Start with the student.
Jengo starts with facts, activities, responsibilities, relationships, and the moments behind them. The profile is the source material for strategy.
Optional writing samples can be added inside Profile later, but they are not the first gate.
"I used to translate invoices at my grandmother's store. I liked making the forms less scary before I had a word for what that meant."
Add the actual prompts.
Common App, UC, ApplyTexas, Coalition, school supplements, and portal essays all sit in the same inventory. Jengo needs the school list before it can make smart choices.
This is where the application stops being a pile of assignments and becomes a map.
Assign each prompt a role.
Common App, school supplements, and short answers are mapped together. Each prompt gets a role, a source story, a target word count, and a warning for what not to repeat.
Use the repair scene here. Save the family-store translation story for the Common App throughline.
Draft from the strategy.
Drafts start from the storyboard, then keep the student's choices under pressure: prompt fit, word count, repeated scenes, and generic-AI patterns.
If the student adds writing samples, Jengo can also generate a closer reference preview and run style checks inside the essay workspace.
Ms. Pauletta never said anything, but she'd slide a second book across the counter like she already knew I'd read the first.
The library was where I learned that help could be quiet and still change the room.