Fireroad.ai

Fireroad.ai is an experimental AI course planner for MIT students. The prototype combines a visual semester planner with an advising AI agent that can search the MIT course catalog, summarize schedules, check requirements, and propose validated changes to a student’s active-semester plan.

The current implementation uses a static React frontend with a small Node/Express backend. The backend keeps model API keys server-side, exposes chat and course-planning routes, and supports a tool-calling workflow so the assistant can inspect course data before answering.

The project won MIT CSAIL Agentic AI Hackathon 2026 in the Agents for MIT Track! MIT students can sign up and get started with the current prototype at this link. Shout out to my wonderful teammates (Kangyang Zhou, Yifan Kang, Chunji Wang, and Dianne Cao) for the fun collab and to the organizers for putting on a great event!