Recommenders
Invite, track, and coordinate recommenders across every school in your portfolio from a single place.
The Recommenders surface lets you invite letter writers, track their progress across every school you are applying to, and hand them school-specific question guidance the engine wrote based on your narrative spine.
Coordinating two or three recommenders across six or eight schools is the part of the MBA application most candidates underestimate. Admit Architect treats it as a first-class stage of the orchestration loop.
Invite and track
For each application, you can invite a recommender by name and email. The engine sends them a secure link they can open without creating an account. You can see the status per recommender per school at a glance: Invited, In Progress, or Submitted.
If a school asks for a specific answer format (box ratings, short answers, free-form letter), the workbench shows the recommender exactly what the school expects, so nobody has to guess.
School-specific guidance
When a recommender opens their link, they do not see a blank page. They see the school's actual prompts, the word limit or character limit for each, and a short "Archer Tip" for each question that gives them strategic context: what this school is really asking for, what strong answers tend to cover, and common pitfalls to avoid.
The tips are not a script. They are a briefing. The recommender still writes in their own voice, and their draft is never shown to you or auto-edited by the engine.
You can still forward a recommender your resume and your dean brief summary if they ask for more context. The engine does not do that for you, because the decision of what to share with a letter writer is yours.
Reminders and chasing
The engine tracks submission deadlines per school and will surface a reminder on your dashboard if a recommender is still outstanding as a deadline approaches. You can trigger a reminder email yourself, and the engine will never send anything to a recommender without your explicit action.
How it fits in the engine
Recommenders are part of the Orchestrate stage. The engine reads from your Deadlines and Portfolio to know when to chase, and from your narrative spine and Dean Brief to generate the per-school guidance your recommenders see. If the spine or the brief changes materially, the guidance updates the next time you open it.