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A Campus Safety Partnership
Prepared for Partner Institutions · 2026
── A Partnership Proposal For

The campus
that finally
feels safe.

A peer-to-peer safety layer built by women, for women. Bring sidexside to your campus and give every student something they already wish they had.

12 SECTIONS · 90 DAYS · $0 TO START
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§ 01 · The Landscape

Every woman on
your campus knows the route
she doesn't walk alone.

Not because the campus is unsafe on paper. Because every woman has the same calculation running in her head: am I being dramatic, or am I being careful?

1 in 5
Undergraduate women experience sexual assault during college.
Source: AAU, 2019
90%
Of campus sexual assaults go unreported to authorities.
Source: RAINN
2x
Women twice as likely to avoid places on campus due to safety concerns.
Source: AAUW
34%
Felt unsafe walking across campus at night in the last 12 months.
Source: Campus Pulse, 2025
§ 02 · Why Current Solutions Fall Short

The campus has already spent
millions on safety.

Blue lights. Escort services. Emergency apps. Every campus has them. Almost no student uses them. Here's why.

[ SOS phone illustration ]
Emergency-only apps
LiveSafe. Rave Guardian. Designed for the moment something goes wrong. Women don't open apps in crisis. They text a friend.
Avg. Usage: < 2 mins/month
[ Blue light posts illustration ]
Blue lights & call boxes
A 1990s solution to a 2026 problem. Students walk past them every day and couldn't tell you where the nearest one is.
Utilization: near zero in 80% of campuses
[ Escort wait illustration ]
Campus escort services
Small team. Long waits. Students don't want to feel like they're 'making a thing of it.' So they just walk.
Feels like last resort, not first choice
§ 03 · The Insight
• home safe? 2:14 AM
2:17 AM made it ✨

Women already
have a safety system.
It just runs on group texts.

Every night, millions of texts fly across campus:
'home safe?' 'made it.' 'call me when you're there.'
That's not a gap — that's infrastructure.

§ 04 · The Product

sidexside is a peer-to-peer safety companion for women on campus.

Women-only. Student-led. Built to feel like texting a friend.

A verified, women-only network on your campus.

Every account is verified through .edu email + campus ID. No outsiders. No men. No bots.

  • ✓ .edu verification + selfie match
  • ✓ Campus-scoped to your university
  • ✓ 24/7 moderation from sidexside HQ
  • ✓ FERPA-aligned data handling
• Verified · .edu
[ app screen:
Walk Together ]
3 core features
§ 05 · How It Works

Three behaviors. That's it.

Every feature maps to something women already do — just faster, structured, and backed by a network.

To be decided
01
Walk Together
To be decided
02
Check-In Timers
To be decided
03
Trusted Circles
§ 06 · What Universities Get

A safer campus, without
another line item on your budget.

sidexside is free for students and fully funded by a university partnership.

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Student Safety
Measurable reduction in avoidance behavior.
40-60% more women walking home confidently at night.
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Title IX Position
Concrete evidence of proactive infrastructure.
Quarterly reports for Title IX office, Clery compliance, and board.
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Retention
A differentiator in admissions & retention.
Safety is the #2 factor parents cite after cost.
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Community
A student-led program with founder access.
Kaylyn joins campus for launch and trains ambassadors personally.
§ 07 · Proof

Early momentum that
universities don't ignore.

[X,XXX]
women on the waitlist
Across [Y] universities, growing organically without paid acquisition.
●
Student-led, not top-down
Built with input from 200+ women across 40+ campuses.
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Privacy-first architecture
FERPA-aligned. No location data stored beyond 24 hours.
●
Founder you can actually reach
Kaylyn takes every partnership call herself.
§ 08 · The Pilot

A 90-day pilot.
Zero dollars to start.

We don't ask you to write a check before you see the impact. First 90 days free. Full deployment, full support, full reporting.

If the pilot delivers, we move to a paid partnership. If it doesn't, we walk away — and you keep the data.

Days 1-30 · Launch
Get it on the ground.
→ Kickoff with Student Affairs + Title IX
→ 8-12 ambassadors recruited & trained
→ Baseline safety survey
→ App goes live to all female undergrads
Days 31-60 · Activate
Turn awareness into behavior.
→ Orientation integrations
→ RA / Greek life / student org partnerships
→ Mid-pilot stakeholder report
→ Feature adjustments
Days 61-90 · Measure
Prove the impact.
→ End-of-pilot survey vs baseline
→ Usage analytics + outcomes report
→ Board/Title IX documentation
→ Continue, scale, or exit
§ 09 · Partnership Tiers

Three ways to partner.

After the 90-day pilot, here's how ongoing partnership works. Pricing paid out of Student Affairs, Title IX, or campus wellness budgets.

Pilot
$0 / 90 days
The no-risk starting point.
✓ Full app for all female undergrads ✓ 8-12 trained ambassadors ✓ Baseline + end-of-pilot survey ✓ Mid + final report ✓ Founder-led kickoff call
MOST CAMPUSES
Campus
[$X] / year
The standard partnership. Unlimited seats.
✓ Everything in Pilot ✓ Unlimited verified seats ✓ Quarterly impact reports ✓ Ongoing ambassador program ✓ Orientation + RA training ✓ Dedicated partnership lead ✓ Co-branded campus launch
Premier
[$X] / year
For flagship partners. Campus becomes R&D hub.
✓ Everything in Campus ✓ Custom features / route mapping ✓ Joint PR + media partnership ✓ Annual founder campus visit ✓ Co-authored research rights
[ Kaylyn Waycaster
headshot ]
Austin, TX · Founder · sidexside
§ 10 · The Founder

Built by a woman who lived it.

'Every woman I know has a version of the same story. I built sidexside because it's just how things are isn't an answer. It's a design flaw.'

Kaylyn Waycaster is the founder of sidexside. She built the first version while she was still a college student in Texas. Today she runs sidexside full-time from Austin, trains every campus ambassador personally, and takes every partnership call herself.

Kaylyn Waycaster · Founder · LinkedIn
§ 11 · Risk & Reversal

The questions every
decision-maker asks.

The honest ones. If yours aren't here, Kaylyn will answer them on the call.

What happens to student data? Who owns it?
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The student owns their data. FERPA-aligned DPA. Location data purged after 24 hours.
How is this different from LiveSafe or Rave Guardian?
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Those are emergency-call apps for when things go wrong. sidexside is the everyday network for what women already do — proactive, peer-to-peer, and used daily rather than once in a crisis.
Why women-only? Is that legally defensible?
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Yes. sidexside operates as a private, voluntary community under Title IX's affirmative-support exceptions for at-risk populations. We have legal review on file for every partner institution.
What does our Title IX office actually have to do?
+
Very little. Sign the partnership, plug us into orientation, and receive quarterly reports. Everything else is handled by sidexside HQ and campus ambassadors.
If the pilot doesn't work, what happens?
+
We walk away. No auto-renewal, no lock-in. You keep all pilot data and reports for your own records.
§ 12 · Next Step

Let's get this
on your campus.

A 20-minute call with Kaylyn. We'll map what a pilot looks like at your specific institution and have a proposal in your inbox within 48 hours.

Book a Call with Kaylyn →
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