The Platform

BrAInWav DELTA

Your content management system manages publishing. DELTA manages what gets published. It reads every page you are responsible for, holds them against each other, and returns what no single page review can find: the answers that conflict between offices, the terminology that changed federally, the accessibility and regulation flags, and how AI tools are using your site to answer students right now.

Everything gets measured against five standards, and we work with your team to move the score. We are here to help you continually maintain and improve your site, not just build it.

The Live Dashboard

Your Whole Site, One Number

Everyone on your team gets their own sign-in, and the portal opens on where the institution stands today: the score, what moved this week, and which departments are carrying the work. Every number is live, so the score moves the moment a page is corrected.

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Your Institution · Today

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198 pages under continuous watch for accuracy, accessibility, and what AI tells your students. 714 new findings since tracking began.

Content 78 Accessibility 99 Links 97 AI Answers 15
74 SITE HEALTH 14

from 60 at the first full scan

This Week

+14 pts 14

from Jul 30

Health by Department

Financial Aid87
Student Affairs89
Registrar91
Disability Services94

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The Analysis

What That 74 Is Made Of

A single number is only worth something if you can take it apart. Each letter breaks into the specific things we can count on your pages, with the page count behind every figure. Select any card to open that standard in full.

DDiscoverable

15%

Answers from your pages

150 answers

68%

Pages an assistant can read

title, description and heading present

88%

Pages with a title and description

how findable and quotable your pages are right now

EEngaging

20%

Pages with nothing in the way

198 pages watched

93%

Pages that answer rather than link away

13 are nearly empty or all links

20%

Pages a student can read easily

plain language target

how easily a student gets through your pages

LLive

55%

Pages touched this year

148 dated

75%

Pages we can date

198 pages watched

5%

Engagement published

172 in the engagement

how current the site is, and how much of it we can tell

TTrusted

26%

Pages with nothing wrong

198 pages watched

46%

Pages with working links

0%

Findings resolved

how much of the site is correct rather than merely tidy

AAccessible

84%

Pages with no barriers

198 pages watched

95%

Pages free of serious barriers

0%

Barriers resolved

how much of the site everyone can actually use

We Fix the DNA, Not the Paint

A redesign can look extraordinary and still send students the wrong answer. We are not a marketing agency and we are not a one-time audit. DELTA watches the layer underneath the design, across every department, and reports back continuously so your team always knows where the institution actually stands.

Automation

01

Technology Does the Reading

Hundreds of pages scanned on a schedule, not whenever someone finds a free afternoon. Your accuracy score updates as the work gets done.

Consistency

02

One Question, One Answer

No more seven versions of the same deadline living on seven pages. We find the contradictions across departments and resolve them into a single source of truth.

Proof

03

Evidence, Not Opinion

Every finding quotes the exact sentence on the exact page. Nothing in our reporting is a judgment call you have to defend upward without proof.

Inside DELTA

Eight Ways We Keep Your Site Current

Every page you are responsible for runs through the same set of checks, week after week, and each one reports back in plain language. Select one to see exactly what it returns.

Compliance and Accuracy

Wording the federal government renamed and nobody caught. Requirements repealed years ago still posted as barriers. Every finding quotes your own page.

What We Find

Outdated terminology, repealed requirements, relocated federal resources, cost figures with no context.

Why It Matters

A student told they are ineligible never applies, and never learns otherwise.

Renamed Term Still in Use

Fix First
Your EFC is calculated from the information you report on the FAFSA.

What to Do: Replace with Student Aid Index. The surrounding explanation needs rewriting, not a find and replace.

Discontinued Program Listed as Available

Worth a Look
We offer Pell Grants, Federal Perkins Loans, and work study.

What to Check: New Perkins loans ended in 2017. Repayment content is still correct; a list of available aid is not.

Accessibility

Automated WCAG 2.1 AA checks on every scanned page, aligned with the DOJ Title II web rule, with the exact element that fails and the page it lives on.

What We Find

Missing alternative text, low contrast, unlabeled form fields, headings out of order, PDFs a screen reader cannot use.

Why It Matters

The Title II deadlines are fixed. Knowing your number today is what makes the plan defensible.

Accessibility 198 Pages Scanned

Open Findings

47

Critical

6

Serious

19

Resolved

128

Image Missing Alternative Text

Critical

WCAG 1.1.1 · /financial-aid/deadlines · 4 more pages

<img src="fafsa-deadline-banner.png" alt="">

What to Do: The banner carries the March 2 priority date, so it needs alt text that states the date, not an empty attribute.

Link Text Does Not Describe Its Destination

Serious

WCAG 2.4.4 · 23 pages across 4 departments

For information about verification, click here.

What to Do: Name the destination in the link itself so it makes sense out of context to a screen reader.

Automated checks catch the mechanical portion of WCAG. Our team layers expert review on top for the rest.

Links and Link Usage

Two questions. What is broken, and who points at the page you are about to move. The second is the one nobody else answers.

What We Find

Thousands of links checked per scan, then mapped so every inbound reference is traceable.

Why It Matters

Moving a page silently breaks the offices that linked to it, and you hear about it from students.

Link Usage /financial-aid/loans

Yours to Update 3

Financial Aid

/financial-aid

Types of Aid

/financial-aid/types-of-aid

Cost of Attendance

/financial-aid/cost

Other Offices 3

Tuition and Fees

/registrar/tuition

Payment Plans

/bursar/payment-plans

Affording Your Degree

/admissions/afford

AI Readiness

Whether the systems answering your students can reach and read your content, with every crawler named and its access confirmed.

