TES.chat: An Experiment in Fixing College Transfers

I did not start tes.chat because I wanted to build another AI wrapper. I started it because transferring colleges was annoying in a very specific way: everyone tells you credits can transfer, but nobody gives you a clear answer until you have already done too much work. You look at one college catalog, then another. You open course descriptions in different tabs. You compare credits, prefixes, prerequisites, general education requirements, and old PDFs that may or may not still be true. Then you email someone, wait, and usually get an answer that still depends on another office. At some point I remember thinking: this should not be this hard. Not because transfer evaluation is simple. It is not. But the first layer of the problem felt very searchable. If a course from school A has already been accepted as equivalent to a course at school B, why should a student have to dig through half-broken websites to find that out? That frustration became tes.chat. the beginning The original idea…