Lead with Insight. Plan with Confidence.

Strategic enrolment management is no longer just about tracking trends—it’s about staying ahead of them and planning for change. Plaid gives you the competitive edge with fast, accurate, and collaborative forecasting tools to anticipate change, optimize resources, and outperform your peers.

Forecast smarter, plan further, and act faster.

Plaid Forecast empowers higher education leaders with the information needed to build a resilient and thriving future for their institution.

Navigate demographic shifts, labour market changes, policy uncertainty, and fiscal pressures with fast, accurate projections—right down to the course level.

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Still building projection models in spreadsheets?

Step into your future with Forecast—a user-friendly, highly visual, interactive platform where you can share scenarios and projections, collaborate across teams and never worry about overwriting your data.

From international permit scenarios to multi-year program planning, Forecast empowers institutions to explore “what-if” questions with real-time modeling and full version tracking. Forecast is web-based—no downloads, no delays—just better decisions, made faster.

Align vision with reality, anticipate what’s ahead and confidently lead your institution forward with Plaid Forecast as key part of your strategic enrolment management toolset.

“Working with Andrew and Pat from Plaid Analytics has been a pleasure. Plaid helped Postgraduate Medical Education at UBC transition from a spreadsheet based workforce planning system to a dedicated forecasting system which is accurate, intuitive and state of the art. It has transformed our operations and enables us to forecast much more accurately on the number of residents in each of our programs.”
~Rob Brackenbury, Senior Manager Postgraduate Medical Education
Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia

Plaid Forecast is:

  • Collaborative – from academics to accountants, bring your cross-campus teams together to build a realistic, actionable visions for the future
  • Accurate –purpose-built for higher education data, decision-making, and enrolment modelling.
  • Fast – Generate detailed forecasts in minutes, not days
  • Easy – reduce reliance on key staff and empower more leaders to engage directly in forecasting and planning

The Plaid Difference

We deliver what internal teams and big firms can't.

Internal teams are often stretched thin. Large firms offer one-size-fits-all tools. Plaid delivers something better—tailored insight built for higher education:

  • Direct access to experts – With a deliberately small and highly skilled team, you work directly with our executive leaders and senior analysts—gaining the full benefit of our 50+ years of experience in higher ed data strategy.
  • Higher ed is our specialty – we don’t try to be everything to everyone. Our passion and focus is higher education, we bring a deep understanding of enrolment dynamics, planning cycles, student data and institutional nuance that generic models often miss.
  • Tailored scenarios, not templates – we can help you build custom intake and enrolment scenarios that reflect your institution’s unique programs, goals, and challenges. With the shared scenario feature, you can iterate in real time—no rigid formulas, just adaptable scenarios that reflect how your institutional actually works.
  • Granular, program- and course-level projections – Go beyond high-level enrolment numbers. Forecast delivers projections disaggregated to the course and program level—helping you align resources, space, and budgets with real enrolment patterns.
  • Built on real student behaviour – The Forecast model reflects how students actually move through programs, make decisions, and complete their credentials. This behavioural foundation leads to smarter, more reliable projections you can trust.

Don't spend months waiting for a projection results spreadsheet. Create, modify and run your enrolment scenario whenever you want. View results instantly with Plaid Forecast's user-friendly dashboards.

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Answer the Questions that Matter Most

Plaid Forecast isn’t just about numbers—it’s about planning together with purpose. Use Plaid Forecast to answer the strategic questions that keep leadership teams up at night:

  • What will enrolment look like in 3-5 years, by program, residency, and year level?
  • How will changes in international study permits ripple through our academic offerings over the next ten years?
  • What happens if I raise or reduce intake targets by 5%?
  • Which course are at risk if enrolment continues to shift?
  • What’s the most responsible path to teach out a program that is being discontinued?
  • What will the impact of launching a new program be on other programs and shared courses?

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