About BrAInWav
We Have Sat in Your Chair
More than forty years of combined experience across higher education and higher education technology. We worked in financial aid, admissions and records, instruction, and IT long before we built anything, which means we know why the deadline on the registrar's page never got updated and why nobody has had time to fix it. That is not a criticism of your team. It is the reason this company exists.
Our Mission
At BrAInWav, we ensure your college's website delivers accurate, consistent, and clear content that students and AI tools can trust. We focus on optimizing the core information, beyond design, to create a single reliable source of truth across your entire campus presence. Our mission is to empower colleges to provide seamless, accessible answers that help students succeed and AI technologies perform at their best.
How This Started
A client asked us to rewrite their financial aid content so students could understand it. Straightforward work, or so it looked. What we found underneath was a website answering the same question four different ways across four offices, quoting federal terminology that had been renamed years earlier, and feeding all of it to AI systems repeating it back to students with total confidence.
The rewrite was never going to be enough. The pages would drift again the moment we left. So we built the thing that keeps them honest, and that became BrAInWav DELTA.
Our Team
Who You Will Actually Work With
You will not be handed to an account manager. The people who build your pages are the people you meet on the first call.
Nick Burrell
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Nick has over a decade of experience working directly in college financial aid offices, from community colleges to large public and private four-year institutions. As one of the original creators of the Ocelot chatbot and later Senior Vice President of School Partnerships, he has worked with hundreds of colleges on AI student engagement, including more than 90 of the California Community Colleges.
Melody Burrell
Chief Technology Officer & Founder
Melody has over 20 years across the California Community College system, in admissions and records, instruction, and information technology. She currently serves as Director of Applications Services at an Aspen award-winning college, supporting Banner, Starfish, and Ocelot, and brings deep experience in website creation, graphic design, and online forms.
Adelina Burrell
Chief Cuteness Officer
Reviews every deliverable from the lap of whoever is typing. Holds strong opinions about deadlines and even stronger opinions about naps.
What Makes Us Different
Experience
01We Know the Regulations
Federal aid rules are not a topic we researched for a sales deck. We have administered them, explained them to families across a counter, and lived through the implementation of the ones changing right now.
Approach
02We Build, We Do Not Advise
Consultants hand you a report and an invoice. We hand you rebuilt pages, working components, and a platform that keeps measuring after the project closes.
Timing
03Building What Comes Next
We helped bring conversational AI to campuses before most institutions had heard of it. We are doing it again, on the layer that decides what students hear about you from every system now answering on your behalf.
Building It Is the Easy Part
Plenty of firms will launch you a website and send an invoice. We are here to help you continually maintain and improve yours, which means we are still measuring it on day four hundred, and on the Tuesday a federal rule changes, and every week your team publishes something new.
How We Work
We Measure First
Nothing gets rewritten before we know what is actually wrong. The first scan gives your team a number and a prioritized list rather than an opinion.
We Work Alongside You
Your office approves every word. We do the heavy lifting inside the platform, and nothing publishes without your sign-off.
We Stay
The scans keep running, the regulation monitoring stays active, and the score keeps you honest long after the project would have ended.
BrAInWav was a true partner from start to finish. Their responsiveness and leadership kept the project on track, and the results delivered meaningful value across our goals.
Massasoit Community College
The Standard We Hold Ourselves To
Every page we build for a client has to pass the same five checks we sell. It seemed like the least we could do.
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Start With Five of Your Pages
Before any conversation, see what we would find. Same engine our clients run on five hundred pages, sourced and prioritized, no commitment attached.