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Element Success Team

AI team supporting student retention and achievement with agents for academic monitoring, engagement tracking & personalized support.

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Written by Michael Stephenson
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Overview

Your Element Success AI team supports student retention and achievement throughout the college journey, proactively monitoring academic progress, promoting campus engagement, and connecting students with resources before issues become crises. Whether your campus has traditional academic advising, integrated student success centers, or distributed support across departments, these agents adapt to work alongside your existing staff and processes. They work 24/7 to ensure no student falls through the cracks while your staff focus on complex interventions and relationship building.

Your team includes student-facing agents for academic advising, campus life, peer support, career counseling, financial aid, and athletics, plus staff agents for appointment preparation.

Now, let's meet the team!


Meet Your Success AI Team

Your Success AI team is comprised of specialized Bolt Agents for Students that directly engage with students and Bolt Agents for Staff that work behind the scenes to enhance your team's effectiveness.

Bolt Agents for Students

These agents engage directly with students in the following ways:

  1. Proactive + Autonomous (via Bolt Agent Jobs): Takes initiative, reaching out strategically to students with a clear goal (e.g., completing a form, registering for an event), then working the list until the goal is met or the deadline passes.

  2. Reactive + On-Demand (via Conversations): Responds in real time to questions from students and families across all conversation channels (chat, SMS, email, phone, WhatsApp).

🤖 Academic Advisor Agent

Keeping Students on Track from Enrollment to Graduation

The Challenge: Academic advisors manage hundreds of students, making it impossible to monitor everyone's progress continuously or catch problems before they become crises.

How the Agent Helps: This agent continuously monitors academic performance, course enrollment, and engagement patterns, providing proactive support and connecting students with resources before they fall behind.

  • Proactive Work: Examples include targeting students who haven't registered for next term, identifying those missing classes or assignments, promoting tutoring for struggling students, and reminding about major declaration deadlines.

  • Reactive Work: Examples include answering degree requirement questions, providing course planning guidance, and connecting students with academic resources.

Complements Your Staff: Takes the pressure off communications and recruitment staff by handling high-volume, early-stage outreach and follow-up, freeing your team to cultivate the strongest leads. When a prospect engages, your staff can step in to take the relationship deeper.

🤖 Campus Life Advisor Agent

Building Belonging Through Intentional Engagement

The Challenge: Creating genuine campus community requires identifying disconnected students and personally connecting them with relevant opportunities—a time-intensive process.

How the Agent Helps: This agent monitors engagement patterns, identifies students who aren't connecting with campus life, and proactively promotes relevant events, organizations, and opportunities.

  • Proactive Work: Examples include targeting under-engaged students with event invitations, promoting housing community building, encouraging participation in campus traditions, and guiding new students through involvement opportunities.

  • Reactive Work: Examples include answering questions about clubs and activities, providing event information, and helping with housing processes.

Complements Your Staff: Monitors engagement patterns and identifies students who aren't connecting with campus life, then proactively promotes relevant opportunities. Your staff can focus on meaningful relationship building and complex guidance while the agent handles broad outreach and initial connections.

🤖 Peer Advisor Agent

Friendly, Relatable Support That Feels Like a Fellow Student

The Challenge: Students often need encouragement and practical advice from someone who feels like a peer, but peer advisors can't be available 24/7 for every student.

How the Agent Helps: This agent provides warm, relatable guidance and celebrates achievements with a friendly, student-like tone that makes support feel accessible and non-intimidating.

  • Proactive Work: Examples include welcoming and connecting new students, celebrating milestones and achievements, encouraging participation in student activities, and providing wellness check-ins during stressful periods.

  • Reactive Work: Examples include offering study tips and practical advice, connecting students with peer mentorship opportunities, and providing friendly encouragement.

Complements Your Staff: Provides the accessible, friendly support that students need without overwhelming your peer advisor program or requiring 24/7 staffing. Your human peer advisors and staff can focus on deeper mentorship relationships, crisis support, and complex guidance while the agent handles routine encouragement, celebrates everyday wins, and makes support feel approachable for students who might hesitate to reach out.

🤖 Career Counselor Agent

Connecting Academic Experience to Professional Success

The Challenge: Students often don't see the connection between their studies and career outcomes, and career services can't reach every student individually.

