Universities get program-level outcome data
Student activity and outcome data, program by program, and a view of which skills employers value most.
An annual subscription, scaled to the student body.
How it works
Product overview
What Project Keystone is designed to do for the student, the university, and the employer, and who pays for it.
The record
Build strong candidates
Student dashboard
- Built-in career preparation
- Opportunity match maker
- Automated profile builder
- Employer interest trends
- Student body analytics
- More informed decisions
- At-a-glance candidate insight
- Painless talent acquisition
- National talent pool
How trust is established
Every item on a record carries its source. Only items the university backs are marked verified. Verified items are designed to be issued as Open Badges and W3C Verifiable Credentials, so an employer can check one without calling the registrar.
Two layers of trust. Three parts.
Every item on a record is either self-reported or verified by the university. The platform is designed as three parts around that record.
- A front end for students, university administrators and employers
- A trust mechanism, so a verified item stays verified
- A back end for the data and for each student's career building
Framing from the September 2026 company overview.
Every item says where it came from.
Four levels, from the student's own word to the university's signature.
Self-reported
The student wrote it. Nobody else has checked it. It stays on the record, because a person is more than their coursework.
Imported
Brought in from another system, with its original label kept.
Vouched for by a named person
An instructor or adviser looked at the work and confirmed what it shows.
Signed by the university
The university signs it, and that signature stays with the record.
The four levels from the September 17 workshop and copy deck version 4.
A profile that grows with each student. Automatically.
Each profile is designed to fill in as the student completes trainings, earns departmental recognition, and collects endorsements from work experience.
Students can add their own items to the profile. Only items the university backs will be marked verified.
The university sees which programs lead to jobs.
Hiring trends, placement, and employer feedback, program by program.
- What employers are searching for
- Where each program's graduates land
- What employers say is missing
Employers search. Students decide who sees them.
Today, a student sends hundreds of applications and often hears nothing back. Project Keystone is designed to work the other way: approved employers see anonymous profiles sorted by fit, request the ones they want, and the student decides whether to share.
- Approved employers only Employers will register before they can search, and matching runs through the Opportunity match maker.
- Anonymous at first look At first look, an employer will see an applicant number, a program and the skills behind the match. No name, no photo, no contact information.
- The student approves every release A request to connect will go straight to the student, who can accept it, turn it down, or set matched employers to be approved automatically.
It starts with one office: career services.
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Career services signs the trainings it already runs
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Student records fill as the work happens
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Approved employers search those records
Starting point: career-services and student-success leadership at four-year schools.
Who owns it?
Students use it free
Career direction, skill building, and a profile that grows with them.
A smaller pool, trustworthy data, and less money spent on screening software.
Why it needs to be done right
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Matching affects livelihoods
A ranking decides who gets a call. It has to be right before anyone relies on it.
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Access is earned, and open to every student enrolled
Everything that can raise a student's standing will come from their own university, with the accommodations that university already provides.
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The student controls access
Who sees a profile, and when contact details are released, will always be the student's decision.
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Built with accessibility in mind.
Accessibility compliance is required, so it is part of the design from the first screen.
Designed to fit your campus.
Project Keystone is designed to run on the standards universities and employers already use, so adopting it will not mean replacing anything.
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Opens inside the learning system
It is designed to launch through LTI, the connection standard campus learning systems already support.
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Open standards, not invented ones
Records are designed to be issued as Open Badges and W3C Verifiable Credentials.
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Skills in words employers already use
Skill tags will use standard language (O*NET, ESCO and NACE), so employers read them the same way from the start.
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Sign in with your campus account
Students and staff will sign in with the account they already have.
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Outside work arrives labelled
A completion from another provider will keep the record of where it came from.
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The university's data stays the university's
Institution content and student records will stay separate, by design.