We combine academic records, attendance trends, and weekly sentiment check-ins to detect early signs of socio-emotional risk in middle and early high school students. Each week, counselors and teachers receive a concise risk report, complete with explanation of key drivers, so they can step in with targeted interventions before students fall behind or crisis strikes. Our mission is to foster resilient school communities where every student’s emotional health is identified, supported, and protected.
We’re thrilled to welcome a new advisor to the Early Signal Project, someone whose expertise and values align powerfully with our mission to protect and empower students through ethical, actionable data. Their experience and innovative spirit will bring fresh perspective and strategic insight to our work, and we’re honored to have their guidance as we continue building systems that support early intervention, transparency, and trust. This marks an exciting step forward in our journey.
Introducing: Al Youssef
With a distinguished career driving innovation in the financial technology sector, Al Youssef is an accomplished tech executive recognized for building and leading high-performing engineering teams. Over the past two decades, he has spearheaded digital transformation initiatives that modernized enterprise systems, strengthened data-driven decision-making, and scaled global technology platforms. Al brings a rare blend of strategic vision, operational rigor, and empathetic leadership, fostering collaboration across product, engineering, and compliance to deliver secure, resilient systems. His expertise in architecting trustworthy, high-integrity data infrastructure makes him a powerful addition to the Early Signal Project’s mission of protecting and empowering students through ethical, actionable data.
Al’s belief in the power of ethical, data-driven intervention aligns deeply with our mission. In his own words: “The Early Signal project is utilizing modern technology and data analytics capabilities and is taking an innovative approach to identifying students who are becoming at-risk or trending in that direction. Early identification will enable timely intervention from teachers and counselors and will help keep more of our students on track in ways that are minimally disruptive for them. This is an extremely worthy project.”
More Advisors to be announced soon!
We are excited to say that we will be announcing new members of our advisory board soon!
We look forward to their future contributions!
Early Signal Project 