GURU – AI Student Concierge for Higher Education
A 24/7 Conversational Front Door for Students
Give students one place to ask questions, understand what needs attention, and take action across money, classes, support, career, and degree planning.
GURU works with the campus systems you already use, including PeopleSoft and Ellucian Banner, to create a more proactive and connected student experience.
Move From Fragmented Systems to Connected Support
Students should not need to know which system, portal, or menu holds the answer.
Traditional student systems are built to store and process information. GURU adds a conversational layer that helps students use that information more naturally.
Less Navigation
Students ask questions instead of searching through nested menus.
Connected Information
Bring academic, financial, support, and career information together.
Fewer Missed Actions
Surface deadlines, waitlists, missing documents, and other items needing attention.
Proactive Support
Guide students toward the next step before an issue becomes a bigger problem.
One Place to Ask, Understand, and Act
GURU brings key parts of the student journey into one experience.
Unified Dashboard
Bring money, classes, support, career, and degree planning into one student view.
Natural Language Interface
Students can ask questions such as:
- “Am I still on track?”
- “Find tutoring that fits my schedule.”
- “What should I do before Friday?”
GURU responds with relevant information and the next action.
Proactive Intervention
Use student context and predictive insights to identify potential issues and provide timely nudges.
Personalized Next Steps
Give each student a more relevant “What should I do next?” experience based on their academic, financial, and support needs.
Go Beyond a Traditional Student Portal
GURU does more than display information. It uses context to help students understand what is happening and what they can do next.
Contextual Reasoning
Instead of simply showing a tuition balance, GURU can connect the balance with financial aid status and point the student toward the action needed to resolve it.
Agentic Execution
Students do not always have to leave the conversation and navigate another system. GURU can support actions and workflows directly from the experience, including class-related transactions.
Hyper-Personalization
Move beyond broad announcements with next-step guidance based on the individual student’s situation.
360-Degree Student View
Bring together academic records, LMS engagement, advisor interactions, documents, and other student information to support more relevant actions.
Help Advisors Act Earlie
GURU also supports advisors, student services teams, and campus leadership with a clearer view of student needs.
Student Support Command Center
View retention, completion, and advisor capacity across the student population.
AskData Chat & Student Success 360
Ask questions about institutional data using natural language to identify student barriers and groups that may need support.
Real-Time Interventions
Surface relevant student issues to advisors and recommend appropriate support actions.
Human-in-the-Loop Governance
Keep people involved where approval or judgment is required, supported by audit trails and FERPA-ready guardrails.
Keep Your SIS. Make It Smarter With AI.
Modernizing the student experience does not have to mean replacing PeopleSoft or Ellucian Banner.
GURU works with your existing systems and Oracle AI Data Platform to add a modern AI experience while keeping your core student data and business processes in place.
Native AI Integration
Unified Data
AI Refinement
Secure & Governed
Native AI Integration
Add AI capabilities around the systems you already use.
Unified Data
Bring structured and unstructured information into a connected data foundation.
AI Refinement
Prepare and connect data to support insights such as retention and graduation trends.
Secure & Governed
Maintain human approvals, auditability, and FERPA-ready controls.
Connect Data Across the Student Journey
GURU brings information together from across the campus ecosystem.
- SIS: PeopleSoft Campus Solutions and Ellucian Banner
- LMS: Canvas and Blackboard
- CRM: Salesforce and Slate
- Support Systems: EAB Navigate
- External Data: IPEDS and other institutional sources
This connected foundation supports a more complete student view for both students and staff.
Built for Higher Education
Astute combines higher education domain experience with deep expertise across ERP, Oracle Cloud, data, and AI.
- 20+ years in business
- 80+ cloud projects
- PeopleSoft and Ellucian Banner expertise
- Oracle AI and OCI experience
- AI use cases developed around institutional requirements
We help institutions add AI to the systems they already depend on without forcing a large, disruptive ERP replacement.
Make the Student Experience More Proactive
See how GURU can give students a 24/7 conversational experience while helping advisors and institutions act on the same connected student data.