Welcome to Agentic Factbook & Dashboards thatfreezes the census snapshot and builds every table from it.
Two deans with two headcounts is a meeting the office never stops paying for. Risely's agents freeze the census line, build every table from it with lineage attached, and an IR analyst certifies each figure before it publishes.
Fall census · the snapshot
counting
11,204
Headcount
9,867
FTE
84.2%
Retention
61.8%
6-yr grad
lineage · headcount 11,204
census snapshot · degree-seeking + certificate cohorts · as-of stamped · certified by an IR analyst
IPEDS file
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Dashboard
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President's deck
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Every number is defined once.
Two offices counting the same thing differently is how two headcounts reach one meeting. Risely's agents hold one governed definition per metric, surface the mismatch the moment a pull disagrees, and an IR analyst settles it once.
Headcount · two pulls arrive
definition mismatch
Enrollment office pull
includes certificate students
College pull
excludes them · run on a different day
The mismatch surfaces before the meeting with its reason attached
Fall headcount · 11,204
census snapshot · degree-seeking + certificate cohorts · the governed definition
The mismatch gets caught by the pipeline instead of by the provost.
Every figure carries its own receipt.
Definition, source snapshot, and as-of date travel under the number wherever it appears. A figure that can explain itself does not generate a phone call, and it does not generate a second version.
11,204
fall headcount, anywhere it appears
When the provost's office asks which headcount this is, the figure has already answered.
The new cycle explains its own movement.
When the tables rebuild, each figure diffs against last cycle and drafts a note for anything that moved. The analyst reads explanations rather than hunting for surprises, and the surprises stop reaching the boardroom first.
New cycle · diffed against last
0/4
The office reviews explanations instead of hunting for surprises.
Everything downstream reads one line.
The federal file, the dashboard, and the president's deck cite the same governed line, so the institution cannot disagree with itself in public. An analyst certifies the figure once, and it holds everywhere.
Governed line · fall headcount 11,204
certified once by an IR analyst
The number cannot disagree with itself, because there is only one of it.
One thing moves. Every table re-runs.
A record corrects, a definition changes, a late grade posts. Any of them touches a published figure, and every one runs the same way.
A record corrects after census
one student's level was miscoded
The governed line recomputes
headcount holds, FTE moves
Every reader flags itself
the deck, the dashboard, the federal file
The analyst certifies the correction
one review lands on the log
The factbook republishes
same number everywhere again
What changes, and how it runs.
Two deans arrive with one headcount
The meeting about whose number is right stops happening.
Every figure can defend itself
Definition, source, and as-of date travel with the number.
The factbook stays current all term
A fall project becomes a living reference.
The technical read
Connects read-only to your SIS and data warehouse to start
An IR analyst certifies every published figure
Every action lands on an append-only log
Runs alongside what you have. Nothing rips out.