Every department wants to move faster with automation and AI. IT has to keep it all secure, compliant, and affordable. Kuali gives you one AI-native system built on a shared Data Lakehouse—with one data model, one security model, and one audit trail across every department.
For IT, that shows up in three ways: departments move faster on their own, AI adoption stays governed, and the technology stack gets simpler to run.
Business users describe what they need in plain language, and Kuali AI helps generate forms, workflows, and applications in minutes. Departments solve problems faster while IT keeps governance, security, and platform standards. Solutions ship in days, not months.
AI adoption is accelerating across campus, and unmanaged AI creates security, compliance, and budget risk. Kuali AI Gateway gives you one secure place to connect approved models and enforce policy: control which models are available, protect sensitive data, monitor usage, and manage costs. Designed and priced for higher education.
Every point solution you add is one more thing to integrate, secure, and support. Kuali brings bidirectional Workday, Oracle, and Ellucian connectors into the core through Kuali Bridge—not as add-ons. One architecture, one security model, and one integration framework mean complexity drops as capability grows.
Director of Data Systems, Gettysburg College
Shadow AI is already on campus. Most institutions just can’t see it yet. AI tools are spreading across departments, bringing new questions about data, security, governance, and cost. Kuali AI Gateway gives IT a single control point for campus AI—without slowing adoption.
Centralize AI access, apply institutional guardrails, protect sensitive data, monitor usage and costs, and give your campus secure access to multiple AI models.
Departments that use Kuali Build create 20+ apps on average, replacing point solutions and manual processes without adding to the tech stack. Departments build what they need while IT governs one platform—reducing IT burden without sacrificing control.
Reduce routine IT requests
Empower departments to solve problems faster
Keep IT focused on strategic initiatives
Generic AI chatbots don't understand how an institution runs. Kuali's does, because the intelligence is built into the platform. It works inside your real workflows and permissions, so every AI workload stays under the policies and audit trails your team already governs.
Helps people complete their work across every module.
Turns plain-language descriptions into forms and workflows.
Every approved model and every use runs through AI Gateway.
A campus-wide capability, not a feature in one app.
Today, these capabilities often come from different vendors, each with its own login, contract, security model, and integration. IT is left connecting and securing them all. Kuali brings them together on a single platform with one architecture, one security model, one integration framework, one AI foundation, and one place to govern every operation.
Extend the platform with forms, workflows, and applications, without adding another system.
Govern every AI model and application from one secure control point.
Connect every campus system through one advanced API-first integration framework.
Manage curriculum, catalogs, syllabi, and advising on the same platform.
Manage the entire research lifecycle on the same platform.
Keep preparedness, response, and continuity planning on the same platform.
AI built into every product to answer questions, generate workflows, and move work forward.
Plans and readiness data stay centralized, secure, and visible to IT instead of scattered across documents.
Extend the platform to automate the processes unique to your institution.
Out-of-box, bidirectional connectors to Workday, Oracle, and Ellucian bring data into and out of the Kuali Platform—without the complexity of traditional middleware. Kuali Bridge makes it easy to build and manage multi-step integrations across your institution, so data can move where work happens.
Explore Kuali Bridge ->Program change requests, no-cost extensions, PI eligibility, gift routing. The forms and approvals your office runs every week that never fit an off-the-shelf system. Scan the form, say who approves it, and it becomes a routed digital workflow your team changes itself.
TODAY
A dozen point-solution contracts to renew
Shadow apps IT can’t see or secure
Spreadsheets and email workflows
Custom code no one is left to maintain
A widening attack surface
Nightly batch integrations to babysit
WITH KUALI
One platform, one login, one security model
Departments build, IT governs the standards
Real-time, API-first integration
No new code for your team to own
A single control point for campus AI
A smaller, auditable footprint
Stay on top of what runs on your platform, with a clear view of workflows, requests, usage, and institutional activity—all in one place.
Your work
See the requests, approvals, and workflow changes queued for your team.
Process status
Understand where every request and workflow stands across the institution.
Reporting & insights
Access usage and activity data across systems to make informed decisions.
"The old solution was to use people and email and PDFs and paper to do the integration, and it just was not scaling—absolutely not scaling."
Application Architect, Tufts University
”Being able to recommend Kuali Build and train people to create their own processes and apps has really led to that empowerment mission that we're working toward."
Senior Web Developer, Daemen University
"One of our biggest problems was everything was paper. Everything was a PDF, a DocuSign, or actual paper that was brought from office to office. There was no automation between all these forms."
Associate Director for Post Award Services, Southern Connecticut State University
"We changed something that typically took about two weeks for users to submit to about a day. Then a process to verify, which used to take at least a couple days, now takes about 10 seconds."
Data Architect, University of Maryland, College Park
From research universities to community colleges, hundreds of institutions rely on Kuali for the operations they can’t afford to get wrong.
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“The simplicity of the technology stood out. It has the ease of use like Google Forms but the enterprise quality of a system like OnBase in the workflow.”
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Director of Training and Digital Transformation, California State University, Fresno
"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."
Enterprise Applications Manager, University of Connecticut
“Kuali is that rare organization that we have come to think of not as a vendor but a true partner.”
CIO, Davidson College
With no-code Kuali Build, Gettysburg launched more than 100 applications in six months, moving process automation off the IT backlog and out to the departments that owned the work.
Read the case study ->How IT leaders replace point-solution sprawl and shadow apps with a single governed platform, reducing technical debt and total cost of ownership.
Read the ebook ->Successful transformation goes beyond go-live. Kuali brings collaborative discovery, process optimization, change management, training, and dedicated customer success, so your office keeps getting more from the platform over time.
Onboarding and change management
Collaborative discovery and process optimization to get you live and adopted.
Training and certifications
Role-based training and professional certifications for your team.
Dedicated customer success
A named team invested in your outcomes, not just your renewal.
Community
and Kuali Days
An active higher-education community and an annual user conference.
When something breaks in a high-impact window, IT needs answers fast. Kuali pairs purpose-built technology with a responsive customer success team that helps institutions keep work moving.
URGENT SUPPORT
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High-priority tickets
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Customer satisfaction
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Responsive by design
Kuali delivered 100% SLA achievement in 2024, helping institutions get the support they need without waiting days or weeks for answers.
Explore the platform capabilities built for institutional IT teams.
No-code workflow and app automation for the whole campus, governed by IT.
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Give IT the visibility and control to manage AI tools safely across every corner of campus.
Explore Kuali Gateway ->Book a walkthrough, and we'll show you what your institution's operations look like when they work together, with AI running inside the systems your teams already trust.
