DegreeSight vs Risely Agentic Degree Audit

DegreeSight is a web-based credit transfer system for higher education, providing personalized transfer evaluations and degree pathways. Inbound lets students submit course information on an institution’s website and get self-service credit answers. Insight maps credits to degree pathways and shows progress toward completing a program; it also supports live chat and SMS about evaluations and program updates. DocSight extracts course data from transcripts, including in bulk. The platform matches courses against institutional articulation agreements, and decisions can feed into its workflow engine. Listed connections include Banner, Colleague, PeopleSoft, Jenzabar, Slate, Salesforce, and HubSpot. State systems can use direct SIS integration or secure CSV exchange. Insight lets students submit across more than 30 programs at once. DegreeSight says its data is hosted on Microsoft Azure and protected by SOC 2 controls; it also reports HECVAT completion, VPAT accessibility documentation, and FERPA-aligned handling of student records. SSO options include SAML, CAS, OAuth, Azure AD, and Okta. Pricing is available on request, with no published tiers.

Risely Agentic Degree Audit is a web tool for colleges and universities that rechecks degree progress when student records or catalog information changes. It can rerun audits after grades, transfers, or course swaps, and re-audit a whole caseload nightly. Each course is linked to the catalog rule it satisfies; the audit identifies unmet requirements and possible ways to address them, including a course, term, and prior substitution precedent. Advisors can compare a run with the previous one to see what changed and what remained the same. The system drafts substitutions and exceptions, but an advisor must approve every one. For degree audits, it initially connects read-only to the student information system, degree-audit system, and catalog, operating alongside existing systems while the SIS remains the system of record. Risely describes scoped connector reads, approval for writes, and an append-only exportable ledger of actions and connector calls. It says student data is encrypted and not used to train public or foundation models. Institutions can request a demo; pricing is on request.