Students don't drop out. They disappear. And the signs are there weeks earlier.

Boom finds the barrier, texts the student, and hands your staff a finished item.

The arithmetic

the arithmetic

67%

of community college credit students attend part-time

AACC Fast Facts 2026; IPEDS Fall 2024
51.7%

of part-time starters stop out within six years

Full-time starters: 25.1%

NSC Research Center, Dec 2025; fall 2019 cohort
319

students per advisor at public 2-year institutions

vs 286 at 4-year

Driving Toward a Degree 2025, Tyton Partners

The majority of the sector's students sit in the highest-risk category by default.

The turn

what a risk score gives you

A number. A ranked list. A dashboard someone has to open. An action nobody has time to take.

what Boom gives you

A named barrier. A specific student. A workflow that fires.

The arc

01

Signal

Names the barrier before it becomes a drop.

Registration hold detected on a student's account three weeks before term.

signal →
02

Reach

Texts the student the moment a barrier is named.

Student texted for a transcript photo to clear the hold.

reach →
03

Copilot

Hands staff a finished item, not a lead.

Routed to the registrar with the document attached.

copilot →

The result

~41%

reduction in summer melt vs. control

LCTCS

n = 1,847 treatment / 1,623 control, Spring 2026

Preliminary and in progress. Quasi-experimental, not randomized. One state network, two campuses, one cycle. Full methodology publishes when the study completes — including if the number gets worse.

Time to value

01

Send a CSV.

Your enrollment file. Nothing else.

02

Live in 48 hours.

Detection running on your students.

03

No integration project.

No data warehouse. No middleware. No place in next year's IT roadmap.

Founder note

For fourteen years I worked as a school psychologist on campuses in Los Angeles. I watched students disappear. The signs were there — sometimes weeks ahead. A missed class. A hold on an account. A form that didn't get filed. The data existed. What didn't exist was something that acted on it.

I built Boom to be that thing. Not a dashboard. Not a score. A system that names the specific barrier, reaches the student, and puts a finished task in front of the person who can help.

Matthew West

Founder, Boom AI

Read the long version →

Trust and safety

Boom texts students at the moments they're most likely to be struggling. Escalation, FERPA posture, and human-in-the-loop are documented.

Bring us a semester of your data.

We'll show you who you were about to lose.