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Mainstay provides an AI-enhanced student engagement platform that delivers a personalized success coach to every student via text messaging and other channels. The platform helps higher education institutions improve retention and persistence by automating outreach, providing conversation insights, and using research-backed behavioral intelligence to guide student support.
- Education Technology
- AI Agents
- Artificial Intelligence
- Software Only
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
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Product
Problem
Higher education institutions struggle to provide personalized, proactive support to every student, especially at scale. Staff time is limited, and traditional outreach methods often fail to build the trust and belonging needed to improve retention and persistence, leaving many students feeling disconnected and unsupported.
Solution
Mainstay provides an AI-enhanced student engagement platform that puts a personalized success coach on every student's mobile phone. The platform initiates and manages text-based conversations to offer support, answer questions, and guide students toward resources, helping them feel seen and connected. For staff, Mainstay offers a conversation co-pilot that automates outreach and reclaims time, while institutional leaders receive conversation insights to understand student needs instantly and respond effectively, fostering belonging and driving persistence.
Target Audience
Primary customers are higher education institutions, including universities and community colleges, specifically their student success, admissions, and enrollment teams seeking to improve retention and engagement.
Features
- AI-powered success coach delivered via SMS text messaging, live chat, web chat, and social media channels
- Conversation co-pilot for staff that automates outreach and enhances empathy in interactions
- Behavioral Intelligence engine designed with expert researchers to drive behavior change in students
- Conversation insights dashboard for institutional leaders to monitor student needs and sentiment at scale
- Research-backed, evidence-based messaging framework for delivering the right message to the right student at the right time
- Messages that build connection, belonging, and remove hidden barriers to student progress