The care platform for colleges and universities
Know every student. Make sure no one slips through.
One record for every student, from first inquiry to first gift, with an Assistant that tells your staff who’s drifting and why, and drafts the note.
- Built for Christian colleges and small private universities.
- Now taking founding colleges for spring 2027.
- Also for churches, nonprofits and associations.
Needs you this week
Chapel check-in
Mentoring
Lakeside College is a made-up example.
The first year
Students rarely leave all at once. They slip through the gaps.
It isn’t that nobody cares. It’s that each student’s story is split across a chapel scanner, a club spreadsheet, a texting tool and an advancement database, and nobody sees the whole student in time.
The first-time student
Came to orientation, went to class, and never found their people. By October they’re eating alone and looking at transfer forms.
The commuter
Drives in for class and drives home. Came to a few events in September, then stopped, and nobody noticed the gap.
The one who goes quiet
The student-athlete after an injury, or the student working two jobs. Still enrolled, still on the roster, and slowly drifting away.
Why now
About 31%
of first-year students don’t return to the school they started at.
24%
Belonging now ties with cost as a reason students consider stopping out, at 24% each.
2025
The year the number of US high school graduates peaked.
The whole journey
Know every student from first inquiry to first gift.
Retention is the measure. Knowing the whole student is how you get there. Follow Maya through eight stages on one record, beside the admissions CRM and student information system you already run.
1Prospect
RSVPs to a visit day and gets her questions answered.
- Live today: Visit-day RSVPs, check-in and Ask
- Being built with founding colleges: Visits flow back to your admissions CRM
2Admitted
Meets her future classmates before she says yes.
- Live today: Introductions and student-hosted chats
- Being built with founding colleges: The admitted-student community
3Deposited
Gets a peer mentor and starts orientation over the summer.
- Live today: Orientation events, summer courses, peer mentors
- Being built with founding colleges: Roommate, floor and holds from your systems
4First six weeks
Joins a club, checks in to chapel, finds her people.
- Live today: Groups, chapel check-in, the Assistant’s weekly list
- Being built with founding colleges: Chapel credits and signals from your systems
5First year
Serves on a team and earns badges for showing up.
- Live today: Serving, badges, follow-ups checked later
- Being built with founding colleges: The cabinet’s first-year cohort view
6Middle years
Gets an alumni mentor in nursing.
- Live today: Alumni mentoring and vocation courses
- Being built with founding colleges: Career and Calling’s view
7Senior
Joins the alumni community before she graduates.
- Live today: Alumni verification and a senior-class gift
- Being built with founding colleges: Graduation from the nightly file
8Alum
Mentors a student and makes her first gift.
- Live today: Mentoring, giving and a thank-you drafted
- Being built with founding colleges: Engagement back to your advancement database
The Assistant · for student life staff
Know who’s drifting. Before they’re gone.
One list each week, ranked by who a note would help most: new students not yet in a group, regulars who’ve stopped coming, people who’ve gone quiet, a first gift from an alum. Each comes with the reason and a personal note, drafted by AI from what’s on their record. Nothing reaches a student until your staff send it.
- A reason behind every name, never a bare score
- Notes drafted by AI, edited and sent by your staff
- A Monday summary of last week, with next steps
- Student reasons like missed chapels, in development with our founding colleges
Screens from the real product. Lakeside College Alumni is a made-up example.
From orientation to alumni
One record for every student. For every year after.
The groups a student joins in their first week, the events they come to, their chapel check-ins, their mentor, the messages you send and, years later, their first gift as an alum all land on the same person. Your staff and the Assistant see the whole story.
Help every student find their people.
Write it once. Reach them by email, in the app and by text.
Cohorts, alumni verification and fundraising pages, on the same record.
Pair students with mentors, with steps and check-ins.
Screens from the real product. Lakeside College Alumni is a made-up example.
Trust
Your students aren’t a dataset.
Students and their families trust your college with a lot. We treat their records the way you would.
Never sold
We don’t sell personal information, and we don’t use it for advertising.
Never used to train AI
What the Assistant reads is sent to our AI provider only to write the response, and is never used to train its models.
Yours to take
Your students, groups and records belong to your college. We give you a full export whenever you ask, and delete them if you leave and ask.
No cut of alumni giving
Gifts go straight to your college’s own Stripe account. We never add a platform fee.
A founding launch
One launch semester. We do it with you.
1
Talk with us
Tell us about your students, your first-year program, your chapel and what you run today. We’ll tell you plainly what works now and what we’d build with you.
2
Set up together
We import your students from a spreadsheet, set up cohorts, groups, chapel check-in and mentoring, and connect giving to your own Stripe account.
3
Train your team
Student life, residence life, campus ministry and advancement staff each learn the parts they use, in short sessions.
4
Run the first term with us
We check in through the first weeks of term, watch the Assistant’s list with you, and change what isn’t working.
Why it helps
Less admin. More time for students.
Know who needs you this week
One ranked list, with a reason for every name and a note drafted for your staff to edit and send.
One record for every student
Groups, events, chapel check-in, mentoring, messages and gifts land on the same student.
Hours back for student life
Less exporting, matching and chasing spreadsheets. More time with students.
Numbers your cabinet can trust
Attendance, groups and engagement from one source, ready for the next meeting.
Who we serve
Built for colleges. Ready for every community that cares for people.
Churches, nonprofits and associations run on the same platform, each with its own setup and language.
Colleges and universities
First-year belonging, chapel, mentoring and alumni giving on one record per student.
Churches
Groups, giving, check-in and volunteers, in place of a stack of church tools.
Nonprofits
Donors, volunteers, events and campaigns, so no supporter slips through.