How the Agent Helps: This agent helps students understand how their academic programs align with career paths and promotes relevant professional development opportunities throughout their academic journey.

  • Proactive Work: Examples include targeting students by major with relevant career information, promoting internship and job opportunities, encouraging career event attendance, and guiding career planning milestones.

  • Reactive Work: Examples include explaining career paths for different majors, providing job search resources, and connecting students with alumni networks.

Complements Your Staff: Helps students understand how their academic programs align with career paths and promotes relevant professional development opportunities. Career counselors can focus on specialized one-on-one coaching and strategic career planning while the agent handles initial exploration and broad promotion.

🤖 Financial Aid Advisor Agent

Ongoing Financial Support Throughout the Student Journey

The Challenge: Financial challenges don't end after initial enrollment—students need ongoing support with aid renewals, emergency funding, and budget planning.

How the Agent Helps: This agent continues supporting students with financial aid processes, identifies new opportunities, and helps navigate financial challenges that arise during college.

  • Proactive Work: Examples include guiding continuing financial aid processes, surfacing new scholarship opportunities, supporting students facing financial emergencies, and ensuring aid eligibility maintenance.

  • Reactive Work: Examples include explaining ongoing aid requirements, providing emergency funding information, and helping with budget planning.

Complements Your Staff: Handles the ongoing financial aid questions and routine processes that can consume significant staff time, while identifying students who need immediate attention. Your financial aid counselors can focus on complex cases, emergency interventions, and personalized financial planning while the agent manages renewals, promotes opportunities, and ensures no student falls through the cracks due to missed deadlines or lack of awareness.

🤖 Athletics Counselor Agent

Supporting Student-Athletes Through Academic and Athletic Success

The Challenge: Student-athletes face unique pressures balancing academics with athletic commitments, often needing specialized support during travel and competition seasons.

How the Agent Helps: This agent provides ongoing support tailored to the student-athlete experience, ensuring they maintain academic progress while pursuing athletic excellence. They can:

  • Proactive Work: Examples include monitoring academic progress during competitive seasons, providing study resources during travel, reminding about eligibility requirements, and supporting career transition planning.

  • Reactive Work: Examples include connecting with academic support services, providing schedule management tips, and offering stress management resources.

Complements Your Staff: Provides ongoing support tailored to the student-athlete experience, ensuring they maintain academic progress while pursuing athletic excellence. Your athletics staff can focus on performance coaching and complex academic issues while the agent handles routine monitoring and support.

Bolt Agents for Staff

These agents work behind the scenes to support your student success operations. They don’t communicate with students directly. Instead, they assist your team by handling time-consuming backend tasks to reduce administrative burden.

🤖 Appointment Prep Agent

The Challenge: Staff often enter advising appointments without complete context about the student's academic progress, engagement history, and current challenges.

How the Agent Helps: This agent provides comprehensive briefings on students before appointments, enabling more targeted and productive conversations.

  • Compile academic progress summaries.

  • Highlight engagement patterns and concerns.

  • Summarize recent interactions across departments.

  • Flag important milestones or deadlines.

  • Suggest conversation topics based on student needs.


Cross-Departmental Impact

Your Success AI team integrates seamlessly with existing campus departments, amplifying their impact through proactive outreach and continuous monitoring. Below are key areas where your AI agents might work alongside your staff to support student success.

Academic Affairs + Advising

  • Key Agents: Academic Advisor Agent

  • How the Agents Could Help:

    • Re-engage students who haven't registered for next term: Target enrolled students with no course registration and guide them through the registration process.

    • Support students on academic probation: Reach out to probationary students with resources and encouragement to improve performance.

    • Promote tutoring for struggling students: Identify students with low grades in specific courses and connect them with subject-specific tutoring.

    • Encourage attendance for chronically absent students: Target students missing classes regularly with supportive check-ins and resource connections.

    • Guide major declaration for undeclared students: Reach out to students approaching major declaration deadlines with information and scheduling support.

Campus Life + Engagement

  • Key Agents: Campus Life Advisor Agent, Peer Advisor Agent

  • How the Agents Could Help:

    • Welcome transfer students and promote involvement: Target new transfer students with campus activity invitations and involvement opportunities.

    • Re-engage students showing declining participation: Identify students who've stopped attending events and encourage renewed involvement.

    • Promote residence hall community building: Target residential students with floor activities and community-building opportunities.

