Solutions · Higher Education
Your university's data is worth more than it's doing.
Universities hold rich data on donors, applicants and students, spread across separate systems. Syntasa brings it together in your own cloud and puts it to work in advancement, enrollment and learning.
- Donors
- Applicants
- Students
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- Donors
- Applicants
- Students
Advancement · Enrollment · Learning
Sample data
Challenges
The constraints we solve for.
- 01Enrollment targetsRecruitment teams must find and convert the right applicants.
- 02Tighter budgetsEvery office is asked to raise more and spend less, with the same staff.
- 03Higher learning expectationsStudents expect learning experiences as personal as the apps they use daily.
Solutions
Purpose-built for higher education.
Donors
Donor AI finds ready donors and personalizes every appeal, in your own cloud.
Explore Donor AI →Enrollment
Tech previewEngage prospective students with relevant, personalized content.
Learning experiences
Coming soonAnalyze learner behavior and suggest each student's best learning path.
Alumni engagement
Keep alumni engaged between campaigns with outreach based on their interests.
Explore Donor AI →
In their words
What a development leader says.
“I love the way the project's going. The team's been flexible and great to work with. It's helped us push forward in areas beyond the platform itself, getting more people interested in the actual business case rather than just creating data endlessly.”
Development leader, a major U.S. research university
Platform capabilities used
Production-grade capabilities, one platform.
- Workflows & ConnectorsConnect Slate, Ellucian, Blackbaud and Salesforce without replacing them.
- Agentic AIAgents draft and test outreach within the limits your team sets.
- Notebooks & Data ScienceBuild models on your own giving, enrollment and student data.
- Security & TrustAccess controls and an audit trail over student and donor records.
- Lens ObservabilitySee every model run and data movement, explained.
Deployment & trust
Student and donor data stays in your cloud.
Your data stays in your own cloud account, with access controls enforced as soon as it's ingested.
- Runs in your institution's own private cloud account.
- Syntasa and Google never see or use institutional data.
- Access controls and a full audit trail.
Deploy where your data lives
Your private cloud account
- Slate
- Ellucian
- Blackbaud
- Salesforce
- Other campus systems
- Advancement
- Enrollment
- Learning
Resources
Go deeper on university data.
- Solution
Donor AI
Find ready donors and personalize every appeal, in your own cloud.Explore - Guide
The Advancement Journey
A five-stage maturity model — Fragmented to Empowered — for advancement teams navigating AI, plus a self-assessment guide to find where your institution stands today.Read - Webinar· Gated
The Future of Advancement & Donor AI
Google Public Sector, Syntasa, and Carahsoft on an AI-first approach to donor engagement — personalized outreach, intelligent audience building, and fundraising for higher education advancement teams.Read
FAQ
Questions universities ask.
Donor AI is in production at a major U.S. research university. Enrollment is in tech preview, and Learning experiences is coming soon.
Yes. Syntasa connects to Slate, Ellucian, Blackbaud, Salesforce and other campus systems through pre-built integrations. Results are written back into the tools your teams already work in.
No. Donor AI runs inside your institution's own private Google Cloud account, and Syntasa and Google never see or use your data.
Access controls are enforced as soon as data is ingested, and every student and donor record has a full audit trail.
Talk with people who know higher education.
Bring your constraint and a question you want answered. We will bring the closest pattern and the engineers who built it.