A rising tide lifts all boats, but not all students float the same way.
Every student deserves an experienced captain.
This captain's job isn't to take over.
It's to make sure no student navigates alone.
I notice you've missed a couple BCH362 sessions recently. That's one of the strongest predictors of grade outcomes. Want to talk about what's going on?
I think I picked the wrong track.
I can help you compare transfer options and book your advisor now. Your counselor has an opening Tuesday the 3rd at 3:00 pm. You are also free at that time. Would you like me to book the appointment and put it on your calendar?
Not an actual screenshot of the application
Not a chatbot. An engine.
Powered by Claude, SPARC's AI is enriched with the student's full context on every message: courses, GPA, attendance, degree plan, goals, counselor history, behavioral patterns, and personal facts learned over months of conversation.
It answers questions about grad school requirements, transfer options, and program comparisons, then connects the answer back to what the student can do right now, at their institution.
For struggling students, it surfaces attendance data directly: "I notice you've missed a couple BCH362 sessions recently. That's one of the strongest predictors of grade outcomes. Want to talk about what's going on?"
It will not write papers, or provide test answers. Academic integrity is non-negotiable.
SPARC knows when they showed up, and when they didn't.
If enabled by the student, via GPS coordinates, the app is aware of attendance during class hours. The system cross-references the student's schedule and the building's location to determine: Present, Late, or Absent. No app interaction needed. SPARC shows the student their own attendance patterns, and encourages class attendance.
Attendance data is recorded in the student's local profile. Patterns are surfaced early, before a student has dug themselves into a hole that's hard to climb out of. Individual attendance data is available to the individual student. Aggregated student-body attendance data is available to administration.
Campus only. Class hours only. Students can enable or disable the feature.
Not an actual screenshot of the application
Persistent memory. Proactive outreach. Personal to every student.
Not an actual screenshot of the application
Attendance is one signal. Engagement is the whole picture.
SPARC measures eight retention signals: class attendance, event attendance, counselor appointments, goal activity, AI engagement, daily check-ins, walking and activity goals, and academic performance.
These signals are combined into a student level risk model that SPARC uses for direct proactive outreach to the student, making SPARC the first tier of support. Institutional leadership sees aggregated trends across cohorts, programs, and risk tiers, while individual student data remains private.
A student who stops going to events, stops chatting with SPARC, and starts missing classes isn't just having a bad week. SPARC knows the difference.
The full picture. In one place.
GPA. Attendance. Degree progress. Campus engagement score. Upcoming milestones. Active goals. Counselor appointment history.
Students see their complete academic picture without hunting across five different portals. The dashboard is the source of truth, connected to the institution's SIS and updated in real time.
And the AI can talk about any of it, in context, at any time.
Not an actual screenshot of the application
I found openings with Jasmine that also fit your schedule: Tue 10:30 AM, Wed 1:00 PM, Thu 3:30 PM.
Wed 1:00 PM works.
Booked: Wed Mar 11, 1:00-1:30 PM with Jasmine Martinez.
Added to your in-app calendar: "Degree Plan Review," Wed Mar 11, 1:00-1:30 PM, Student Services Center. Prep note: "Verify Spring 2027 graduation timeline."
Confirmation email sent with the same details.
Not an actual screenshot of the application
From "I want to change my major" to a booked appointment in seconds.
SPARC integrates with your degree planner to show students their planned path to graduation: courses required, courses completed, courses in progress, and elective options.
When a student signals they want to make a change, such as adding a class, dropping a course, or exploring a different program, SPARC recommends a counselor appointment and shows concrete, conflict-free open time slots.
If integrated, SPARC waits for the student to pick a slot, books the event, then confirms the exact booked time and writes the full appointment entry into the student's in-app calendar (title, counselor, time, location, and prep note), with email confirmation also sent to the counselor. This is appointment integration, not a link to a scheduling page.
Assignments become a schedule. Automatically.
For SPARC-compatible courses, assignments are pulled directly into the student's task list. SPARC finds available time blocks in the student's actual week, around their classes, commitments, and calendar, and suggests when to work on what.
Not a generic to-do app. A homework management system that knows when the student is actually free.
6–8pm
5–7pm
4–6pm
7–9pm
Not an actual screenshot of the application
Not an actual screenshot of the application
Not a feed. A personalized recommendation layer.
SPARC pulls real campus events and scores them for relevance based on the student's major, goals, interests, and past event history. A student targeting grad school in biology sees research seminars. A student interested in entrepreneurship sees startup events.
