AUSTIN, Texas, July 16, 2026 (Globe Newswire) — SchooLinks, the leading college and career readiness (CCR) platform serving thousands of districts and schools and millions of students across the country, today announced the launch of Intelligence Studio: Sage, Ergo, and Atlas. The three new services aim to address real capacity gaps between sectors that SchooLinks currently serves.
Sage supports a new level of rigor for advising workflows. Ergo is designed to completely eliminate repetitive tasks for staff members. Atlas provides cross-domain intelligence and data analysis capabilities.
“School districts across America are implementing college and career readiness programs with fewer counselors and CTE staff, tighter budgets, and changing accountability standards,” said Katie Fang, Founder and CEO of SchooLinks. “We’re building these AI services to give every counselor, every CTE coordinator, every data team the ability to do things they already know they should do but don’t know how to do.”
Infrastructure benefits
SchooLinks agents are different because SchooLinks is the data and workflow infrastructure that school districts use to run college and career readiness programs. The platform houses decades of structured data, including student assessments, four-year plans, readiness metrics, CTE pathway progress, WBL placement records, employer networks, and Perkins compliance data. There is no need to provide context to the agent. they already have it. Staff can trust that agents have the right information to provide more accurate and accurate answers and ensure workflows are executed.
Understand what we offer
Sage — support advice
Sage ensures that advisory activities are completed promptly and rigorously. Building true connections with students requires mechanical preparation. This can be efficiently handled and assisted by properly trained agents. Sage handles time-consuming and automatable tasks such as drafting letters of recommendation based on student profiles and brag sheets, summarizing student insights before conferences, surfacing gaps in college lists, coaching towards SMART goal milestones, and prioritizing caseloads by urgency and deadlines. Sage allows advising staff to be present during all prepared student interactions, ensuring each advising conversation is targeted and meaningful.
Ergo — task automation and compliance
Ergo automates operational burdens within and across departments. Examples include matching students to work-based learning placements, prefilling forms in bulk, monitoring the progress of CTE completers, parsing and validating evidence of industry certification, tracking employer engagement, and flagging compliance gaps before reporting deadlines. The result is a significant reduction in administrative effort, reducing weeks of manual work to minutes of review and approval, with staff input required only when a human review is warranted.
Atlas — Data analysis, program tuning, and custom reporting
Atlas gives district, department, and school leaders complete control over their data with no wait time or technical skills. Features include generating reports for the board, performing data analysis, creating state-required accountability reports, and enabling automatic configuration of academic and post-secondary planning experiences in SchooLinks. The main focus of these tools is to promote standards of accountability, a focus for graduate regional strategies, and coordination between staff and student activities. Atlas supports both conversational data analysis and deterministic processing and visualization persistence. Leaders can generate, validate, and share dashboards that can be viewed by other staff members within viewer student access without the risk of drifting away from model entropy.
Human-first design and AI safety
“In our work with AI over the past several years, we have recognized that the key challenge to realizing the value and impact of AI in college and career readiness and broader schools is one of human understanding and confidence,” said CTO Michael Discenza. “One of the key goals of our work with Intelligence Studio was to take AI out of the black box and into the interaction surface, giving users the confidence and visibility to work more securely. In an era where the capabilities of the underlying models are rapidly evolving, our strategic focus and advantage is to make this capability discoverable and accessible when you need it.”
SchooLinks’ AI is built to help you manage your staff while protecting student data. Workflows designed to prioritize usability include review and approval by staff before agent output is saved, sent, or applied.
AI processing is performed within SchooLinks’ existing infrastructure. Student data is never used to train the underlying AI model. The agent works within SchooLinks’ existing deterministic role-based access controls, ensuring users only see the information they are authorized to access.
For the future
Intelligence Studio is currently available in the SchooLinks district. School districts can enable the use of AI in administrator settings. There’s no need to log into another tool, learn new workflows, or require additional training.
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