Associations
Members, events, learning and committees, all year round.
Pricing
A launch, then a subscription. Priced for your size.
A one-time launch fee by size, then $8 per enrolled undergraduate a year, paid yearly or monthly. You never pay per prospect, admitted student or alum.
A one-time launch
From $15,000
$15,000 for up to 1,500 undergraduates, $20,000 up to 3,000, and $30,000 up to 5,000. We set everything up with you during a launch semester: your import, chapel check-in and cohorts, mentoring, staff training and first-term check-ins. Many colleges use one-time funds or student-success grants for it.
A subscription, yearly or monthly
$8 per student a year
Counting enrolled undergraduates only. Pay yearly or monthly. A college of 1,500 pays $12,000 a year, or $1,000 a month. The minimum is $9,600 a year, or $800 a month. You never pay per prospect, admitted student or alum.
Founding colleges
50% off the launch
The first colleges get 50% off the launch fee and a direct hand in shaping the product.
Add when you’re ready
Over 5,000 undergraduates, or several campuses? Talk to us.
Alumni community and giving
Live today$6,000 a year
Alumni verification, the alumni community, mentoring with alumni, campaigns and giving to your own Stripe account.
Admitted-student community
Being built with founding colleges$5,000 a year
Your admitted class meets before May 1, with a next-steps list for deposit, aid and housing.
Student-system sync
Being built with founding colleges$5,000 setup, then $2,000 a year
A nightly file from your student information system and admissions CRM, kept in sync for you.
Your own campus app
On the roadmap$8,000 setup, then $3,000 a year
Your college’s name and icon in the App Store and Google Play.
A church, nonprofit or association? Our Cloud plans have published prices from $99 a month, and a Free plan to start.
See Cloud plans
Socio Connect is the care platform for colleges and universities. Every student has one record from orientation to alumni giving: groups and clubs, events and RSVPs, chapel and other check-ins, mentoring, courses, messages and giving. The Assistant tells student life staff who needs them this week and why, and drafts a note for them to edit and send.
We're built first for Christian colleges and small private universities, from about 800 to 5,000 undergraduates, starting in Indiana and the Midwest. The people who use it most are student life, residence life, campus ministry, first-year programs and advancement. Churches, nonprofits, associations and creators use Socio Connect too, on our Cloud plans.
A one-time launch fee of $15,000 for up to 1,500 undergraduates, $20,000 up to 3,000, or $30,000 up to 5,000, then $8 per enrolled undergraduate a year (minimum $9,600), paid yearly or monthly. You never pay per prospect, admitted student or alum. Alumni community and giving is a $6,000-a-year add-on. Many colleges use one-time funds or student-success grants for the launch, and founding colleges get 50% off the launch fee. Founding colleges also get a direct hand in shaping the product.
Live today: one record per student, groups and clubs, events with RSVPs and tickets, check-in (chapel can run as a check-in session), basic cohorts, mentoring programs, courses, messages by email, in the app and by text, the Assistant's weekly list with drafted notes, alumni verification, fundraising pages, and giving to your own Stripe account. Being built with our founding colleges: chapel credit tracking for each student, student-specific reasons in the Assistant such as missed chapels, class year and major fields, single sign-on with your campus login, and student information system sync.
No. Your student information system stays the record for enrollment and grades, and your learning platform stays where classes happen. Socio Connect is where belonging happens: groups, events, chapel, mentoring and the follow-up that keeps students close. Today you import students from a spreadsheet. A nightly file from your student information system is being built with our founding colleges.
One record from first inquiry to first gift is where we're headed, and much of it works today. Live today: visit days as events with RSVPs and check-in, Ask for prospects' questions, groups, chapel check-in, mentoring, courses, the Assistant's weekly list, alumni verification and giving. Being built with our founding colleges: the admitted-student community, a view for each office starting with Student Life, Chapel, Advising, Admissions and Advancement, and a journey view for the cabinet. Retention stays the measure. See every stage at https://socio-connect.com/Universities/Student-Journey.
It sits beside them. Your admissions CRM, student information system, learning system and advancement database stay the systems of record, and Socio Connect isn't an admissions CRM. With our founding colleges we're building a nightly file your IT team already knows how to send, so signals such as a hold or a midterm alert land on the student's record, and engagement goes back to your admissions CRM and advancement database. Direct connections are chosen with our founding colleges.
Today you can run chapel as a check-in session, so each student's attendance lands on their record beside their groups and events. Chapel credit counts and requirement tracking for each student are being built with our founding colleges.
No. Drafts, and your team sends. The Assistant suggests who to reach and drafts the note. Nothing reaches a member until someone on your team sends it. Shows its reasons. Every name on the list comes with why it’s there: a first visit, three missed Sundays, a gift that stopped. No unexplained scores. Never trains AI on your people. What the Assistant reads is sent to our AI provider only to write the response, and is never used to train its models. Your data stays yours. You keep ownership of everything you add. Ask for a full export whenever you like, and we delete it when you leave if you ask. We don’t sell personal information.
Your college keeps ownership of everything it adds, and we give you a full export whenever you ask. We don't sell personal information or use it for advertising, and what the Assistant reads is never used to train AI models. Our security page at https://socio-connect.com/Security explains how we handle student records and FERPA.
Yes. Churches, nonprofits, associations and creators run on our Cloud plans, with published prices from $99 a month and a Free plan to start. Gifts go straight to your own Stripe account with no platform fee. See every plan at https://socio-connect.com/Pricing.
Make sure no one slips through.
We’re taking a small group of founding colleges for spring 2027 launches. They get 50% off the launch fee and a direct hand in shaping the product.
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