[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":1474},["ShallowReactive",2],{"press-index":3,"press-list":30},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":10,"extension":13,"meta":14,"navigation":20,"path":21,"seo":22,"stem":28,"__hash__":29},"content\u002Fpress\u002Findex.md","Press",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":9},"minimark",[],{"title":10,"searchDepth":11,"depth":11,"links":12},"",2,[],"md",{"hero":15},{"eyebrow":16,"title":17,"body":18,"mediaContact":19},"Press & News","In the news.","Independent journalism, partnership announcements, and analyst recognition tracking LightleapAI and N2N Services' role in protecting students, eliminating fraud, and modernizing higher education.","press@lightleapai.com",true,"\u002Fpress",{"title":23,"description":24,"image":25,"imageAlt":26,"canonical":27},"Press & News | LightleapAI","Press releases, partnership announcements, and analyst recognition for LightleapAI and N2N Services — protecting students, eliminating fraud, and modernizing higher education.","\u002Fimages\u002Fog\u002Fog-press.jpg","An editorial newsroom workspace with an open broadsheet, leather notebook, and a wall of framed front pages — two of which glow softly in the LightleapAI brand gradient.","\u002Fpress\u002F","press\u002Findex","IVzw8yf9IuD3VWpTWVNQm9vQ1ThCdGTyhWLXn77LWmI",[31,274,534,607,663,735,792,850,928,990,1060,1113,1158,1216,1268,1315,1350,1374,1408,1436],{"id":32,"title":33,"bannerImage":34,"bannerImageAlt":35,"body":36,"category":260,"date":261,"description":262,"excerpt":263,"extension":13,"externalLink":264,"featured":20,"heroImage":263,"heroImageAlt":263,"meta":265,"navigation":20,"path":266,"seo":267,"slug":268,"socialImage":269,"socialImageAlt":270,"source":271,"stem":272,"__hash__":273},"press\u002Fpress\u002F20.helios-launch.md","N2N Services Launches Helios, an AI Agent Platform Built for Higher Education","\u002Fimages\u002Fpress\u002Fhelios-launch-hero.jpg","A cinematic dawn over a hilltop university campus — a bell tower silhouetted against a navy sky, an amber sunrise spilling across mist-shrouded hills, and a faint cyan constellation grid drifting through the night air above the quad.",{"type":7,"value":37,"toc":252},[38,61,64,77,82,93,96,100,146,153,157,164,173,177,196,204,208,227,240,244],[39,40,41,45,46,52,53,60],"p",{},[42,43,44],"strong",{},"ATLANTA, GA — June 9, 2026."," N2N Services Inc., the higher-education technology company behind LightLeapAI ",[47,48,51],"sup",{"className":49},[50],"wordmark-reg","®",", today announced ",[42,54,55],{},[56,57,59],"a",{"href":58},"\u002Fhelios\u002F","Helios",", its next-generation integration and agent platform and the successor to its long-running Illuminate platform. Helios is the first AI agent-builder platform purpose-built for higher education — enabling institutions to build, govern, and ship their own AI agents on top of the systems and data they already run.",[39,62,63],{},"The announcement also marks the beginning of the end for Illuminate, the turnkey API platform N2N has operated for higher education for more than a decade. Illuminate will be retired with a period of overlap to ease customers into the transition to Helios.",[65,66,67,70],"blockquote",{},[39,68,69],{},"\"As Illuminate sets, Helios rises. Ten years ago, we built Illuminate so higher education could finally share its data on its own terms. Helios keeps every promise Illuminate made — fast, secure, turnkey API publishing — and then takes the next step: every API becomes a governed, auditable step in an AI agent pipeline.\"",[39,71,72,73,76],{},"— ",[42,74,75],{},"Kiran Kodithala",", Founder & CEO, N2N Services",[78,79,81],"h2",{"id":80},"from-illuminate-to-helios","From Illuminate to Helios",[39,83,84,85,88,89,92],{},"Illuminate's Photon, Wave, and Spectrum products allowed business users — not just programmers — to publish APIs over student information systems such as Banner, Colleague, and PeopleSoft in minutes rather than months, without expensive middleware. At its peak, the platform ran ",[42,86,87],{},"over 500 live APIs across 400 institutions",", served ",[42,90,91],{},"more than 3 million transactions per day",", and delivered compliance-grade uptime for years.",[39,94,95],{},"Helios preserves that turnkey API-publishing capability and