Education Cloud

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Education

Flag at-risk students weeks earlier, personalize every yield touchpoint, and close financial aid gaps before enrollment deadlines pass — all on Education Cloud.

Contact (Student) FMScheduler (weekly) + grade submission event

Student Success Risk Scoring

The Problem

Advisors carry 300–500 student caseloads. At-risk students are identified via GPA cutoffs alone — by which point academic damage is already done. Students with financial stress, attendance drops, or engagement changes fall through the cracks because signals are in different systems.

Why not DIY?

Pulling attendance from an LMS API, merging it with CRM grade and engagement data (CombinerNode), and running a weekly batch across thousands of students (PipelineRunnerBatch) — that's three separate Apex subsystems. Each takes weeks to build; integrating them takes months.

Pipeline Stages

FMScheduler PipelineRunnerBatch (chunk students) soql_query (student record + grades + engagement) http_callout (LMS attendance API) CombinerNode llm_call (risk scoring + intervention recommendation) ConditionalFlowControl (risk tier) dml_write (Student_Risk__c) http_callout (advisor alert)

FlowMason Components

FMSchedulerPipelineRunnerBatchCombinerNodeConditionalFlowControl

Realistic Outcomes

Metric Before After
Advisor caseload visibility 10% 100%
At-risk identification Week 10 Week 3
Intervention rate Baseline +65%

Illustrative based on observed patterns. Your results depend on your data and implementation.

Lead (Prospective Student) Application status change / FMScheduler

Enrollment Yield Nurturing

The Problem

Admissions counselors send the same email sequences to every admitted student regardless of demonstrated interest, financial aid status, or program preference. Yield rates are driven by counselor bandwidth — high-touch outreach happens for VIP prospects only. Everyone else gets a template.

Why not DIY?

Personalizing outreach at scale requires generating a different message for each admitted student based on their specific interest profile, aid status, and application signals. A single LLM call on a trigger doesn't do this — you need the full pipeline context from multiple SOQL queries feeding the prompt.

Pipeline Stages

soql_query (Lead + application + financial aid status) llm_call (interest profile) llm_call (personalized outreach draft) ConditionalFlowControl (channel + urgency) dml_write (Communication_Log__c) http_callout (email/SMS send)

FlowMason Components

PipelineRunnerConditionalFlowControlFMScheduler

Realistic Outcomes

Metric Before After
Personalized outreach Top 5% of admits 100% of admits
Counselor time per student 25 min 4 min
Yield rate lift Baseline +8–12 points

Illustrative based on observed patterns. Your results depend on your data and implementation.

Contact (Student) + Financial_Aid__c Aid package finalized / FAFSA update trigger

Financial Aid Gap Analysis

The Problem

Financial aid advisors manually compare each student's cost of attendance against their aid package, identify unmet need, and research scholarship and work-study options. One advisor handles 600–800 students. Students with addressable gaps don't find out until orientation — or quietly don't enroll.

Why not DIY?

Matching each student's unmet need against a live scholarship inventory with eligibility criteria, then routing by gap size to different advisor workflows — and doing this for every student every time aid is updated — is a pipeline problem, not a single Apex method.

Pipeline Stages

soql_query (student + aid package + scholarship inventory) llm_call (gap analysis) llm_call (scholarship match) ConditionalFlowControl (gap size routing) dml_write (Aid_Gap_Alert__c) http_callout (advisor alert + student email)

FlowMason Components

PipelineRunnerConditionalFlowControlCombinerNode

Realistic Outcomes

Metric Before After
Students with unaddressed gaps 30% 8%
Aid advisor throughput Baseline
Scholarship match accuracy Baseline +55%

Illustrative based on observed patterns. Your results depend on your data and implementation.

Org Chat. Phase H

Chat with your Education data.

Beyond the pipeline patterns above, FlowMason ships a chat surface admins drop on any Lightning page. Education users type plain-English questions; FlowMason generates SOQL, validates through the 8-gate sanitiser, runs under FLS, returns rows. Read-only by default.

Try asking:

  • "count students with unmet aid gap > k"
  • "show me applications missing transcripts"
  • "which scholarships still have funding this term?"

FLS-aware. Allowlist-governed. Permset-gated. No data leaves the org.

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