The first beat: higher education
Built first for the president's desk.
Maude was built by a founder with 30 years in higher education, and she speaks that world natively: peer and aspirant institutions, your accreditor, the state legislature, enrollment and aid policy, the sector press your board reads. Verified against the federal IPEDS record, so your peers are your peers.
Every briefing reads like it was written from inside the sector — never translated into it.
What Maude watches for a president
- Peer and aspirant institutions — your list, verified against the federal IPEDS record
- Your accreditor, the state legislature, and the U.S. Department of Education
- Enrollment, aid, and demographic signals for your region
- The sector press your board reads — synthesized, not forwarded
- The named people who can change your week: sponsors, chairs, chancellors
“Three threads converge on Hartwell’s finances this morning.”
A note from the founder
I’ve spent more than 30 years building the data and information systems institutions run on — most of them inside higher education, today as a university chief data officer.
Maude started as a briefing I built for myself: a customized AI and data briefing on higher education. It kept me in the know in ways I simply wouldn’t have had time for otherwise — changes in regulations, moves on the competitor front — and it kept me ahead of the pack.
For a president, it’s a game changer: the surrounding context of your institution, every weekday morning, so you can feel confident you have the pulse of everything affecting it.
Pricing
One plan. Everything included.
$49per month
Start with 14 days free, no card required. If Maude belongs in your morning, add a card to keep it. If not, the trial simply ends — your briefings stop and nothing is charged.
- 14 days free — no card needed to start
- Billed monthly, per person; cancel anytime
- Cancel and your briefings continue to the end of the month you’ve paid for
- Available in the United States only, for now
What’s included
- The daily briefing
- One short, cited synthesis each morning of what changed on your map.
- Your organization map
- The peers, regulators, vendors, markets, and people Maude watches — visible and editable by you.
- Your private podcast
- Each briefing as an audio episode in the podcast app you already use.
- Ask Maude
- Follow-up questions on any briefing, answered from that briefing and its sources.
- The source trail
- Inline citations and a full, numbered source list on every briefing.
No tiers, no add-ons, no annual contract.