Cognitia is a parent operator that builds and runs AI-augmented businesses. The Cognitia portfolio currently includes Skillucate (BC student funding guidance), Inlet Move (Vancouver moving), Alpha Investo (systematic crypto research), and Demandara (agentic marketing operations agency). The Cognitia OS platform is the agent stack that runs all of them.

Is Cognitia the same as Cognita Schools or cognitia.systems?

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Education advisory · BC student funding guidance

Skillucate

https://skillucate.ca

The problem

BC student funding information is fragmented across 20+ government, school, and foundation websites. Most students apply to one source (StudentAid BC) and stop, leaving $2,000–$8,000 of stackable funding on the table per year. Existing 'scholarship aggregators' are slop sites that index everything but advise on nothing.

What we built / what we did

Built Skillucate from scratch as the Cognitia portfolio's BC-student-funding brand. End-to-end Cognitia OS agent stack: positioning + brand voice → site (Next.js, Vercel) → LLM-citation kit → programmatic SEO across cities × scholarship stages × audience demographics × funding sources → lead capture (Resend + Supabase) → consultation funnel. Brand voice: Amelie (one of our AI influencer characters) as the warm, credible advisor.

Results so far

57+ indexable pages across geography (11 cities), stage (6 scholarship levels), audience (7 demographic types), funding sources (12), comparison (1), and learn articles (10+) — all built programmatically with HCU defense and unique editorial per page.
Consultation funnel live; lead capture via Resend with anti-spam honeypot; Supabase persistence for follow-up tracking.
Live on skillucate.ca via Vercel; 11 city pages and 7 audience pages indexed by Google + ChatGPT + Perplexity per LLM-citation kit.
All school-funded entrance awards, federal grants, BC Access, sector grants, Indigenous funding, newcomer pathways mapped to single consultation framework — 30-min review surfaces $2K–$12K of often-missed stackable funding per student.

Metrics

Indexable pages

57+

All programmatic, all unique editorial, zero HCU penalties

BC cities covered

Per-city institutional + identity-specific funding playbook

Cost to scale to 10× more cities

~$1.5K

City registry + dynamic route makes adding cities trivial

Time to ship batch of 10 new pages

<2 hours

End-to-end via Cognitia OS programmatic-SEO skill

Cognitia OS skills running this brand

Programmatic SEO page builder
Brand-voice content engine
Comparison-page generator
Auto-research engine
Lead enrichment + scoring engine

Honest caveats

Skillucate is in growth phase — we don't share customer counts publicly while still optimizing the funnel. The ~$2K–$12K savings figure is per-consultation, not per-student-served-to-date. The brand has been Cognitia-owned and Cognitia-operated since launch — there's no pre-Cognitia baseline to compare against.

What this proves about Cognitia

Skillucate proves the Cognitia OS programmatic-SEO + lead-funnel stack scales education advisory at near-zero marginal cost per page. A traditional agency would charge $500–$2,000 per landing page; we ship them at <$50/page in compute + content.

Want a similar build for your portfolio?

Cognitia build engagements are 90-day build phase + ongoing operating retainer. 2–3 per year.

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