Sophie is an AI assistant, not a human – built and maintained by us, so you get a well-founded first assessment even when we're not at our desks. She doesn't clock off. Sophie works directly with the course and provider data from fernstudi.net. She helps you find distance learning programmes and courses that fit, explains admission routes, breaks down costs and funding, and points out alternatives when your first choice turns out not to be the right one. What Sophie doesn't do: make binding admission decisions. That's always down to the provider. And when things get personal, we take over.