Cabinet answers and board figures you can trust

A single place to ask for enrollment, retention, finance, or peer-comparison figures in plain English and get the sourced answer in minutes. The cabinet moves on current, defensible data and the board sees figures it can trust.

Yes. Clema is SOC 2 Type II certified and FERPA-ready by design, with read-only credentials, SAML 2.0 SSO, and full audit logging on every answer that reaches your board or accreditors. Your CISO or general counsel can review the compliance pack under NDA before an institution-wide rollout.

Yes. Every answer includes sources and methodology, so figures are board-ready and accreditor-verifiable. You get the audit trail and the consistency that governance reviews expect.

Most institutions are live in two to four weeks, including data connections and training, whether that is a full cabinet rollout or a single division piloting first. The free plan connects a sample data source so your team can see a sourced answer before the institution-wide connection begins.

Because everyone asks against the same governed data sources instead of copying figures into separate slide decks or dashboards built at different times. When the CFO and the provost both ask for the fall retention rate, they get the same sourced figure with the same methodology and as-of date, so the cabinet walks into the board meeting aligned instead of reconciling numbers in the hallway beforehand.

Clema doesn't replace your data warehouse, SIS, or BI tool investment; it sits on top of them as a conversational layer, and it also connects directly to public federal sources like IPEDS, College Scorecard, Pell, EADA, PSEO, and Cohort Default Rate. It closes a gap a governance project alone often can't: our whitepaper research found 64.7% of institutions report self-service dashboards still get bypassed because staff and cabinet members don't know where to look or can't interpret what they find. Clema gives them a plain-English way in without building new dashboards.

That's the succession risk our continuity study describes. Clema keeps definitions, methodology, and query logic in a governed system the whole cabinet can query directly, not locked in one person's head or a personal spreadsheet. Our Institutional Intelligence Gap study found 85% of institutions depend on a single person for institutional knowledge and 55% sit in a "Large Gap" tier where that knowledge is one resignation from gone. Clema is built to move an institution out of that tier.

Access is set by your institution. Most presidents start by rolling Clema out to the cabinet and the IR/IE staff who prepare board materials, then decide whether to extend read access to trustees for pre-meeting questions. Every answer carries its source and methodology regardless of who asks, so if you do extend access to the board, the figures a trustee pulls independently will match what the cabinet presents.

Every answer is sourced and shows its methodology, and for institutional data it draws from your connected systems of record rather than a cached copy. For the two machine-learning models we publish accuracy on: our term-to-term retention model was evaluated on 276,519 unseen student-term records at roughly 86.6% accuracy and 91 to 92% recall, and our graduation-within-150%-time model was evaluated on 36,000 unseen students from a six-year institutional dataset at roughly 0.911 AUC. For factual lookups like IPEDS figures, peer comparisons, or historical trends, Clema surfaces the source rather than generating a number, so what reaches an accreditor or state board traces back to the federal or institutional dataset it came from.

No, Clema is a data-access layer, not a strategy consultant. It gives your team and your consultant faster, sourced access to the enrollment, retention, and IPEDS-based outcomes figures that a strategic enrollment plan is built on, so scenario modeling moves faster and stays grounded in current numbers instead of a data pull from months earlier.