NerdApply
Introduction
We've worked with NerdApply continuously since late 2025. What began with a seed-round deck became a design system, then the platform, then everything around it. Today we touch nearly every surface the company puts in front of a user.
Platform
Counselor-facing flows carrying real data density, where every added control costs the user something.
Counselors told them the same thing at the conference: it's the only platform they can figure out how to use. Beautiful was the word they kept using.
Privacy you can see
De-identification isn't a policy page. It's a visual system inside every profile.
Website
The platform brings together every essential step of the college admissions process into one connected experience
Making it easier to plan, collaborate, and track progress from start to finish.
Making it easier to plan, collaborate, and track progress from start to finish.
Each asset starts from a system that already exists. Throughput climbs.
Marketing
Conference collateral, campaign graphics, motion, and video at a cadence one hire couldn't match.
Each asset starts from a system that already exists. Throughput climbs.
An ongoing partnership
- 9
- Quarters of continuous partnership.
- 1,100+
- Organizations on the platform.
- $3.2M
- Seed round closed during the engagement.
Overclock
An accelerator teaching engineers and operators to build with AI. Identity, website, and program materials across cohorts.
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Yarik Nikolenko
Founder of Tribe Designworks
Most of the clients we’ve loved working with have one thing in common: they work in education. At some point we stopped calling it a coincidence. Now it’s the whole practice.
