Arcdot for Universities & Colleges · Founding Education Pilot · Cohort 1 limited to 8 institutions and scheduled around semester starts
Give students private, everyday resilience support — alongside the services you already provide.
Arcdot is a non-clinical emotional resilience and wellbeing tool for eligible students aged 18+. Students get private access to Oly, the AI emotional resilience companion, plus structured reflection and resilience-building experiences. Your institution can evaluate program adoption and usefulness through aggregate reporting — without access to students' private conversations, journals or individual emotional content.
The student experience — Oly, the AI emotional resilience companion
University life is full of small academic, social and transition pressures that may never become a counseling appointment: a difficult piece of feedback, exam pressure, a presentation, conflict with a roommate, uncertainty about the future or simply a mind that will not switch off. Arcdot is designed for those everyday moments — as a private resilience layer alongside the support your institution already provides.
Measure the program. Keep the student private.
Arcdot separates institutional program evidence from students' private emotional content. Your institution can understand whether students adopt and value the program without gaining access to what an individual student writes, says or feels.
What your institution can see
- Program activation
- Aggregate engagement
- Aggregate retention
- Aggregate usefulness feedback
- Program participation / reach
- Pilot progress and outcomes
What your institution does not receive
- Oly conversation content
- Journal entries
- Individual mood entries
- Private reflections
- Individual emotional histories
- Student-level emotional profiles
Arcdot is not a student-monitoring tool.
Institutional reporting is designed around program-level evidence, not access to private emotional content.
A structured pilot. Limited lift for your team.
Align
Agree the eligible student cohort, launch approach, internal champion and success criteria.
Launch
Our team will provide launch materials and support the student communication plan.
Learn
Track aggregate activation, engagement, retention and usefulness during the pilot.
Decide
Review the evidence at the end of the pilot and decide whether to stop or continue.
Complement existing services. Add a low-friction support layer.
Student-facing layer
A private, everyday resilience companion for the many small moments that may never become a formal appointment.
Programme evidence
See aggregate activation, weekly engagement, retention and usefulness — without accessing individual student content.
Measure before you scale
Agree what success looks like and test it during a bounded pilot with an explicit decision point.
A decision at the end
Receive a final review covering adoption, feedback and a recommendation on whether scaling makes sense.
A private companion for real campus moments.
Students get private access to Oly, guided exercises, journaling and AI conversations that fit inside a real student day — for the moments that may never become a counseling appointment.
Oly
A private place to pause, reflect and work through everyday academic, social and transition pressure when the moment happens.
Reflect
Check-ins, journaling and guided reflection help students notice recurring patterns over time.
Build resilience
Growth Arcs, short exercises, goals and challenges help students build emotional-resilience habits through small, repeatable actions.
Where students may use it.
Arcdot is designed for the everyday moments that may never become a formal appointment.
Exam pressure
A mind that will not settle before or during exams.
After difficult feedback
Processing academic feedback without spiralling.
Before a presentation
Steadying yourself before you present.
Transitions
Arriving at university, moving between stages or leaving.
Friendships & roommates
Working through social friction or conflict.
Career uncertainty
Making sense of what comes next without panic.
Decide with evidence, not impressions.
The pilot is designed to answer a practical question: do eligible students adopt Arcdot, keep using it and find it useful enough for the institution to justify continuing?
| Measure | Question answered | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Did eligible students actually start? | Initial relevance and launch effectiveness. |
| Weekly engagement | Do students keep returning? | Whether use becomes real behaviour rather than a one-off. |
| Early retention | Does use persist beyond initial curiosity? | Repeat-value signal. |
| Student usefulness | Do students report that the experience was useful? | Perceived value. |
| Participation / reach | How much of the intended cohort engages? | Breadth of adoption. |
| Qualitative feedback | What created value or friction? | What to improve before scaling. |
Activation
71%
eligible students started
Weekly Engagement
58%
returning weekly
Early Retention
66%
past week 2
Usefulness Score
4.3/5
avg student rating
Pilot progress
Reporting boundary
Aggregate program metrics only
Illustrative sample metrics for demonstration — not actual pilot results
An example of what your institution sees.
Founding Education Pilot
A bounded pilot to find out whether Arcdot works for your students.
What the Founding Education Pilot includes:
- Private access to Arcdot and Oly for an agreed cohort of eligible students aged 18+
- Institutional setup and launch planning
- Student-facing launch materials and communication templates
- Aggregate program reporting on adoption, engagement, retention and usefulness
- Mid-pilot review with the Arcdot team
- Voluntary student usefulness / experience feedback
- Final pilot outcomes review and recommendation on whether scaling makes sense
- Clear safety, privacy and non-clinical boundaries throughout the pilot
Bounded, fixed-fee pilot.
Founding Education Pilots are paid, fixed-fee 3-month (12-week) engagements starting from $5,000. The fee covers an agreed student cohort, launch support, aggregate program reporting, a mid-pilot review and the final pilot review. If your institution continues after the pilot, 50% of the pilot fee may be credited toward the first-year program.
A meaningful pilot needs participation on both sides.
We ask Founding Institutions to:
- 1Nominate one internal pilot champion.
- 2Support a genuine student launch using the communication kit.
- 3Attend a short setup session, midpoint review and final review.
- 4Encourage voluntary student feedback without pressuring individual participation.
- 5If Arcdot wants to use anonymised aggregate findings externally, provide separate written consent for that use.
Wellbeing technology needs boundaries.
Non-clinical by design
Arcdot supports everyday emotional resilience and wellbeing. It does not diagnose or treat mental health conditions.
Built-in safety pathways
Arcdot includes safety boundaries and escalation pathways when conversations move beyond its appropriate role.
Professional help remains professional help
Oly does not replace counselors, student health services, emergency services or qualified care.
Privacy-first institutional layer
The institution receives program-level information, not a student's private emotional content.
Built for everyone who needs to say yes.
Student Affairs
Private student use, launch support and adoption evidence without individual emotional reporting.
Counseling / Wellbeing
A clearly non-clinical layer that complements existing services and responsibly routes beyond its role.
Leadership / Finance
A bounded pilot with clear safety boundaries and a decision point before committing further.
Privacy / IT
Program-level reporting only. Student conversations, journals and individual emotional content remain private.
Frequently Asked Questions
Cohort 1 · 8 places · scheduled around semester starts
Reserve your institution's place in Cohort 1.
Cohort 1 is limited to 8 institutions and scheduled around semester starts. Joining the waitlist does not commit you to the pilot. When you join, we'll send the Education Pilot Briefing Pack to your work email to help you brief your team.