adds an AI agent layer on top. Where Illuminate published APIs, Helios turns every API into a step in a deterministic, governed agent pipeline that is audited and explainable by default.",[78,97,99],{"id":98},"what-helios-delivers","What Helios delivers",[101,102,103,110,116,127,133],"ul",{},[104,105,106,109],"li",{},[42,107,108],{},"Connect anything to anything"," — inheriting every connector N2N has built since 2010, spanning Banner, Workday, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Anthology, Ellucian, custom databases, and REST, GraphQL, SOAP, and legacy XML interfaces.",[104,111,112,115],{},[42,113,114],{},"Arazzo-native agent pipelines"," — deterministic orchestration built on the open Arazzo specification, with Claude on Amazon Bedrock powering every reasoning step.",[104,117,118,121,122,126],{},[42,119,120],{},"Audit-by-default governance"," — every write action requires explicit confirmation, and every agent action traces back to a named, reviewable skill. 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We look forward to showing each of them the unique capabilities of Helios to unlock the potential of their integrations in this AI-enabled age. Transition happens on the customer's schedule — not ours. Helios becomes the default for every new institution starting now.\"",[39,170,72,171,76],{},[42,172,75],{},[78,174,176],{"id":175},"quantum-leap-after-effects","Quantum Leap after-effects",[39,178,179,180,183,184,187,188,191,192,195],{},"Helios arrives on the 100th day after ",[42,181,182],{},"Quantum Leap",", N2N's 15th-anniversary gathering at the Coca-Cola Roxy in Atlanta. 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More than 300 people were coming. And I had almost nothing I was proud to show them.",[39,285,286],{},"I'm going to be honest in a way founders usually aren't in public, because the honesty is the whole point of this story.",[39,288,289],{},"Our products weren't ready for a 60-foot LED screen.",[39,291,292],{},"The chat interface barely worked and fell over on follow-up questions. Prism's design embarrassed me. Orion — our fraud-detection engine, genuinely brilliant under the hood on the AI\u002FML side — was wrapped in a user experience built with a DevOps mindset instead of a product mindset, and it took my team weeks to ship the smallest improvement. The Illuminate platform we'd started building in 2016 was straining at the foundation, because the libraries we'd chosen in 2019 were never designed for the agentic future we now wanted to build. And Omnia — the omnichannel AI device I'd written a 10-month vision document for — existed only on paper.",[39,294,295],{},"For years I'd made a deliberate choice to stay out of the code and focus on strategy and architecture. That let me sell big dreams. It also meant I didn't have the execution muscle that Google or Apple have to turn those dreams into shipping software. My team was averaging about 10,000 lines of code per developer per year. In the old world, that was merely subpar. In an AI-first world, it was laughable.",[39,297,298],{},"I'd spent months trying to change it. I shared videos. I started Slack channels. I tried to inspire the team, excite them, and — I'll admit — I half-jokingly threatened to fire anyone who opened a code editor before they opened a prompt. Velocity didn't move. Momentum didn't move.",[39,300,301],{},"So on January 30th, I stopped talking about it and decided to do it myself.",[78,303,305],{"id":304},"starting-with-the-prompt","Starting with the prompt",[39,307,308,309,313],{},"My son Varoon had been coaching me for months on how software actually gets built now: cloud agents, agentic development, AI as the ",[310,311,312],"em",{},"first"," tool you reach for rather than the last. \"Start with the prompt,\" he kept telling me. Our DevOps Lead, Tim, got my environment wired up to GitHub and AWS in a single call.",[39,315,316],{},"We picked a few small Orion bugs that had annoyed me for ages — broken responsive design, clumsy workflows, architecture straight out of 1995. Within minutes I was closing pull requests that had been open for weeks. The more comfortable I got, the more ambitious I got.",[39,318,319],{},"In 15 years, I had never pushed a single PR to my own company's codebase. On January 31st, I shipped my first one. 