Illustration: a dandelion of 2,000 seeds, one for each student. Three coral seeds are students who need a person today. Selecting one opens that student in the live demo below.

Listening to 2,000 students tonight · fictional college

Every student, seen in time.

Boom AI reads Canvas and SIS signals every night, flags the students who are pulling away, and tells the right advisor what to do next. Nothing reaches a student until a person approves it.

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Today · 3 students need you

Example

2,000 3

Students read nightly → need a person today

0

Messages sent without staff approval

7

Channels, no new app

1 CSV

Is all it takes to start

Live demo Fictional students

The morning digest, with the work done.

At 2:00 Boom reads every student. At 7:30 the advisor opens this digest in Outlook: who needs a person, why, and a drafted message. Scroll through it, or click anywhere inside. Nothing goes out until a person says so.

  1. 2,000 students read overnight. Three need a person, ranked by risk, each with a reason in plain language.

  2. Open a student to see what changed: logins, missed work, holds and registration, on one timeline.

  3. Boom drafts one short message with one next step. Approve, edit or skip. It only sends after you approve.

  4. Replies are classified in seconds. Anything that signals distress pauses automation and goes straight to a person.

  5. The same digest works from a phone. Advisors approve between meetings, students just get a text.

2,000 students read overnight. Three need a person, ranked by risk, each with a reason in plain language.

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Boom AI digest in Outlook
Example data SJ Sarah Jenkins
Today 7:30 AM digest
DR

Daniela Reyes

Student 0417 · fictional · Sophomore

Risk high

Canvas logins down 70% in two weeks, 2 missed submissions and a $1,180 hold. Not registered for fall, 3 days left.

Canvas logins, 14 days −70%

Signals

  1. Canvas logins steady, about 6 a day
  2. Logins start dropping
  3. Missed BIO 110 lab report
  4. Missed ENG 102 essay
  5. $1,180 hold placed
  6. Not registered · 3 days left

Drafted SMS 158 / 320

Hi Daniela, it’s Sarah from Student Success. Your fall registration is on hold for a $1,180 balance. A payment plan can clear it today. Want me to set one up?
Draft, waiting for your approval
  1. Approved
  2. Sent
  3. Replied

Today’s digest

  • DRDaniela ReyesLogins −70% · $1,180 hold

    Hi Daniela, it’s Sarah from Student Success. Your fall registration is on hold for a $1,180 …

  • OHOmar Haddad$1,180 hold

    Hi Omar, it’s Sarah from Student Success. A $1,180 hold will block your spring registration.…

  • LCLily ChenNot registered

    Hi Lily, it’s Sarah from Student Success. Fall registration closes Friday and you’re not enr…

Focus

2,000 students.
One comes into focus.

She hasn’t failed anything. She’s gone quiet.

1,997 students are on track tonight. Nothing to do.

Student 0417 · fictional Risk high

Daniela Reyes

Advisor · Sarah Jenkins · Student Success

Canvas logins, last 14 days −70 %
14 days ago Today
  • 2 missed submissions
  • $1,180 hold
  • Not registered · 3 days left

How it works One night, one morning

Detection first. Conversation second.

Four moves, the same every day. Watch the bloom change: every seed is read, a few turn coral, a person approves, and one message goes out.

  1. Every night · 02:00

    Read the signals

    Each night Boom reads Canvas activity and SIS records: logins, missed work, holds, registration status.

    Canvas activity 2,000 rows
    SIS holds 612 open
    Registration read

    Read-only · no write-back

  2. Every night · 02:00

    Flag who is slipping

    Students pulling away are ranked by risk, with the reason in plain language and a suggested next step.

    Daniela Reyes Logins −70%
    Lily Chen Not registered
    Omar Haddad $1,180 hold

    Ranked by risk · Example data

  3. Every morning · 07:30

    Staff approve

    Advisors, coaches or counselors review a daily digest in Outlook and approve, edit or skip each drafted message.

    “Hi Daniela, it’s Sarah from Student Success. Your fall registration is on hold…”

    Edit Skip

  4. All day

    Follow through

    Boom texts and emails the student, classifies each reply, and hands anything sensitive to a person right away.

    can I do a payment plan?

    intent: plan → Sarah

    Distress? Automation pauses, a person takes over.

