Who We Help
Sound familiar?
- You inherited your instance after the original implementation team moved on, or after ITS was asked to play a bigger role in supporting admissions technology.
- You joined an existing instance as part of a school or division that wasn't part of your institution's initial implementation, and you're still getting your bearings.
- You're just completing an implementation and you feel like there are still significant gaps, after so much effort to migrate core processes ahead of critical deadlines.
- You're a long-time Slate captain or power user with growing responsibilities—and you can't be everywhere.
If you're reading this, there's a good chance that you have big ideas for what Slate could do for your institution—how processes could be streamlined, how better data could answer new questions—but you don't have many spare afternoons these days to dig through documentation or tinker in a test environment.
You're looking to save time, get solutions in place, grow capacity and skills on your team, and build a solid foundation for this next phase of your Slate instance.
What We Believe
Slate consulting should be a partnership.
Working with a consultant should be about building a partership with someone who supplements the capabilities of your team, getting you over the immediate technical challenges while also ensuring your team has the attention they need to develop more advanced skills themselves and grow professionally.
With a tool like Slate, where there's always more than one way to accomplish something, it's important to work with someone who's deeply embedded in the community and understands Slate from the ground up: someone who can speak to the best practices and their exceptions, and who can help you benchmark your practices against those of your peers.
Critically, a great Slate consultant should be comfortable advising you that just because something can be done in Slate, that doesn't mean it should be done in Slate. A great Slate consulting partnership creates the kind of professional space where advice like that can be shared candidly and objectively, and also where teams feel safe and supported to ask their questions free of judgement.
What we do (and what we don't)
- Just Slate. We can offer referrals for other firms if you're looking for marketing services, enrollment strategy, or support for other campus technologies, but we think Slate consulting is most effective when it's the sole focus.
- Supplement your team, not fill a gap in staffing. We work with teams who need help getting over a particular technical hurdle or who need a resource to offer guidance on using Slate effectively. We can help you assess the skills of a potential contractor if you're looking for short-term staff augmentation or part-time/fractional Slate captain services instead.
- Offer attention, high availability, and direct access to expertise. Think of it like providing the Slate equivalent of a (virtual) house call with an experienced general practitioner whom you know and trust. If scaled triage services or a broader network of experts in other specialities would be a better fit, again, we're happy to make a referral or help you explore your options.
