Deployment roadmap options

Three ways in.You do not have to start sitewide.

All three end in the same place. Sitewide from day one is only one of them, and rarely the one we recommend.

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No stage is a dead end.

Every option runs on one index, one console and one contract, so what you switch on first is a scope decision rather than an architecture decision. Later stages add configuration — never a rebuild, and never a second migration.

Option 1Recommended

Phased proof

One audience at a time, with a decision gate after each stage. You continue, pause or reorder on evidence you have collected, rather than on a business case written in advance.

  1. 1

    Expert Finder

    Data you already maintain, in front of partners and journalists. No student-facing exposure.

  2. 2

    Course Finder

    The commercial one. Constraint-accurate discovery with a shareable filtered results page.

  3. 3

    Enrolment Concierge

    Clarify, recommend, capture the enquiry, then hand off with the whole conversation.

  4. 4

    Events & insights

    Real calendars, including series that skip weeks. Your own data now says what to build next.

  5. 5

    Sitewide search & agent team

    The same index across the whole site, with agents already proven.

First value
About four weeks
Exposure
One audience, one section
Choose this when
You want evidence in hand before a larger commitment.
Option 2

Recruitment first

Straight at the commercial question, on the catalogue that already has the facets. Widen once the funnel numbers are in.

  1. 1

    Course Finder

    Negations, OR groups across two attributes and duration limits honoured from week one.

  2. 2

    Enrolment Concierge & handoff

    Guided progression instead of deflection, and qualified enquiries landing in your CRM.

  3. 3

    Study Pathways & events

    For students who do not yet know what they want, plus open days and tours.

  4. 4

    Sitewide search & insights

    Widen to the whole site once conversion is proven.

First value
About six weeks
Exposure
The recruitment funnel
Choose this when
Application conversion is this year's priority.
Option 3

Full answer layer

One governance cycle, one integration, one launch. The shortest route to the whole benefit, at the cost of a bigger first decision.

  1. 1

    Sitewide search

    Hybrid retrieval, scopes, facets and curated answers, with a Funnelback-compatible migration path.

  2. 2

    The full agent team

    Study Pathways, Enrolment, Student Support and Search Guide, with human override and handoff.

  3. 3

    Secure intranet & insights

    Authenticated staff and student content, and intelligence across every audience at once.

First value
About ten weeks
Exposure
Sitewide, from launch
Choose this when
Legacy search is being replaced anyway — budget and deadline exist.

Low cost, low risk, low effort — at any size.

Low cost

Stage one is a single agent on content you already maintain. BCIT's two-month trial returned 5,000%, which is usually how the next stage gets funded.

Low risk

Answers come only from content you approve, with citations, and scope is set by URL pattern — so the exposure is whatever you choose.

Low effort

One script tag, a Tag Manager container, or a plugin for WordPress, HubSpot, Storyblok or DataScape. We do the indexing.

High business value at every stage.

Stage one is scoped in a single working session with your real questions. You are not buying a programme of work — you are switching on one agent, in front of one audience, and reading what it tells you.

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Solution

Airgentic for Higher Education

Precision discovery, specialist agents and conversational intelligence for universities and colleges.

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Business case

How many extra students does it have to bring in?

The arithmetic, the evidence, and how you will measure the result.

Read the business case

Implementation

How long does implementation take?

Between two weeks and ten — and it is mostly your choice.

See implementation options

Pricing

What am I buying, and what sets the price?

One subscription, sized by conversational outcomes. No per-seat licensing.

How pricing works

Pick a first audience. We will scope it live.

Bring the section of the site you would actually start with. We will map it onto one of the three paths above.

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