Senior-level Slate architecture for institutions that want it done right.
AIT is a boutique consultancy focused on Technolutions Slate and the systems around it: cleaner architecture, dependable integrations, and reporting your team can trust. We take on a limited number of engagements each cycle, so every client works directly with a senior architect from start to finish.
Request a consultationSee the Slate Health CheckNow scheduling engagements for Late Fall 2026 & Winter/Spring 2027.
Slate doesn't operate in isolation.
Your Slate instance is connected to the rest of your institution: the SIS, vendor feeds, reporting systems, portals, and the processes your staff rely on every day.
AIT brings more than two decades of enrollment technology experience to that larger picture, across admissions, financial aid, student systems, integrations, and reporting. We work inside Slate while understanding what has to happen before the data arrives, where it goes next, and how your team ultimately uses it.
When Slate has grown faster than the architecture
Most Slate instances grow one urgent request at a time. Not because the team lacks skill, but because the cycle never pauses long enough to go back and fix things.
- Nobody is quite sure why a query works.
- Several rules do essentially the same thing.
- A portal works, but nobody wants to touch the Liquid.
- Staff move files between systems by hand.
- Vendor data arrives in a different format every time.
- Reports disagree depending on who runs them.
- One person understands the integration, and that person is leaving.
- A new admissions process means changes throughout the instance.
AIT untangles the underlying architecture instead of adding another temporary fix.
How we work
Boutique by design, not by accident.
Senior-led, with no junior handoff
The architect who scopes your project is the one who builds it. There's no junior implementation team behind the scenes and no account manager in between.
Higher-ed context
Slate work is approached in the context of admissions, enrollment operations, SIS integrations, reporting, and the institutional systems around them.
A limited number of clients
We keep our roster small on purpose, so your project gets real attention and you always hear directly from the person doing the work.
Built to be owned by your team
Your team has the skills; what it's short on is time. Every engagement ends with documentation and a walkthrough, so your staff can maintain and extend the work with confidence.
Start with a Slate Health Check
A focused review of one area of your Slate instance, delivered in two weeks.
Choose one population or office, such as undergraduate admissions. We review its queries and rules, application and forms, communication flows, and data, then show you what's slowing your team down, what's at risk of breaking, and where the quickest improvements are.
Request a Slate Health CheckWhat you receive
- Review of one population or office
- A prioritized findings report in plain language
- A 60-minute walkthrough with your team
Fixed fee: $4,950
Findings serve as the discovery phase for any follow-on project, with no separate discovery fee. Half the fee is credited toward a follow-on of $25,000 or more that implements the findings, if signed within 90 days. A Comprehensive option covers up to three populations or offices.
Representative experience
Hands-on work from AIT engagements and from more than two decades inside enrollment operations. Client names stay private; references are shared on request.
AIT engagement
Engagement scoring
Built an engagement scoring model for a public university entirely in Slate rules and queries, with no outside tools to maintain.
AIT engagement
A custom CRM, supported for nearly a decade
Built AIT Apollo, a custom Microsoft Dynamics CRM on the education template, and supported it for its client for nearly ten years.
Banner integration in both directions
Sent Slate data into Banner through Axiom, and wrote SQL extracts out of Banner mapped to Slate source formats.
Student lifecycle data into Slate
Built feeds that bring student, admission, inquiry, and financial aid data into Slate.
SIS and financial aid extracts
Built data extracts from the Elements SIS and from PowerFAIDS.
Portals and Liquid
Designed Slate portals and Liquid-templated experiences for applicants and institutional staff.
Tell us what you're trying to solve.
A short note is all it takes. We typically reply within three business days to set up a 20-minute call, with no obligation.
Request a consultation