The AI Operating System for higher education

University AI that makes it past the pilot.

Give every team the power to put AI to work—without giving up institutional control. Manage prompts, build agents, connect systems, govern access and measure outcomes through one operating system designed around the reality of higher education.

200+ AI agents launched
<1 week average managed deployment
Real ROI not hypothetical value
Gecko Observability dashboard showing representative token usage, agent and workflow runs, success rate, execution time, charts and recent university agent activity
Real platform UIRepresentative demo data
Every run traceableModels, tools, usage and outcomes

From the people who already understand higher education

Student engagementDigital transformationInstitutional AI
The CIO imperative

AI demand is everywhere.
Control is nowhere.

Your teams are already experimenting. The challenge is turning scattered enthusiasm into a secure, connected and measurable institutional capability.

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Move fast, with guardrails

Give teams a sanctioned path to deploy AI while central IT sets access, models, tools and human approval policies.

  • Role-based permissions
  • Central prompt management
  • Encrypted credentials
  • Human-in-the-loop controls
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Make value visible

See what ran, what it cost, how long it took and whether it worked—across agents and workflows in one view.

  • Success and failure rates
  • Usage, duration and tool calls
  • Run and step-level traceability
Your institutional AI Operating System

Everything you need to operationalise agents.

From centrally managed prompts to production agents, Gecko gives technical teams and domain experts a shared place to build responsibly.

Agent & Prompt Studio

Create agents around a centrally managed library of reusable prompts. Organise templates, add dynamic variables and conditional logic, then use them consistently across agents and workflow AI calls.

Bring your first use case

Visual workflow builder

Orchestrate multi-step work with branching, parallel execution, AI calls, code, approvals, authentication and notifications.

Knowledge engine

Crawl websites, ingest institutional content, create vector embeddings and give every agent access only to the sources it needs.

WebSharePointDriveS3

Integration layer

Connect existing MCP solutions or build your own MCP servers for proprietary systems. Add managed integrations, APIs and webhooks while keeping tool access controlled.

Unified observability

Monitor agent and workflow runs together. Trace every step, model and tool call while tracking usage, duration and outcomes.

Governance by design

Tenant boundaries, roles, API tokens, approval gates and complete run histories turn policy into practical platform controls.

From request to resolution

Design the process.
Let agents do the work.

AI creates value when it can act inside a real process—not when it sits in another chat window. Gecko connects reasoning, knowledge, tools and people in one traceable flow.

  • Trigger work anywhereSchedules, webhooks, events or another agent
  • Keep people in controlPause for approval or identity verification
  • Improve with evidenceInspect every step and outcome in the run trace
Built from real workflow actions
WebhookGenerate TextLookup KnowledgeAuthenticateMCP ToolRequires ApprovalSend MessagePass to Agent
Student support triagePublished
TRIGGERStudent enquiry
AI
GENERATE TEXTClassify intent
LOOKUP KNOWLEDGEFind approved answer
CONFIDENTRespond
NEEDS HELPPass to agent
Workflow ready · Every step traceable
A flexible operating model

Start fully managed.
Take the wheel when you’re ready.

Choose fully managed, co-managed or institution-led delivery. Gecko can launch and operate your first agents, then help your teams build the confidence, patterns and governance to deploy their own—all on the same AI Operating System.

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Fully managed launch

We define the outcome, connect trusted systems, configure guardrails, test, deploy and monitor your agent.

Gecko leads
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G+U

Build together

Your team works alongside ours, reusing proven implementation patterns while capability and confidence grow.

Shared delivery
03
U

Build your own

Trained university teams create and deploy their own agents with central controls, observability and support in place.

Your team leads
<1week, on averageto a fully operational agent with managed implementation
See how Lamar University launched a chatbot in five days
One agent, every channel

Meet people where they already are.

Deploy the same trusted knowledge, tools and guardrails across digital and voice experiences—without rebuilding the agent for every channel.

Web & mobile

Chatbots

Give students and staff an always-on, source-grounded experience embedded in the digital services they use.

Microsoft 365

Microsoft Teams

Install agents directly into Teams so people can find answers and complete tasks without changing how they work.

Collaboration

Slack

Bring governed agents into Slack conversations and channels for fast, contextual help across distributed teams.

Inbound & outbound

Voice

Let callers speak naturally to an agent—or have agents make outbound calls for timely, scalable engagement.

