Step one of the Coquí roadmap
coqui.work
An artificial-intelligence (AI) career coach for Puerto Rico's students, grounded in real island data.
The problem
Students are asked to choose with too little information, at the moment that matters most.
Most Puerto Rico students pick a field and a place to study with almost no grounded information about island demand, pay, the real cost, or what aid exists. School counseling is stretched thin. The result is predictable: people optimize for the one signal they can see, mainland pay, and leave. The research says the fix is not a slogan or a subsidy. It is a complete, trustworthy picture of the opportunity that actually exists here.
A conversation, grounded in a graph of real data.
A student talks to Coquí in Spanish, English, or the mix they actually speak. Behind the conversation is a knowledge graph of real Puerto Rico data, so every recommendation traces back to evidence, not invention. For every career that fits, Coquí walks the whole route:
- 01
What the job really is
The real day-to-day of the career, no brochure.
- 02
Demand on the island
How many openings there are, how it is growing, how many people do it here.
- 03
What it pays and what you keep
The Puerto Rico salary and, with the incentives, what actually stays in your pocket.
- 04
How and where to study it
Real programs at island universities, with their cost.
- 05
What pays for the studying
Scholarships and aid with live dates: the Pell Grant and Puerto Rico programs.
No mainland tool can do this. Coquí can.
The graph: real Puerto Rico data, not guesses.
The coach is grounded in layers of real data:
- About a thousand occupations (in Spanish and English)
- Real Puerto Rico and United States wages
- Island employment projections
- Study programs at Puerto Rico universities
- Island incentives (youth exemption, young entrepreneurs, and more)
- Scholarships and aid, with validity dates
Honest, grounded, and built for how Puerto Rico actually talks.
Three things set it apart from any mainland tool.
Honest first
Coquí gives the complete picture, including straight answers about leaving and about mainland pay. That honesty is what earns trust and opens the conversation.
Grounded in data
Every figure Coquí cites (what it pays, the demand, the incentives, the scholarships) comes from verified data, never a model's memory. Over a thousand occupations, real wages, projections, and study programs.
Stay-first, not stay-only
Coquí makes sure no one overlooks what building a life in Puerto Rico offers, lays out every path, and trusts the student to choose.
Why this is the right first step
It meets people at the decision
What to study and where is decided once, early, and usually with almost no real information. Better information at that moment changes a life's trajectory.
It scales
Software can reach every student on the island for a fraction of the cost of one-on-one career counseling per child, in a place where it is stretched thin.
It builds the foundation everything else needs
The same data graph and the same trust with students and families are what Steps 2 and 3 are built on. The first tool is also the groundwork.
It is the lever the research points to
Make real opportunity legible and trustworthy. That is exactly what this tool does, and it is what the evidence says actually moves the decision to stay or go.
Built on the evidence, not assumptions.
coqui.work is built on a verified review of the talent-migration evidence, the same research that anchors this whole foundation. The conversation design is developed by its founder, Marlene J. Colón Torres, PhD, an industrial-organizational psychologist and certified coach, and the pilot will validate the tool against professional assessments; independent external validation is the next step.
Where it is, and how to help.
coqui.work is in development, pilot-bound. You can support the pilot, bring the tool to a school, or get in touch.