Deployment

Start with one question.

Pick the questions that fill your queue every term. See them answered from your own sources, with citations. Go live only once the evidence holds.

The path

Three stages, each ending in a decision.

Every stage is scoped to answer one question, and every stage is a place you can reasonably stop. Nothing commits you to the next one except the evidence.

[01]

Grounded Pilot

Choose the source

See your own policy answered, with citations, in ten business days.

Typical shape
10 business days
Decision
Does it answer our questions correctly?

Best for

A department with a documented source of truth, a named owner, and a queue of questions that repeat every term.

What happens

We index one live source — your academic calendar, handbook, or policy set — and stand CampusQ up against it. Then your team asks it the questions you actually get, and we measure what comes back.

You leave with

  • A working CampusQ instance on your own content
  • Citation accuracy measured on your questions, not ours
  • A baseline of current advising volume and response time

Result

A grounded yes or no, on your own documents — not a demo built from someone else's content.

[02]

Department Rollout

Put it in front of people

Route real traffic to it and find out what it deflects.

Typical shape
Typically 4–6 weeks
Decision
Is it deflecting real volume?

Best for

A pilot that answered correctly, with an owner ready to point a real cohort at it and a source they commit to keeping current.

What happens

We connect the remaining sources, set access, redaction, and retention rules with your team, and open CampusQ to a live cohort. Every question is logged and categorized from day one.

You leave with

  • CampusQ live for a department or cohort
  • Advising intelligence: volume, top topics, and coverage gaps
  • Deflection figures measured on your own traffic

Result

Usage evidence from your own students, and a documented list of the questions your sources do not yet answer.

[03]

Institution Deployment

Run it as infrastructure

Extend it across departments and hand your team the controls.

Typical shape
Milestone based
Decision
Can our team run and defend this?

Best for

An approved rollout with a business owner, a completed security review, and each source under someone who maintains it.

What happens

We extend CampusQ across departments, integrate with your identity provider and student systems, complete security and accessibility review, and transfer the operating runbook to your team.

You leave with

  • CampusQ across departments, with SSO and role-based access
  • Audit log, retention policy, and security documentation
  • Runbooks, admin training, and a named support path

Result

A system your institution can operate, answer for in a review, and keep current as policy changes.

After launch

Choose how it runs.

Every mode keeps accountability for the content with the institution. What changes is who operates the technical layer underneath it.

[01]

Institution-operated

Your team runs CampusQ with transferred admin access, documentation, evaluation tooling, monitoring, and training.

Institutions with mature IT, security, and content-governance capability already in place.

Recommended
[02]

Co-managed

You own the content and the policy it comes from. Retriive runs indexing, evaluation, and the answer-quality cycle.

The recommended starting mode for most institutions.

[03]

Retriive-operated

Retriive operates the technical layer under a defined service agreement while your team keeps ownership of the sources.

Teams who need it dependable now, rather than after hiring for it.

A strong starting point

The source matters before the AI does.

CampusQ is only as trustworthy as what it cites. These are the conditions under which a deployment goes well — and the ones we will tell you about before you spend anything.

  1. [01]

    The questions matter — to student outcomes, staff capacity, compliance exposure, or the quality of a decision someone makes.

  2. [02]

    There is a current, authoritative source: a calendar, handbook, or policy set that someone owns and keeps up to date.

  3. [03]

    A named owner can say what a correct answer looks like, and stays accountable for it once it is live.

  4. [04]

    The institution is ready to give access to real sources, real questions, and real users — not a sanitized sample.

Related proof

Built where the questions actually arrive.

Live deployment

RTV-001

CampusQ at Carleton

Systems & Computer Engineering

IndexRetrieveCiteLearn
6am

Busiest hour — every advising office closed

98%

Citation accuracy across the live beta

566

Questions answered, each one sourced

Get started

Which questions are worth answering first?

The pilot ends with one clear decision on your own content — not a roadmap, and not a demo.