Data & AI
Interstride AI Audit
Ran an AI Audit on Interstride and automated the workflows that were still manual: visa-aware job matching, personalized CPT/OPT/H-1B recommendations, and advisor triage for repetitive visa and country questions.
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- Interstride
- Industry
- Higher Education
- Year
- 2024
- Duration
- 10 days
AI Audit
Engagement
550+
University partners
250k
Active users on the platform
The challenge_
Interstride is the platform international students and university teams actually use: admissions yield and melt, career-center support, CPT and OPT job search, H-1B sponsors, visa guides, and a 250,000-student community. Career directors call it a game-changer. Students call it the only place that puts OPT, CPT and sponsorship filters in one job board. The problem was not more features. Three workflows still ran by hand: matching students to visa-friendly jobs, assembling personalized recommendations, and answering the same visa and country questions in career-center and ISSS queues. None of that scaled at 550+ universities, and it was unclear which of those steps AI should take.
Our approach_
We ran the AI Audit the way Interstride team asked for it: a roadmap, not vague recommendations. We mapped the live workflows and automated three of them on real data. Visa-aware job matching: openings tagged and ranked by CPT, OPT and H-1B sponsorship so a student is not reading a generic board. Personalized recommendations: visa type, major, skills and location drive the next jobs, instead of career-center staff building lists by hand. Advisor triage: repetitive visa, country-guide and next-step questions route to Interstride's resource library, and a person only steps in when the case needs judgment. Each one shipped as something the team could try, with a clear line on what still stays human.
The outcome_
Every automation we suggested had a measurable business impact. Job matching and recommendations no longer depend on a coordinator assembling a list. CPT, OPT and H-1B filters sit in the search students already use. Career-center and ISSS teams spend less time answering the same visa and country questions. Interstride left with a plan they could execute, not a slide deck of tools. The audit put AI under the experience career directors call a game-changer, instead of beside it.
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