Where value leaks today

The problems we start from

Silent drop-out

Missed seminars and no logins, each seen alone, until the student leaves.

Enquiry overload

The same forty questions answered forty times by hand.

Case backlogs

Extenuating-circumstances claims decided from zero every exam season.

Rooms and clashes

A closed lecture theatre becomes a morning of emails.

Fees and hardship

Debt letters sent where a payment plan would have kept the student.

The Brain remembers

What your education Brain would keep

Not just records: the decisions behind them, with their reasons and outcomes, so every agent and every new colleague starts from experience.

  • which signals came before last year's withdrawals, and which calls kept students
  • the answers that settled each common question
  • similar cases and the evidence that was accepted
  • which rooms worked and which clashed with exams
The agent team

Six agents, each with an owner

Each badge shows the agent's autonomy (L0–L3 autonomy levels). The hand-written line is who decides.

SE

Student Engagement

L1

Flags the student whose signals line up.

the personal tutor calls
EQ

Student Enquiries

L3

Answers, checks the rules, books the adviser.

refunds go to Student Finance
EC

Extenuating Circumstances

L1

Prepares each case against the policy and precedent.

the panel decides
TT

Timetabling

L2

Moves the lecture and tells every student.

within the timetable rules
FH

Fees & Hardship

L1

Recommends a payment plan with hardship advice.

a fees officer decides
AD

Admissions

L1

Recommends a follow-up plan where acceptances lag.

the director of admissions decides
One day in the life

An education day, hour by hour

07:00
Student Engagement
A first-year's signals line up; a tutor call is booked.
09:00
Student Enquiries
A module switch is answered and an adviser slot booked.
11:00
Extenuating Circumstances
A deferral case is prepared with fifty similar cases.
13:00
Timetabling
A lecture for 180 moves to a hall that works; everyone is told.
15:00
Fees & Hardship
The same student is offered a plan, not a debt letter.

Illustrative scenario: the hours and details show how the agents would work; they are not results.

What a pilot would measure

Evidence, agreed with Finance

Each agent's effect goes to a benefits ledger that Finance owns, against a baseline agreed before the pilot starts.

continuation ratetime to answer studentscase decision timeroom utilisationfee collection without withdrawals

Academic and money decisions stay with people. Student data stays inside the university's approved systems.

Pick one process. See what your Brain would remember.

A 30-minute call: we map one process with you, where its decisions and their reasons live today, and what an agent could safely take on.

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