Welcome to Agentic Survey Administration thatcoordinates every instrument on one campus calendar.
Survey fatigue is self-inflicted. Five offices ask the same first-years in the same month, and half the questions ask what the record already knows. Risely's agents run one calendar and merge the asks, and the IR director approves every instrument that fields.
The survey calendar · October · first-years
asks arriving
Instrument one · merged from three asks
shared demographics collected once
Instrument two · merged from two asks
fielded after a quota-safe gap
Questions the record already answers · 31 → 0
class year, major, housing status · answered from the record, never asked again
Response, against the close date
opens soon
Every planned ask lands on the calendar first.
Five offices' October instruments become two merged ones. The calendar holds every planned ask on campus, so the collision gets caught in a planning view instead of in a first-year's inbox.
October · planned asks on first-years
collecting
Instrument one · from three asks
Instrument two · from two asks
The calendar sees the collision before the students do.
Questions the record can answer come out.
Every question the student record already answers gets deleted before the instrument fields. What remains is the part only a student can say, which is the part worth their time and the office's.
The instrument is edited
reviewing
The instrument gets shorter, and the data gets better at the same time.
No population gets over-asked.
Each population carries an ask quota for the term, enforced mechanically. A request that would break it gets held to the next window with the reason attached, and response rates recover because the quota holds.
Ask quotas, enforced mechanically
A third ask at first-years · held to next term, with the requester told why
The quota is policy, and response rates recover because it holds.
One collection serves every office that asked.
Each merged instrument's askers get their own slice with the shared demographics attached. Five needs ride one ask, and no student pays for the same answer five times.
One merged collection closes
shared demographics gathered once
Five needs got served by one ask, and no student paid for it five times.
One ask arrives. The calendar re-runs.
A dean wants a survey in the field next month. The calendar already knows who is being asked, what the record can answer, and what can merge. Every request runs the same way.
A new survey request lands
a dean wants first-years in November
The calendar checks the load
that population is already at quota
The overlap merges
shared questions join an instrument already going out
Record-known questions come out
answered from the record instead
The IR director approves the field date
one ask where three were headed
What changes, and how it runs.
Two instruments where five were headed
One calendar sees every planned ask before students do.
Shorter surveys, better data
Nothing asks what the record already knows.
A response rate worth deciding on
34% answered where 11% used to.
The technical read
Connects read-only to your SIS and survey platform to start
The IR director approves every instrument that fields
Every action lands on an append-only log
Runs alongside what you have. Nothing rips out.