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Channels No portal to log into

One student, seven channels. No new app.

It works where everyone already is. Advisors and coaches work from Outlook, students hear from it by text, Canvas and email, and leadership gets one weekly digest.

Daniela Reyes One student · 0417
Advisor’s Outlook Staff

Today · 3 students need you

Daniela Reyes Logins −70%
Omar Haddad $1,180 hold
Lily Chen Not registered

Daily risk digest for advisors, coaches or counselors

CRM timeline Optional
  1. 07:30 · Flagged, risk high
  2. 09:10 · SMS approved by Sarah
  3. 09:18 · Reply, intent: plan

Touchpoints on the student’s Salesforce record

SIS record Read-only
Account hold $1,180
Fall registration Not registered
Last read 02:00:04

Holds and registration, read nightly

Student’s phone Student
Your fall registration is on hold for a $1,180 balance… can I do a payment plan?

SMS with replies classified in seconds

Canvas inbox Phase 2

From Sarah Jenkins · BIO 110

Checking in before registration closes. Can we find 10 minutes this week?

Course-linked messages from a name she knows

Student email Student

Your payment plan options for fall

Payment plan setup →
Emergency aid →

Follow-ups with the resources that fit

Sponsor’s Outlook Leadership
41 reached 27 replied 9 holds cleared

Example data

Weekly impact on retention and revenue

No portal, no new app. See how each channel would look at your college.

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2,000 students, read every night.

Every seed is a student. The coral ones get a person.

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Data & Trust FERPA-minded by design

Read-only by default. People decide.

  • Read-only access

    Boom reads SIS and Canvas data. Write-back to any system is optional and off by default.

  • A person approves first

    No message reaches a student until a staff member approves it.

  • Crisis handoff

    Replies that signal distress pause automation and go straight to a person.

  • Starts with a CSV

    A nightly CSV or SFTP drop with field mapping is enough to begin. No integration project required.

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.

Why it matters

55.6 %

Second-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.

Built on

  • Behavioral and social-emotional dropout signals

    The founder’s Pepperdine thesis on why students leave.

  • Early-warning research

    Disengagement shows up before grades fall.

  • ESSA-aligned logic model

    Evidence certification underway.

Read-only, approved, reversible. We walk your IT and compliance leads through every field we read.

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Team

A school psychologist and an agent engineer.

Matthew West

Founder & 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 Chaudhari

Founding 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.

Questions

What cabinets and IT ask us first.

Bring your IT lead and your registrar to the walkthrough. We go through data access line by line.

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What data does Boom read, and can it change anything?

Boom reads Canvas activity and SIS records once a night: logins, missed work, holds and registration status. Access is read-only. Write-back to any system is optional and off by default.

How does Boom handle FERPA and student privacy?

Boom only reads data the college already holds, and design partners agree data terms with us before anything is read. Access stays read-only by default, every message is approved by a staff member, and Boom never grades or disciplines.

How long does setup take?

It starts with a nightly CSV or SFTP drop. We map the fields with your team once, and there is no integration project and no new app to roll out.

What do students see, and can they opt out?

Students get a short text, email or Canvas message from a staff member they know, with one issue and one next step. They can reply STOP at any time.

What happens if a reply signals a crisis?

Replies are classified in seconds. Anything that signals distress pauses automation for that student and goes straight to a person.

Does it work with our systems?

Staff work from Outlook, Boom reads Canvas and your SIS nightly, and touchpoints can be added to a Salesforce record if you use it. Canvas inbox messages are part of phase 2.

What does a design partnership cost?

Design partners start with a paid partnership for one term, then move to an annual license. We scope it together in the walkthrough, based on your students and channels.

How will we know it worked?

Each partnership runs with a treatment group and a matched comparison group. Leadership gets a weekly impact digest and a clear answer on whether it worked at the end of the term.

Design partners Now enrolling

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.

Length
One term
Data
Read-only, nightly CSV
Design
Treatment and matched comparison
Then
Paid partnership first, then an annual license

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Your role

Or email matthew.west@boomai.app

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