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CapiMatch
Solution details
CapiMatch connects children, youth, and professionals with opportunities that find them: personalized courses, scholarships, jobs, and events. With AI and gamification, learning becomes accessible, addictive, and continuous.
Tweet / Slogan
CapiMatch: Where opportunities connect with you.
Context
The challenge we address is the widespread loss and unequal access to information about educational, training and job-related opportunities. Today, children, youth, adults and job seekers often learn about scholarships, workshops, courses, events or vacancies “by chance” because information is scattered, arrives too late or never reaches them especially in rural areas or low-connectivity environments. This creates a growing gap that limits personal, academic and professional development. Capimatch aims to solve this by providing an intelligent and accessible layer for all audiences that centralizes, personalizes and delivers relevant opportunities ranging from school activities and online courses to technical training, mentorships and employment paths ensuring that each person receives what truly matches their needs at the right moment.
Who Benefits?
Capimatch benefits a wide range of users: learners of all ages, job seekers, educators, training centers and community organizations. For students, it transforms the overwhelming search for opportunities into a personalized feed of events, courses, scholarships and activities that truly fit their interests and level. Adults and job seekers gain access to relevant training, certifications and employability programs they often miss due to scattered information. Educators and institutions benefit from higher participation, easier outreach and better targeting of their initiatives. By centralizing and tailoring opportunities, Capimatch reduces information loss, increases equity of access and helps users take timely action toward their academic, professional and personal development.
Impact
Capimatch increases equitable access to educational and development opportunities by ensuring that people of all ages receive timely, relevant and personalized recommendations instead of relying on chance or social connections. Its impact is measured through key indicators: active users, participation from underserved or rural contexts, match→attendance rate, number of opportunities successfully filled, engagement with reminders and rewards, user retention and satisfaction from both participants and organizers. Over time, we also track long-term pathways such as continued participation in learning activities, progression to higher-level courses, improved employability and strengthened community involvement showing how personalized discovery can transform individual trajectories and reduce opportunity gaps.
Team work
Our team combines web development, AI/ML, UX/UI design and experience in educational and youth programs. This mix allows us to build the platform technically while deeply understanding how students, teachers and job seekers interact with opportunities. We work in short, iterative cycles: developers build and validate features, the UX lead ensures accessibility for all age groups, and the education-focused members test relevance with real institutions. We make decisions collaboratively, guided by user feedback collected through pilots. In the mid- and long-term, we plan to continue working as a unified team, expanding roles as the project grows, bringing in more technical contributors and forming partnerships with schools, NGOs and local governments. Our shared mission closing the opportunity gap keeps the team aligned and committed to long-term development and impact.
Innovativeness
Capimatch is innovative because it starts from the person, not the event. Unlike event directories, bulletin boards or scholarship listings, it delivers a unified and adaptive opportunity feed powered by neural-network recommendations that learn from each user’s interests, goals and constraints. It combines multiple domains workshops, scholarships, jobs, clubs, online courses, mentoring and community events into a single personalized layer rather than separate platforms. Its reward system encourages real participation, and its SMS/WhatsApp alerts make it inclusive even for users with limited connectivity. While isolated tools exist for job search, school events or online learning, none integrate all types of opportunities with AI-driven matching, low-connectivity outreach and behavioral incentives. Capimatch provides a holistic, human-centered and data-driven approach that does not currently exist in the market.
Transferability
Capimatch can be easily adapted to other learning contexts and disciplines because its core framework user profiles, AI-driven recommendations and a reward/engagement system is domain-independent. The platform can serve teacher training, vocational education, lifelong learning, technical upskilling, arts and culture, or entrepreneurship programs simply by adjusting the type of opportunities fed into the system. For example, a vocational institute could use Capimatch to recommend certifications and short courses to job seekers, or an arts faculty could connect students with workshops, residencies and exhibitions based on skill level and interests. The SMS/WhatsApp notification layer and the recommendation engine remain fully transferable, acting as a flexible “discovery layer” that can be plugged into any educational ecosystem needing personalized outreach and improved engagement.
Sustainability
Our implementation plan begins with a focused MVP including user profiles, event intake and a basic AI recommendation engine. Pilots will be conducted with schools, universities, youth organizations and NGOs in urban areas and rural communities with minimal internet access and device availability, ensuring the model is realistic and sustainable under actual connectivity constraints. In the mid-term, we will scale to more regions, integrate advanced recommendation models, expand partnerships, and refine engagement through rewards and multi‑channel notifications. Long-term sustainability will rely on institutional adoption (schools, training centers, municipalities), collaborations with event organizers, and optional premium tools for organizations needing analytics or targeted outreach. By focusing on contexts with at least basic connectivity and mobile access, and using a low-cost, cloud-based architecture, Capimatch can grow steadily while staying true to its mission: democratizing access to learning and development opportunities for diverse populations.