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How we work

Three motions. One community transformation.

A Kai partnership runs in three repeating phases — so belonging compounds cycle after cycle.

  1. Learn

    Where we start the partnership and create the baseline.

    • Surface and codify your community’s DNA — the rituals, language, and transformation moments that make students say “this is home”
    • Map what’s working, where the gaps are, and who is finding belonging in your funnel—and who is being missed—across historical engagement at the aggregate level
    • Reveal behavioral personas and belonging signatures: how timing, sequencing, and engagement patterns connect to yield, melt, and who deposits, enrolls, or melts
    • Translate findings into near-term and strategic recommendations, plus the data infrastructure to sustain belonging-driven engagement over time
    • 8-week funnel diagnostic of your data, infrastructure, and belonging signals
    • 3-day partnership kickoff — baseline workshops and team enablement across rituals, language, platform alignment, working cadences, and frontline communication
    • Annual refresh to identify community improvements and new areas of focus — and current-student interviews to inform and contextualize the gaps and opportunities identified.
  2. Amplify

    Where we do it with you and your team.

    • Amplify human connection at scale — enabling each recruiter to understand and act on driving a sense of belonging.
    • Compound the community building — sharper recruiter behavior, sharper recommendations, sharper community fit
    • Kai Nurture—belonging-driven engagement platform—to generate prioritized queue of recommended engagements. The right student, the right action, the right moment.
    • Monthly 1-on-1 sessions with recruiters to learn, act, and refine
    • Continuous behind-the-scenes work at Kai — model refining and the analytics that feed every conversation above
  3. Measure

    Where we monitor, visualize, and steer our partnership.

    • Make belonging visible — at the student, cohort, and institutional levels
    • Surface what’s working — so Build can be refined with confidence
    • Align with leadership and the frontline team on how the work is shifting belonging and community outcomes
    • Quarterly Steering Committee briefings and monthly leadership check-ins synthesizing cohort behavior patterns, engagement effectiveness, and team adoption
    • Monthly team lead check-ins — ignore patterns, what’s working, and refinements for the next cycle
    • Semester ritual reviews and quarterly language & messaging workshopsin person on your campus; continuously informed by current-student interviews that sharpen rituals, messaging, and how belonging shows up in Kai.

Immersion

  • Four on-campus workshop weeks a year (each 2–3 days) — partnership kickoff, then three quarterly returns with Steering Committee, semester ritual reviews, language & messaging workshops, and the annual diagnostic refresh, all in person on your campus.
  • During on-campus visits, current-student interviews close the loop on how community transformation is taking shape on the ground — we capture primary research to calibrate our findings from Nurture effectiveness, ritual creation, language & messaging, and the annual diagnostic refresh.
  • Later in the partnership we expand beyond interviews — e.g. year two, weaving students into project-based roles (such as CS and business internships tied to Nurture work) so transformation is lived on campus, not only planned in sessions.
See how this shows up in Kai
Nurture

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