§ 01 · Bloom
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§ 03 · How it works
Detection first. Conversation second.
01 / 04Read the signalsEach night Boom reads Canvas activity and SIS records: logins, missed work, holds, registration status.
02 / 04Flag who is slippingStudents pulling away are ranked by risk, with the reason in plain language and a suggested next step.
03 / 04Staff approveAdvisors, coaches or counselors review a daily digest in Outlook and approve, edit or skip each drafted message.
04 / 04Follow throughBoom texts and emails the student, classifies each reply, and hands anything sensitive to a person right away.
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§ 05 · The stakesSecond-fall retention for students who started at primarily online institutions in fall 2023. The national average was 69.5%. Most of those students showed signs of pulling away weeks before a grade or an early alert caught it.National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, Persistence and Retention 2025
By design
Built to fit how colleges already work.
NightlyCanvas and SIS checkBoom reads activity and holds once a night and flags who changed.
0Messages sent without approvalA staff member approves every text before it reaches a student.
320Characters, at most, per textEach message names one issue and one next step.
7Channels, no new appOutlook, SIS, CRM, SMS, Canvas, email and a weekly digest.
§ 06 · Data & trust
Read-only by default. People decide.
01Read-only accessBoom reads SIS and Canvas data. Write-back to any system is optional and off by default.
02A person approves firstNo message reaches a student until a staff member approves it.
03Crisis handoffReplies that signal distress pause automation and go straight to a person.
04Starts with a CSVA nightly CSV or SFTP drop with field mapping is enough to begin. No integration project required.
§ 07 · Support, not surveillance
Boom flags. A person decides.
Boom AI never contacts a student on its own, never grades or disciplines, and only reads data the college already holds. Students can reply STOP at any time.
Built on
Behavioral and social-emotional dropout signalsThe founder’s Pepperdine thesis on why students leave
Early-warning researchDisengagement shows up before grades fall
ESSA-aligned logic modelEvidence certification underway
§ 08 · Team
Built by people who have sat with these students.
Matthew WestFounder & CEO
14 years as a school psychologist in Los Angeles. Teaches special education at a Los Angeles college today. His Pepperdine thesis studied the behavioral and social-emotional signals behind why students drop out.
Param ChaudhariFounding Engineer
Architected Boom’s multi-agent system: crisis detection, model-written SMS with deterministic compliance checks, and vision-based document verification. Built the security infrastructure and deployment pipelines.§ 09 · Design partners
Shape Boom AI with us as a design partner.
Design partners work with us for one term on read-only data, with a treatment group and a matched comparison group. You get a weekly impact digest, a clear answer on whether it worked, and a direct say in what we build next. Paid partnership first, then an annual license.