Intellidemia

What Intellidemia does

Intellidemia, Inc., doing business as Concourse Syllabus, is a privately held, New York-based SaaS company that operates a cloud-based syllabus management platform for higher education institutions. Founded in 2007 by CEO Judd Rattner and CTO Edward Levie while they were engineering students, the company positions itself as the first dedicated syllabus management platform in the market. Its product portfolio consists of Concourse, a comprehensive platform for creating, revising, auditing, and discovering syllabi, and Concourse Starter, a lower-cost tier with an accelerated 8-week implementation pathway aimed at institutions with urgent compliance needs.

The platform is built on a multi-tenant cloud architecture with tiered templates spanning institutional, departmental, and course-level hierarchies, granular permissions down to individual syllabi, a centralized repository of historical syllabi (currently exceeding 1.5 million syllabi across the customer base), and integrations with LMS, SIS, and SSO systems via the LTI 1.3 standard. The product is marketed on compliance strengths — WCAG 2.1, Revised Section 508, EN 301 549 accessibility, regional accreditation documentation, and state mandates such as Texas HB 2504 — with a maintained VPAT serving as a procurement artifact.

The business model is annual recurring SaaS subscriptions priced via quote, sold through direct enterprise sales supplemented by channel partnerships. The flagship distribution partnership is with Modern Campus (integration into Connected Curriculum and co-selling), complemented by a Watermark curriculum strategy integration and a Quality Matters alignment. End customers are predominantly U.S. higher education institutions — with a heavy skew toward community and technical colleges alongside private universities and state systems — and the reported footprint includes over 30 named institutions such as Houston Community College, Fashion Institute of Technology, Oregon Health and Science University, Central Michigan University, and Central Piedmont (implied). The team comprises fewer than 10 employees per the firmographics, and no external funding or revenue figures have been disclosed.

Name

Intellidemia

Legal name

Intellidemia, Inc.

Website

https://intellidemia.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Intellidemia, doing business as Concourse Syllabus, is a private, New York-based SaaS company that sells a cloud-based syllabus management platform to U.S. higher education institutions, with a focus on accreditation and accessibility compliance and integrations into LMS and SIS systems.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Higher Education Syllabus Management Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Student Enrollment, Admissions, Registration & Lottery Systems (EDAFAEAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Assessment Interoperability, Integrations & Standards (QTI/LTI/OneRoster) (EDAFADAK)

Keywords

• Syllabus management software
• Higher education compliance
• LMS integration platform
• Accreditation compliance tools
• Course documentation system

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Syllabus Management Platform Subscription: SaaS subscription model for cloud-based syllabus management platform. Includes implementation support, training, and ongoing customer success services. Tiered offerings include Concourse Starter (accelerated entry) and full Concourse platform.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Intellidemia operates Concourse, a cloud-based SaaS syllabus management platform that gives higher education institutions a single system for creating, revising, auditing, and discovering course syllabi. The platform offers tiered templates, granular permissions, robust reporting, LMS/SIS/SSO integration, and built-in accessibility (WCAG 2.1) to ensure consistency and compliance across an institution's syllabi. It is sold as a tiered annual subscription (Concourse Starter entry-level and full Concourse), with implementation support and ongoing customer success services.

Product overview

Intellidemia offers Concourse, a unified cloud-based syllabus management platform designed specifically for higher education institutions. The portfolio consists of two main products: Concourse (the comprehensive full-featured platform) and Concourse Starter (a streamlined entry-level version with core repository, LTI, and reporting capabilities). Both products serve the same fundamental purpose of helping institutions create, manage, and distribute syllabi, but differ in implementation speed and feature depth. The platform integrates with institutional LMS, SIS, and SSO systems to streamline syllabus workflows and improve accessibility compliance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Concourse Starter: An entry-level syllabus management solution that addresses core needs - long-term repository, LTI integration, public access, and basic reporting - with an accelerated implementation path and natural transition to the full Concourse system.