Events can be added to the student's calendar directly with one touch. Students can share events with each other, coordinate attendance, and plan activities together, turning a personal recommendation into a shared experience. SPARC mentions relevant events in conversation when they match what the student is working toward.
The whole student. Not just the academic one.
Students set walking and wellness goals. SPARC helps students measure progress using device motion data (steps, activity patterns, campus venue check-ins), compares it against their goals, and checks in when patterns change.
A student who works out three times a week but hasn't been to the gym in two weeks during finals? SPARC notices and mentions it the way a friend would, not the way a notification would.
Not an actual screenshot of the application
One tide. Eight billion different shorelines.
Not an actual screenshot of the application
It was there on Day 1. It'll remember it on Graduation Day.
SPARC's tiered memory architecture stores the arc of a student's academic career without growing unbounded. Recent sessions, semester summaries, milestone memories, and a profile evolution timeline are all loaded into every conversation.
SPARC knows that a student switched from pre-med to bioengineering in spring of freshman year. It knows they made Dean's List as a sophomore. It knows they've been mentoring freshmen since fall of junior year.
It doesn't just help with today. It holds the whole story.
Institution-wide clarity through aggregated retention intelligence.
The Provost Dashboard provides a real-time, aggregated view of retention risk across colleges, programs, class years, and risk tiers. Nine pages of detailed graphics and exportable data can give student success leadership clear, signal-based visibility across the institution without exposing individual student records.
Insightful retention signals. Weighted risk scores. Early warning flags. Advisor assignment visibility.
SPARC surfaces behavioral signals (attendance patterns, engagement quality, counselor utilization) that existing early-alert systems don't capture together in one place, before outcomes are decided.
Not an actual screenshot of the application
When a crisis flow runs, we store a minimal audit: that it fired, when, which session/user, and sometimes which channel, for continuity and abuse prevention. We do not store the student's exact words.
The student still sees the standard resource reply. Many teams retain the assistant's templated crisis message if policy allows; it is not student-authored sensitive content (policies vary).
Ordinary logging you already rely on continues: authentication, sessions, errors, and non-crisis messages.
⚑ No generative response to the flagged student-authored message.
Not an actual screenshot of the application
FERPA-aligned. Student-controlled. Crisis-ready.
SPARC is designed from the ground up for the privacy requirements of higher education. Use of location is campus-only, class-hours-only, and fully visible to the student.
Self-harm and crisis language is caught by a keyword pre-screen before it reaches the generative model. The student sees the standard resource reply immediately, with campus counseling, 988, and Crisis Text Line, and with no AI response to the flagged message. A minimal audit records that the crisis flow fired, when, and which session or user (and sometimes channel) for continuity and abuse prevention, without storing the student's exact words; templated resource content may be retained where policy allows.
Students can see every fact SPARC has learned about them and delete any of it. This isn't a legal requirement. It's how we think students should be treated.
Not just conversations. A capable academic mind.
SPARC handles the full range of academic life, not just advising. Ask SPARC to work through a reaction mechanism in organic chemistry, and it renders the structure and explains the electron flow. Paste in a calculus problem, and it returns clean mathematical notation stepping through the problem. Hum a melody or describe a chord progression, and it responds in proper musical notation.
Point your camera at a flyer on a bulletin board, and SPARC reads it, pulls the event name, date, time, and location, and adds it directly to your calendar.
Whatever the subject, whatever the format, SPARC meets the student where they are.
Not an actual screenshot of the application
Decades of retention research point to the same finding: students stay enrolled when they feel like someone is paying attention, not because of their GPA.
From Tinto's 1975 integration model to current belonging research, the evidence is consistent: connection drives persistence. SPARC makes that possible at scale.
An experienced captain for every student.
Built to drop into your stack.
SPARC is a Next.js 15 / React 19 PWA with offline support, deployable to AWS (ECS Fargate) or your preferred cloud infrastructure. PostgreSQL + Prisma for data, Anthropic Claude API for AI, with multi-tenant architecture ready for institution-scale licensing.
SIS integration supports Banner and PeopleSoft. CRM integration supports Salesforce Education Cloud and Slate. Degree audit integration supports DPR and DegreeWorks. Counselor scheduling supports E2E integration with major platforms.
See SPARC at your institution.
We'll show you the full product, walk through the Provost Dashboard, and talk about what a pilot looks like at your school.