Shared knowledgeShared toolsShared guardrailsUnified observability
Start where value is clear

One platform.
Every university team.

Build a reusable AI capability for the institution, then let each department apply it to the work that matters most.

01

Give every student a faster path to the right answer.

Ground a support agent in approved policies, triage requests automatically and route exceptions to the right human team with full context.

Explore this use case
Example workflowEnquiry → Identify intent → Search policy → Respond or escalate
  • Always-on first response
  • Consistent, source-grounded answers
  • Human handoff for sensitive cases
Built on experience, not theory

We were doing higher ed AI before it became a board agenda.

Gecko already powers the moments that shape the student journey. Now we’re helping institutions turn AI from a collection of pilots into a durable, governed capability.

200+
agents already launchedwith measurable, real-world ROI
Part of the Gecko ecosystem

One partner across engagement and institutional AI.

Build on a higher education platform already supporting the student lifecycle:

AI chatbotLive chat & messagingCloud call centreForms & automationEventsCampaignsStudent portal
Explore Gecko Engage
Open where it matters. Controlled where it counts.

Built to fit your architecture.

Choose how you connect, how you consume AI and how your teams work—without compromising the institutional standards IT is responsible for.

Model Context Protocol

Make proprietary systems agent-ready.

Connect any existing MCP solution in your estate, or build your own MCP server to expose approved tools from proprietary systems. Gecko discovers the available tools and lets administrators control exactly which agents can use them.

  • Use existing MCP servers
  • Build custom MCP connectors
  • Scope tools by agent
YOUR SYSTEMProprietary service
MCPTools exposed securely
GECKOApproved agent
Flexible AI access

Bring your API key—or use ours.

Use institution-owned provider credentials when that fits your procurement and governance model, or use Gecko-managed AI access for a faster path to production.

OpenAIAnthropicAmazon Bedrock
Enterprise foundation

Designed for institutional assurance.

Hosted on AWS and backed by the standards universities expect from a strategic technology partner.

SOC 2 assuranceISO 27001AWS hosted
Inclusive by default

Built for every team and every user.

A VPAT supports accessibility review, while a multilingual interface helps teams operate the platform in the languages that work for them.

VPAT accessibilityMultilingual interface
Higher education partner

Managed from first use case to go-live.

Architecture, implementation and adoption support from a team that already understands university systems, stakeholders and service expectations.

Plan your first agent
For the questions behind the question

What IT leaders want to know.

Start with the concerns that determine whether AI becomes an institutional capability or another stalled pilot.

How does Gecko help us govern AI centrally?

Central teams can control user roles, provider integrations, model access, API tokens and tool permissions. Workflows can require human approval or user authentication before sensitive actions continue, and every run retains a detailed trace.

How do teams manage and reuse prompts?

Gecko provides a central prompt library that teams can organise into folders and manage through role-based read and write permissions. Saved prompts support dynamic variables, dates and conditional logic, and can be reused by agents and workflow AI steps instead of being copied into every implementation.

Can we use our existing systems and content?

Yes. Gecko can ground agents in websites and managed knowledge, connect to providers including SharePoint, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox and S3, and act through integrations, APIs, webhooks and MCP. You can connect existing MCP servers or build your own to give agents controlled access to proprietary systems.

Are we locked into one AI model or commercial arrangement?

No. The platform supports multiple model ecosystems, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Amazon Bedrock. You can bring institution-owned AI API keys or use Gecko-managed access, matching each use case to the right model while IT retains oversight.

How do we prove whether an agent is working?

Unified observability shows run volumes, status, duration, token usage, model use, tool calls and errors across agents and workflows. Step-level traces make it possible to diagnose failures and improve performance.

How quickly can we get a production agent live?

With Gecko’s managed implementation, a fully operational agent is deployed in less than a week on average. We help define the use case, connect knowledge and tools, establish controls, test behaviour and support go-live.

How does Gecko meet enterprise IT requirements?

The platform is hosted on AWS with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 assurance. Gecko also provides a VPAT for accessibility review and makes the administrative interface available in multiple languages.

Where should our institution start?

Start with one bounded process where demand is high, knowledge is trusted and the outcome is measurable. Gecko can help shape that first use case, establish the guardrails and turn what works into a repeatable pattern for other teams.

Your next AI pilot should be your last pilot.

Build your AI Operating System
for what comes next.

Bring us a process, a bottleneck or a bold idea. We’ll show you how to turn it into a governed agent with a measurable outcome.