Qobi — never miss what you couldn't see

· The thing nobody warned us about

“A meal form, buried in email, missed on a Sunday — and a week of wrong meals. It wasn't a forgotten deadline. It was an unseen one.”

— Teni · founder · BSE

14

ALU emails per day, on average — a quiet majority of them irrelevant.

1

missed meal form auto-assigns your dining for a whole week.

4

domains a single missed session can ripple through, all at once.

· How it works

One loop, four moves —
running quietly all term.

01

Catch

Qobi reads your ALU Gmail and Canvas — read-only — and flags every obligation hiding in your week. Especially the recurring ones nobody bothers to remind you about.

↳ ★ buried meal form · recurring email · permit renewal

02

Understand

Each item gets a stake: Critical, High, Medium, Low — plus a quiet Easily-missed flag for things that look small but aren't. Tone calibrates to your standing.

↳ stake.critical · stake.high · ★ em-flag

03

Reason

Where it matters, Qobi traces the cascade: one missed session, four downstream consequences across academics, money, standing, and visa.

↳ academic → financial → standing → immigration

04

Prepare

A daily brief lands at 07:30. Two or three things actually need you today. Everything else is on the radar — calmly, supportively, never alarmist.

↳ 07:30 · daily brief · this week · watch

⭐ The cascade · cross-domain reasoning

Here's what a calendar
can't see.

One miss is just a miss. But for an FLG grantee at Silver-2, on an international permit, this single thread runs through four domains at once. Scroll to follow it.

· The cause

2 SESSIONS MISSEDWEB INFRASTRUCTURE

One missed session — for Amara, BSE Y2T2.

Watch · 85% threshold

ONE MORE MISS = AUTO-WITHDRAW

FLG · Silver-2 · International

ALL FOUR DOMAINS APPLY

0 of 4 domains lit. Keep scrolling.

01 · Academic

An unfunded retake.

One more missed session in Web Infrastructure auto-withdraws Amara from the module. That's a fail on record, requiring a retake at the next intake — billed separately.

◇ ALU policy · 85% attendance to sit final

02 · Financial

The grant won't cover it.

FLG covers tuition only. Retake course fees are out of pocket. At ~$11/credit, this module is roughly $130 paid out of pocket — money the grant was supposed to make unnecessary.

◇ FLG terms · tuition only

03 · Standing

Silver-2 slips to Silver-3.

A failed module + retake counts as one trimester delay. The 4-trimester buffer drops to 3. Standing-gated funding — Wells Mountain, Path to Prosperity — needs good standing to stay eligible.

◇ Progression classification, Jan 2026

04 · Immigration

The permit window tightens.

A delayed term pushes expected graduation past the current permit window. Renewal cycles get harder to plan when the academic calendar shifts. The cascade comes home.

◇ DGIE · annual renewal cycle

· The supportive part

Sitting the next session protects all four.

That's why Qobi asks for that — and only that — today. The cascade isn't there to scare you. It's there so you know which item is the one to protect.

· Features

Built around the things
you actually keep losing.

· Daily brief

A two-line standup, every morning.

Qobi tells you, in a sentence, what to protect today. Two critical, one easily-missed — everything else can wait.

· STANDUP

Two things matter most: your permit, and one missed session.

· Permit tracker

Renewal cycles, watched all year.

For internationals: DGIE renewal surfaced weeks ahead, with prep checklist and Student Life shortcuts.

17

days

12 Jun · DGIE

· Just caught

Real-time catches, as they land.

A buried email becomes a chip on your home screen — surfaced before it can become a problem.

Just caughtweekly meal form

· Cohort view

Shared by your cohort, never your standing.

Aggregate-only: see the deadlines you all share and the health of the group — without anyone's individual record being exposed.

Diamond

6

Gold

9

Silver-1

11

Silver-2

8

Built on real ALU life

For students who already know
what their inbox does.

“The morning after I installed Qobi it caught my meal form — buried under fourteen other threads. I'd missed it three weeks in a row last term. That was the moment I trusted it.”

N

Nadia · BSE Y2T2 · International

FLG GRANTEE · SILVER-2

347

Obligations surfaced this trimester

62

Easily-missed items caught early

· Built on

ALU Gmail read-only·Canvas calendar feed·DGIE renewal cycles

· Privacy as a feature

Your data stays yours.
No exceptions.

Read-only access

Qobi reads your inbox. It never sends, replies, or modifies anything.

ALU accounts only

We sign in alueducation.com and alustudent.com — and nothing else.

Server-side reasoning

Inbox contents stay on our server only long enough to extract the items we surface.

Revocable any time

One click in Settings disconnects Gmail. Nothing left on our side.

Teni Taiwo

Founder · Kigali, May 2026

I built Qobi because in Y1T2, I missed the meal form three weeks in a row and ate the wrong thing for half a term. The information was there. It was just unseen.

The things that hurt you most at ALU aren't the deadlines you forgot — they're the ones you never saw. A buried email. A recurring form. A permit renewal you only realised was urgent when it was already late.

Qobi is the co-pilot I wish I'd had. Not a planner that yells. Something that reads the boring places for you, tells you what's actually at stake, and trusts you with the rest.

— Teni

Ray

Co-founder · Kigali, May 2026

When Teni first showed me the meal-form story, I thought we needed a better calendar. We didn't. The hard part isn't reminding you — it's reading meaning out of a hundred ALU senders and noticing the one slip that ripples into your degree, money, standing and visa at once.

That's the system I keep building. Quiet most of the time, calm in tone, and only loud when it has to be.

— Ray

Never miss
what you couldn't see.

One loop, four moves —
running quietly all term.

Catch

Understand

Reason

Prepare

Here's what a calendar
can't see.

An unfunded retake.

The grant won't cover it.

Silver-2 slips to Silver-3.

The permit window tightens.

Sitting the next session protects all four.

Built around the things
you actually keep losing.

A two-line standup, every morning.

Renewal cycles, watched all year.

Real-time catches, as they land.

Shared by your cohort, never your standing.

For students who already know
what their inbox does.

Your data stays yours.
No exceptions.

Stop missing
what you couldn't see.

Never misswhat you couldn't see.

One loop, four moves —running quietly all term.

Catch

Understand

Reason

Prepare

Here's what a calendarcan't see.

An unfunded retake.

The grant won't cover it.

Silver-2 slips to Silver-3.

The permit window tightens.

Sitting the next session protects all four.

Built around the thingsyou actually keep losing.

A two-line standup, every morning.

Renewal cycles, watched all year.

Real-time catches, as they land.

Shared by your cohort, never your standing.

For students who already knowwhat their inbox does.

Your data stays yours.No exceptions.

Stop missingwhat you couldn't see.

Never miss
what you couldn't see.

One loop, four moves —
running quietly all term.

Here's what a calendar
can't see.

Built around the things
you actually keep losing.

For students who already know
what their inbox does.

Your data stays yours.
No exceptions.

Stop missing
what you couldn't see.