Rehla — the quest begins

Every student
deserves a guide.

RehlaQuest is an AI university & career coach for students in the UK and UAE — every curriculum in, every destination out.

Free early access · App Store & Play Store coming soon
Your best-fit route
Chemical Engineering
95% match · high confidence
This week's plan
Chemistry — Moles & equations
Maths — Differentiation
Physics — Mechanics
🔥 7-day streakKeep going
~1 min
to a recommended direction & confidence score
5
curricula — GCSE · IGCSE · A-Level · International A-Level · International Baccalaureate (IB)
3
destinations — UK, UAE & North America
UK & UAE
two live markets — with more to follow
The problem · why now

Bright futures, narrow horizons

Across the UK and the UAE, young people are better qualified than ever — yet they navigate a maze of curricula, universities and admissions systems half-blind, and the guidance is weakest for those who need it most. Talent is everywhere; opportunity is not.

~1 in 8
16–24s are NEET — nearly one million young people not in education, employment or training.
£2bn
spent by UK families on tutoring each year — and in the UAE 83% of students already pay for extra maths. Families everywhere pay for support; structured guidance is the gap.
>90%
of UAE international-school students intend to study overseas — each into a different admissions system, with its own rules and deadlines.

Four forces converging

01
AI is finally good enough

Genuinely personalised guidance and live research, at scale, for pennies per student.

02
A widening guidance gap

Advice is thin and uneven — the UK's National Tutoring Programme ended in 2024, and UAE counsellors can't master 17 curricula for every student.

03
A funding & policy tailwind

Statutory careers duty in the UK; Education Strategy 33 and a branch-campus boom in the UAE.

04
Students are digital-first

Teenagers expect an app, not a leaflet — and schools have gone digital.

The journey · five steps

From “I don't know” to a plan

A bidirectional coach — start from a career in mind, or discover one from scratch. It adapts as the student grows.

1
Assess

Research-grade psychometrics — interests, personality & work values find who you are.

2
Match

Ranked routes, courses, universities and employers — with honest chance bands.

3
Plan

A phased plan to the goal, with checkpoints and tickable tasks tailored to the route.

4
Track

Stage-aware study, a timed exam mode, and a 2–3 minute daily check-in streak.

5
Coach

An AI mentor, reports, per-question feedback and personal-statement review.

Every route, one coach

Three destinations, one plan

A student can aim at university at home or across the world. RehlaQuest reads every curriculum, maps it onto every admissions system, and tracks every deadline — so no one applies half-blind.

UK

UK universities

UCAS from start to submission — honest predicted-grade matching, course shortlists with real chance bands, and personal-statement coaching.

UCAS · predicted grades · statements
UAE

UAE & overseas campuses

Direct and portfolio admissions to world-class campuses at home — NYU Abu Dhabi, Birmingham Dubai, Heriot-Watt — with fee, scholarship and visa guidance.

Direct admission · scholarships · visas
GLOBAL

North America & beyond

Common App, SAT/ACT and essays — with profile-building from Year 10, not the final year — plus home-country boards for 185+ nationalities.

Common App · SAT/ACT · essays
Every curriculum in — GCSE · IGCSE · A-Level · International A-Level · IB — every destination out.
The product

One app, the whole journey

Everything a student needs — built and demonstrable today as an installable pilot app.

Instant first read

A recommended direction and confidence score in about a minute — then sharpen it with deeper steps.

Research-grade assessment

Interests (RIASEC), Big Five personality and O*NET work values — triangulated for real foresight.

Personalised phased plan

Sequenced milestones with checkpoints and tickable tasks, built around the student's route.

Spec topics & micro-lessons

Confirms each exam board, then teaches the real topics by year in bite-sized, timed lessons.

Three-destination matching

UK (UCAS), UAE & branch campuses, and North America (Common App) — predicted grades vs requirements, with honest chance bands.

AI coaching PREMIUM

Adaptive plan, in-app mentor, per-question tutor feedback, grade-gap plan, plus statement & report feedback.

Safe for children by design.Built to the UK Children's Code and UAE PDPL — data minimisation, server-side guardrailed AI, in-country hosting and safeguarding routing. Background unlocks funding and access; it never narrows what a student is told they can become.

See it in action

RehlaQuest in under a minute

From a student's first read to a costed, trackable plan — the whole loop, start to finish.

Membership

Simple, honest pricing

Discovery, the full profile and all funding content are free, forever. Premium adds the study analytics, complete matching and AI coaching.

