LIVEAPPLICATION
Application Intake & Verification
Automates first-line document intake and validation so admissions teams can focus on exceptions, judgment, and applicant engagement.
Cost-to-Serve
Forward-deployed agents
Talisma Products
Explore the agents aligned to each stage of the academic journey.
Forward-Deployed Agents embedded across every stage of the student lifecycle
Admissions
Academics
Careers
Application Verification
Transcript check
Document collection
Admit decision
Credit transfer
Acad advising
Financial aid Counselling
Registration Support
Retention outreach
General inquiries
App support
Communications
Career services
Employer matching
Alumni analytic
Licensure report
Owners
Dean – Recruitment · Dean – Admissions · CIO
LIVEAPPLICATION
Transcript Verification
Accelerates academic-record review by extracting transcript data, applying consistent checks, and routing exceptions to authorized staff.
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LIVEAPPLICATION
Document Collection & Follow-Up
Keeps applications moving by tracking required documents, personalizing reminders, and escalating unresolved items.
Cost-to-Serve
LIVEAPPLICATION
Admissions Decision & Communication
Improves decision readiness and delivers timely, approved applicant communications while preserving institutional authority.
Cost-to-Serve
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Cost-to-Serve
The fully-loaded operating cost per student across enrollment, advising and IT — broken into the process steps agents can take on, function by function.
Blended Cost-to-Serve
$3,750 / student / yr
AI-addressable (base case)
52.3% · $1,960 / student / yr
National operating pool
$75B (20M students)
Institution savings calculator
Set your institution's profile to estimate the Cost-to-Serve and Cost-to-Retain opportunity.
Get a Sense of the Savings for Your Institution
The figures above are U.S. sector averages. Select your institution profile below and Talisma will scale the same Cost-to-Serve and Cost-to-Retain (DFW) model.
Graduation rate
25% – 50%
Total enrolled students
500 – 2,000
Drop-off (DFW) rate
10% – 20%
Admissions automatable
$553K/yr
Academics automatable
$1.41M/yr
Careers automatable
$94K/yr
Revenue at risk from drop-off
$2.44M/yr
Recoverable with retention roadmap
$1.14M/yr
Graduation rate 25–50% — pair retention agents in Academics with admissions yield agents to compound gains.
Basis: $700/student admissions operations (63.2% automatable) · $2,500/student student services (45% automatable) · $300/student career services (25% automatable) · 10 courses/student/year at $1,300/course · retention roadmap recovers up to 7 percentage points of drop-off. Illustrative, not a guarantee.