Built for the students who almost didn't stay.
Boom AI detects behavioral change in LMS engagement, academic momentum, registration patterns, and financial signals weeks before a student withdraws, and routes the right intervention to the right person while there is still time to act.
I spent 15 years sitting across from students who had already decided to leave. I built Boom AI so no one ever has to arrive that late again.
Matthew West, M.A. & M.S.
Founder & CEO, Boom AI
Student behavior changes weeks before a student withdraws. The window to intervene is real. Most institutions miss it.
Boom AI exists to catch behavioral drift the moment it begins: dropped logins, missed assignments, registration hesitation, and route the right response to the right person before the student has made a final decision. That window is where retention is won or lost. We built the platform to live inside it.
This is Matthew's story. Boom AI is just what he built so it could scale.
For 15 years, Matthew West showed up to the rooms that institutions send their hardest cases. He was a school psychologist doing crisis work in some of the country's most under-resourced communities. He was good at it. And he hated that he kept needing to be.
Because every time he sat across from a student who had stopped believing they could stay, he could trace the behavior backwards. The missed assignments that started in week four. The LMS logins that dropped off after midterms. The financial aid flag no one escalated. The registration hold no one caught in time. The behavioral data existed, every piece of it. It just lived in disconnected systems, and by the time it reached Matthew's room, the student had already made their decision.
Boom AI is the platform Matthew wished he had. Not to replace the human work. He knows better than anyone that no algorithm replaces the right conversation. But to surface behavioral change early enough that the right person can have that conversation before the window closes.
That is not a product strategy. That is a 15-year obsession that finally has infrastructure behind it.
Matthew West
Founder & CEO, Boom AI
Matthew is a school psychologist, founder, and the reason this platform exists. Every product decision traces back to something he witnessed in a session, a school, or a community that the system failed to catch in time.
- ●M.A. & M.S. in School Psychology
- ●15+ years frontline clinical practice
- ●Crisis intervention in under-resourced communities
- ●Creator of evidence-based retention methodology
Not another early alert system.
Traditional tools flag the problem, then hand it back to an already-stretched navigator. The outcome was never their responsibility.
Boom AI is accountable for what happens next. Instead of alerts, you get closed loops — every at-risk student identified, engaged, and supported. The outcome is ours to deliver.
Surface risk → hand it back → outcome unknown
Surface risk → execute intervention → own the outcome
We don't report on outcomes. We deliver them.
Every retained student is a measurable result: recovered tuition, better outcomes, a student who stayed. Boom AI is accountable for that number, not just the data behind it.
- Increase retention rates
- Intervene earlier at scale
- Reduce navigator workload
- Deliver more consistent student support
Earlier detection than grade-based systems
New systems for your team to manage
Automated intervention execution
Built for the way institutions actually work.
Built to operate inside your systems
Boom AI works directly within platforms like Canvas LMS, so there's no new system for your team to manage. It fits into existing workflows and starts delivering value immediately.
We own the outcome, not just the alert
Most tools stop at insights and hand the problem back. Boom is built to close the loop — intervention happens automatically, and we're accountable for the result.
Scales without adding headcount
As student populations grow, your ability to support them shouldn't depend on hiring more navigators. Boom scales intervention automatically.
The future of student retention is owned, not observed.
As enrollment declines and retention becomes the primary growth lever, universities can't afford systems that hand the problem back. Boom AI is becoming the infrastructure institutions rely on to ensure no at-risk student goes unsupported — and no outcome goes undelivered.
What we believe about students.
Prevention Over Reaction
Build for early signal, not late response. Every feature is designed to surface risk before it becomes a crisis.
Human Connection First
AI finds who needs support. Peers deliver it. Technology is the bridge, not the destination.
Equity as Infrastructure
Built specifically for first-generation and underrepresented students — the populations traditional systems fail most.
Radical Transparency
Full visibility into retention outcomes, not curated dashboards. Institutions deserve to see what's actually working.
Clinical Rigor
Every feature is grounded in evidence-based practice from 15+ years of frontline clinical psychology.
Relentless Optimism
Every student who enrolls is capable of graduating. Our job is to make sure the system acts like it believes that too.
See how Boom AI owns student retention at your institution — start to finish.