The provost's questions arrive between terms, when the packet is already old.
ArcCrest sits alongside whichever student information system you run, and answers on demand instead of on the term calendar.
Enrollment, financial-aid, and grants reporting get rebuilt every term.
Census day. Enrollment comes out of the SIS, financial aid out of another module, and grants out of the finance system. Someone assembles the board packet each term, and it is genuinely good work. Then a question arrives in week nine that the packet doesn't answer, and answering it means rebuilding a piece of the packet by hand, so it waits for the next one.
What we work alongside
We read from whichever of these you run. The system of record stays exactly where it is, and we never write back to it.
- your student information system
- your finance and HR system
- your admissions CRM
- your grants management system
What a first pilot looks like here
One workflow, chosen with you during scoping. In this vertical it is usually one of these:
- enrollment and retention reporting
- financial-aid packaging throughput
- grants and effort reporting
- course fill and section utilization
What you get instead
- enrollment and retention at any point in the term, not just at census
- aid packaging throughput and where files are stuck
- grant spend and effort against award, current
- section utilization early enough to act on it
And then the tools nobody sells off the shelf
Once that record exists, what gets built is specific to your operation, and it's the part your team opens every day. In this vertical it usually looks like:
- a financial-aid packaging queue showing where each file is stuck
- an advising worklist that flags at-risk students inside the term
- a grant effort and spend tracker the PI and the research office both read
What we don't do here
We are not a student system of record. We read from it and never write back to it.
Higher education buys through RFPs, boards, and committees regardless of deal size. For those buyers the pilot is structured as a bounded, fixed-fee, criteria-gated engagement in language that survives a procurement review. See the pilot page.