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I pulled them into a small, focused, deliberately secret alpha team and called them the ",[42,339,186],{},[39,341,342,343,346,347,350,351,354],{},"We named the project ",[42,344,345],{},"QLYAN"," — ",[310,348,349],{},"yan"," means \"journey\" in Sanskrit, so this was literally our journey to Quantum Leap. We named it after India's Mars mission, ",[310,352,353],{},"Mangalyaan",", because at the time it felt every bit as impossible. The mission: make the chat experience work flawlessly across every device, pull live answers from student information systems, learning management systems, the open web, and local FAQ data, and do it in 20 days.",[39,356,357],{},"Within a week, that small team did what a roomful of developers and architects had been trying to do for a year. The chat worked. 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The device I'd only ever written about was alive.",[39,373,374],{},"On February 24th, I stood in front of that 60-foot screen and presented the Omnia prototype at Quantum Leap.",[78,376,378],{"id":377},"the-work-starts-now","The work starts now",[39,380,381],{},"The morning after the conference, I told the Builders the truth: Quantum Leap is over, but the real work starts today. A demo is a promise. Our promise is end-to-end connectivity for the institutions we serve, and a prototype doesn't keep it.",[39,383,384,385,387,388,391],{},"Over the last three months we've written more than ",[42,386,190],{}," — over ",[42,389,390],{},"390,000 of them by me personally",", with AI as my co-author. This was not AI slop. It turned into real outcomes our customers can feel:",[101,393,394,403,409,419],{},[104,395,396,399,400,203],{},[42,397,398],{},"Orion"," moved from a managed-services platform to a true SaaS chassis, cutting per-customer deployment from ",[42,401,402],{},"weeks to minutes",[104,404,405,408],{},[42,406,407],{},"Polaris"," evolved from a bespoke build for one college into a platform that can take any incoming request and route it to the right AI agent.",[104,410,411,414,415,418],{},[42,412,413],{},"Our chat experience"," is now published on the ",[42,416,417],{},"iOS and Android"," app stores.",[104,420,421,424],{},[42,422,423],{},"Omnia"," is a living, breathing device that talks, listens, and sees.",[39,426,427],{},"I share the proof points because they matter, but the real story is the team. Thank you to the Builders who made the impossible look routine. You proved that a 15-year-old company can move like a startup when it decides to.",[78,429,431],{"id":430},"why-this-matters-beyond-us","Why this matters beyond us",[39,433,434],{},"N2N has spent 15 years building the connective tissue of higher education — the integrations between student information, finance, documents, and transcripts that keep institutions running. That heritage is exactly why this leap counts.",[39,436,437,438,441,442,444,445,448],{},"Today, more than ",[42,439,440],{},"500 institutions"," run on our platform. We've helped stop over ",[42,443,217],{}," and protect more than ",[42,446,447],{},"$1 billion"," in student aid — against a problem the U.S. Department of Education estimates costs the system billions every year. We didn't get here as a feature company. 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It's the natural evolution of everything Illuminate has stood for since 2016: instead of months of custom plumbing to connect systems, institutions can now build their own AI agents on top of the data and workflows they already have, governed by the transparency, least-privilege, and auditability principles behind our Integrated Context Control Protocol.",[39,468,469],{},"If the last 100 days taught me anything, it's that the gap between \"impossible\" and \"shipped\" is now measured in days — for those willing to start with the prompt.",[39,471,472,473,478,479,486,487,203],{},"I'd love for you to see what we built. ",[42,474,475],{},[56,476,477],{"href":58},"Read the Helios story",", ",[42,480,481],{},[56,482,485],{"href":483,"rel":484},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.lightleapai.com\u002F",[143],"explore the platform on lightleapai.com",", and if your institution is ready to build alongside us, ",[42,488,489],{},[56,490,492],{"href":491},"\u002Fcontact\u002F","let's talk",[78,494,496],{"id":495},"the-leap-was-personal-too","The leap was personal, too",[39,498,499],{},"I titled this \"100 days that changed everything,\" and I meant it in more ways than one.",[39,501,502],{},"I also met the love of my life at Quantum Leap. Dr. Jin Liu came to Atlanta as part of our Higher Education Think Tank, alongside more than 40 community college CEOs from across the country. In the three months since, we've traveled to Brazil and Argentina, flown to India, and driven cross-country from Los Angeles to Atlanta with her family and our two dogs. 