Replacing legacy systems with custom solution

EMERGE empowers and equips high-achieving students from low-income communities to apply to, thrive at, and graduate from the nation's best colleges.

QikBuild engagement

• Replaced fragmented legacy systems with one unified platform
• Ongoing partnership: new features, migrations, and staff enablement

Three surfaces, one data model

• Admin portal — staff manage students, review applications, and run day-to-day operations
• Recruitment portal — applicants apply, attend info sessions, and complete intake tasks
• Mobile app — accepted scholars manage college applications, tasks, and events

Scholar lifecycle

Prospect applicant → finalist → accepted scholar → matriculant → college scholar → alumni.

One student record carries profile, documents, cohort assignment, and history from first contact through post-college reporting.

Recruitment and college access

• Three-phase staff evaluation: application review (scoring, flags), interviews, income verification
• College catalog with 50+ data points per school
• Student journey: favorites → SIAT list → applications → acceptance → commitment → matriculation checklist (30+ transition fields)

Operations and automation

• Milestone-based tasks that auto-create and auto-complete from forms, events, and application status changes
• Events with rosters, registration, QR check-in, and attendance tracking
• Broadcasts, in-app messaging, and a unified communication timeline (email, calls, SMS, notes, meetings)
• Staff cases and emergency fund requests with approval workflows
• Analytics dashboards for recruitment, applications, matriculation, and task completion
• Bulk CSV import/export and data migration from legacy systems

Integrations

Typeform (application and survey intake), Zoom/RingCentral (calls and SMS logging), Microsoft Graph (transactional email), Google FCM (mobile push), Firebase (messaging), National Student Clearinghouse (degree verification).