 4-year universities to free bootcamps.

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4-Year Universities
500+
Full profiles with scholarships & majors
Public & PrivateCostsAdmissionAid
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Community Colleges
300+
Affordable 2-year & transfer pathways
Transfer PathsCertificatesLow Cost
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Trade & Vocational
100+
Career-ready in months, not years
WeldingHVACAviationCDL
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Bootcamps & Certs
100+
Fast-track tech & healthcare programs
Some FreeTechHealthcareCerts
💡 Did you know?
Some bootcamps are fully subsidized — $0 tuition with living stipends available
Cloud certifications and tech bootcamps at no cost — students need to know these exist.
Explore all schools →
Financial Aid Dashboard

See exactly what it will cost you

Build your personal aid plan and watch your real net cost drop in real-time as you add every scholarship and grant available to you.

  • Real-time net cost calculator
  • Activities that strengthen applications
  • Direct apply links with deadlines
  • Side-by-side loan comparison
Financial Aid Dashboard
Over 3,888 Career Profiles

Every career. Full profile. Instant.

Click any career to instantly see salary by experience level, career stability analysis, education requirements, a daily schedule, career ladder, top local employers, and required skills.

Software Developer
$95,000+11.2% Rapid
Technology & Software
Registered Nurse
$65,000+8.4% Fast
Healthcare & Medicine
Aerospace Engineer
$105,000+6.3% Fast
Engineering
Financial Analyst
$75,000+6.8% Fast
Finance & Banking
Cybersecurity Analyst
$88,000+14.3% Rapid
Technology & Security
Physician Assistant
$110,000+9.8% Rapid
Healthcare & Medicine
Financial Foundry

Most students are never taught how money really works.

Without that knowledge, the chances of making bad financial decisions — decisions that can follow you for the rest of your life — increase dramatically.

"The financial decisions you make at 18, 19, and 20 years old can follow you for decades. Every student deserves to enter adult life with the knowledge to make good ones. Financial literacy is not a luxury — it is a necessity, and it is one of the most important things we can give to the next generation."
— Noel Keathley, Founder
Financial Foundry
How Students Get Access

Brought to students through those who champion them

LaunchPoint Navigator reaches students through the parents, schools, and institutions that believe in their potential and want to give them every advantage.

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Parents
Give your student the guidance and tools to navigate their future with confidence — the map you may not have had yourself.
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Schools & Districts
Equip every student with a Personalized Education Roadmap, Financial Intelligence foundation, and financial aid strategy.
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Financial Institutions
Help young people make smarter financial decisions before they ever take on debt — building better customers and communities.
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Organizations
Nonprofits, community groups, and workforce organizations investing in the next generation of their communities.
The Keathley Family — Noel, Kelly, Carlton, and Collins
The Keathley Family
Noel & Kelly Keathley
Carlton & Collins · Founder, LaunchPoint Navigator
The Founder's Story

Built from personal experience.

I was the student who didn't know what I didn't know. I didn't know what careers existed beyond the few I'd seen growing up. I didn't know how to find scholarships — or that thousands of dollars in free money existed, waiting to be claimed by students exactly like me. I didn't know how interest worked, how student loans compounded, or how the financial decisions I made at 18 would follow me for years. Nobody handed me a map to help me navigate all of this.

Every student deserves a lighthouse. This is mine — for them, and for my girls.

Founder, LaunchPoint Navigator
The Bigger Picture

The stress doesn't just belong to the student.

With the skyrocketing cost of colleges and universities, the weight of paying for higher education falls on the entire family. LaunchPoint Navigator was built to lift that weight.

$38K+
Average annual cost of a 4-year private university
$1.7T
Total U.S. student loan debt and growing every day
47%
Of students who leave scholarship money unclaimed
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For the Student

The pressure of choosing the right career, the right school, and figuring out how to pay for it — all at 16 or 17 years old — is enormous. Most students carry this alone. LaunchPoint Navigator gives every student a clear picture: careers, costs, scholarships, and a real plan.

The result
Clarity, direction, and a financial plan — before the most important decisions of their young lives.
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For the Parents

Parents lie awake wondering how they'll manage tuition bills, student loans, and whether their child is heading in the right direction. When a student uses LaunchPoint Navigator to claim every dollar of available aid, the financial relief isn't just theirs — it's the whole family's.

The result
Real financial relief and the peace of mind that comes from knowing your child has a plan and the tools to execute it.

"With the skyrocketing cost of colleges and universities, students and parents need all the help they can get. LaunchPoint Navigator was built specifically to provide that help — not just for the student sitting in the classroom, but for the entire family counting on them. I built it for every student out there, and I built it for my daughters Carlton and Collins — so they will always have the guidance and the map that I never had."

NK
Noel Keathley
Founder, LaunchPoint Navigator
From the Banking Community

"LaunchPoint Navigator is exactly the kind of forward-thinking tool that financial institutions have been looking for. It gives us a structured, scalable way to deliver real financial literacy to the students and communities we serve — and it maps directly to our Community Reinvestment Act goals in a way that's both meaningful and documentable. This isn't just a checkbox exercise; it's a platform that creates genuine impact for the people in our communities who need it most."

MS
Michael Schloegel
Mississippi Pine Belt Market President, Hancock Whitney
LPNsights

Ideas That Move Education and Workforce Forward

White PaperTalent Retention

Keeping Talent Home

Explore how schools and states can connect student aspirations with workforce intelligence to strengthen local talent pipelines and create compelling reasons for young people to build their futures closer to home.

August 19, 202613 min readFree to read — no email required
Explore LPNsights
Flagship White Paper
Keeping Talent Home
How LaunchPoint Navigator Can Help Schools and States Build a Stronger Education-to-Workforce Pipeline
LaunchPoint Navigator
Student Stories

Built for real students

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Using this platform was incredibly easy from start to finish. I didn’t run into a single issue, and everything was smooth and simple to navigate. I loved exploring the different ways to visualize my future, and the personalized assessments made the experience even more exciting. It’s a great tool for discovering what fits you best and creating a clear path for your future. Setting up my account and moving through the website felt seamless the entire time.
MC
Mary Grace Carlton
Graduate, Mountain Brook High School — Alabama
Built for Every Student

Find your Neighborhood right now.

Career DNA discovery. Personalized education roadmaps. Financial intelligence. Workforce signals. A complete career navigation system — available through the parents, schools, and organizations that champion students.

Available through parents, schools, and partnering organizations · Works on any device