Meet Chiara™, the Strategic Advisor for Higher Education.
This is a demo of Chiara informed by real response runs. We are using a fictional institution in Idaho here.
Chiara answers the questions behind your most important strategic decisions, in minutes.
She is powered by the latest frontier models and fluent in the nuances of US higher education.
The public record
Every US institution and fifteen years of its history, read from the federal sources and cleaned by fnlabs. Half a billion data points, each one validated and traceable.
fnlabs expertise
A decade of advising university leaders, written down as methods, context and instructions for every kind of question, and evaluated before any answer ships.
Your data
Chiara combines the public record with any institutional data and insights you choose to share, from documents today to your own systems next. Stored securely.
Data sources in Chiara today, and coming next
- IPEDS, every survey, 2010 to 2025
- Carnegie Classification 2025
- College ScorecardNext
- Census PSEONext
- Census ACSNext
- NSF NSCGNext
- BLS Occupational WagesNext
- BLS Employment ProjectionsNext
- State Occupational ProjectionsNext
- O*NETNext
- Indeed Job PostingsNext
- Census QWINext
- BLS JOLTSNext
- ED AccreditationNext
- Your institutional dataNext
Chiara is built by people who know universities from the inside.
Core team
Design partner
Advisors
Advisors
A sitting university CIO
Leads technology for a network of public universities. Brings the CIO’s view of systems, security and adoption.
A higher education consulting principal
Leads growth for a national higher education consulting practice. Brings the advisor’s view of how leaders decide.
A sitting university trustee
Led education strategy at global technology companies. Brings the board’s view of strategy and risk.
A serial edtech founder
Built education companies, including one using AI for student success. Brings the founder’s view of what institutions adopt.
A software engineering lead
Leads a development team at a major European company. Brings the engineer’s view of Chiara’s code and architecture.
100+ years of combined experience, from the provost’s office and the boardroom to AI models and strategic insight.
We are fnlabs, and we build safe and ethical intelligence for higher education.
fnlabs builds AI products for higher education.
We spent a decade advising university leaders
through their hardest decisions, and learned
that the decision usually arrives before the
data does. Chiara reverses that order.
fn stands for function. Hold the function key on your computer and a hidden layer of capabilities appears. Chiara does the same for you. Ask any question in plain English, and you get a thoroughly researched analysis back, every number traced to its source.
Chiara fuses hundreds of millions of public, verified higher education data points with your institutional context and our own judgment and expertise. You get tailored answers that fit your institution’s unique circumstances and serve your mission.
Our mark is the Barnsley fern, a plant drawn by recursively applying four mathematical functions. What emerges is organic, dependable, and inspectable. Ferns are among the oldest living things on Earth, and only universities share that kind of endurance.
Become a Design Partner and shape Chiara before she launches.
Join a small group of institutions using Chiara free from mid-October to mid-January, and shape what ships.
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A conversation
Thirty minutes. Bring the three questions you most want answered, and we show you what Chiara does today.
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Full access
Chiara, free, from mid-October to mid-January. She works from the public record, so nothing of yours is needed.
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Weekly sessions
With the founders. We want all your feedback so we can improve Chiara to best serve your needs.
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Launch
We aim to release the full version of Chiara in mid-January, on favorable terms for our design partners.