Products and services

• Concourse Concourse is a cloud-based SaaS syllabus management platform that gives higher education institutions a single solution for creating, revising, auditing, and discovering syllabi. It includes tiered templates (institutional, department, course), granular permissions, robust reporting, a centralized persistent repository, and integrations with LMS, SIS, and SSO systems using the LTI 1.3 standard. The platform is designed to ensure syllabi are clear, accessible (WCAG 2.1 compliant), and consistent across an institution, with built-in support for accreditation and state-mandate compliance.
• Concourse Starter Concourse Starter is an entry-level tier of the Concourse syllabus management platform targeting institutions seeking quick implementation and core functionality. It addresses core needs including a long-term syllabus repository, LTI integration, public access, and basic reporting, with an accelerated path to implementation and a natural transition pathway to the full Concourse system.

Quantifiable outcome

• 3 million syllabus views per year across client institutions
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers36 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• WatermarkcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 August 2023Watermark partnered with Concourse Syllabus to streamline curriculum and catalog processes. Central Michigan University was the first institution to leverage this partnership to create a better syllabus experience. The integration combines Watermark Curriculum Strategy with Concourse Syllabus for enhanced institutional workflow.
• Modern CampusflagshipGTM or Marketing PartnerGame-changing partnership between Modern Campus and Concourse Syllabus to streamline syllabus creation, standardization, and accessibility. Modern Campus Connected Curriculum combined with Concourse Syllabus enhances compliance, improves faculty efficiency, and simplifies student access. Joint webinar series and co-selling relationship.
• Quality MatterscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPacific Union College leveraged QM resources in conjunction with Concourse to improve courses and action a review process. Concourse enables institutions to meet QM standards that address or are impacted by syllabi, particularly the 16 standards for online course quality.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Taskstream by Watermark: Taskstream (now part of Watermark) provides assessment, accreditation, and portfolio tools for higher education. While its focus is broader outcomes and accreditation rather than syllabus management specifically, it intersects with Concourse in academic quality and accreditation workflows.

Broad incumbents

• D2L Brightspace: Brightspace is a major LMS offering course-content, template, and accessibility tooling that competes with Concourse at the syllabus and course-design layer. As a broad incumbent with international reach, D2L overlaps with Concourse in workflow features while serving a much wider product portfolio.
• Anthology (Campus Management / Blackboard): Anthology, the post-merger entity combining Blackboard, Campus Management, and other higher ed systems, offers a broad SIS, LMS, and curriculum portfolio that includes syllabus-adjacent features as part of its wider enterprise suite, competing indirectly with Concourse for institutional technology budgets.
• Instructure (Canvas): Canvas is the leading LMS in US higher education and increasingly includes course-content, template, and accessibility features that overlap with syllabus management. As the dominant platform with which Concourse integrates via LTI 1.3, Canvas represents both the primary integration partner and the largest potential disintermediation risk.

Direct peers

• Watermark: Watermark offers curriculum strategy, faculty activity reporting, and assessment tools for higher education. Intellidemia and Watermark have an active technology partnership integrating Concourse with Watermark Curriculum Strategy, but their curriculum-management portfolios compete head-to-head for institutional curriculum and syllabus workflow budgets.
• CurriQunet (Nuventive): CurriQunet, part of Nuventive's higher education suite, is a curriculum management platform that competes directly with Concourse for institutional curriculum, syllabus, and program review workflows, particularly among community colleges and regional accreditors.
• Courseleaf: Courseleaf (Leepfrog Technologies) provides academic catalog, curriculum management, and class scheduling software for higher education. It competes directly with Concourse for institutional curriculum workflow dollars, with broader catalog and curriculum functionality but less syllabus-specific specialization.
• Acalog (Watermark): Acalog, now part of Watermark, is an academic catalog management platform that overlaps with Concourse in course-content and curriculum information management. The two products are sometimes evaluated together by institutions standardizing curriculum and course documentation.
• Modern Campus: Modern Campus's Connected Curriculum product competes in the same institutional curriculum and course-information workflow category as Concourse. The two companies are simultaneously GTM partners and category competitors, since Connected Curriculum overlaps with syllabus management functionality.
• CollegeSource: CollegeSource provides higher education catalog, transfer, and curriculum data services. Its catalog and course-description tooling overlaps with the syllabus and course-content management workflows that Concourse serves, particularly for community colleges and state systems managing course data.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/syllabus
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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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