Improve student retention with Fabric's AI tutor software that ensures no student gets left behind.
Improve student retention
No student left behind
A personal tutor for every student
Helps students reach true understanding
Answers based on study material and notes
Tailored to how each student actually learns
Trusted by 300,000+ students at:
Problem
Students drop out when they feel behind and overwhelmed.
Students are dropping out because they feel behind and overwhelmed.
Your faculty can't provide 1:1 tutoring at scale.
ChatGPT hallucinates and doesn't know your curriculum.
Solution
A personal tutor for every student. No student left behind.
Fabric is a personal AI tutor trained on each student's actual course materials.
Answers with citations. Available 24/7.
Grounded in Bloom's two-sigma research.
The state of play:
At the best institutions:
>1 in 5 students don't complete their degree
At many institutions, it's closer to 1 in 3. Each one represents a student who needed more support than the system could provide – and tuition revenue that walked out the door.
The student dropout equity gap.
The students who need personal tutoring most are the least likely to afford it. Black students graduate at 42.6%, compared to 74.8% for Asian students and 65.6% for White students.
That's not an ability gap. It's a support gap.
Students from under-represented backgrounds are more likely to be first-generation, more likely to be working while studying, and less likely to have access to in-person sessions and office hours.
Student enrolment rates have declined.
Retaining students is more critical than ever, with diminished enrolment rates, and future challenges on the horizon with declining birth rates.
Student retention is an expensive problem.
A mid-sized institution with 15,000 students and a 15% first-year dropout rate loses roughly 2,250 students per year. Each student who leaves after year one represents the tuition revenue for the remaining years of their degree, typically $100,000 to $200,000 at US institutions and £27,000 to £37,000 at UK institutions. The total lost revenue from a single cohort's attrition runs into hundreds of millions.
If Fabric's AI tutor retains even a small percentage of the students who would otherwise have left, the return on investment is substantial.
Why do students drop out, and how do we fix it?
The initial slip.
The cycle typically starts with something minor. A student misses a lecture in week 3, or doesn't fully understand a concept that the rest of the module builds on. Week 4's material assumes week 3's understanding, so the student who missed week 3 is now slightly behind on two weeks' worth of content. By week 5, the gap has widened further, and the material that's building on the foundation they don't have is becoming increasingly opaque.
Feeling left behind.
At this point, the social dynamics compound the academic ones. The student looks around the lecture hall and everyone else seems to be following along. They feel like they're the only one struggling, which makes them reluctant to raise their hand, visit office hours, or ask a classmate for help.
The withdrawal.
The embarrassment of admitting they're lost, combined with the growing sense that catching up would require an enormous effort they don't know how to begin, creates a withdrawal pattern. They start skipping lectures because attending feels pointless when they can't follow the content. They disengage from the course. By mid-semester, they've mentally checked out, and the formal decision to leave is just the paperwork catching up with a departure that happened weeks earlier.
This pattern is remarkably consistent across institutions, subjects, and countries. It affects students who are perfectly capable of mastering the material, students who would have thrived if they'd had the right support at the right moment. The problem was never ability. The problem was that a small gap was allowed to compound into an insurmountable one because no intervention caught it early enough.
The availability of an AI tutor would allow the student to catch up and avoids all the compounding steps that follow.
What if no student was left behind?
Fabric is an AI tutor app loved by 300,000+ students.
A solution that works – and that students actually want to use and choose for themselves everyday.
Fabric doesn't do the work for your students.
It helps them understand and learn at their own pace.
Your students are already using AI.
Banning AI is unenforceable, since students are already using it and detection tools are unreliable. Permitting it without guidance leaves students using a tool that's poorly suited to education in ways that may actively harm their learning.
Most AI tools have 3 main problems:
They hallucinate false answers
They don't know the curriculum
They don't cite sources the student can verify
Fabric's AI tutor is designed for academic integrity.
Accuracy. Every answer is grounded in materials that the institution itself has assigned. The AI tutor retrieves from known-good sources rather than generating from a vast, unverifiable training corpus.
Relevance. The AI tutor's answers match the course's framing, terminology, and theoretical approach, because they're drawn directly from the course's materials. A student preparing for an essay gets real, applicable help.
Verifiability. Every answer cites the original source. The student can check the AI's answer against the reading or the lecture.
Real students. Real results.
"Asked about the hardest part of my physics readings. Fabric's AI tutor explained 3+ different ways until I fully got it."
— Emma
"Group projects are so much smoother now. Everyone can see what's happening and stay on the same page."
— Sarah
How to run a pilot with Fabric.
It's time they used one that doesn't hallucinate and is designed to support learning, not cheating.
