When students know who they are, they stay.
NextGenEdu is an AI companion that helps students build the self-knowledge behind their biggest decisions — major, career, and whether to keep going. For your institution, that shows up as engagement, persistence, and fewer students quietly drifting toward the exit.
The students you lose rarely leave because of grades.
They leave because they can't answer a quieter question: what am I actually doing here? It shows up as late major changes, stalled momentum, and students who decide their degree wasn't worth it because no one helped them connect who they are to where they're going. Advising can't scale to meet that one-on-one. Self-knowledge built through conversation can.
A companion students actually return to — and outcomes you can measure.
Engagement
Students come back on their own — the strongest early signal that a support tool is working, not sitting unused.
Persistence
Clarity about direction is upstream of staying enrolled. Students who can answer "why am I here" are students who finish.
Student success
Fewer late major changes and more on-time progress — the metrics your Student Success and Career Services teams own.
We're running our first institutional pilots now. Specific outcome data will be published here as it comes in — we'd rather show you real numbers than promise them.
Backed by science, not vibes.
NSF-funded
An NSF SBIR Phase I award supports the core research behind the platform.
Published research
Our team has published peer-reviewed IEEE research on career discovery and workforce readiness — the foundation this is built on. Read the research →
Grounded in behavioral science
Built on established research in motivation and identity development — not a generic chatbot.
How a pilot works
Start small
We run with a defined cohort — a first-year seminar, an advising caseload, a Student Success program. No campus-wide commitment to begin.
Students use it
Students talk with the companion on their own time. We measure whether they come back, and gather their qualitative feedback.
You get the signal
We report engagement and return rates plus student feedback, so you can judge fit before any larger rollout.
Student data, handled with care
Students' conversations are theirs. We don't sell student data, and we design the platform so institutions stay in control of what is shared. We're committed to handling student records responsibly and in line with applicable education-privacy requirements.
Bring it to your students
Tell us about your institution and the students you're trying to reach. We'll set up a conversation.