Become the next version of yourself — built for African students who mean business. TheNextMe is an AI-powered career platform that helps students turn ambition into action. Set goals, manage tasks, get matched with the right professionals, and get 24/7 guidance from an AI coach — all in one place.
# theNextMe — AI Career Coach for Nigerian University Students
> **Your personal mentor. Always on.**
> theNextMe helps Nigerian university students land internships, build networks, and take real career steps — powered by Claude AI.
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## What It Does
Most career apps give you a to-do list. theNextMe gives you a coach.
The app learns your course, university, target companies, and goals — then becomes a proactive partner: nudging you about overdue tasks, generating personalised outreach messages, prepping you for networking calls, and translating your coursework into resume bullets that actually get read.
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## Features
### 🤖 AI Coach (Chat)
Conversational career coaching powered by Claude. The coach knows your profile — your goals, your university, your challenges — and gives specific, actionable advice for the Nigerian job market. Falls back to intelligent scripted responses when Claude is unavailable.
### 🎯 Goals & Task Roadmaps
Set career goals (internship, certification, networking, etc.) with deadlines. The AI auto-generates a 6-task roadmap with due dates spread proportionally across your timeline. Tasks are fully manageable and linked to goals.
### 🤝 Networking (Discover)
AI-powered professional discovery using LinkedIn X-Ray search (via SerpAPI). Surfaces relevant professionals based on your course and target companies. Falls back to course-aware mock profiles when the search API is unavailable. All contacts are saved to your network.
### ✉️ Outreach Drafts
One-click AI-generated outreach messages personalised to each contact. Drafts can be improved by Claude, marked as sent, and tracked by status. Includes a scheduler that nudges you when drafts go unsent for more than 2 days.
### 🎭 Conversation Prep
Before a networking call, get a structured briefing: background on the contact, an ice-breaker question, what to ask for, what to avoid, and why they might say yes. Generated by Claude, with sensible fallbacks.
### 📄 Resume AI
Paste your coursew …