Kai Nurture — How belonging gets built

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Kai product: Data Fields Guide — Data Fields Guide — personas & funnel signals

Kai product: Templates Guide — Templates Guide — engagement & message flow

Kai product: Rituals Guide — Rituals Guide — community rituals & language

A living model built entirely from your own community.

Initial

The Learn portion of our 3-day partnership kickoff: a Rituals Surfacing Workshop (surface the moments, then validate with staff and students which ones truly count), a Language Baseline Workshop (templates for ritual vs. non-ritual moments), and current-student interviews that inform staff sessions. Everything lands as your Learn baseline in the product.

Ongoing

Semester ritual reviews (2×/year) after each term — performance, taxonomy, and new rituals for recruiters. Language & messaging workshops (4×/year) for ritual campaigns; Kai messaging refreshes from what’s working.

Output

A living ritual taxonomy with matched messaging and unified templates across suggested nudges — rituals, lines, and stories Kai draws on to recommend recruiter action.

Initial

The 8-week Funnel Diagnostic — Kai’s opening engagement — reads your funnel through a belonging lens (where belonging forms, where it’s missed, and yield vs. melt), maps each student’s behaviors into Kai’s models, and sets your behavioral baseline. We walk leadership through the findings in a working session to shape the partnership scope.

Ongoing

CRM → Kai sync on a steady cadence — new signals in, updated nudges out. Plus an annual diagnostic refresh for aggregate behavior and correlations as your funnel shifts, revisited with leadership at each refresh.

Output

Engagement actions that stay aligned with your data and feed Amplify as recruiter-facing nudges.
Initial

The Funnel Diagnostic provides the same behavioral map; personas are the segments that emerge when students cluster in the model.

Ongoing

Personas update as data updates. We re-cluster students so Amplify and K-score actions match who is in each segment now.

Output

Each student receives a summarized persona to help recruiters understand the unique K-score signature of that student.

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Kai product: Students roster with segment filters and K-scores — Amplify — students list, segments, and filters

Kai product: Nudges dashboard with student queue, priority, and K-scores — Amplify — Nudges queue with priorities and recommendations

Kai product: Student Nudges view with timing and recommended email action — Amplify — Student nudge with priority, timing, and recommended action

Kai product: Select ritual and template with AI email preview — Amplify — ritual and template selection with email preview

Belonging-driven student intelligence and next-best-action recommendations — the right student, the right action, the right moment.

Initial

We pull from Learn’s 3-day Language Baseline Workshop.

Ongoing

Quarterly language & messaging workshops to refine language associated with outreach actions.

Output

Suggested messaging and talking points, with AI that helps every message sound like your team — drawing on the validated rituals for each outreach action.
Initial

We inventory the action types your team already runs, then map them to corresponding rituals and engagement categories.

Ongoing

We work with recruiters in monthly 1-on-1 sessions to facilitate learnings, take action, and derive insights for improvement.

Output

Recruiters get a clear, concise outreach action per student with rationale tied to where belonging is slipping and what to do about it.

Initial

We train Kai to blend prediction signals and K-scores into a single belonging-driven priority score — including which students need engagement, and when.

Ongoing

Continuous learning from new behaviors keeps priority and timing recommendations sharp as the funnel evolves.

Output

A clear “who to contact first” ranking with recommended timing — recruiters get actions only for students who need them, at the moments they’ll land.
Initial

We configure intuitive tags, risk signals, and custom views for the segments your team revisits — plus alert-worthy shift detection without the noise.

Ongoing

Tags, K-score thresholds, and shift-detection models stay aligned and refine as new behaviors and risk signals land.

Output

One-click filters recruiters can work down as a queue — plus clear cues for what’s shifted in a student’s belonging and the patterns worth acting on.

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Kai product: recommendation effectiveness — Measure — recommendation effectiveness

Kai product: recommendation adoption — Measure — recommendation adoption

Kai product: K-score trends — Measure — K-scores

Kai product: cohort analysis — Measure — cohort analysis

Clear visibility into belonging — and whether your interventions are moving students toward enrollment.

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. Below: the K-score, cohort, effectiveness, and adoption views in Kai that we pull into those conversations.

Initial

We measure each of the five K-scores against an individual student’s behavior, so the numbers reflect how belonging is being built at the individual level.

Ongoing

We monitor K-scores in real time to help inform the Amplify phase, and run continuous model calibration so the scores stay sharp as your funnel evolves.

Output

A K-score signature for each individual student that helps teams understand belonging (KBI), engagement (KES), affinity (KAI), momentum (KMS), and connection (KCS).
Initial

We analyze each student’s individual K-score and then up-level to the whole funnel to understand distribution ranges and averages.

Ongoing

We monitor and update each student’s K-score in real-time, rolling up to the cohort level.

Output

Belonging, engagement, and momentum made visible at the cohort scale.
Initial

We configure the Recommendation Effectiveness Report — baselining K-scores and wiring CRM data so every recommendation can be measured against response and enrollment outcomes.

Ongoing

We monitor K-score lift between responders and non-responders, plus performance by channel and timing — surfaced in the monthly team lead check-ins and fed back into Amplify.

Output

A single dashboard showing K-score lift by tier (KBI, KES, etc.), response and enrollment rates, and the channels and timing windows that drive belonging — so Amplify can re-weight confidently.
Initial

We instrument the ignore signal — when a recommendation isn’t taken, the ignore becomes data; acceptance is captured when it is.

Ongoing

Monthly team lead check-ins (by role and campus location) covering ignore patterns, what’s working, and what to refine in the next cycle — the single place we close the loop with the people running engagement.

Output

A clear read on ignore patterns and recruiter behavior — direct input back into Amplify’s next refinement.

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