What N2N Services Inc. does

N2N Services Inc., founded in 2010 and headquartered in Duluth, Georgia, is a privately-held, bootstrapped higher-education technology company led by founder Kiran Kodithala. The company operates an agentic AI platform, LightLeapAI, comprising five domain-specific products—Orion (fraud and anomaly detection), Prism (document intelligence via OCR/NLP), Polaris (student services), Atlas (data quality and migration), and Omnia (executive intelligence)—alongside a sixth product, Helios, a self-service AI agent builder launched in June 2026 that lets institutions compose autonomous agents on top of N2N's pre-built connectors.

The underlying architecture spans 6,283 vetted endpoints across major student information systems (Banner, Colleague, PeopleSoft, Workday, Oracle, Anthology), runs generative AI inference on Anthropic Claude via AWS Bedrock, and is governed by N2N's proprietary ICCP (Interoperability, Compliance, Connectivity, Performance) framework and Arazzo orchestration pipelines. The platform is SOC 2, FERPA, and GLBA compliant, and is currently used by 500+ institutions.

N2N monetizes through approximately 90% recurring SaaS subscriptions with multiple pricing tiers: a $3,000-per-college statewide subsidy rate used in the California Community Colleges deployment, an APaaS rate of approximately $300 per student per year, and direct institutional contracts in the $54K-$56K range (e.g., El Camino College, Foothill-De Anza). Go-to-market combines direct enterprise sales, an exclusive channel partnership with Ellucian across the US and Canada (announced November 2025), a California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office statewide endorsement covering all 116 districts (July 2025), and AWS Marketplace listing for cloud-procurement customers.

Name

N2N Services Inc.

Legal name

N2N Services Inc.

Website

https://n2nservices.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

N2N Services Inc. provides an agentic AI platform (LightLeapAI) and AI agent builder (Helios) for higher education institutions, offering fraud detection, document intelligence, student services, and data migration. It serves 500+ colleges through direct sales, an exclusive Ellucian channel, and a California statewide subsidy.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Higher Education AI Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Computer Systems Design Services (541512), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Educational Support Services (61171)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

AI Integration & Orchestration Platforms (Connectors, Workflow, iPaaS for AI) (HDAEANAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

B2B/EDI & Partner Integration (BPAMAOAJ), OCR, ICR & Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) (BPAAAKAB)

Keywords

• Higher education software
• Fraud detection platform
• Student information systems
• AI agent platform
• Education data integration

Headquarters

HQ city

Duluth

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, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. LightLeapAI Subscription: Platform subscription model for AI-powered fraud detection, document intelligence, student services, and data quality products. Subscription fees subsidized by California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office through CollegeBuys program for all 116 California community colleges at $3,000 per college contribution from districts.
2. Platform Licensing (APaaS): Agentic Platform-as-a-Service model with flat platform pricing disconnected from enrollment inflation. Approximately $300 per student per year all-in, versus $1,000+ per student for comparable legacy stack.
3. AWS Marketplace: Products available for procurement through AWS Marketplace alongside traditional sales channels.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels14 records

Core offering

N2N Services Inc. builds and sells LightLeapAI, an agentic AI platform-as-a-service for higher education institutions, comprising five products (Orion fraud intelligence, Prism document intelligence, Polaris student services, Atlas data quality and migration, and Omnia executive intelligence hub) on a single conversational OS. The company also offers Helios, an AI agent-builder platform with 6,283 vetted API endpoints across 17 SIS/ERP vendors, providing pre-built connectors, integration patterns, and agent orchestration for Banner, Colleague, PeopleSoft, Workday, Oracle, Anthology, and other higher education systems. The platform is sold as a subscription to colleges and universities with FERPA/GLBA/SOC 2 compliance alignment.

Product overview

N2N Services Inc. offers LightLeapAI, an agentic AI platform for higher education built on 15 years of integration heritage. The platform consists of five products: Orion (fraud intelligence), Prism (document intelligence), Polaris (student services), Atlas (data quality and migration), and Omnia (executive intelligence hub) — all built around a single conversational OS. The platform is supported by Helios, an AI agent-builder and integration platform (successor to Illuminate iPaaS), which provides API building, integration, and agent orchestration capabilities. N2N also offers the broader Agentic Platform-as-a-Service (APaaS) for retiring legacy SIS, ERP, and CRM stacks.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• LightLeapAI: Flagship AI platform for higher education with five products: Orion (fraud intelligence), Prism (document intelligence), Polaris (student services), Atlas (data quality and migration), and Omnia (executive intelligence hub). Built on fifteen years of integration heritage.
• Helios
• Illuminate

