Risely's agents do the work. A person approves it.
Cortex is where the work happens. Risely's agents read the record, decide what the moment calls for, draft the action, and the second a staff member approves, they send the message, rebuild the plan, or release the aid.
Perceive
a drop request lands on a student's record
Draft
the swap that keeps her full-time
Approve
a person
R. Okafor approves it
Act
plan updated, seat held, aid re-checked
Log
every step goes on the record with a name
What the loop logs goes back to the graph, so the next action starts from more than the last one did.
The work arrives finished.
A student asks to drop a course, and what arrives on the desk is the finished move: the swap that keeps her full-time, her Pell intact, and her graduation date unchanged. The agents read her whole record to compose it, and one decision is left for a person.
A student asked to drop CHM-151 because it felt like a lot right now.
The swap Cortex composed
PSY-210 goes in now. CHM-151 moves to fall, with the seat held until Friday. Her graduation date does not change.
The note waiting in her thread
“You can, but dropping puts you at 11 credits and costs your Pell. There's a swap that doesn't. Want me to send it to your advisor?”
Composed from her degree audit, the Pell rules, the seat map, her aid ledger, and her work schedule. The move holds her at full time and keeps her Pell intact.
Nothing after the draft moves until a person approves it.
A person approves every move.
Every action runs the same loop: the agents perceive the change, draft the response, and stop at the human gate. On the yes, they act in the real systems and log every step with the approver's name. Nothing routes around that gate.
Degree Planning · a student's swap
PSY-210 in now, CHM-151 to fall, seat held until Friday.
on the yes → written to Banner → logged as R. Okafor
on the no → nothing moves · the reason lands on the record
Every move waits here. There is no other path.
And it runs all day, for every office.
Advising, aid, enrollment, the registrar, advancement, the bursar: each office's agents draft its work in Cortex, and the people you already trust approve it. The follow-up that used to wait for a free afternoon goes out the same day. That is the capacity your offices are missing.
Advising
the re-sequenced plan the hour a grade posts
reads: degree audit · seat map
the advisor approves
Different offices, the same loop: draft, approve, act, log.
Cortex acts. Arbiter governs.
No draft becomes an action without a person saying yes, and every yes lands on a permanent record.