Welcome to Agentic Effort Reporting thatassembles each certification from committed and charged effort.
Effort reporting asks a professor to certify percentages nobody tracked, months after the fact. Risely's agents assemble each certification from what was committed and what was charged, and the PI signs a form that is finally ready to sign.
Effort certifications · spring cycle
3 need a look · 38 ready
The variance becomes discussable
evidence attachedRisely's agents assemble and chase. The certification itself waits for its person.
The certification assembles itself from the record.
Committed effort comes from the award. Charged effort comes from payroll. The form arrives with both already on it, so certifying becomes a review instead of an act of reconstruction.
Where the form comes from
The professor used to reconstruct percentages from memory, months late. Now the form arrives already built.
The variance surfaces while the semester is still on.
Committed says 40% and the calendar shows 32%, and that gap is a finding waiting to happen. Flagged now, with evidence attached, it becomes a payroll adjustment instead of a repayment.
One award, two numbers
comparing
The gap surfaces while the semester is still on, with the calendar evidence attached. The correction is a payroll adjustment rather than a repayment.
The chase runs itself. The signature stays human.
Risely's agents draft, attach, remind, and escalate what stalls. The certification itself carries legal weight, so the signature belongs to the PI and never to the system.
Who does what
A certification carries legal weight, so the signature is never automated. Everything before it is.
The audit reads one record.
A federal audit samples one certification and judges the whole institution by what it finds. Here it finds the commitment, the charges, the variance note, and the signature in one place, which is the entire defense.
What the sample finds
pulling
A federal audit samples one certification and judges the institution by it. This one holds together.
One charge moves. The cycle re-checks.
A payroll correction, a mid-semester course release, an award that starts late. Any of them changes what a certification should say, and every one runs the same way.
A payroll correction posts
one month re-charges to a different award
The certification re-assembles
committed and charged, side by side
A variance flags itself
with the calendar evidence attached
The conversation happens early
while the semester can still absorb it
The PI certifies
one signature leaves nothing to chase
What changes, and how it runs.
Cycles close without the chase
38 of 41 certified on the first pass.
Variances get caught in-semester
The correction is an adjustment instead of a repayment.
The audit finds one record
Commitment, charges, variance note, and signature together.
The technical read
Connects read-only to your grants system, payroll, and HR records to start
The PI signs every certification
Every action lands on an append-only log
Runs alongside what you have. Nothing rips out.