PantherAI
The community AI platform for Florida International University

PantherAI for Web
One ecosystem of AI agents for every Panther.

A unified portal and agent marketplace that puts purpose-built AI assistants in the hands of FIU students, faculty, and staff — each grounded in trusted FIU documentation, knowledgebases, and approved data, and governed by role-based access.

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Purpose-built agents
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Unified portal & marketplace
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Grounded in FIU sources
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Purpose-built

Each agent is configured for a specific topic, audience, and set of sources — not a generic chatbot.

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Role-based

Access and answers adapt to whether the user is a student, employee, faculty member, or administrator.

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Grounded

Answers draw from FIU documentation, knowledgebases, and approved data — with sources users can trust.

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Discoverable

A single marketplace lets the community find and launch the right assistant for the job.

The Opportunity

Bring trustworthy AI to the entire FIU community — without the chaos.

Today, AI tools are everywhere, but they're scattered, ungoverned, and disconnected from the information Panthers actually rely on. PantherAI for Web is the branding for a single, coordinated ecosystem of AI agents and assistants that changes that. Instead of one generic model that knows a little about everything, PantherAI delivers a curated set of specialists — each one configured to answer questions and provide guidance on a specific domain, using approved web information, FIU documentation, knowledgebases, and institutional data.

The result is an AI experience that feels like FIU: accurate, accountable, personalized to each user's role, and built to help students complete their degrees, employees navigate their benefits, and administrators make better decisions — all from one trusted front door.

How It Works

A portal, a marketplace, and access that knows who you are.

PantherAI is built on three connected layers that together make AI both powerful and safe to scale across the university.

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The Front Door

PantherAI Portal

A single, familiar chat-style portal where every Panther signs in. It's the one place to ask questions, start conversations, and reach any assistant the user is authorized to use — replacing a sprawl of disconnected tools.

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Discover & Launch

Agent / Model Marketplace

A searchable catalog of purpose-built agents organized by category — General, Human Resources, Finance, Student Success, Analytics, and more. Users browse, discover, and launch the right specialist for their need.

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Governed Access

Role-Based Access

Every agent and every answer respects the user's security role. The same portal serves a freshman, a payroll specialist, and a dean — but each sees only the agents and information appropriate to them.

Four audiences, one platform

Identity and security roles determine which agents appear in a user's marketplace and what each agent is allowed to reveal — keeping personalized and sensitive information protected.

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Students

Advising, tutoring, degree progress, transfer support, and general FIU information.

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Employees

HR, benefits, leave, payroll, travel & expense, and university policies.

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Faculty

HR and policy guidance plus academic and research-oriented assistance.

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Administration

Analytics, institutional data, and management insights for decision-making.

The Marketplace

Meet the PantherAI agents

A growing family of specialized assistants. Filter by category, then expand any agent to see who it serves, what it does, and where its knowledge comes from.

General

PantherGPT

The flagship FIU-specific assistant. Delivers a blend of public and private, personalized information from across the university through one conversational experience.

StudentsEmployeesFacultyAdministration
What it does
  • Answers general FIU questions from public university content
  • Surfaces personalized information to verified, authorized users
  • Acts as the default starting point inside the PantherAI portal
  • Routes users to the right specialized agent when needed
Knowledge sources
  • Public FIU web content
  • FIU knowledgebases
  • Role-permitted personal records
Student Success

Student Advising AI

A dedicated advising companion that helps students stay on track to graduation with the information they need, when they need it.

Students
What it does
  • Explains advising topics and academic requirements
  • Shows progress-to-degree and remaining milestones
  • Surfaces advisor notes and upcoming appointments
  • Guides students toward timely degree completion
Knowledge sources
  • Advising records
  • Degree-audit / progress data
  • Advisor notes & appointment systems
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Student Success

Goldi

An AI tutoring assistant that supports students with coursework, concept review, and study guidance across subjects — extending FIU's academic support.

