Pathway (formerly MeritGrid)
Admissions Lifecycle & Higher-Ed Discovery Platform
Project Authorship & Creator Attribution
Pathway is an admissions automation and student-institution discovery platform originally founded and architected as MeritGrid by Sheikh Muhammad Muneeb.
Role: Founder & Full-Stack Architect · Authored by Sheikh Muhammad Muneeb, Computer Science student at Habib University.
The Problem & Real-World Friction
Prospective university and college applicants face fragmented, opaque admission requirements, inconsistent scholarship evaluations, and manual document review bottlenecks across disparate educational institutions, while admissions teams spend hundreds of hours manually sorting unqualified inquiries.
The Engineered Solution
Conceived and launched initially as MeritGrid and evolved into Pathway, the platform unifies applicant discovery and admissions operations into a cohesive system: providing students with personalized institution match scores and interactive recommendation cards, while offering institutions automated candidate evaluation pipelines.
System Architecture & Technical Decisions
Engineered as a full-stack platform using Next.js App Router, React 19, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS. The data architecture combines PostgreSQL with Prisma ORM, Supabase authentication, and Redis / Upstash QStash for asynchronous event queuing and notification delivery. Accompanied by a comprehensive founder registration and legal compliance field guide.