    • Encourage first-year student involvement: Guide new students toward clubs, organizations, and activities that match their interests.

    • Support students during high-stress periods: Reach out during finals and midterms with wellness resources and encouragement.

Career Services

  • Key Agents: Career Counselor Agent

  • Example Jobs:

    • Promote career services to upperclassmen: Target juniors and seniors who haven't engaged with career planning resources.

    • Encourage internship applications: Reach out to eligible students with relevant internship opportunities and application guidance.

    • Drive career fair attendance: Promote career fairs to students based on their major and career interests.

    • Connect students with alumni mentors: Facilitate introductions between students and alumni in their field of interest.

    • Support job search activities for graduating students: Guide seniors through job search resources and application strategies.

Athletics + Student-Athlete Support

  • Key Agents: Athletics Counselor Agent

  • Example Jobs:

    • Monitor academic progress during competitive seasons: Check in with student-athletes about academic performance during travel-heavy periods.

    • Promote academic resources for athletes: Connect student-athletes with tutoring and study resources that accommodate their schedules.

    • Support time management during peak athletic periods: Provide guidance and resources for balancing academics and athletics during championships.

    • Encourage career exploration for graduating athletes: Help student-athletes explore post-graduation career options beyond professional sports.

Financial Aid + Student Financial Services

  • Key Agents: Financial Aid Advisor Agent

  • Example Jobs:

    • Guide FAFSA renewal processes: Remind students about aid renewal deadlines and guide them through completion.

    • Connect students with emergency financial resources: Identify students facing financial hardships and connect them with emergency aid options.

    • Promote scholarship opportunities: Target eligible students with relevant scholarship applications and deadlines.

    • Support students with payment plan questions: Guide students through tuition payment options and financial planning resources.

Counseling + Wellness Services

  • Key Agents: Campus Life Advisor Agent, Peer Advisor Agent

  • Example Jobs:

    • Conduct wellness check-ins during stressful periods: Reach out to students during finals, midterms, and other high-stress times.

    • Promote counseling and wellness resources: Connect students showing signs of distress with appropriate support services.

    • Encourage participation in wellness programming: Promote stress management workshops, mindfulness sessions, and wellness activities.

    • Support students returning from leaves of absence: Welcome back students and connect them with reintegration resources.

Student Success Offices

  • Key Agent: Appointment Prep Agent

  • How This Agent Could Support Staff:

    • Provide comprehensive briefings on students before appointments, enabling more targeted and productive conversations

    • Enable staff to enter appointments fully prepared, rather than spending time gathering basic information


Success Stories in Action

See how the Element Success AI team is making a difference on campuses today:

Early Academic Intervention

Your academic success team creates a Bolt Job targeting first-year students who haven't accessed the LMS in over a week. They assign the Academic Advisor Agent to provide information about support resources and schedule appointments. The agent sends caring check-in messages, offers tutoring and study resources, and schedules meetings with human advisors, ensuring early intervention before students fall further behind.

Building Campus Community

Your student life team sets up a job for transfer students who haven't attended any campus events in their first month. They assign the Campus Life Advisor Agent to promote events and provide information about involvement opportunities. The agent sends personalized invitations to clubs matching their interests, promotes transfer student meet-ups, and connects them with peer mentors who share their major.

Student-Athlete Academic Support

During basketball season, your athletics academic support team creates a job for student-athletes to ensure they stay on track academically. They assign the Athletics Counselor Agent to provide information and schedule appointments. The agent reminds athletes about upcoming deadlines, connects them with tutors who understand their schedules, and coordinates with human staff for travel-related academic accommodations.

Career Development Engagement

Your career services team targets juniors who haven't engaged with career planning resources. They create a job assigning the Career Counselor Agent to promote career events and provide information about opportunities. The agent highlights relevant internships, invites students to engineering career fairs, and schedules informational interviews with alumni—all based on the students' majors and expressed interests.


The Bottom Line

Student success isn't just about academic achievement; it's about creating an environment where every student can thrive personally, academically, and professionally. Your Success AI team ensures that support isn't limited by office hours, staff availability, or budget constraints.

They provide the consistent, personalized attention that transforms institutional metrics while creating meaningful experiences for every student. As a result, your students don't just persist—they flourish.

Ready to revolutionize student success? Your AI workforce is standing by, waiting for you to give it a goal.

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