Welcome to Agentic Bottleneck Management thatcounts next term's demand from the plans students already carry.
Nobody owns the bottleneck. The department schedules what it always scheduled, and advising meets the pile-up one student at a time. Risely's agents count the demand and price the fix, and the dean decides.
Next term · demand against seats
counted in week three
The bar is planned demand. The white mark is the seats that exist.
the options are priced
a second section, with an instructor available and a room open · or two raised caps, and a harder term for everyone in them
Risely's agents: summing next term's demand from the plans students already carry
Demand gets counted, one plan at a time.
Risely's agents sum what every student's plan asks for next term, then add the students the prerequisite chains make eligible between now and then. Last year's enrollment never enters it.
Last year's enrollment is a guess about this year's students. Summing the plans they already carry is a count.
One under-scheduled section gates three majors.
A chokepoint is only a scheduling detail until you draw what sits behind it. Risely's agents map the chain, and the delayed degrees stop being invisible.
CHM-152
the chokepoint
nursing
waits on it
biology
waits on it
public health
waits on it
Left alone, 45 graduations slip a semester, and the institution learns about it in a time-to-degree report years later.
Every fix arrives with its price.
A second section, a raised cap, or nothing at all. Risely's agents cost each option against instructors, rooms, and the degrees it protects, including the option of leaving it alone.
add a second section
an instructor is available, and a room is open
clears the shortfall outright
raise two caps
no new cost and a harder term for everyone in them
clears part of the shortfall
do nothing
no line in the budget
45 graduations move a semester
Doing nothing is priced too, because that is the option that usually wins by default.
The decision belongs to the people who schedule.
Risely's agents count, price, and recommend. The dean or the registrar approves, and the change lands on the ledger with their name on it.
On approval the change executes and lands on the ledger with the approver's name attached. Every option in front of them was a real choice.
One thing moves. The demand re-counts.
A plan changes, a section gets cancelled, a cohort moves through a prerequisite together. Each one moves next term's demand, and Risely's agents re-count every course the same way.
Forty-five plans add the same course
a cohort cleared the prerequisite together
Demand crosses the seats offered
in week three, while a section can still be added
Risely's agents price the options
a second section or two raised caps
The dean approves the section
the instructor is available, and the room is open
Forty-five timelines hold
instead of surfacing in a report years later
Agentic Bottleneck Management never works alone.
sends the prerequisite
rules behind each chain
sends the added section
for a room and a time
sends next year's demand
counted from real plans
What changes, and how it runs.
The chokepoint surfaces while the fix is cheap
Week three, rather than the week registration closes.
Every fix arrives priced
Cost, instructor, room, and the degrees each option protects.
A scheduling memo survives a budget meeting
Because it carries the delayed degrees, counted by name.
The technical read
Connects read-only to your SIS, catalog, section schedule, and student plans to start
The dean or the registrar approves every schedule change
Every action lands on an append-only log
Runs alongside what you have. Nothing rips out.