BoodleBox is the leading collaborative AI platform built in partnership with higher education, serving over 10,000 educators and students across 900+ colleges and universities. It empowers faculty and students to work responsibly with generative AI through private, secure, and affordable access to leading AI models. BoodleBox helps institutions enhance learning experiences with technology that is personalized, practical, and purpose-built—accelerating campuswide AI readiness and preparing tomorrow’s workforce today.
A Strategic Partnership for AI Excellence in Higher Education
The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and BoodleBox have partnered to bring premium AI tools to CIC member institutions at preferential rates, empowering independent colleges with a secure and collaborative AI platform that develops domain expertise, enables AI literacy, and elevates human excellence across your campus community.
Exclusive CIC Member Benefits
User-Based Pricing: $8 per User per Month
This pay-as-you-grow model charges only for users exceeding the free tier, allowing institutions to test AI integration and scale seamlessly as adoption increases.
Implementation Examples:
- College-Specific Rollout: Comprehensive implementation within an academic school (i.e., Business School) to establish an AI ecosystem that can scale to the entire institution
- Multi-Disciplinary Deployment: Targeted implementation across diverse disciplines and roles—including faculty, staff, and students—to demonstrate discipline-specific value
- Selective Pilot: Initial implementation across specific courses or departments, engaging both faculty and students to evaluate impact and gather feedback
Institutional Pricing: $48 per FTE per Year
This comprehensive license enables unlimited access across your institution, creating a consistent AI experience that accelerates digital literacy and prepares your entire campus community for an AI-driven future.
Implementation Examples:
- AI-Forward Adoption: Deploying campuswide to provide equitable access to cutting-edge AI tools for all students, positioning your institution at the forefront of educational innovation
Price Stability Guarantee
CIC has worked with BoodleBox to guarantee no more than a five percent annual increase on all licensing options, providing budget predictability for your institution.
Why BoodleBox for CIC Institutions?
- Enterprise-Grade Security and Compliance: Comprehensive security framework—including FERPA, SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, GDPR compliance, along with HECVAT Full, VPAT AA, and TX-RAMP certifications—protects your institutional data.
- Equitable Access and Affordability: Our proprietary token reduction technology increases efficiency by up to 96 percent, dramatically lowering costs and reducing environmental impact.
- Lifelong Learning Foundation: Students and faculty build portable AI skills that seamlessly transition from education to career.
- True Collaboration Features: Enable seamless interaction between multiple users and AI models in transparent, accessible learning environments.
The Complete AI Solution for Higher Education
- Develop Domain Expertise: Enhance teaching and learning across all disciplines with AI that amplifies human potential.
- Enable AI Literacy: Prepare your campus community for an AI-enabled future with practical skills that transfer to the workplace.
- Elevate Human Excellence: Foster a campus culture where AI amplifies human creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration.
You can download a one-page summary to share with colleagues. For additional questions or to begin exploring implementation, contact Sean Traigle, executive vice president of sales, at sean@boodle.ai.
FAQs
How is the FTE calculated for Institutional Pricing?
FTE is calculated based on FTE for students and faculty. Staff and administrator access is then provided at no cost as part of an institution-wide contract.
How does BoodleBox’s exclusive offer connect to CIC’s AI Ready network?
This negotiated offer with BoodleBox is freestanding from the AI Ready network; participation in the AI Ready network is not required. Institutions signing up with BoodleBox can decide to additionally take advantage of CIC’s AI Ready network. Program 2 in the network (Building & Launching Together) is powered by BoodleBox and institutions can consider joining Program 2 for further support.
What data does BoodleBox collect from users?
BoodleBox collects name and email information, platform usage statistics, as well as voluntary information shared via surveys.
How is personal information protected?
BoodleBox employs industry-leading security practices to keep customer data safe. When using third-party AI models, prompts are anonymized to protect user privacy. BoodleBox does not train AI models, so your data will never be used by BoodleBox to train an AI model. If you use a BoodleBox controlled model (such as LLAMA3), then your data never leaves the control of BoodleBox. If you use a third-party model (such as one by OpenAI or Anthropic), then your prompts are provided to the third-party API, but anonymized so they cannot be connected to you as an individual.
How does BoodleBox ensure compliance with FERPA regulations?
BoodleBox Terms of Service including the following provision: BoodleBox is committed to complying with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. § 1232g; 34 CFR Part 99), a federal law that protects the privacy of student education records. To the extent that BoodleAI has access to student education records, it is deemed a “school official” under FERPA and will comply with the Act’s requirements regarding the use and redisclosure of personally identifiable information from education records. BoodleAI will use education records only for the purpose of fulfilling its duties and providing services to the educational institution. It will not share such data with or disclose it to any third party except as provided for in the agreement with the educational institution, as required by law, or as authorized in writing by the educational institution or the student. BoodleAI will provide appropriate training to its employees regarding their responsibilities under FERPA and will maintain appropriate safeguards to protect the security, confidentiality, and integrity of education records.