[xd1936]

I'm 10+ years into IT in higher ed. I'm intrigued by the ideas here. Do you envision Risely being entirely a reporting system that runs _against_ existing systems and data, or do you envision Risely being another source of truth where some data lives? Because if it's the latter, I'm feeling big xkcd.com/927 feelings.

We're a small non-profit liberal arts school, and we already have 70+ integrations feeding to and from the various sources of truth and systems of record. It's a mess.

[danialasif]

I love that comic, and thank you for bringing it up because we are trying to avoid exactly that. We don't intend to be a system of record, we fully recognize that higher education has deep integrations with systems of record that contain complex business rules.

We intend to be an interoperable layer that sits on top of these systems, and allows users to not only surface valuable insights but also take actions within those systems in a secure and compliant way. You can think of it less as reporting and more as a “system of work” that leverages LLMs and agents to streamline the messy, cross-system tasks that slow people down today.