Standard
Free
Everything to discover a direction
  • Pathway discovery & Route-Fit match
  • Personalised plan & progress tracking
  • University matching & honest chances
  • Careers outlook & funding routes
  • Core lessons & a 3-question exam taster
  • Up to 3 check-ins per subject
Install free
Most popular
Premium
£49/yr
or £7.99/month · everything, unlocked
  • Everything in Standard
  • Unlimited daily & weekly check-ins
  • Unlimited exam practice, all 6 subjects
  • Full bite-sized lesson library
  • Impact-Project builder & application roadmap
  • AI coaching & essay grading, as released
Go Premium
Schools & groups: a licence at just £4.50 / student / year unlocks Premium for every student.
For schools, trusts & groups

The evidence you're mandated to produce — in one dashboard

From ~3,400 UK secondary schools to 621+ private schools across the UAE, guidance is both a duty and a differentiator. RehlaQuest gives counsellors cohort-level insight, destinations tracking and one-click reporting — at a fraction of the cost of 1:1 guidance.

Cohort dashboard

Engagement and destinations across your whole cohort, live.

Reporting & destinations

Gatsby Benchmark coverage in the UK, destinations by region in the UAE — one-click reports.

Support flags

See where students need support — before they fall through the cracks.

Safeguarding & roles

Staff roles, permissions and privacy-safe export. No pupil data leaves scope.

Impact & social mobility

A measurable engine for social mobility

Our founding choice — background unlocks support, never narrows recommendations — points the whole product at the opportunity gap — in the UK and across the UAE's 200+ nationalities. Society gets fewer NEETs and a fairer route into good work.

£69bn
of GDP is at stake from young people not in education, employment or training. RehlaQuest is built to move that number.
Aspiration

The breadth of careers and universities a student seriously considers — beyond the same ten jobs.

Access

Uptake of funding, bursaries and contextual offers among eligible students.

Attainment

Study engagement and measurable progress towards target grades.

Progression

Every leaver with a concrete, evidenced next step — the front line against NEET.

The team

Built by people who have made the journey

A capital-efficient team — anchored in governance, regulatory trust, and real student experience.

Junaid Khan, Founder & CPTO
Junaid Khan
Founder & CPTO

Serial tech entrepreneur — Chartered Accountant and INSEAD MBA; 24 years leading multi-billion-dollar transformation at a global technology conglomerate. Conceived, architected and coded RehlaQuest himself. Mentor, Migrant Leaders (UK) and the Global IIA.

Saad Farooq, Chief Trust & Regulatory Officer
Saad Farooq
Chief Trust & Regulatory Officer

Regulatory and public-policy executive — 20+ years across technology and digital policy in 100+ countries. Has advised the World Bank, the UN and the World Economic Forum on AI governance, child online safety and data privacy.

Abdullah Khan, Student Experience Lead
Abdullah Khan
Student Experience Lead

A recently qualified A-Level student who just completed the exact GCSE-to-UCAS journey RehlaQuest serves — earning offers from all five of his university choices for Chemical Engineering. The platform's built-in voice of the user.

Lean by design — RehlaQuest was designed, built and coded in-house. An advisory board is being formed to support the team across governance, education and go-to-market. First hires post-raise: full-stack engineer · schools-partnerships lead.
Our parent company

Part of MAKSIT Group — where governance rigour meets technology delivery

MAKSIT Ltd advises boards and audit committees on governance, risk and compliance, worldwide. MAKSIT Technologies builds the platforms that bring that expertise to life. RehlaQuest is the result: the same rigour we bring to the boardroom, now helping every student turn their potential into a plan.

MAKSIT Ltd

Governance, risk & compliance advisory for boards and audit committees, worldwide.

MAKSIT Technologies

The platform-delivery arm that turns that expertise into working products — like RehlaQuest.

For investors & partners

Partner with us to build it properly

A working, installable pilot exists today. We're raising seed rounds in the UK and the UAE, and signing pilot partners to take RehlaQuest from prototype to evidenced product — capital-efficiently, on a low-cost PWA with B2B2C distribution.

Request the investor briefing
1
Pilot partners

Schools, access charities, universities and employers to co-design and validate outcomes.

2
Seed investment

To fund the team, validated-instrument licensing and live data integrations.

3
A capital-efficient prize

~80%+ gross margins, recurring school licences and a real UK market with clear acquirers.

Start the journey today

Free to install — two taps from a link. The plan that used to cost £25,000 (AED 90,000+), now for every student.

Coming soon on theApp Store
Coming soon onGoogle Play
Join the waitlist for launch updates & the demo
Get in touch

Let's talk

Whether you're a school looking to pilot, a parent with questions, or an investor exploring the round — we'd love to hear from you.

start@rehla.quest
RehlaQuest — part of MAKSIT Group
United Kingdom