For institutions already on a cloud provider.
Exalt Reserve
For colleges, universities and school systems already on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. Exalt Reserve deploys open models, retrieval, agents and monitoring into that account, reachable only from your private network.
Where an institution starts.
Already on a cloud provider
If your institution already runs its own cloud account, Reserve deploys into it, and people sign in through the identity provider you already use.
Your obligation for outside services
Under FERPA's school-official exception, an institution that shares education records with an outside party performing an institutional service must keep that party under its direct control in how it uses the records, subject to FERPA's limits on redisclosure. That obligation, and the judgement of whether a service meets it, stay with the institution.34 CFR 99.31(a)(1)(i)(B)
Click-through terms get reviewed
Department of Education guidance on online educational services warns that click-wrap agreements can lead to FERPA violations and asks schools to review terms of service before accepting them.Department of Education guidance on online educational services
Your review
Your organization runs its own review and stays responsible for its conclusions.
Same question. Different access.
Two people ask Exalt Reserve the same question. Each answer comes only from the documents that person can read.
Signed in as a search committee member
- A search committee member asks: "What did the search committee decide about the chemistry faculty position?"
- The answer comes from the search committee notes and cites it. The question, who asked and the source shown are recorded in the audit log.
- The citation opens the search committee notes at "Decision", with the passage highlighted.
Signed in as a department staff member
- A department staff member asks the same question.
- They cannot read the search committee notes, so the answer never mentions it. It comes from the faculty hiring policy, which says who to ask.
- The citation opens the faculty hiring policy at "Search records", and the audit log records the question, who asked and the one source shown.
Illustrative. A demonstration workspace, not a customer session.
What sits in your account.
- Models, retrieval, agents and monitoring run inside your own AWS, Azure or Google Cloud account. This is not an Exalt-hosted shared service.
- Open models self-hosted in your account are the default: Llama, Mistral, Qwen, Gemma and DeepSeek. Which models run, and whether a use case also uses an outside AI service, is decided with you.
- Reachable only from your private network, with no public endpoint. People sign in through your own identity provider.
- Data is encrypted at rest and in transit.
- Exalt runs a management plane outside your account. It holds no customer content.
- Two bills: Exalt's software, and your own cloud bill. You keep the data, models, vector stores, credentials and subscription.
- An audit log of questions, answers and admin actions is kept in your own cloud account, and your admin sets how long history is kept.
Other industries on Reserve.
Start with the account you already run.
Bring the cloud account, the material you would put to work and the person who reviews your vendors. The consultation starts with those three.