Blue network visualization with connected nodes and highlighted yellow and blue points, illustrating Yellowdig Insights understanding activity across a learning community.
AI Insights
Other systems measure activity. Yellowdig Insights understands community.
Ask your communities a question in plain language and get an answer with the methodology behind it. Set the question to keep running, and Insights will tell the right person when the answer changes. All of it grounded in what your students actually say to each other.
Ask anything.
Then let Insights keep asking.
Most analytics tools now let you ask a question in plain language. Insights does that, and then goes a step further. It’ll keep asking on your behalf, week after week, and tell the right person when the answer changes.
The AI Assistant
Ask in your own words. You get an answer, the methodology behind it, and the option to save it as a report you can share or come back to.
No query language, no ticket to institutional research, no waiting until someone has time to pull it.
Every answer traces back to the posts it came from, so you can read the conversation behind the number instead of taking it on faith.
Animation showing the Insights AI Assistant workflow. It begins with a prompt field that says “Ask AI assistant anything,” then shows the user asking, “What are my first-gen students worried about right now?” The assistant analyzes the organization, reads posts, comments, and replies, and returns, “First-gen students are worried most about workload and stress right now. Here’s the breakdown.” A chart labeled “Student Concern Themes (Past month)” lists Workload & Stress, Major/Program Fit, Family Issues, and “+3 more” with horizontal bars.
Agentic Workflows
Describe the question you want answered on an ongoing basis, and Insights builds a workflow that runs on its own. A workflow isn’t a keyword filter. It weighs several factors, reads history and context, and forms a judgment about what it finds before deciding whether anything needs a person’s attention.
Step 01
Describe it
Tell the AI Assistant which question matters to you. It builds the workflow with you, in plain language.
Step 02
It runs on its own
Your question runs against the community on a schedule, so nobody has to remember to pull a report.
Step 03
It weighs context
When the answer changes, it reads history and corroborating signals before deciding the change matters.
Step 04
A person decides
It routes to the right advisor, faculty member, or administrator with its reasoning attached. The human takes it from there.
Advisors use workflows to catch disengagement early. Faculty use them to notice what they’d otherwise miss in a large community. Every workflow can be viewed, edited, paused, or switched off, and we log every action it takes, with the reasoning behind it.
The question you ask
depends on your job
Insights isn’t one dashboard for one office. It answers your questions for your particular seat. One platform serves leadership, student success, enrollment, and faculty.
Academic leadership
How engaged are my students, across every program?
What are my students most worried about right now?
What’s the hot topic this month?
Are my students building durable skills for an AI-first world?
Student success
Which students should I reach out to first?
Which advisors’ students are most engaged?
What should we change to support students better?
Are the students we reached out to re-engaging?
Enrollment leadership
Do the students we enrolled feel like they belong here?
Who needs a conversation this week?
Which cohorts are connecting, and which aren’t?
How can we create more connection before classes start?
Faculty
Which topics are landing, and which are falling flat?
Where could I improve my course?
Who has gone quiet, and when did it start?
Who is isolated from the community?
Belonging. Durable skills. Retention.
All from one source.
Belonging
The Institutional Belonging Index and Meaningful Engagement Score read peer interaction, conversation depth, and cross-group connection as 0 to 100 scores you can track across programs and terms. Both measures draw from published research on belonging and persistence.
Durable skills
Communication, collaboration, and critical thinking, measured from the work students are already doing. No assessment to administer, no rubric for faculty to score, no survey to send. Drill from the program level down to the community and the individual student.
Retention and outcomes
Projected retention lift for your programs, grounded in verified results from case studies at partner institutions. No other platform in higher education backs a retention outcome with a contractual guarantee.
The strongest predictors of student success
are the hardest to see
Your systems can tell you a student’s GPA, their credit load, and the last time they logged in. None of that tells you whether they have anyone to turn to, whether they’re contributing ideas or just finishing tasks, or whether they’re building the skills employers keep saying they can’t find.
Those things happen between students, in conversation. Your Yellowdig community is the one place on campus where that conversation is already happening in a form you can learn from. It’s your data, about your students, and no other platform on your campus is sitting on anything like it.
Photo of students in a classroom conversation while an instructor stands at the front of the room.
Regular and substantive interaction,
documented as it happens
Facilitating discussion about course content is one of the qualifying forms of substantive interaction, and it’s what your Yellowdig community does natively. The record already exists, timestamped, in the words of the people who wrote it. Your community isn’t a proxy for substantive interaction. It is substantive interaction.
No two institutions approach this the same way, and we haven’t found one report that fits everyone. So we scope this work with your team, build the reporting to your requirements, and deliver it with you.
RSI documentation
Evidence of instructor and student interaction, course by course and term by term, in the format your reviewers ask for.
Accreditation and regulatory review
Data exports prepared ahead of a review instead of reconstructed during one, scoped to what your accreditor or auditor actually requires.
Your Yellowdig data,
wherever your institution needs it
Not every question needs a dashboard. For institutions running their own warehouses, dashboards, or AI tooling, your community data is available directly.
API access
Pull community, engagement, and participation data into your warehouse, your BI tools, or your student success platform.
Event-stream webhooks
We push interaction events to your systems as they happen, so downstream tools work from current data instead of last night’s export.
Early 2027
Yellowdig MCP
A secure Model Context Protocol server, so whichever AI tools your institution standardizes on can work with your Yellowdig data directly.
How we think about
student data
A tool that reads student conversation has to earn trust before it earns adoption. Here’s where we draw the lines for safety and privacy.
1
Nothing hidden gets analyzed
Insights works with the posts and comments students share in their communities, already visible to their classmates and instructors. It doesn’t read private messages, follow students around the internet, or look at anything outside Yellowdig.
2
Your data stays yours
Analysis runs inside Yellowdig’s own environment on AWS Bedrock. We don’t use your community’s content to train AI models, and we never sell it or hand it to third parties.
3
AI recommends. People decide.
Insights never takes action on a student by itself. Workflows route to a person with the reasoning attached, and your institution can audit, edit, or switch off any workflow.
4
Privacy and ethics built in
AI analysis defaults to anonymity. Individual identities are only analyzed when necessary for the task. AI features are labeled, tested, and built with guardrails for hallucination and bias.
5
Every number shows its work
Each measure carries its definition, its methodology, and the research behind it. Where there’s too little data for a score to be reliable, Insights says so instead of showing you a number you shouldn’t trust.
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We meet the standards you're held to
FERPA, SOC 2, and privacy regulations. Transparent policies and a decade of trust.
Trusted across higher education
building learning communities in higher education
institutions partnering with Yellowdig
faculty and student satisfaction
retention improvement, contractually guaranteed
Real Connections, Real Results
See it running on real community data
A walkthrough takes about thirty minutes. If you already run Yellowdig, your account manager can show you Insights on your own communities.