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To date, the platform has processed close to ",[42,695,696],{},"3 million applications"," and identified roughly ",[42,699,700],{},"360,000 suspected fraudulent applicants"," — all of which had already cleared the California community college system's statewide security screenings.",[39,703,704,705,708],{},"At Golden West College, which deployed the tool ahead of spring 2025, the registrar's office estimates LightLeapAI ",[47,706,51],{"className":707},[50]," has eliminated 96% of enrollment fraud.",[39,710,711,716,717],{},[56,712,715],{"href":713,"rel":714},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.paloaltoonline.com\u002Feducation\u002F2025\u002F09\u002F02\u002Ffoothill-de-anza-pioneers-ai-tool-to-detect-community-college-financial-aid-fraud\u002F",[143],"Read the Palo Alto Online story"," · ",[56,718,721],{"href":719,"rel":720},"https:\u002F\u002Fedsource.org\u002F2025\u002Fcalifornia-colleges-ai-fraud-detection\u002F739763",[143],"EdSource's reporting on the same effort",{"title":10,"searchDepth":11,"depth":11,"links":723},[724],{"id":670,"depth":11,"text":671},"2025-09-02",{},"\u002Fpress\u002Ffoothill-de-anza-pioneer",{"title":665,"description":10},"foothill-de-anza-pioneer","\u002Fimages\u002Fog\u002Fpress\u002Fog-press-foothill-de-anza.jpg","A Silicon Valley community college campus on a hillside at golden hour, palm trees and oaks framing a view of the Valley below, students walking a path — the pioneering first deployment.","Palo Alto Online","press\u002F10.foothill-de-anza-pioneer","d1U2SmoBGZmDjo326R0XhylbwtFVISmpxjnH7SVxoWk",{"id":736,"title":737,"bannerImage":263,"bannerImageAlt":263,"body":738,"category":783,"date":725,"description":10,"excerpt":263,"extension":13,"externalLink":719,"featured":598,"heroImage":263,"heroImageAlt":263,"meta":784,"navigation":20,"path":785,"seo":786,"slug":787,"socialImage":658,"socialImageAlt":788,"source":789,"stem":790,"__hash__":791},"press\u002Fpress\u002F13.edsource-california-ai-fraud-detection.md","EdSource: How California community colleges are using AI to battle financial aid fraud",{"type":7,"value":739,"toc":779},[740,747,762,769],[78,741,743,744],{"id":742},"about-80-of-the-states-115-community-colleges-are-now-or-will-soon-be-using-lightleapai","\"About 80 of the state's 115 community colleges are now or will soon be using\" LightLeapAI ",[47,745,51],{"className":746},[50],[39,748,749,750,753,754,757,758,761],{},"EdSource details how an AI model first trained on ",[42,751,752],{},"Foothill-De Anza's"," historical enrollment data — looking at device fingerprints, IP addresses, time zones, ages, and cross-institution phone-number matches — has spread across California, with the ",[42,755,756],{},"Coast Community College District"," reporting a roughly ",[42,759,760],{},"96% reduction in enrollment fraud"," after deployment ahead of Spring 2025.",[39,763,764,765,768],{},"The piece traces the lineage of the platform from a ",[42,766,767],{},"February 2024 contract worth $56,250"," between Foothill-De Anza and N2N Services (originally for course prediction) into the systemwide adoption that the Chancellor's Office subsidized starting July 1, 2025.",[39,770,771,716,775],{},[56,772,774],{"href":719,"rel":773},[143],"Read the EdSource report",[56,776,778],{"href":713,"rel":777},[143],"Republished by Palo Alto Online",{"title":10,"searchDepth":11,"depth":11,"links":780},[781],{"id":742,"depth":11,"text":782},"\"About 80 of the state's 115 community colleges are now or will soon be using\" LightLeapAI ®","In the Press",{},"\u002Fpress\u002Fedsource-california-ai-fraud-detection",{"title":737,"description":10},"edsource-california-ai-fraud-detection","A