An AI-powered, enterprise-ready platform built by an educator to address a fundamental gap in higher education. Powered by patent-pending technology.
Request a DemoCurriculum Intelligence
LMS Integration
Compliant by Design
Vendor Assessed
Concurrent Users
Canvas, Moodle, D2L, BB
Platform
LTI 1.3 certified. Works with Canvas, Moodle, D2L Brightspace, and Blackboard. Seamless launch from within your existing LMS.
All configuration and onboarding handled by our team. Faculty and IT involvement is minimal to none.
FERPA compliant by design. Cloud-hosted on enterprise PostgreSQL. Built with student data privacy as a core principle.
Original technology with patent-pending implementations.
15 minutes is all it takes. We'll show you what students have been missing.
Request a DemoAbout the Founder
Brent Marinan is an award-winning Senior Lecturer in Business Analytics with 12 years at a Research 1 university teaching programming, statistics, and marketing research. He holds three master's degrees (MIS, Statistics, Marketing), a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Cybersecurity certificate. His background spans international business operations, data science, and education.
He built CAIRNEXUS to address a gap he observed in higher education — designed with both pedagogical depth and enterprise-grade security in mind.
The name CAIRNEXUS comes from cairn — a trail marker that guides the way — and nexus — a point of connection. It was also inspired by his cairn terrier, whose relentless curiosity mirrors what the platform does: fetch the connections that others miss.