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Routine work, not human work.
Ardi handles the high-volume, low-judgment questions. Conversations that need human judgment, including any consequential life decision, route to a human advisor or the appropriate university resource.
For advisors
Built with advisors, not instead of them.
Academic advisors do some of the most important work on a college campus. They help students figure out whether to switch majors. They notice when a student stops responding and reach out before it becomes a crisis. They know their students.
Ardvarq is not designed to replace any of that. Ardi handles the routine logistics that consume most of an advising office's time. By absorbing the routine, it creates room for advisors to do more of what only they can do.
Three commitments
02
Visibility for advisors, not surveillance of students.
Every Ardi conversation can be exported as a summary the student chooses to share. Advisors see what their students are thinking about, with the student's permission. The student controls the data.
03
No predictive risk scoring. Ever.
Ardvarq does not produce risk scores about students. It does not tell advisors who is likely to fail. Predictive scoring has been a source of real harm in higher education. We built on the opposite principle: expand the choice space, never narrow it.