Students
What it does
  • Provides on-demand help with course concepts
  • Guides practice and study strategies
  • Complements FIU's existing tutoring resources
  • Points students to human tutoring when appropriate
Knowledge sources
  • Approved course materials
  • FIU academic support resources
  • Subject knowledgebases
Example
Student Success

Transfer & Transition Assistant

Helps prospective and incoming transfer students — such as those coming from Miami Dade College — navigate the path into FIU.

Students
What it does
  • Guides students through the transfer process
  • Clarifies credit transfer and admissions steps
  • Eases the transition into FIU programs
  • Connects students to relevant offices and resources
Knowledge sources
  • Public FIU admissions & transfer content
  • Articulation / transfer guides
  • FIU knowledgebases
Human Resources

HR AI Agent

A human resources assistant for employees and faculty, covering the full range of HR topics from onboarding questions to retirement.

EmployeesFaculty
What it does
  • Explains benefits, retirement plans, and enrollment
  • Answers personal, sick, and other leave questions
  • Clarifies payroll and compensation information
  • Provides guidance on university HR policies
Knowledge sources
  • FIU HR policies & handbooks
  • Benefits & retirement documentation
  • Role-permitted employee records
Finance

Travel & Expense Agent

A practical guide to FIU travel and expense rules, helping employees and faculty get domestic and international travel right the first time.

EmployeesFacultyAdministration
What it does
  • Guides domestic and international travel processes
  • Explains rules from Florida State statutes
  • Applies FIU-specific travel & expense policies
  • Helps users prepare compliant requests and reimbursements
Knowledge sources
  • Florida State statutes
  • FIU travel & expense policies
  • Finance knowledgebases
Analytics & Data

Analytics AI

A data assistant for authorized users, turning FIU's academic and administrative data into clear, relevant insights.

Administration
What it does
  • Provides enrollment and academic data insights
  • Surfaces human resources and operational metrics
  • Supports data-informed decision-making
  • Restricted to specific authorized users
Knowledge sources
  • Institutional academic data
  • HR & administrative data
  • Approved analytics warehouses
The Data Foundation

Grounded in sources the FIU community can trust.

PantherAI agents don't guess. Each one is configured against a defined set of approved sources, so answers are accurate, current, and traceable back to the institution.

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Approved web information

Publicly available FIU web content and vetted external resources relevant to each agent's domain.

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FIU documentation & policies

Official handbooks, policy manuals, Florida State statutes, and procedural guides.

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Knowledgebases

Curated departmental knowledgebases and FAQs maintained by the offices that own them.

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Institutional data systems

Role-permitted access to student, HR, financial, and analytics data for personalized answers.

From question to trusted answer

1User asks a question in the portal
2Role & permissions are checked
3The right agent retrieves from approved sources
4A grounded answer is returned — public or personalized
5Sources back up the response for trust
Security & Governance

Built so trust scales with adoption.

Putting AI in front of the whole university only works if it's governed. PantherAI bakes safeguards into the platform itself.

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Role-based assignment

Agents are assigned to security roles. Users only see — and only get answers from — the assistants their role permits, keeping sensitive data compartmentalized.

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Public vs. personalized

Each agent clearly separates publicly available information from private, personalized data, surfacing personal records only to verified, authorized users.

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Source accountability

Because answers are grounded in defined FIU sources, responses can be traced, audited, and kept current by the offices that own the content.

Platform Roadmap

A phased path to a university-wide platform.

A measured rollout lets FIU prove value, build trust, and expand the marketplace responsibly.

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Phase 1

Foundation

Stand up the PantherAI portal, marketplace shell, and role-based access. Launch PantherGPT on public FIU content.

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Phase 2

Workforce

Bring the HR AI Agent and Travel & Expense Agent to employees and faculty with personalized, role-secured data.

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Phase 3

Student Success

Roll out Student Advising AI, Tutoring (Goldi), and the Transfer & Transition Assistant to students.

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Phase 4

Insight & Scale

Enable Analytics AI for administration and open the marketplace for new department-built agents.

Let's make AI work for every Panther.

PantherAI for Web gives FIU's community one trusted, governed home for artificial intelligence. We're looking for partners, pilot offices, and feedback to shape what comes next.