Large universities run on thousands of processes that live outside the SIS, LMS, and ERP. Kuali brings that work onto one platform, so teams across the institution can automate what they own while maintaining shared governance, data, and integrations.
At major universities, the challenge isn't simply that paper forms still exist. Thousands of critical processes live outside core systems, spread across colleges, departments, administrative offices, and IT teams. When those processes rely on PDFs, email, spreadsheets, and disconnected tools, work becomes harder to govern, integrate, and see across the institution.
The work keeps growing. Without a way to distribute it safely, so does the backlog.
Academic, research, student, and administrative teams can manage different work on the same platform, with shared data, governance, integrations, and AI underneath it.
Turn the forms, PDFs, emails, and spreadsheets used across HR, finance, student services, and administration into governed digital workflows, without custom development.
Give teams access to approved AI models while centrally managing governance, data protection, model access, and costs.
Manage curriculum, catalog, syllabi, degree audit, and planning together, so academic changes move from approval to students without being re-entered across systems.
Manage sponsored programs, research compliance, and the workflows around them without adding another collection of disconnected tools.
Coordinate advising, tutoring, coaching, appointments, and student communications so a lean team can reach more students with the support they need.
Ask what’s happening, create or change workflows, surface stalled work, and automate routine tasks using AI built into the platform.
Generic AI chatbots don't understand how a university runs. Kuali's AI does, because intelligence is built into the platform. It works within your workflows, data, and permissions, so teams can use plain language to ask questions, create or change processes, find stalled work, and automate routine tasks.
Ask questions in plain language and get answers based on your data
Create or change forms and workflows from a prompt or PDF
Surface stalled work, missing approvals, and tasks that need attention
These are results from universities using Kuali to connect and automate administrative work across departments.
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“With low-code tools, IT engineers end up having to do most of the building. That’s the great thing
about Kuali Build: people can build apps for themselves now.”
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Enterprise Applications Manager, University of Connecticut
“Where other workflow tools struggled, Kuali scaled.”
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Application Architect, Tufts University
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Built a vaccination-status form for 7,500+ faculty and staff in an afternoon, clearing the workflow backlog.
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Processed 100 forms and 85,000 documents, cutting hiring approvals from weeks to about an hour.
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Scaled digital transformation across departments without
adding IT headcount.
Kuali’s roots as a collaborative, higher-ed education still shape how it works with institutions today. Teams implement, adapt, and evolve workflows alongside you over time. As departments change and new requirements arrive, the platform configures to them, without a services engagement for every change.
“This long relationship has been, and continues to be, an effective partnership that exceeds the transactional interactions that are more typical of the IT industry.”
CIO, University of Connecticut
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