> **A 2026 agentic, retrieval-grounded AI career assistant for HBCU students** — model-agnostic > (Claude by default), with hybrid RAG and a Model Context Protocol server. Evolved from > **IgniteAI**, the ChatGPT custom GPT my team built and took to **🥇 first place at the HP > Future of Work Accelerator 2024** (HBCU Technology Conference).