Retention software built for a student who lives on campus. Yours doesn't.
Boom is built for the other student — the one who attends part-time, stops out between terms, and is invisible to every system watching grades.
The mismatch
Part-time enrollment breaks cohort tracking.
67% of CC credit students attend part-time (AACC Fast Facts 2026)
Boom does not model in cohorts.
Attrition here is not academic.
A student stopping out over an unpaid lab fee never appears in a system watching grades. Signal classifies four barriers.
Melt happens between terms, not during them.
Nobody is enrolled to flag. Reach runs when nothing is wrong yet.
The arithmetic
What's different about the product
No integration project.
CSV in, live in 48 hours. Community college IT does not have a spare implementation quarter — and Boom's requirements are the same regardless of which SIS you run.
Detection without faculty input.
Early alert asked adjuncts teaching five sections across three campuses to fill out forms. Only 37% of full-time and 28% of part-time faculty report flagging students (EAB). Boom doesn't ask.
Settings
Boom runs the same way regardless of scale.
- single-campus
- multi-college district
- statewide system
- HBCUs & MSIs
- technical & trade
- rural & small
Evidence
reduction in summer melt vs. control
LCTCS
n = 1,847 treatment / 1,623 control, Spring 2026
Two LCTCS campuses, ~30,000 students, since February 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.
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.
Bring us a semester of your data.
We'll show you who you were about to lose.