27 years of admissions advice, open to every applicant

JD GPS, Education / Law school admissions.

Build

Aug 2026

Client

JD GPS

Industry

Education / Law school admissions

Service

Build

Timeline

Jul 2026 - Aug 2026

Stack

Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS, Supabase, OpenAI, Stripe, Astro, Resend, Vercel

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Ann Levine turned 27 years of law school admissions consulting into a product that gives every applicant the guidance she used to give only one to one.

What Kodeful did

Kodeful built the whole product, from the school matching engine and the AI document review through to payments, the admin tools Ann uses to control the advice, and the seat licences universities buy. It went from a blank page to taking paid customers in eight days.

The problem

Ann Levine has advised law school applicants for 27 years and wrote the guidebook many of them read. Her one-to-one consulting is premium and her time is limited, so the great majority of people who need her simply cannot get it. They fall back on free forum advice and generic essay editors that know nothing about what admissions committees actually reward. Ann was turning away the people she was best placed to help, and had no way to serve them at a price they could pay.

Where they are now

Live and selling since August 2026, with individual applicants paying per document or by subscription, and universities buying seats for a whole advisee cohort. Ann maintains the guidance behind the feedback herself, without developer help.

The client

Ann Levine

CEO, JD GPS. Founder, Law School Expert

Ann Levine has worked in law school admissions consulting for 27 years. She is the author of a best-selling law school admissions guidebook, now in its sixth edition, and has written a blog for applicants since 2006.

Law School Expert is Ann Levine's admissions consulting practice. She advises applicants one to one on where to apply and how to present themselves, and publishes a long-running book and blog that many applicants treat as the reference for the process.

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“Very happy with pace and how it's shaping up.”

Ann Levine

CEO, JD GPS. Founder, Law School Expert

How Kodeful helped

What we built

A complete subscription product for law school applicants: a school matching engine over a catalogue of 193 law schools, AI document review for five document types grounded in the client's own written guidance, a personalised application timeline, an admin area where the client edits that guidance and the rules the AI must check, payments and access control, and a seat licence flow for universities that buy access for their students. Every document is private to the applicant who uploaded it, which the client named as the condition the product could not launch without.

Time to launch

8 days

The product today

Applicants sign up and get three things in one place. They build a realistic school list from their LSAT, GPA and preferences. They upload a personal statement, resume, diversity statement, addendum or a why-this-school essay and get structured, admissions-specific feedback in minutes. And they get a dated plan, worked backwards from the date they intend to submit, so nothing in the cycle lands late. The feedback is not generic writing advice - it is graded against Ann's own published guidance and the rules she writes herself.

Module 01

School Match

Builds a realistic application list from the applicant's LSAT, GPA, location preferences and what they care about, splitting it into reach, target and safety schools instead of one undifferentiated ranking. Applicants can also search the full catalogue and add any school themselves.

193 law schools

Module 02

Document Review

An applicant uploads a personal statement, resume, diversity statement, addendum or why-this-school essay and gets back a readiness grade and a short list of specific changes to make. The feedback is judged against the client's own published guidance, not general writing advice.

5 document types

Module 03

Application Timeline

Works backwards from the date the applicant intends to submit and produces a dated task list across the whole cycle, anchored to real admissions dates so nothing is scheduled into the past or bunched into one day.

Module 04

Expert Guidance admin

Where the client controls what the product tells applicants. She writes and publishes guidance entries, and sets must-check rules that are applied to every single review of a given document type. Changes take effect without a developer.

21 published guidance entries

Module 05

University seat licences

A university buys a number of seats and shares one link. Any student with that school's email address joins and gets full access, a seat is used, and the school sees exactly who signed up and can never be billed for more than it bought.

Before and after

What changed

BeforeAfter

Getting Ann's advice on an application One-to-one consulting, available to a handful of people Self-serve from $15 a month, the same guidance behind it

Feedback on a personal statement Generic essay editing that does not know what law schools reward A readiness grade and specific action items, in minutes

Updating the advice the product gives Only Ann could give it, in person She edits it herself in the admin area, live immediately

Serving a whole university cohort Not possible The school buys seats and shares one link