Risely AI
AI agents for higher education that automate administrative work across campus, including admissions, enrollment, financial aid, bursar and student accounts, academic advising, retention, and advancement.
About Risely AI
Risely’s AI agents will form the new operating system for universities, improving retention, staff productivity, and efficiency. Our platform integrates directly into existing university systems (SIS, LMS, CRM), learns each institution’s unique workflows, and deploys specialized AI agents. This dramatically reduces the $735 billion universities spend annually on administrative labor, expands staff capacity without increasing headcount, and improves the student experience.
This hasn't been done before because university workflows require nuanced, autonomous judgment, exactly what agentic AI was designed to solve. Our team uniquely combines deep expertise in higher education, enterprise-scale AI, and regulated enterprise sales.
Sadia previously built Salesforce’s Education Cloud from scratch, creating the core Student Information System widely used across higher education. She deeply understands university operations and maintains trusted relationships with hundreds of higher-ed CIOs and Provosts.
Danial was one of DoorDash’s earliest engineers, where he architected and scaled complex systems from zero to billions of transactions, including their search, recommendation, and Voice AI platforms. He knows how to build robust AI solutions that reliably perform at enterprise scale.
Shahryar was a GM at Airwallex, where he built the entire Americas business from 0 to 1 and drove 11x revenue growth. He’s also a master closer, single-handedly securing over $17M in enterprise deals at NerdWallet. He’s a relentless startup executor with deep expertise launching and scaling go-to-market machines in highly regulated industries.
We launched six weeks ago and are already at $8k MRR, growing 55% week-over-week -- one of the fastest ramps ever in higher ed. Universities urgently need solutions that expand labor capacity and efficiency, especially as they face unprecedented budget pressure and staffing shortages.
With unmatched buyer access, deep technical expertise, and rapid early traction, we are perfectly positioned to own this enormous market.
Products
The agentic platform for higher education.
Triages every inquiry by intent.
Flags at-risk students. Drafts personalized outreach. Generates success plans inside the SIS, LMS, and CRM your advisors already use.
Identifies prospective donors from engagement signals.
What customers say
“We all appreciate that Risely will make suggestions outside of the workflow, which actually seems to be more productive than our existing CRM in regard to frequency of engagement with leads. Maia Wakefield · Assistant Director of Enrollment, NSADOn focusing on students 03The Difference The team shaped the agents. Agents that run enrollment outreach have to know how NSAD runs enrollment outreach. In the weeks before and after launch, both the enrollment specialists and leadership worked directly with Risely to encode their playbook into the platform, priorities, tone, escalation rules, edge cases. Stakeholder Role in the Partnership Vinh TuDirector of Enrollment & Marketing Executive sponsor; decisioned the platform rollout to the enrollment team. NSAD Enrollment Specialists Daily operators; provided the feedback that drove near-weekly feature iteration. Risely's Forward Deployed Engineers Onboarding, co-building, weekly working sessions, feature shipping against live feedback.”
“I laughed with my team after. We were all just dead silent when the Risely team was showing us this because it just blew our minds. Maia Wakefield · Assistant Director of Enrollment, NSADOn the call-transcript auto-summary 05Impact Net enrollments up 247% despite reduced staffing. Despite reduced staffing, output rose sharply, and net enrollments grew 247%. Working alongside Risely's agents, the team outperformed its prior output on every operational measure that mattered. +2,186% Personalized emails sent +407% Phone calls made +130% Close velocity 0 Withdrawals since launch As agents took over drafting, outreach volume climbed sharply. Applied across a full enrollment year, the team projects a multi-million-dollar lifetime-tuition impact attributable to the partnership.”
- Enrollment Agent
NewSchool uses Risely's enrollment agents to prioritize leads, prepare briefings, draft outreach, analyze calls, and update its CRM. Risely reports 9× capacity per specialist and 22× more personal emails versus the…
Case study - Advancement Agent
Westmont College uses Risely's advancement agents to assemble donor research for human validation and interpretation. Risely reports 121 prospect briefs generated in twelve weeks and fourfold strategic research capacity…
Case study
Security and compliance
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- SOC 2 Type IICompliant
- TLS encryption in transit
- Encryption at rest
- Least-privilege access controls
- RBAC
- Audit trails
- Agent guardrails
- Periodic third-party penetration tests
- SCIM
- SSO
- All agent actions logged and auditable
- Critical decisions routed to staff for approval
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