Education
A student is a fan fold of records — admission, registrar, financial aid, LMS — that do not agree on who they are looking at.
Education runs the widest gap we see between the promise of the data and its shape. The registrar, the LMS, the financial aid office, and the reporting on Belize-and-back don't share an identity for the same person, and grades, enrollment, and aid have their own accuracy bars and their own privacy.
The privacy also changes the work. Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act means student records are a perimeter that applies to the whole project, not a single checklist. Retention and intervention work has to be built under it.
What you get
The promise, kept honest. Direction, not invented numbers.
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One joinable view of a student across registrar, LMS, aid — built under a strict privacy perimeter
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Retention and enrollment forecast that the institution can act on, not just report
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Reporting that knows the 'as of' date of every number it carries
The constraints
The parts that make this industry different. If one of these sounds like your problem, that is the conversation to have.
- From the right to be names — student identity is a fan-out, not a join key
- Grades, enrollment, and aid each have their own privacy contract on top of the base regulation
- Retention models inherit the institutional incentive to under-flag at-risk students
- The academic calendar is a moving window — 'as of' has to be second nature
How we deliver
The engineering gates that separate a demo from a deployment in this industry.
- The privacy perimeter applied to the data layer before analytics, not as a bolt-on after
- Identity resolved in a separate, revocable service — not copied into every question
- As-of semantics on everything, so an answer is answerable against the semester it refers to
Call us when
- The registrar and the LMS name the same student differently
- Retention is discussed with anecdotes because the count cannot be agreed on
- Institutional research is a person and a deadline, not a function
Building in education?
Describe the situation in a paragraph. We will tell you what we would look at first and what it would cost to find out.