FAQs

A short, practical guide to how Independent Data Partners (IDP) helps independent schools use AI for deeper insights and simpler operations.

Getting Started

We connect your school’s systems in Palantir Foundry, give you a plain-English AI chat to ask questions, gain insights, and produce visuals, as well as provide ready-made workflows that save time on everyday tasks.
Independent school leaders, faculty, and staff. Independent schools find value at every level from Heads of School, Division Heads, Deans, and Teachers, ad well as staff on teams dedicated to Admissions/FA, Advancement, IT/Data, Business Office, and College Counseling.
Most schools see value within weeks. Core connections typically land in 2–4 weeks; first workflows go live by weeks 3–5. See: How it Works.
No. We handle the data plumbing and maintenance. Your team focuses on questions and decisions.
No. While many independent schools find what we offer can serve many of the functions of institutional researchers, many schools that have IR offices find their work in this area grow by orders of magnitude when skilled researchers gain access to our products.

- Data connections to SIS, LMS, advancement, counseling, HR, etc.
- AI chat that answers questions in plain English with citations.
- Workflows that automate routine tasks with optional approvals.
- Signals that surface early indicators (well-being, retention, yield). See: Products.
- Attendance & notifications (advisors/families)
- Discipline intake & routing (consistent notes + trends)
- Scheduling helpers (course/student/athletics/extracurriculars)
- Predictive giving & portfolio tracking
- Faculty satisfaction/retention signals
- Student well-being & crisis notifications
- College counseling predictions
  Browse the library: Apps & Workflows.
Yes. Treat our library as a starting point—the custom sky is the limit.
Both. Access is role-aware, so people only see and do what you choose.

Type in plain English (e.g., “Which 9th graders have a 10-day trend of missed work and more nurse visits?”). The answer includes citations back to the source.
Any AI can be wrong sometimes. That’s why we show sources/citations, keep role-based permissions, and allow human-in-the-loop approval for workflows. Part of our onboarding process is supporting users along their learning curve of AI prompting to ensure they get the best answers possible and trust their own expertise to evaluate AI responses.
We use leading large language models (LLMs) and keep them behind permissions and guardrails. You can select from any ChatGPT, Claude, or Grok model you would like to use at any time.
Yes—examples include publicly available related to demographics, benchmarks, higher ed, and other reference data. We align external data with your school model where appropriate. Additionally, when using the AI chat, any data your selected LLM has been trained on is available as context.

On Palantir Foundry, a platform used by many of the world’s most security-sensitive organizations.
Passkey enabled user credentials, role-based access (RBAC), encryption in transit and at rest, audit history, and read-only connections whenever possible. See: Security.
Palantir publishes certifications and attestations (e.g., SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001 family) in its Trust & Security portal. For current scope, review Palantir’s official resources linked on our Security page.
Yes, and we abide by FERPA and all state-level data security regulations. We’ll also align to strict family-privacy expectations; we do not sell or share your data for marketing.
US-hosted by default; other regions available by agreement. Retention settings are configurable.

Simple, school-friendly plans at three tiers with the ability to add a la carte products. Plans scale by connections, workflows, and users. See: Pricing.
Generally we do not offer pilot options as much of the resource burden for IDP occurs in the building stage for your school. However, under certain circumstances, IDP may agree to begin with a pilot option for a fee.

Short, role-based sessions (leaders, deans/advisors, office staff, teachers, etc.). We keep guidance practical and in plain English. We offer more personalized training for schools at our Enterprise Tier, but find that our products are very intuitive and users typically need little help in getting up to speed.
Support:support@independentdatapartners.com
Security:info@independentdatapartners.com
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Unfortunately we cannot at this time, however, we have robust example data for schools like your’s that we work within our demos.
Absolutely, feel free to email us at info@independentdatapartners.com
or fill out our contact form and we will connect you to leaders like you to discuss their experiences.