Products and services

• LightLeapAI Flagship agentic AI platform for higher education, encompassing five products built around a single conversational OS for fraud intelligence, document intelligence, student services, data quality and migration, and executive intelligence. Trusted by 500+ institutions to protect students, prevent fraud, and modernize campus workflows.
• Orion Fraud intelligence product that detects fraudulent applications, identity fraud, and behavioral anomalies at the application layer using machine learning. Catches synthetic and automated applicants, device fingerprints, IP addresses, time zones, and cross-institution phone-number matches for higher education institutions.
• Prism Document intelligence product providing OCR, data extraction, and automated document review for processing forms, transcripts, and other institutional documents in higher education workflows.
• Polaris Student services product providing agent-mediated advising and support, routing any incoming request to the right AI agent and enabling AI/human agent collaboration for higher education student services workflows.
• Atlas Data quality and migration product that moves data between systems (on-prem to SaaS, SIS to warehouses) while cleaning, reconciling, and denoising. Includes predictive analytics for enrollment forecasting, anomaly detection, and intelligent recommendations for higher education institutions.
• Omnia Executive intelligence hub enabling query of enterprise data in plain language. Also an AI device that talks, listens, and sees, supporting text, voice, and video interactions with live answers from SIS, LMS, open web, and FAQ data for higher education administrators.
• Helios AI agent-builder and integration platform, successor to Illuminate iPaaS. Enables institutions to build, govern, and ship their own AI agents on top of existing systems and data, with 6,283 vetted API endpoints across 17 vendors. Includes Connect Anything, Agent Dashboard, Agent Studio, API Builder, API Logs, Admin Console, and Guest Experience.

Quantifiable outcome

• 1.8M+ fraudulent applications stopped; $1B+ student aid protected
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration17 records

AI capability13 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered flagship/exclusive, flagship and core.

• Ellucianflagship/exclusiveChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 17 November 2025Expanded multi-year partnership to embed LightLeapAI directly into Ellucian's Apply and Financial Aid platforms. Ellucian became the exclusive channel for LightLeapAI in the United States and Canada, putting machine-learning-based fraud detection in front of every Ellucian customer pursuing Title IV and Workforce PELL compliance. Integration being piloted with several community college systems and rolling out to Ellucian customers.
• Foundation for California Community CollegesflagshipChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 July 2025Through CollegeBuys program and new Digital Center for Innovation, Transformation, and Equity, Foundation began subsidizing majority of LightLeapAI subscription fees for all 116 community colleges in California. Individual districts contribute only $3,000 per college.
• California Community Colleges Chancellor's OfficeflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2025State-level endorsement and partnership for statewide deployment of LightLeapAI across all 116 community colleges. Chancellor's Office cited Lightleap.ai in statewide Generative AI report as entering production for Fall 2024 registration. Led to $150M+ in cybersecurity allocations since 2022.
• WorkdaycoreTechnology or Integration · 1 September 2023Partnership with Workday customers in higher education to provide seamless integration between Workday Student and leading Student Information Systems. Extended N2N's pre-built connector library and reduced months of custom integration work to weeks. Now part of Atlas product on LightLeapAI platform.
• National Student ClearinghousecoreTechnology or Integration · 1 June 2023Partnership to provide real-time transcript integration to NSC customers. Simplified integration strategies and expanded platforms supported by Clearinghouse, making transcript exchange faster, more reliable, and accessible to more institutions.
• Ellucian Alliance PartnershipcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 April 2018Ellucian Alliance Partner since 2018, formalizing deep technical relationship with world's leading provider of software for colleges and universities. Unlocked Ellucian Banner and Colleague integration patterns that underpin LightLeapAI's reach into hundreds of campuses.

Scale indicators16 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Informatica: Enterprise data integration and iPaaS platform. Overlaps with N2N on data migration (Atlas), API integration, and data quality, though N2N's higher-ed vertical specialization differentiates in this specific market.
• Workato: iPaaS platform focused on business-user integration and automation. Competes with Illuminate's positioning of letting non-developers publish APIs over student information systems without programmers or middleware.
• Boomi: General-purpose iPaaS platform with broad enterprise and education adoption. The most direct functional competitor to N2N's Illuminate (and now Helios) integration platform, both enabling API publishing and workflow automation across SaaS and on-prem systems.
• MuleSoft: Enterprise iPaaS owned by Salesforce, used for system integration and API management across higher education and other verticals. Competes with N2N's Illuminate platform heritage on campus-wide integration, though MuleSoft lacks N2N's higher-ed-specific connector depth.

Broad incumbents

• Workday: Cloud ERP/SIS provider serving higher education institutions. N2N has an established integration partnership with Workday Student, and Workday competes for the same institutional modernization budgets N2N targets through its APaaS positioning.
• Oracle (PeopleSoft Campus Solutions): Legacy SIS provider through PeopleSoft Campus Solutions. Many N2N customers run on Banner/Colleague/PeopleSoft, and N2N's connectors and Atlas data migration product are explicitly positioned to integrate or move institutions off these legacy stacks.
• Ellucian: World's largest SIS provider serving higher education with Banner and Colleague. Both N2N's exclusive channel partner and a broad incumbent whose platforms LightLeapAI sits on top of, creating direct overlap and partnership tension in student information and compliance workflows.
• Anthology: Higher education SIS/ERP provider (formerly Blackboard) competing with Ellucian. Overlaps with N2N on SIS integration and student experience, and is one of the 17 vendors for which N2N maintains pre-built connectors via Helios.

Emerging players

• Element451: AI-powered student engagement and enrollment platform purpose-built for higher education. Directly competes with N2N's Polaris student services product and broader LightLeapAI student-facing capabilities, though with a narrower product scope.
• Civitas Learning: Predictive analytics and student success platform for higher education. Overlaps with N2N's Atlas predictive analytics and Omnia executive intelligence capabilities, focused on enrollment forecasting and student risk identification.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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

M&A

Investments

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