The Origin
We didn't set out to build a company. We set out to solve an impossible problem.
I came to higher education from the outside. Thirty-five years in enterprise computing, mobile technology, major consumer brands. When I stepped into enrollment, I expected to find sophisticated systems, clear analytics, strategic clarity.
Instead, I found brilliant people drowning in data they couldn't interpret. Counselors making gut calls on hundreds of students because that's all they had. Leaders reporting metrics that everyone knew didn't matter, because the metrics that did matter were invisible.
The problem wasn't a lack of data. It was a lack of vision.
We couldn't see what was actually happening in a student's decision. We could see clicks and opens and visits. We could calculate probability. But we couldn't see intent. We couldn't see fear. We couldn't see the moment when a student went from "maybe" to "gone."
So we built something to see it.
We didn't build it to sell. We built it to use. For two years, we ran it ourselves. We proved it. We refined it. We discovered things about student behavior that no one had ever seen before, because no one had ever had the tools to look.
What we found changed everything we thought we knew about enrollment.
Now we're sharing it. Not because we want to sell software. Because we believe every institution deserves to see what we've seen.