AI Consulting
From curiosity to capability, with the guardrails your institution needs.
- AI strategy & readiness assessment
- Use-case discovery and prioritization
- Governance, policy & responsible-AI frameworks
- Pilots that graduate to production
Professional services consulting
Architecture for data.
Clarity for higher education.
We help colleges and universities turn fragmented systems into trusted data foundations, and put AI to work responsibly. Seventeen-plus years of campus experience, applied with precision.
What we do
Three disciplines.
One integrated practice.
Data Architecture
Foundations that hold up as your questions, and your systems, change.
- Modern lakehouse & warehouse design
- Integration across SIS, CRM, LMS & ERP
- Master data & data governance
- Analytics engineering & semantic layers
Professional Services
Seasoned hands, aligned with your goals, your team, and your timeline.
- Technology & vendor selection
- Program and project leadership
- Implementation oversight & recovery
- Fractional advisory & team enablement
17+
Years inside
higher education
Seventeen years on campus
We know the terrain.
Higher education runs on shared governance, constrained budgets, and systems that were never designed to talk to each other. After 17+ years working inside that reality, we know where the data actually lives, who actually owns it, and what it really takes to change how an institution uses it.
- Enrollment & Admissions
- Student Success & Retention
- Advancement & Alumni
- Finance & HR
- Institutional Research
- Research Administration
- Compliance & Reporting
- Academic Operations
How we work
Structured. Collaborative.
Built to outlast the engagement.
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1
Discover
Listen first. We map your systems, stakeholders, and priorities before proposing anything.
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2
Architect
Design the target state and a sequenced, realistic roadmap your leadership can stand behind.
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3
Deliver
Build, integrate, and launch alongside your team, with visible progress at every stage.
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Enable
Transfer knowledge and leave durable standards, so the work keeps compounding after we leave.
The name
Patience of the heron.
Precision of the hexagon.
Heron
Still, observant, and exact. The heron takes the long view, watches the whole landscape, and acts at precisely the right moment. That is how we approach every institution we serve.
Hex
Nature’s most efficient structure: interlocking, balanced, and endlessly scalable. Good data architecture works the same way, with every part supporting the whole.
Get in touch
Let’s map what’s possible.
Tell us a little about your institution and what you’re working toward. We’ll respond personally, usually within one business day.
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