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AI Operating System for Education

One AI system
for your whole
institution.

We put AI to work across every department, from enrollment to accreditation. Built for Cobb County School District, the 23rd largest in the nation.

K-12 & Higher Ed
Assessment first
Cobb County Schools
Who We Are

We're an AI team that works inside education.

ShooflyAI partners with districts and colleges to put AI to work on the operational load nobody went into education to do. We start with a hands-on audit, ship a focused pilot, then scale what proves out.

Jonathan Hessing presenting to education leaders on why most AI experiments don't go anywhere
"We have significantly increased our reach using AI avatars and marketing automation with ShooflyAI. We will continue innovating our industry with them by our side."
Dan Vehar
Dan Vehar
Marketing @ Cobb County Schools
01
Education-specific
We've built for K-12 districts and career colleges across admissions, student services, records, and advancement. Not generic AI consulting.
02
Assessment-led
Every engagement opens with an AI Operating Assessment, so the roadmap is grounded in your real workflows, systems, and numbers.
03
Human-centered
Our agents are built to feel human first. Families and students should feel helped, not handed off to a bot.
04
Safe with student data
We design around FERPA and your district's privacy policies from day one. Your data stays in your systems and never trains anyone else's model.
The Drain

Every department is buried in busywork.

Admissions chasing inquiries. Student services buried in records and forms. Communications juggling campaigns, reputation, and accreditation. Finance stuck in manual reporting. Across the institution, skilled people spend their days on work software should handle, and things slip through the cracks every day.

Inquiry decaywhat a slow response costs you
100%
Minute 5
A prospective student or parent reaches out, fully interested.
~50%
Day 1
No response yet. Attention drifts and they start looking elsewhere.
Lost
Week 1
The inquiry goes cold and quietly drops out of the funnel.
24/7
families reach out around the clock, long after your office closes
Days
a manual reply can take, while attention drifts elsewhere
100s
of staff hours a year lost to repetitive admin
Every
unanswered inquiry is a student or family who looks elsewhere

None of this is a people problem. It's a tooling problem, and it's exactly the kind of work AI agents are good at.

What We Build

One system for the whole institution.

Not a chatbot dropped on your homepage. A team of AI agents wired into the work that consumes your staff, department by department.

01
Enrollment & admissions
Agents that fill the funnel and follow up the moment interest comes in, so no inquiry goes cold and more of it turns into enrolled students and starts.
02
Student & back-office operations
Records, transcripts, placement tracking, and finance busywork handled end to end, pulled straight from the systems you already run.
03
Communications, reputation & accreditation
Campaign and newsroom agents that tell more of your story, plus monitoring for board reputation and an accreditation tracker that flags issues early. A human reviews every alert.
7x

more content, same team.

Cobb County went from 7 stories a week to 65 a month. Same communications staff. AI handles the production layer.

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How It Works

From audit to live in weeks.

A clear path from "where is the time going?" to agents running in production.

01
Step 01
AI Operating Assessment
We sit with your team and map every department's workflows, systems, and numbers. You get a prioritized audit of where AI pays off first.
02
Step 02
Pilot the top opportunity
We build one focused agent or automation against your highest-ROI workflow. Real, in your stack, not a demo.
03
Step 03
Deploy with your team
We launch into production, train your staff, and tune it on real usage until it's pulling its weight.
04
Step 04
Scale what works
With proof in hand, we expand to the next workflows and departments on the roadmap.
Proof of Work

Real work, real institutions.

Our work spans K-12 districts and higher ed. We don't come in with a slide deck. We come in with working sessions and written reports with numbers.

7x
Content output multiplied.
Cobb County School District - 23rd largest in the nation.
  • 112 schools, 100,000 students
  • From 7 stories/week to 65/month - same team
  • AI Santa campaign raised funds and engaged families district-wide
  • Agentic newsroom: plans, writes, and publishes campaigns automatically
  • Board and reputation monitoring with human review built in
AI Santa campaign for Cobb County School District Foundation View case study
48hrs
Full AI assessment delivered.
Multi-campus college group, 6 departments.
  • Admissions, student services, career placement, finance, and IT assessed
  • Ranked opportunity map with ROI projections per workflow
  • Written report in 48 hours, no pitch, no contract pressure
  • Same playbook scales from K-12 to higher ed
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Accreditation risk caught early.
Always-on board and media monitoring.
  • Accreditation tracker flags issues with human review built in
  • Board monitoring across local press and social
  • Leadership gets one clear view instead of a scramble
  • Reputation layer runs continuously without adding headcount
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The Pattern

Every institution we assess
has the same three gaps.

These are not technology problems. They are workflow problems. And they are fixable once you know exactly where the friction is.

a cluttered education back-office desk overwhelmed by manual records and forms
GAP 1
Student data is incomplete or stale.
Enrollment decisions get made on bad information. Staff waste time chasing records that are already in the system, or fail to follow up with leads who would have enrolled today.
GAP 2
Systems are disconnected.
SIS, CRM, finance, and LMS each hold part of the picture. Staff move data between them by hand. Follow-up depends on individual memory instead of a system.
GAP 3
Your best people are doing coordination work.
The advisors and administrators who are actually good at the relationship are spending the majority of their day on tasks that do not require their expertise.
What We Don't Do

We do not replace
your people.

Education is a human business. A student trusts the advisor who knows their situation, their goals, and their history. No AI system replaces that. What we remove is the friction between your staff and the conversations they should already be having. The relationship stays theirs. They just get to have more of them.

We do not replace teachers or advisors.

The relationship stays with your staff. We remove the busywork around it, not the human in it.

We do not rip out your SIS or ERP.

Everything runs on top of Ellucian, Skyward, PowerSchool, or whatever you already use. Nothing gets torn out.

We do not hand you a slide deck.

No strategy document that sits in a drawer. We build the system, operate it, and measure it against real numbers.

73%

of education administrators say manual processes are their biggest barrier to serving students better.

The workflows exist. The staff are capable. The systems just never caught up.

The Alternatives

Why not the usual options?

Option 01
Hire more staff
More headcount for repetitive work is expensive, slow to hire, and still leaves people doing tasks software should.
Option 02
A big SaaS suite
Generic platforms make you bend to their workflow and still leave the manual glue work to your team.
Option 03
A generic AI consultancy
Slide decks and pilots that never ship. You pay for strategy and still have nothing in production.
ShooflyAI
The education-specific team
We assess first, build into your real stack, and ship agents that earn their keep. Scoped to start small and prove a number, not a year-long contract.
The Offer

Start with an AI Operating Assessment.

One assessment. A prioritized AI roadmap for your institution.

We sit with your team, map the workflows in every department, and hand back a ranked plan for where AI pays off first. Grounded in your systems and your numbers, not a template. For a multi-campus college group, we delivered the full picture in 48 hours.

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The assessment fee is credited toward your pilot if you move forward.

FAQ

Questions districts ask first.

How long until an AI system is live in our district?

We start with an AI Operating Assessment that maps your workflows in 48 hours, then scope a focused pilot. Most districts see a first working agent live within weeks, not months.

Does this replace teachers or staff?

No. We automate the manual admin work that pulls staff away from students, so your people spend their time on the work that needs a human.

Is student data handled safely?

Yes. We deploy systems with role-based access and data-handling controls, and a human reviews sensitive actions before they go out.

Get your team back to students.

Book an AI Operating Assessment. You'll get a prioritized map of where AI pays off across your departments, with the numbers behind each one. The fee credits toward your pilot if you move forward.