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Four agents, live for the January 2027 intake.
Building on the Share Code Verification Agent, extending automation across admissions to support Project PACE.
What we heard
Building on the Share Code Verification Agent, deployed in line to support the 2025 admissions and enrolment cycle. Here is where the conversation has reached.
Supporting Project PACE
An intention to expand the work into Project PACE, covering product, attraction, conversion and enrolment. Two areas were identified for improvement, with the focus here on admissions. The team pointed to King's College London and the feedback they had from them.
Ready for January 2027
The agents need to be in place to support the January 2027 intake.
Time back for complex cases
A key focus on time savings, so the team can concentrate on the more complex cases and on the wider admissions and enrolment process.
Implementation plan
We have put together an indicative project plan for each agent, so you can see the resource required. The plans are based on the information we hold and on projects at institutions of a similar size and estimated complexity. All four agents can be live for the January intake.
Weeks run from project start. Each agent moves through onboarding, readiness, implementation and hypercare before going fully operational. Your time is the forecast effort from Manchester across the whole build, mostly system readiness, test data and documentation sign off.
The full project plan covers all four agents, including dependencies and what we will need from Manchester at each stage.
Download the project planTime saving ROI
Benchmarked against institutions of a similar size to Manchester, combined with your published application numbers. We will replace these with your own figures once we have validated them together.
Outputs use Niico benchmark data from institutions of a similar size, alongside published Manchester application numbers. Current cost to deliver is calculated on a fully loaded cost of £39,572 per FTE.
Download the benchmarkDemos
Here is each of the four agents in real time. Click into any one to see exactly what it does.
Document ingestion and management
Handles a range of real scenarios, including missing information and poor quality documents.
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English language test verification
API verification against test providers with photo ID matching, writes straight into your student record system.
6 test providers supported
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Replaces manual checking across multiple English test providers.
Interview scheduling
Coordinates interview slots across applicants and staff calendars automatically.
450 interviews processed in 24 hours, one college group
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Replaces manual, spreadsheet based interview coordination.
Academic eligibility decision
Assesses applications against entry criteria and issues eligibility decisions.
Live at Surrey. King's processed 54,000 applications, each under 1 minute
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Replaces manual eligibility screening at volume.
Commercials
Each agent carries a one off implementation fee and an annual licence. Manchester pricing is discounted against list: 31.5% off implementation and 42.7% off the annual licence.
| Agent | Implementation, list | Implementation, Manchester | Annual licence, list | Annual licence, Manchester |
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| Document ingestion and classification | £15,000 | £10,000 | £33,000 | £18,900 |
| English language test verification | £15,000 | £10,000 | £33,000 | £18,900 |
| Interview scheduling | £8,000 | £6,300 | £33,000 | £18,900 |
| Academic eligibility decision | £15,000 | £10,000 | £33,000 | £18,900 |
| Total | £53,000 | £36,300 | £132,000 | £75,600 |
Year one covers the one off implementation of all four agents plus the first annual licence. List price for the same package is £185,000.
Next steps
Two things to get us to a plan and a set of numbers you can stand behind.
Demos from your team
Your team walks us through their current processes, so we build against how admissions actually runs at Manchester.
Validating the metrics
We swap the benchmark figures for Manchester's own volumes and handling times, so the time savings are ones you can stand behind.
