MarkSet AI Education
Ontvera: the student information system with AI built in.
Most SIS platforms bolt a chatbot onto a decades old core. Ontvera is a new SIS being built AI native: intelligent automation designed into admissions, records, billing, and reporting, on a platform that grows through installable plugins.
In active development. Now accepting design partners.
Built on three ideas
AI built in
Document and form extraction in admissions, drafting for routine communication, missing information checks, and reporting assistance, designed into the workflows staff already run. Humans keep every decision.
A plugin platform
Features ship as installable plugins with typed extension points. Run only what you use and add capabilities without a custom fork. Integrations arrive the same way, as plugins on their own schedule.
Specialized colleges first
Designed for small private business and career focused colleges: lean teams, international enrollment, and state reporting obligations that mainstream SIS products treat as afterthoughts.
A different kind of SIS
| Dimension | Typical legacy SIS | The Ontvera approach |
|---|---|---|
| Where AI lives | A chatbot bolted onto a decades old core | Designed into admissions, records, and reporting workflows from day one |
| How features ship | Monolithic releases and vendor change requests | Installable plugins your school turns on when needed |
| Extending the system | Custom forks that rot, or a vendor backlog | A plugin platform with typed extension points |
| International students | Spreadsheets maintained around the SIS | SEVIS, I-20, and CPT workflows as core scope |
| Compliance reporting | Opaque formulas nobody can audit | Versioned, inspectable report definitions |
| Your data | Locked in vendor formats | Full, readable exports, always yours |
Ontvera is in active development and is being built with design partners. Features and scope are subject to change.
Designed from legacy SIS autopsies
Ontvera's specifications began with a deep study of how aging SIS platforms fail in practice: fragmented logins, data that drifts between duplicate fields, reports nobody can reconcile, and access control that depends on obscurity.
The product is engineered to make those failures impossible: server side authorization on every operation, versioned report formulas with defensible numbers, and audited exports of anything sensitive.
- AI assistance with human review checkpoints in every workflow that drafts, extracts, or checks
- Your policies as versioned configuration with change impact diffs
- International student workflows as core scope: SEVIS, I-20, and CPT documents are first class requirements
- Compliance reporting with versioned, inspectable formulas, built for state bureau oversight
- Integrations designed to fail loudly: idempotent external writes, visible partial failures, scheduled reconciliation
Who Ontvera is for
Small specialized colleges
Private business, career focused, and specialized colleges with roughly 200 to 3,000 students and lean administrative teams.
International enrollment
Schools managing SEVIS records, I-20 issuance, CPT applications, and financial affidavits that mainstream small school SIS products ignore.
State regulated schools
Institutions under state bureau oversight with performance, completion, and tuition recovery reporting obligations.
Ontvera questions, answered
What is Ontvera?
Ontvera is an AI native student information system in development by MarkSet AI Education. It covers admissions, enrollment, registration, grades, billing, documents, and reporting for small and specialized colleges, with intelligent automation designed in from the start and a plugin platform for extending it.
Is Ontvera available today?
Ontvera is in active development and not yet running schools in production. It is being built with design partners who shape the product against their real workflows and constraints.
What does AI native mean in Ontvera?
AI assistance is part of the workflows themselves: document and form extraction in admissions, drafting for routine communication, missing information checks in records, and preparation help for compliance reporting. Staff review and approve everything AI produces.
What is the plugin platform?
Ontvera features are designed to ship as installable plugins with typed extension points. A school runs only what it uses and adds capabilities without maintaining a custom fork. Integrations are planned as plugins too, so connecting new tools does not mean waiting on a monolithic release.
Who is Ontvera for?
Small private, specialized, and career focused colleges and universities, roughly 200 to 3,000 students, with lean administrative teams. Schools with international enrollment get first class treatment: SEVIS, I-20, and CPT document workflows are core requirements in its design.
How do we become a design partner?
Send the contact form with your email and phone number and a note about your school and current SIS. Design partners get early access and shape what ships in version one.
Become a design partner
Design partners shape Ontvera against their real workflows and constraints, and get early access as version one comes together. Tell us about your school and your current systems, and leave your email and phone number.
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