Your Alumni Network Just Became a Ghost Town. We Rebuild It.
If you're a university advancement director watching engagement crater post-graduation, your portal architecture is the silent killer.
Custom student dashboards and alumni networks built on Supabase Auth with SSO, AI mentor matching, and Stripe-powered recurring giving.
Your student logs in and sees their course schedule load. Grades, financial aid status, dining hours, emergency alerts -- all pulled live from your SIS via API. Your alumnus searches 50,000 profiles by industry, finds a mentor in their target company, and books a call. Behind both experiences: Supabase Row-Level Security, so each user sees only their own data. Alumni profiles stay Google-indexable -- individually crawlable pages that generate organic traffic instead of sitting in a database nobody opens. SSO connects to your CAS, Shibboleth, or SAML 2.0 stack, so nobody abandons the portal because they forgot another password. Stripe recurring donations tie directly to impact tiers, so your advancement office stops losing donors the moment they graduate and forget to come back.
What is holding your current website back?
Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.
How We Build This Right
Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.
SAML 2.0 / CAS / Shibboleth SSO
Authentication delegates to your university identity provider. Students and alumni log in with credentials they already have -- no new passwords, no extra steps.
Row-Level Security (RLS)
PostgreSQL policies make sure each student sees only their own grades, financial aid, and schedule. Alumni control profile visibility with granular privacy flags.
AI Mentor Matching via Claude
Students describe their career goals. Claude analyzes the alumni directory and recommends 5 mentors with relevant industry experience. Automated introduction emails go out from there.
Stripe Recurring Giving
Impact-tiered donations show exactly what each gift funds: $25/month covers meal access, $100/month funds a scholarship, $500/month endows research. Matching gift integration and year-end tax receipts are included.
Indexable Alumni Directory
All 50,000 alumni profiles get their own Google-indexable page. Search for "[Name] [University] alumni" and the platform shows up.
Real-Time Event Management
Reunion registration, ticket sales via Stripe, RSVPs, and virtual event links. Class-year reunions auto-trigger at 5, 10, and 25-year milestones based on graduation date.
What We Build
Purpose-built features for your industry.
Engagement crashes post-graduation -- your advancement office loses recurring donors and mentorship pipelines worth millions every cycle
Your student sees course schedules, grades, financial aid status, campus directory, dining menus, library hours, emergency alerts -- all live from your SIS
Student data scatters across SIS, LMS, email, paper -- your students miss financial aid deadlines and never see emergency alerts until too late
Your alumni search by graduation year, program, location, industry, company across 50,000+ individually indexable profile pages built for organic reach
Alumni directories rot in static PDFs or untouched databases -- your 50,000+ profiles generate zero organic search traffic or networking value
Your career office runs Claude-powered mentor matching that analyzes student goals against alumni expertise, ranks recommendations, sends intro emails automatically
Giving pages stay generic with no impact context -- your donors drop off because they can't see where money goes, conversion rates stay below 2%
Your donors choose Stripe recurring gifts with clear impact messaging, annual campaign support, matching gift lookups, automated year-end tax receipts
SSO integration with SAML 2.0, CAS, or Shibboleth breaks -- your students abandon portals the moment they're asked for another credential set
Your events team tracks RSVPs, sells Stripe tickets, integrates virtual events, triggers class-year reunion campaigns calculated from graduation dates
Mentor matching stays manual and unscalable -- your programs serve 50 students instead of 5,000 because there's no system to connect them
Your alumni see topic-tagged university updates -- department news, sports results, research announcements -- filtered by their interests and program history
Built on a Modern, Secure Stack
Our Development Process
From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.
Discovery & SSO Mapping
Week 1-2We audit your SIS, identity provider (SAML/CAS/Shibboleth), and alumni database. We map data flows, define user roles, and plan RLS policies for both student and alumni access.
Auth & Data Architecture
Week 3-5We stand up Supabase with SSO delegation, configure Row-Level Security policies, and build API integrations with your SIS for course, grade, and financial aid data.
Portal UI & Feature Build
Week 6-10We build the student dashboard, alumni directory with search and filtering, giving flows with Stripe, event management, and AI mentor matching via the Claude API.
Data Migration & Alumni Import
Week 11-12We import alumni records, map profile fields, generate indexable pages, and validate search functionality across 50,000+ profiles. Mentor matching data gets seeded at this stage.
Launch & Advancement Integration
Week 13-14We deploy to production, connect your CRM for advancement office reporting, train staff on admin tools, and monitor giving conversion funnels. Includes 30 days of post-launch support.
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