A team that works for every student, every day.
Student Advocate runs a student's day, finds the money and help they qualify for, and does the legwork to get it. It belongs to the student, it speaks plainly, and it never shares anything unless they say so.
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Who it is for
Students who carry more than classes: the ones most likely to stop out for reasons that have nothing to do with ability.
What it does
Six things a good advisor, a benefits navigator and a well-organized friend would do, all at once, by app or by text.
Runs your day
Classes, shifts, child care and due dates on one line. It holds time for the work that matters and tells you the one thing to do today.
Finds money you are missing
Checks SNAP, phone and heating help, and campus emergency grants against what you told it, using the agencies' own published limits.
Finds help and does the legwork
Food, rent, power, child care, legal help: verified, current programs near you, what to bring, and a drafted message you can send.
Handles campus life
What is open to eat right now, free food today, a quiet room booked and confirmed, and when to leave for the bus with live delays.
Keeps up with your classes
Reads your syllabus and your class site, moves a date when your instructor moves it, and plans the work in the time you have.
Opens doors to work
Jobs that fit around your classes and shifts, a fair-chance path when you ask for it, and an introduction to a mentor in your field.
How it works
A small team of specialist agents behind one friendly voice, with every step a student can see.
- Tell it onceBy text or in the app: your classes, your shifts, what is hard right now. Or forward the email and it reads it.
- It plans and checksThe planner, money coach and help finder work from rules and verified sources, and a tone check makes sure every message is kind and has a next step.
- You decideAnything that would leave on your behalf waits for your yes on the exact words. Bookings are confirmed with the room system before it says they are done.
Why it works
Students stop out over a few hundred dollars, a missed form or a bus that never came. Help exists for most of it; finding it, qualifying and doing the paperwork is the barrier. The Advocate removes the barrier, and earns trust by how it behaves.
Nothing leaves without you
Every message it writes for you waits for your approval of the exact words. A tap on Send is the only way anything goes out.
Rules before guesses
Eligibility, open hours and bus times are computed from published sources, not guessed by a model. When it does not know, it says so.
Your facts stay yours
Sensitive facts are sealed with your own key. You can see, export or delete everything, any time, in one step.
Kind, plain and short
It never scolds. Every message offers a next step, at the reading level and length you chose.
Crisis comes first
Words that mean someone is in danger go straight to 988 or 911 information, before anything else happens.
Checked every build
More than a thousand tests, every button walked for every student, attacks people really send, and a trace of where your data can go.
What it is worth
For students
- Money they qualify for and were not getting, found in minutes
- Time held for the work that matters, around shifts and child care
- Fewer missed deadlines and fewer surprise bills
- Help that comes to them, in their words, with no judgment
For colleges
- A support layer that reaches every student, at night and on weekends
- Outcome measures that never show a group smaller than five
- Any college added with one file; local help kept fresh automatically
- No model spend in the product; costs measured in cents
For the field
- A complete, open reference built by AI under fixtures
- Every block reusable, every test public, every decision recorded
- Proof that zero-trust AI development produces software people can trust
Try it as one of twelve students
Pick a student and you are signed in as them. Everything works: tap the buttons, book a room, draft a message, ask a question.
These links open the live demonstration at zthr.ai/advocate, where each visitor gets a private copy of all twelve students for two hours. The campus services there are synthetic twins.
Built by the ZTHR factory
No person wrote this code. Agents built it inside fixtures that decide what is admitted: gates proven able to fail, intent locked in plain words, every button walked for every student. All of it is public.