Empower Every Learner to Achieve Their Boldest Dreams
Transforming the Support Only Educators Can Provide
A Unified, Evidence Based Approach to Student Success
Student success is more than a metric. It's a continuous commitment. Yet the teams responsible for it often have to work across fragmented systems, with enrollment, academic advising, and career services operating in parallel instead of in sync.
Pathways by Advisor.AI ® helps teams transform learner engagement from first interest to lifelong growth by building early interest, accelerating academic momentum, and boosting workforce readiness through its proprietary four-stage evidence-based framework and custom AI models.
By simplifying the work that slows teams down and elevating the work that moves students forward, educators can focus on what matters most: guiding students, removing barriers to enrollment and completion, and preparing learners for meaningful futures.
6 Key Lessons from Our Summer Webinar Series & 3 Years of Field Research
Drawing on insights from more than 200 workshops, institutional partnerships, and collaborations with thousands of higher education professionals, we share what we’ve learned about what works across advising, career services, recruitment, and implementing AI responsibly.
Transform Student Engagement From First Interest to Lifelong Growth

Engage & Guide Students Early
Connect students’ interests to clear, actionable next steps — boosting access, clarity, and enrollment momentum.
- Connect interests to majors, programs, and certificates
- Support common admissions questions at any time of the day
- Track engagement across milestones and key moments
- See emerging interests and trending programs in real time
- Guide students confidently from exploration to program choice
Plan & Support Advising Each Term
Bring clarity to every step and momentum to every journey — increasing campus engagement, persistence and completion.
- Engage students with career-connected major exploration
- Boost clarity on course options and degree requirements
- Build continuity in advising experiences with 24/7 support
- Enable proactive outreach based on interest and engagement data
- Easily track learner progress across custom cohorts and majors


Plan & Support Advising Each Term
Bring clarity to every step and momentum to every journey — increasing campus engagement, persistence and completion.
- Engage students with career-connected major exploration
- Boost clarity on course options and degree requirements
- Build continuity in advising experiences with 24/7 support
- Enable proactive outreach based on interest and engagement data
- Easily track learner progress across custom cohorts and majors

Prepare Students for Career Success
Equip students with the clarity and career credentials to translate their education into meaningful opportunities.
- Connect interests to majors, credentials, and labor market context
- Build personalized plans with meaningful milestones and next steps
- Surface relevant experiential learning opportunities at the right time
- Help teams identify career readiness gaps across cohorts and groups
- Elevate career services engagement with intentional experiences
Drive Measurable Impact With Our 4-Stage Evidence-Based Framework
Boost student confidence by 2X with adaptive exploration
Use real-time student insights to adjust programming & outreach
Free up 100+ hours monthly across routine advising inquiries
Increase persistence and graduation rates with personalized, guided pathways
Boost undergraduate and graduate enrollments by 5–8% with program matching
Elevate every student experience with personalized, connected outreach
Build a sustainable advantage with integrated support & continuous insights
Empower & Engage Students With Personalized Career & Major Exploration
Students discover programs that align with their interests, strengths, and goals. Personalized guidance transforms uncertainty into confidence.
- Research-Based, Adaptive Assessment: Dynamic assessments help students explore thousands of course and career options efficiently.
- Institutional Program Matching: Receive personalized major and program recommendations based on each institution’s unique offerings.
- Integrated Labor Market Data: Insights are informed by thousands of labor market data points and continuous testing to ensure relevance.

I haven’t selected a major yet, so I feel lost when it comes to picking a program. Advisor AI helped me explore my options confidently. The system was very simple and easy to use.
Trusted by thousands of students and advising professionals, with a 98% annual satisfaction rating.
The platform helped me explore multiple interests at once. I’m passionate about both business and science, and for the first time, I could see what careers look like when those fields intersect. It gave me a clear picture of the options ahead.

Boost Access & Momentum With Centralized, Always-Accessible Support Services
- Enrollment & Dual Credit Assistance: Handles repetitive questions for dual credit programs, admission inquiries, and common questions.
- Degree Planning Assistance: Students get instant clarity on course options, degree requirements, credit policies, and registration steps.
- Campus Resource Assistance: Handles repetitive advising and resource inquiries, freeing advisors to focus on high-value interactions.
- Career Readiness Assistance: Help students to easily discover best-fit jobs, relevant industry skills, and connect with institutional resources.
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Smart Prompts: Guide students toward deeper exploration, timely follow up questions, and meaningful next steps with advisors.
Increase Completion & Employability Outcomes With Personalized, Milestone-Driven Pathways
- Automated Plan Generation: Transform interests into structured, multi-year plans aligned to courses, experiences, and milestones in minutes.
- Customizable Milestones: Students can visualize progress with a clear roadmap, track progress, and set new academic or career goals.
- Integrated Career, Course & Resource Planning: Walk students through each step to create customized pathways — whether in Arts, Business, Technology, Sciences, and more (based on institutional best practices).
- One-Click Plan Sharing: Students can easily share plans and goals with teams in one click and seek timely feedback on next steps.

