Capstone Educational Consultants

SI Use & Principles: Lean Into Your Genius

Overview

This charter outlines how Capstone Educational Consultants ("Capstone," "we," "our," or "us") utilizes Super Intelligence (SI) to support students, along with the strict commitments that keep every student's work, voice, and story their own.

AI can organize, prompt, track, and check. That frees students, families, and our advisory team to spend more time on the work only people can do: reflecting, deciding, creating, and telling their own stories.

1. Our Principles

• 1 The student's voice is the student's own.

  Anything submitted under a student's name, including essays, short answers, activity descriptions, and messages to colleges, reflects the student's own thinking, experiences, and words.

• 2 Technology assists. People decide.

  AI may suggest, organize, or check. Every recommendation, decision, and final draft is made and owned by a person.

• 3 Accuracy before speed.

  No AI-generated information is relied on or shared with a family until a Capstone team member has verified it.

• 4 Privacy is protected.

  Student and family information is handled with care and used only with tools approved for that purpose.

• 5 Growth over shortcuts.

  Technology is used to build a student's skills and confidence, never to do the work that develops them.

2. How Capstone Uses SI

We use AI-supported tools to make our guidance more timely, organized, and personal:

• Interactive college maps and application trackers
• Brainstorming tools that ask questions to help students uncover their own stories
• Student check-ins and progress tracking
• Research support, planning documents, and session summaries
• Scheduling, reminders, and other administrative tasks

Our team reviews AI-supported work before it reaches a family. AI never writes application content for a student, and it never replaces the judgment of your consultant.

3. A Thinking Partner, Never a Ghostwriter

Capstone students agree to these guidelines as part of working with us:

4. Privacy and Data

• We use only tools Capstone has reviewed and approved for handling student information.
• We share no more information with any tool than the task requires.
• We never sell student or family information.
• We keep sensitive details, such as health, financial, and personal information, out of general-purpose AI tools.

Families may ask at any time which tools are used in their student's work and how their information is handled.

5. Keeping These Principles Current

AI changes quickly. We review these principles at least once a year and update them as tools and college policies change. Questions are always welcome; ask your Capstone consultant.