AI consulting for education.
Education is structured information work — admissions, advising, support — with hard privacy boundaries. AI works when it's built inside those boundaries from day one.
The work schools and education orgs run by hand.
These are the operations we've seen compress the most when schools and education orgs hand them to a well-built AI workflow — measured against the actual hours your team spends, not a vendor demo.
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Admissions inquiries, application status, and follow-up
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Student advising and registration support across SIS systems
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Family/parent communications and operations help-desk
What we typically ship.
Real workflows we've built for schools and education orgs. The right starting point for your team will be one of these — or a remix.
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Admissions & inquiry agent
Answers application questions across email, chat, and SMS; surfaces application status, deadlines, and next steps; routes high-touch conversations to admissions staff.
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Advising assistant
Pulls course plans, prerequisites, and audit data; helps students self-serve simple advising questions; queues escalations with full context for advisors.
- 03
Ops help-desk agent
Internal-facing agent that answers HR, IT, and ops questions for staff and faculty from your handbooks and KB.
Discovery → Pilot → Production.
Every engagement starts with a one-week sprint — audit, ADR, and a written go / no-go on the operation you want to hand to AI. Roughly one in four pilots gets killed at that step; that's the point.
If we move to a build, you ship a single end-to-end agent on real data inside three to six weeks. We hand off repo, prompts, and runbook. Retainers exist for care and growth — never for lock-in.
see engagement model →Questions schools and education orgs ask us.
If something you're chewing on isn't here, send it to team@phaselink.ai — partner-written reply within one business day.
- FERPA — how do you protect student data?
- Per-tenant data isolation, no training on student records, audit-logged access, and the same vendor-tier guarantees we use for HIPAA-adjacent work. Your DPA controls what we and the model providers can and can't do.
- Does this work with Banner, Workday Student, PowerSchool, Veracross?
- Yes — Banner and Workday Student are most-common in higher ed; PowerSchool and Veracross in K-12. We integrate via their APIs and respect your data-governance rules.
- Will faculty / advisors worry that AI is replacing them?
- Reasonable concern, and we don't ship workflows that automate substantive academic judgement. AI handles routine logistics so advisors and faculty spend time on the conversations students actually need.
Send us your most expensive operation.
We'll have an audit on your desk in five days.
One PDF. No deck. No obligation. We'll tell you whether AI is the right answer for it — and if it is, we'll quote the build the same week.