What We Find

Crawlers blocked by accident, pages locked inside untagged PDFs, answers no machine can parse.

Why It Matters

If an assistant cannot read the page, your institution is absent from the answer entirely.

AI Readiness 198 Pages

Crawlers Allowed

13

Crawler Blocked

1

Pages AI Cannot Read

7

Answered Correctly

15%

GPTBotAllowedFeeds ChatGPT training and browsing.
ClaudeBotAllowedFeeds Claude.
PerplexityBotAllowedFeeds Perplexity answers.
Applebot-ExtendedBlockedBlocked by your robots file, so Apple Intelligence cannot cite you.

AI Answer Auditing

We ask the assistants what students ask them, grade every answer, and trace each one back to the page that caused it.

What We Find

Contradictions between assistants, answers sourced from peer institutions, and outright content gaps.

Why It Matters

This is the conversation that decides where a student applies, and you are not in the room.

"How do international students get an I-20?"

CClaude Not On Your Site Described a five-day contact window and ten-day issuance, sourced elsewhere.
GChatGPT Not On Your Site Described a different process with a ten to fifteen day window.
GGemini Site Not Cited Answered without referencing any page on your domain.

Root Cause: No page covers international document procedures, so this is a content gap rather than an inaccuracy.

Recommended Fix: Publish the process on your international student landing page so it is verifiable from your own domain.

AI Traffic Tracker

Traditional analytics count people. They do not count the AI systems now reading your content on students' behalf, or tell you which pages they are drawn to.

What We Find

Every crawler named, its share of your traffic measured, and the pages it returns to most.

Why It Matters

Roughly a third of the reads on your site are now machines, and you cannot manage what you cannot see.

Traffic and AI Last 30 Days

Requests

18,402

All Sources

AI Systems

31%

Of All Reads

Crawlers

9

Named Below

Top Page

Aid

Most Read by AI

Reads by Crawler

GPTBot2,140
ClaudeBot1,668
PerplexityBot1,049
Google-Extended728
Applebot-Extended364
Others235
GPTBot ClaudeBot PerplexityBot Google-Extended Applebot-Extended Others

Regulation Corner

We monitor NASFAA, StudentAid.gov, FSA Partner Connect, Dear Colleague Letters, FERPA guidance, and state residency rules, then cross-check each change against what your pages actually say.

What It Does

Turns a regulatory change into a named list of your pages, with the sentence that now needs to move.

Why It Matters

The rule changes on a Tuesday. Your website should not still be answering last year's version in November.

Regulation Corner 3 Updates This Month

OBBBA Loan Limits: New Parent PLUS Caps

Action Needed

Federal Student Aid · Effective 2026-07-01 · Financial Aid

New annual and aggregate Parent PLUS caps apply to loans first disbursed on or after July 1, 2026. Any page stating Parent PLUS is limited only by cost of attendance now needs the per-dependent caps instead.

Affected Pages: Types of Aid, Parent Loans, Cost of Attendance, Policies and Guidelines for Students

ADA Title II Web Rule: WCAG 2.1 AA

Plan Now

Department of Justice · Compliance Deadline · Institution Wide

Public institutions must meet WCAG 2.1 AA across web content and mobile apps. Your Accessibility scan is already reporting against this standard, so the gap is measurable today.

Curious what Regulation Corner would flag on your site this morning?

Test Drive Regulation Corner

The Playbook

Your accessibility standards, plain-language rules, and institutional terminology, loaded once and enforced on every future scan across every department.

What It Does

Turns the standards you already agreed on into rules the platform checks site-wide, automatically.

Why It Matters

A style guide nobody can enforce is a document. This makes it a control.

Playbook 14 Rules Active

Accessibility and Plain Language

Click hereDescriptive link textWCAG 2.4.4, link purpose in context
Learn moreName the destinationScreen reader link lists
Color alone to signal statusColor plus a text labelWCAG 1.4.1, use of color
See the PDF belowContent on the page itselfReadable by assistive tech and by AI

Institutional Terminology

Award letterFinancial aid offerPlain-language standard
Foreign studentInternational studentInstitutional style guide

House Rule: Descriptive Link Text

Worth a Look
For more information about deadlines, click here.

Found On: 23 pages across 4 departments, from a rule you set once.

The Assistant

Ask Your Website a Question, in Plain English

Every scan, finding, and regulation update feeds an assistant built into DELTA. Your staff ask it the way they would ask a colleague who had read all 198 pages that morning, and it answers only from your own content, with the page behind every claim.

Ask DELTA Your Content Only
MB

Do any of our pages still say EFC?

BW

Yes, on six pages. Four explain the old formula and need rewriting, not a swap. Two mention it once in a glossary line and can be changed directly.

/financial-aid/how-aid-works /financial-aid/loans +4 more
MB

Draft the replacement for the loans page

BW

Here is a version using Student Aid Index, following your Playbook rule for plain language and your reading-level target:

Your Student Aid Index comes from the information you report on the FAFSA. It is not a bill, and it is not what you will pay. Your school uses it to decide which types of aid you can receive.

Want me to draft the other three?

Ask about any page, finding, or regulation update Ask

Grounding

01

Grounded in Your Pages

It answers from your scanned content, your findings, and your Playbook. If the answer is not on your site, it says so instead of inventing one.

Traceability

02

Every Answer Cites a Page

You get the URL with the response, so anything you forward to a colleague or a vice president can be verified in one click.

Output

03

It Drafts the Fix

Finding the problem is half the job. Ask for replacement wording and it writes it in your institution's voice, ready to paste into the CMS.

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.

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