Serve more students—without all the extra work (and cost). Engage every student in every channel without needing more people. Our family of Bolt AI features, including AI Assistants, Bolt Discovery, BoltBot and Bolt Insights integrate directly with your existing CRM, or come native in all Element451 solutions. As low as just $14k/year.

Provide 24/7 assistance to students, across any channel and in any language, using BoltBot and Bolt AI Assistants. Serve students better than other higher ed solution because we’ve trained it to reply like a real staff member, with deep knowledge of your institution and a unified view of your student.

Sign up for a free, self-serve preview of BoltBot specific for your institution. Ask your BoltBot instance questions and see how it responds intelligently with real data, just like a staff member!

Use the power of AI to make your teams more productive. Intelligent, digital team members like Bolt AI Assistants can help build campaigns, draft replies, translate copy, manage events, analyze data and even trigger workflows for your team.

Element Bolt includes BoltBot, Element451’s industry-leading higher ed AI chatbot, trained to act like a real staff member to provide intelligent student support, 24/7.

Provide 1:1 guidance 24/7, for financial aid, course registration, student life, and more.

Create winning campaigns by simply telling your digital campaign, email, copywriting, events... assistant what you need.

Serve up useful answers from your website without forcing students to navigate complex page structures.

Element Bolt features Element451’s robust Conversations portal, which integrates all of your school’s inbound and outbound conversations in one easy-to-use interface.

Element451’s unified contact profiles can store all of your school’s known data and activity for every person your school interacts with.

Set up powerful trigger-based marketing automation techniques to help your team handle inbound inquiries faster than ever.

Element451 includes extensive integration tools so you can seamlessly add Element Bolt to your software suite.

Make more-informed decisions across the student journey with purpose-built reports that detail your team's best marketing campaigns, student behavior, and areas for improvement.

Element Bolt fits seamlessly alongside traditional CRMs, allowing your team to take advantage of Element451’s industry-leading AI capabilities without a CRM migration.

"We’ve had a 14% decrease in call volume in just the first 
week we launched BoltBot!"

— Devin Perguson, Executive Director of Marketing and Student Care, Forsyth Technical Community College

Set up Element451 in days, not months with our Easy Onboarding features, so you and your students get value faster. And if you ever have any questions, our stellar Customer Service team is available to help.

Supports Live Chat embedded on your website, SMS, WhatsApp, and Email. However students interact with your school, your staff (and Bolt AI) will be there to help.

Configure BoltBot and Bolt AI Assistants to handle all inquiries or just specific ones. When BoltBot determines that a staff member is needed, it seamlessly hands off the conversation.

Customize with your school’s colors, logo, and tone of voice. Create engaging icebreakers messages and auto-responses that represent your school’s unique perspective.

Element451’s AI tools are designed to protect students’ data and privacy. Element451 is compliant with SOC 2 – the gold standard in security.

Add as many staff user accounts as you need, and send unlimited messages (SMS limits apply).

In the age of AI, traditional institutions are falling behind. Element451 is not just software, it’s a whole new approach to higher ed engagement. Intelligent institutions are doing more with less by harnessing the power of AI.

Fast and easy upgrade to the best AI in higher ed, without a lengthy system migration. Pricing starts at just $14,000 per year.

Element451 gives us opportunities to build a relationship with incoming students by providing us with amazing tools that help us get through the process really quickly.

Element451 helps you streamline your process while getting to the heart of what's important about the communication so you can effectively communicate with students and prospects. 

We didn't have a communication strategy before but we wanted to give that personal touch. Element451 has made our job easier in building the strategy, making sure we had the right triggers and setting the right expectations with students.

Element451 Partners

Element Bolt contains BoltBot, Bolt AI Assistants, Bolt Discovery and Bolt Insights.

Which AI features does Element Bolt contain?

Element Bolt includes our excellent self-service onboarding tools & guides. You can get your instance started in just one day. If you need help, our live support agents will be there to guide you.

Yes! At any time, you can upgrade to Element Ignite or Element Engage for an even more powerful solution.

Can I upgrade to another package after signup?

Yes! Element Bolt has Element451’s full suite of Integrations, including import/export support, webhooks, Zapier support, and the Element451 API.

It is very easy to build out the knowledge base that BoltBot will continually learn from.  Sources of knowledge can be added directly to the platform including: text, urls, websites, files, and custom answers. You can create both public and private knowledge bases, and specific sources of data can be built to support unique institutional functions.

Frequently Asked Questions about Element Bolt

Tell us about your student engagement goals and we’ll set up a demo with one of our experts to talk about how Element Bolt can serve your institution.