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Fraud Intelligence
Orion
Orion helps institutions cut fraud-related losses and protect critical revenue awareness. It enhances compliance with regulatory standards while reinforcing the integrity of admissions and financial aid.
Orion by LightleapAI is the fraud command center built for higher education. It protects admission, enrollment, financial aid, and payments with powerful AI-driven risk scoring and ID verification.
By uniting fraud monitoring, case management, and high-risk insights in one workspace, Orion helps institutions block fraud while ensuring real students move forward without friction.
Problem
Institutions are facing insurmountable fraud breaches worldwide.
Ghost Students
Emerging data finds nearly 2 out of every 7 applications are fraudulently submitted into enrollment systems.
Institutional Losses Mount
Community college systems, especially, are having to write off sizable losses from aid and tuition fraud.
Seat Takers
Fraudulent students are taking the seats of real students—further disrupting education and opportunity for thousands.
Operational Impact
Staff allocation of time to manually verify student applications isn’t scalable at the current rate of fraudulent activity.
Variance of Tools
Campuses are relying on a patchwork of tools to accurately identify students across management systems that are not fully integrated.
Industry Impact
Creating data implementation partnerships with one goal: the elimination of fraudulent actors.
Built Through Collaborative Model
Data collaboration with districts and community college systems provides real-time opportunities to identify and isolate fraudulent actors.
Fraud Cluster Identification
Cluster modeling integration increases protection from increasingly sophisticated actors.
Patent-Pending AI/ML Modeling
Utilizes hundreds of variables across admissions, enrollment, and financial data—powered by internal, patent-pending AI/ML models to detect fraudulent applications.
Integrations & Capabilities
Fraud protection requires a comprehensive stack of integrations and capabilities to answer the bell today and the concerns of tomorrow.
Unified Data Monitoring
Continuously ingests application, identity, enrollment, and financial data across systems for real-time oversight.
Anomaly Detection
Identifies suspicious activity such as repeated submissions, inconsistent data, or abnormal user behavior.
Investigation & Case Management
Flags high-risk activity into a centralized workspace for review, investigation, and documentation.
AI Risk Scoring
Applies machine learning models to evaluate behavior patterns and assign dynamic fraud risk scores.
Identity Verification
Integrates ID and identity checks to confirm legitimate users and reduce false positives.
Prevention & Action
Enables teams to block fraudulent activity, trigger alerts, and protect legitimate students with minimal friction.
How Orion Works
Fraud protection structured to withstand today's demands - powered to meet tomorrow's head-on.
Data Ingestion
Orion collects application, identity, enrollment, and financial data from connected systems in real time.
Behavior Analysis
The system analyzes user behavior and data patterns across submissions, applications, and financials.
Activate ScoringAI Risk Scoring
Machine learning models assign a fraud risk score to each case based on detected patterns and signals.
Anomaly Detection
Unusual or suspicious activity—such as repeated attempts or inconsistent data—is automatically flagged.
Investigation & Review
High-risk cases are routed into a centralized case management workspace for staff review and documentation.
Decision & Prevention
Based on findings, teams take action to block fraud, send alerts, or allow legitimate cases to proceed.
Orion: Engaged
Fraud Protection
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Product Stats
0.10M+Applications processed in 2025
0.20KFraudulent applications stopped
0.30M+Real students who gained access to school who otherwise may have been collateral damage
0.40+Institutions served
Over 10 million students impacted every year… and counting.
What Our Partners Are Saying
Light Leap AI completely transformed our admissions process for Rising Scholars. What once took weeks of manual paperwork is now efficient, accurate, and lets our staff focus on what matters most. We’re truly happy with the results and excited to grow our partnership.
Clint Cowden
Assistant Superintendent/Vice President of Instruction & Student Services, Palo Verde College
We have been working with the N2N team for some time now and couldn’t be happier with their service and expertise. They’ve surpassed all our expectations.
Cem Erdem
CEO, AuguSoft Inc.
LightLeapAI virtually eliminated our fraudulent enrollment problem overnight, giving us real students, renewed faculty trust, and renewed hope for our college’s future. We’re truly grateful for their swift and effective partnership.
Dr. Jeannie Kim
President, Santiago Canyon College
The new fraud detection product doubled our ability to stop fraud, saves our teams time, and makes sure aid reaches real students. Integration was easy—even skeptics are now convinced. The product truly speaks for itself.
Dr. Jory Hadsell
Vice Chancellor of Technology, Foothill-De Anza Colleges
LightLeapAI automated our student services process, saving staff time, closing equity gaps, and ensuring students get quick access to the support they need. Our managers now respond instantly, making a real difference for our students.
Dr. Seher Awan
President, Mission College
I know how hard N2N team has worked to get us into position for the MyPath go-live. Please know we understand and respect the sacrifice of the N2N team to move BU forward.
Lee Johnston
Associate Vice Chancellor of Information Technology Services, Brandman University
Banner (R) Registration is a complex process and our system used to crash during critical registration periods. N2N's team assisted my campus with Performance testing the System and helped us create a reliable infrastructure for years to come.
Mia He
Director of Enterprise Systems, Wentworth Institute of Technology
The launch of the Brandman CBE Program is formally underway. I want to express appreciation to you and the N2N team for your leadership, commitment and good efforts to get us this far on our journey. Congratulations and many thanks, Kiran and team.
Phil Doolittle
Chief Financial Officer, Brandman University
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