Case Study: Cialfo achieves real-time, data-driven student-university matching with Snowflake Data Cloud

Cialfo turns to data to match Universities with students through the Data Cloud

Cialfo is a fast-growing Singapore-based edtech company (founded 2017) that helps high school students, counselors and universities find the best university matches. With about one million users and rapid year-on-year growth, the business faced a challenge: consolidate data from many sources and deliver deeper, near real-time insights and reporting for counselors, schools, universities and internal teams to improve student outcomes and operational decision‑making.

Cialfo implemented Snowflake (ingesting data via Hevo and transforming with dbt) to create a secure single source of truth with data refreshed every 30 minutes. The platform scaled from under 1TB to 42TB, enabled faster dashboards and reports (created in minutes), and delivered measurable benefits — powering new products for schools and universities, improving counselor guidance, 99.99%+ availability, roughly 75% off‑peak cost reductions and an estimated $50,000 saved by avoiding external specialist fees.

Cialfo

Ankit Khanduri

Lead Data Engineer