journalist's workspace — open laptop with a brand-gradient dashboard glow, a reporter's notebook with hand-drawn arrows — long-form education reporting.","EdSource","press\u002F13.edsource-california-ai-fraud-detection","f4YgeLkyJnS6KrG0gZcnb7_ImKkFkTM06re1k5nf1K8",{"id":793,"title":794,"bannerImage":263,"bannerImageAlt":263,"body":795,"category":783,"date":841,"description":10,"excerpt":263,"extension":13,"externalLink":835,"featured":598,"heroImage":263,"heroImageAlt":263,"meta":842,"navigation":20,"path":843,"seo":844,"slug":845,"socialImage":846,"socialImageAlt":847,"source":806,"stem":848,"__hash__":849},"press\u002Fpress\u002F9.fortune-ghost-students.md","Fortune: 'Ghost students' — AI-powered fraud rings target millions in financial aid",{"type":7,"value":796,"toc":838},[797,801,814,831],[78,798,800],{"id":799},"ghost-students-hit-the-national-stage","\"Ghost students\" hit the national stage",[39,802,803,804,807,808,813],{},"In an August 2025 feature, ",[310,805,806],{},"Fortune"," documented the spread of \"ghost-student\" fraud rings from California to community colleges in Arizona, Indiana, Oregon, New Jersey, and Michigan — and the AI defense platforms institutions are turning to. 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This partnership represents our dedication to being responsible stewards of both student opportunity and taxpayer resources.\"\n— Dr. Torence Powell, Superintendent\u002FPresident, Napa Valley College",[65,901,902],{},[39,903,904],{},"\"What makes Dr. Powell, Dr. Mora, and the entire Napa Valley College leadership particularly noteworthy is their proactive approach to a crisis that many institutions are only beginning to recognize.\"\n— Kiran Kodithala, CEO, N2N Services",[39,906,907,716,911],{},[56,908,592],{"href":909,"rel":910},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.einpresswire.com\u002Farticle\u002F835465941\u002Fnapa-valley-college-leads-fight-against-financial-aid-fraud-with-groundbreaking-ai-partnership",[143],[56,912,915],{"href":913,"rel":914},"https:\u002F\u002Fjournalofcyberpolicy.com\u002Fnapa-valley-college-leads-fight-against-financial-aid-fraud-with-groundbreaking-ai-partnership\u002F",[143],"Journal of Cyber Policy syndication",{"title":10,"searchDepth":11,"depth":11,"links":917},[918],{"id":857,"depth":11,"text":858},"2025-07-31",{},"\u002Fpress\u002Fnapa-valley-college-24000-fraud",{"title":852,"description":10},"napa-valley-college-24000-fraud","\u002Fimages\u002Fog\u002Fpress\u002Fog-press-napa.jpg","A Napa Valley community college campus at golden hour with wine-country hills behind, real students walking together in the foreground, the building edge haloed in the brand gradient — protected by invisible AI.","press\u002F12.napa-valley-college-24000-fraud","FLEG-v53ALHimXbYZ8F7mzV2n3EeSQYf_mxNMuC3-4Y",{"id":929,"title":930,"bannerImage":263,"bannerImageAlt":263,"body":931,"category":979,"date":980,"description":10,"excerpt":263,"extension":13,"externalLink":968,"featured":598,"heroImage":263,"heroImageAlt":263,"meta":981,"navigation":20,"path":982,"seo":983,"slug":984,"socialImage":985,"socialImageAlt":986,"source":987,"stem":988,"__hash__":989},"press\u002Fpress\u002F8.california-community-colleges-statewide.md","California Community Colleges expand LightLeapAI access to all 116 colleges",{"type":7,"value":932,"toc":976},[933,937,954,961,964],[78,934,936],{"id":935},"a-statewide-answer-to-fraudulent-enrollment","A statewide answer to fraudulent enrollment",[39,938,939,940,943,944,947,948,953],{},"Effective July 1, 2025, the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office — through the Foundation for California Community Colleges' ",[42,941,942],{},"CollegeBuys"," program and the new ",[42,945,946],{},"Digital Center for Innovation, Transformation, and Equity"," — began subsidizing the majority of ",[42,949,548,950],{},[47,951,51],{"className":952},[50]," subscription fees for all 116 community colleges in the state.",[39,955,956,957,960],{},"Under the shared-responsibility model, individual districts contribute only $3,000 per college, ensuring that institutions of every size and resource level can deploy AI-powered fraud detection across applications, course registrations, and financial aid workflows. 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