Internship administration is scattered across too many places
Universities, organizations, and supervisors each keep their own version of the truth. Students carry the gaps between them.
Spreadsheets
Placement lists tracked by hand
Paper logbooks
Weekly reports stored offline
Messaging apps
Feedback lost in chat threads
Email chains
Approvals buried in inboxes
Manual attendance
Signatures and unverified logs
Disconnected records
No single internship history
InternSync brings student placement, internship applications, attendance, reporting, supervision, evaluation, and administrative monitoring into one connected platform.
- Placements
- Applications
- Attendance
- Weekly reports
- Supervision
- Evaluation
- Analytics
One continuous internship lifecycle, end to end
Every stage hands cleanly to the next, with the record following the student throughout.
University · Organization
Registration
Students are onboarded by their university, and organizations register to take part in the programme.
Everything an internship programme runs on
A connected feature set covering placement, day-to-day participation, supervision, and administrative oversight.
Student Profiles
Academic details, skills, and experience in one profile that a resume can be generated from.
Internship Opportunities
Organizations publish opportunities that students can discover from inside the platform.
Applications
Students apply and track status while organizations review and respond in one place.
Placement Management
Accepted placements route to university administrators for approval before the internship starts.
GPS Attendance
Attendance is recorded with captured GPS coordinates and verified against the expected internship location.
Weekly Reports
Students submit weekly reports typed in the platform or uploaded as handwritten pages.
OCR Extraction
Handwritten reports are preprocessed and read with OCR, then reviewed and edited by the student.
Supervisor Feedback
Academic and industry supervisors leave comments and feedback directly on submitted reports.
Evaluations
Supervisors evaluate student performance against attendance, reports, and internship progress.
Notifications & Announcements
Administrators publish announcements and stakeholders stay informed on activity that concerns them.
Document Management
Reports, resumes, and internship records are stored as one centralized digital history.
Dashboards
Each role sees a dashboard scoped to the students, interns, or programme they are responsible for.
Analytics
Administrators and organizations track attendance, reporting, and internship progress across their programme.
AI Resume Analysis
Students analyze their resume with AI to understand how it reads against internship expectations.
Skill Gap Analysis
Student skills are compared against internship requirements to surface the gaps that matter.
Internship Recommendations
Students receive internship recommendations based on their profile and skills.
One platform, five distinct experiences
Each role sees only what belongs to them — with the same underlying internship record connecting everyone.
Students
Students manage their internship from profile to completion, with AI support where it helps them prepare and report.
- Complete their profile
- Generate a resume from profile information
- Discover internship opportunities
- Apply for internship opportunities
- Track applications and placement status
- Compare their skills against internship requirements
- Receive skill-gap analysis
- Receive internship recommendations
- Analyze their resume using AI
- Record attendance using location verification
- Submit weekly reports
- Upload handwritten reports for OCR extraction
- Review and edit extracted report text
- Track internship progress
- Receive supervisor feedback
AI that sits inside the internship process, not beside it
Every AI capability in InternSync exists to remove a specific piece of manual internship work.
AI resume analysis
Students analyze the resume generated from their profile before applying.
Skill-gap analysis
Skills are compared against internship requirements to show where the gaps are.
Internship recommendation
Opportunities are surfaced to students based on their profile and skills.
Handwritten report OCR
Handwritten logbook pages become editable, structured weekly reports.
From a handwritten page to a reviewed report
- 1Upload
Student uploads a handwritten weekly report
- 2Preprocessing
Image preprocessing with OpenCV
- 3OCR
Text extraction with PaddleOCR
- 4AI processing
Extracted text is processed into a structured report
- 5Student review
Student reviews, edits, and confirms the content
- 6Digital record
Report joins the student's internship record
- 7Supervisor review
Supervisor reviews the submitted report
From application to an approved placement
Organizations select their interns and the university keeps final approval, with each step recorded.
- 01
Discovers an internship opportunity
Student
- 02
Applies to the opportunity
Student
- 03
Reviews the application
Organization
- 04
Accepts or rejects the applicant
Organization
- 05
Accepted placement is sent to university administration
Platform
- 06
Administrator approves the placement
University
- 07
Begins the internship
Student
Verified attendance and reports students actually own
Location-verified attendance
The student records attendance while the platform captures GPS coordinates. The system verifies the location against the expected internship location and automatically records verified attendance.
Coordinates captured · matched to placement location · attendance recorded
Weekly reports, typed or handwritten
Students submit weekly internship reports typed directly into the platform or uploaded as handwritten pages processed with OCR. Extracted content can be reviewed and edited before final submission.
How it comes together for one student
Following Amina, a fictional student, from onboarding to a completed internship record.
Onboarded by the university
Amina's department uploads her cohort, and her InternSync account is created with her student record.
Completes her profile
She fills in her academic details, skills, and experience.
Generates her resume
A resume is generated from her profile, and AI analysis shows how it reads.
Discovers opportunities
She browses published internships and receives recommendations matched to her profile.
Checks her skill gaps
Her skills are compared against the requirements of the roles she is interested in.
Applies
She submits applications and tracks their status from her dashboard.
Organization reviews
The organization reviews her application and accepts her.
University approves the placement
Her administrator approves the placement, and her internship officially begins.
Records attendance
Each day she checks in and the platform verifies her location against the placement site.
Submits weekly reports
She types some reports and photographs her handwritten logbook for others, confirming the extracted text.
Supervisors review progress
Her academic and industry supervisors read her reports and leave feedback.
Internship completed
With her attendance and reports complete, she is evaluated and her internship record is finalised.
Built on a straightforward, production-grade stack
A React interface, a TypeScript API, and a dedicated Python service for AI processing.
Frontend
- React
- CSS
Backend
- Node.js
- Express.js
- TypeScript
- Vertical Slice Architecture
Database & Infrastructure
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- AWS
- Cloudflare
AI Service
- Python
- FastAPI
- Vertical Slice Architecture
- OpenCV
- PaddleOCR
- Gemini LLM
Cloud infrastructure on AWS and Cloudflare surrounds the application and API services
Application path
React Frontend
Role-based interfaces for every stakeholder
Node.js / Express API
Application logic in a vertical slice architecture
PostgreSQL + Redis
Internship records and fast, cached reads
AI processing path
Python FastAPI AI Service
Called by the Node.js API for AI processing
OpenCV / PaddleOCR
Image preprocessing and text extraction
Gemini LLM
Applied where language understanding is needed
Access controlled by role, from the first login
JWT authentication
Sessions are authenticated with signed JSON Web Tokens.
Role-based access control
Permissions are enforced by role across every part of the platform.
Email verification
Accounts are verified by email before they become active.
Access scoped to your role
Students, administrators, supervisors, and organizations only reach the records their role covers.
Bring your internship program into sync.
Give students, universities, organizations, and supervisors one connected system for managing internships from placement to completion.