For colleges

Your students already drive home.
Most of those seats are empty.

Every break, students drive the same corridors with three empty seats while classmates pay for a flight or a bus. Seat Sherpa lets them share the drive at cost — and it costs your college nothing to run.

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How it works on campus

No integration, no software to install, and nothing for the college to administer.

1

Students post the drive they're already making

Someone heading home to LA for Thanksgiving lists their trip in about a minute, from a browser or the app.

2

Classmates find it and book a seat

Riders search their route and book online. Payment runs through the platform, so there's no chasing anyone for gas money.

3

We can set up a code for your campus

A school-specific promo code gives your students a discount on their first ride and lets us report back how many trips it covered.

4

Riders who find nothing tell drivers what they need

When no ride exists yet, students post the trip they're looking for — and get an email the moment someone posts it.

Why colleges care

Three problems this touches without a budget line.

🅿️ Parking demand

Every filled seat is a car that didn't need a space. Nothing to integrate with your parking system — fewer cars is the whole mechanism.

💸 Cost of getting home

Seat prices are capped at the trip's actual driving cost, so a shared ride is structurally cheaper than a flight or a last-minute bus.

🌱 Sustainability reporting

Shared trips on your corridors are measurable. If you use a campus code, we can tell you how many rides and seats it covered.

What it costs

Nothing, to the college. Seat Sherpa is a consumer marketplace — students post and book directly, and we take a small service fee on each booked seat. There's no contract, no license, no onboarding project, and no IT work. If it doesn't get used on your campus, it costs you nothing.

Seat prices are capped at the trip's shared driving cost (currently up to $55 a seat), because this is cost-sharing carpooling — not a ride-hail service and not a way for students to run a business.
Optional: Seat Sherpa Campus. A branded ride board for your school with .edu verification, preset routes for the trips your students actually make, and a term report for your office. $2,500 a year for the first three founding campuses, $3,500 after. Students still ride free of any institutional fee either way.

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Want to try it on your campus?

Tell us your school and the corridors your students travel most. We'll set up a code and a page for those routes, and you can see whether it gets traction before committing to anything.

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Or email justin@seatsherpa.app directly.