As institutions explore AI, the question isn’t whether to adopt technology — it’s how to do so responsibly, transparently, and in service of students. In Advisor AI, we saw a powerful tool that prioritizes human judgment, ethical design, and institutional trust.
I shared the demo with one of our campus partners, and I thought I was going to have to reach across the table and pick his jaw back up, because he was just amazed by it. It was one of those things where he was just like, I didn’t know it could be this specific, and this specialized, and not just another customer service chatbot.
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Elevate Every Advising Experience With Modern Cohort Management & Unified Data Tracking
- Custom Cohort Management: Automatically maintains a unified view of every student interaction, across custom cohorts and majors.
- Unified Data Tracking: All academic and career progress data sits in one place, enabling advisors to build more meaningful connections.
- Team Collaboration Workflows: Easily create custom groups, manage cohorts, track milestones, draft emails, and exchange in depth notes.
There are so many great features of Advisor AI. Students can get answers instantly from the interactive advising assistant, saving time for them and the advisors. It's intuitive, fun, and easy to use for students and requires little training for advisors.
Advisor AI has significantly transformed the experience for both advisors and students. Its intuitive design and comprehensive features facilitate effortless tracking of student progress, leading to more efficient and meaningful interactions. This, in turn, enhances the advisor-student relationship.
Optimize Enrollment, Completion & Workforce Readiness With Student Engagement Insights
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Cohort & Leadership Reports: Provide leaders with a clear view of student momentum and engagement across the student lifecycle.
- Actionable Insights: With unified analytics on engagement tasks, milestone completion, and student interests, teams can refine academic support, guide career programming, and identify key trends over time.
- Automated Feedback Tracking: Track interests, student feedback, and key actions in a single dashboard, without extensive outreach efforts.

Unifying Campus Infrastructure to Strengthen Student Success
Disconnected campus systems create persistent barriers across enrollment, advising, and career services, limiting student success. Learn more about how our field-tested platform unifies institutional data into a single AI-enabled advising infrastructure.
Learn more about our growing impact worldwide, as featured in leading education and technology publications, magazines, and podcasts.

Build Trust & Accountability Across Campus Workflows With Ethical & Responsible AI
- Human-in-the-Loop: Timely nudges help students connect with advisors for personalized support, human-centered system design.
- Comprehensive Guardrails: Extensive testing and safeguards in place reduce bias, mitigate operational risk, and build trust over time.
- Transparency: Answers cite their sources (where applicable), so students and advising teams understand what information to trust.
- Data isolation: Each application operates within its own secure environment, with separation between AI models, data, and access.
Ask NACE offers an example of what responsible implementation can look like when the work begins with trusted resources, real practitioner needs, and a clear respect for human judgment. Serving more than 15,000 career services and workforce professionals across 2,000+ institutions, it makes it easier for teams to find research across a variety of resources, research, and frameworks and act on insights.
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Supporting thousands of students and advising professionals each day, with a 98% annual satisfaction rating | Trusted by leading higher education experts and the largest enterprises
This was a wonderful program to use with my two College Freshmen classes in guiding them with a tool for early course selections and choice of major. It was 'user friendly' in its initial set up and students were able to be guided into course selection, areas of concentration and potential majors; and were given the opportunity at the end to discuss live with an advisor.
In an era of rapidly evolving education and AI led role transformation, Pathways by Advisor AI simplifies the complex advising work and allows for a re-purposing of staff time to focus more on proven research behaviors like mentoring and goal-setting activities.
Advisor.AI seems to cover a wide spectrum of student needs, from career assessments to personalized insights. It's excellent that they're leveraging both expert human resources and technology to enhance student engagement and success.
NACE has long maintained a robust library of valuable insights and critical data, but accessing that information in an intuitive and seamless way has been a challenge. Our partnership with Advisor AI will enable us to better serve the needs and curiosity of those who rely on our resources. We’re excited for this collaboration to help our extensive knowledge reach more people — and to do so in ways that truly meet their expectations.
Introducing structured, personalized career pathways earlier in recruitment creates immediate alignment between what students care about and what your institution offers. It builds trust, confidence, and deeper engagement from day one.
The assessment was easy to use and a really engaging experience. I never realized finance could be the right path for me! It gave me confidence about what I could pursue next.
What has excited me most about Artificial Intelligence is the promise and possibility that it has to free up time for advisors to focus their time and attention on building relationships rather than completing low impact tasks.
It's this continuous cycle of experimentation versus waiting 12 months to see results. Teams can do outreach within the first few weeks and start iterating within 3 months. If you embed this into an advising appointment, you can see where students are getting stuck within days and then ask: do we have a workshop on that? That's powerful.
Before Advisor AI, I found it tough to keep track of my coursework. I wasn’t always comfortable asking for help in person, but Advisor AI gave me the flexibility to explore my options independently and get real-time recommendations that fit my goals.
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