Secure enterprise AIfor higher education
nebulaONE® is an enterprise-grade AI gateway designed specifically to give higher education institutions total control over their AI footprint.
The hidden risks facing higher education
Walk through any university library or department building today, and you will see students, researchers, and faculty using commercial AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to draft essays, analyze data sets, and write code.
When academic communities rely on unmonitored consumer AI tools, known as Shadow AI, universities face severe governance, financial, and legal vulnerabilities.
Bypassed safety and crisis protocols
Private, unmonitored AI bypasses campus safety filters, leaving staff unaware of red flags and mental health disclosures until it is too late.
Intellectual property exposure
Research, grant proposals and unpatented concepts entered into consumer tools can be retained or processed outside institutional boundaries, putting IP rights, trade-secret status and patent eligibility at risk.
FERPA and privacy concerns
Transcripts, grades and admissions data handled in unapproved consumer software raise the risk of FERPA non-compliance, because those platforms sit outside institutional data governance agreements.
Data sovereignty and security gaps
Consumer tools guarantee nothing on data residency, end-to-end encryption, access logs or audit trails, exposing institutions to regulatory penalties and cyber risk.
Uncontrolled per-user costs
Fragmented department-level purchasing of individual licences produces shadow IT and unsustainable budget bloat across campus colleges.
Five core campus use cases
From student affairs to high-throughput research laboratories, nebulaONE provides tailored, secure AI infrastructure across the campus ecosystem.
24/7 campus and student support
Deploy branded conversational agents grounded entirely in verified university documentation, giving students instant multilingual guidance around the clock and cutting the load on administrative teams.
Course-aware teaching assistants
Educators securely ingest syllabus material, lecture notes and past problem sets into a private agent, so students get tutoring and exam review grounded strictly inside course boundaries.
Admissions and enrollment
Summarize transcripts, analyze applicant engagement, draft personalized outreach and automate routine evaluation workflows, with a complete audit trail through peak enrollment.
Secure research and data analysis
Researchers upload multi-modal datasets into isolated instances for synthesis, statistical analysis and grant writing support, with data never leaving the university cloud boundary.
Operations and compliance automation
Automate syllabus accessibility conversions, accreditation report mapping, contract review and curriculum alignment checks, returning thousands of administrative hours to strategic work.
Accessible higher education pricing
Traditional AI vendors force institutions into rigid per-user monthly licences that scale exponentially across tens of thousands of students and staff. Cloudforce takes a transparent approach built around equitable access.
Discounted education licensing
nebulaONE for Education is offered at a dedicated institutional discount rate, aligned with university mission goals.
Consumption-based efficiency
Pay only for the computing power and model tokens your campus actually consumes, not for seats that go unused.
Centralised budgeting and chargebacks
Per-user limits, department allocation, and real-time dashboards keep administrators in control.
Trusted by over 4 million users across 100+ global institutions
Leading higher education systems rely on nebulaONE by Cloudforce to deploy secure, enterprise-grade AI at scale.
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Deployed custom nebulaONE agents within two months to support MBA capstone research and streamline student and administrative workflows.
University of Oxford
Equips researchers and students with a self-hosted, secure AI gateway that protects world-class intellectual property and sensitive research data.
University of Maryland
Launched TerpAI on nebulaONE, giving tens of thousands of students and faculty private assistants for brainstorming, lesson planning and analysis.
London Business School
Replaced fragmented third-party AI tools with one centralised, cost-effective gateway offering multi-model access across departments.
Replace shadow AI with one governed platform
Every day without governance is another day of AI happening to you instead of for you. Take control of your data, your budget, and your security today.
