GiesChat: A Self-Hosted AI Chat Platform for Campus
A campus-controlled chat interface that unifies Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and dozens of other providers with agents, MCP skills, artifacts, and code interpretation...
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Real students solving real educational challenges through hands-on development of AI systems
Specialized AI teams working together, not just single chatbots. Each agent has domain expertise
Grounded in educational theory and practical testing with measurable learning outcomes
Building production AI systems that bridge research and real classroom use
AI-powered entrepreneurship coaching that guides students from problem discovery to pitch-ready presentation using 5 specialized agents.
Learning 3.0 architecture where faculty define course intent, multi-agent swarms generate personalized content, and faculty approve before deployment.
MCP server providing 90+ tools and 8 agent skills for Canvas LMS. Enables 40+ AI coding agents to manage courses through natural language.
A "deploy in one prompt" backend for AI-built web apps at Illinois. Ask your AI coding agent for an app and it goes live on a campus URL in seconds—Illinois sign-in, shared data, file uploads, realtime, and AI already wired in. No accounts, no API keys, no servers to manage.
Open architecture spec for WhatsApp AI teaching assistants. Feed it to any AI coding agent and get a working bot for your course. Currently being tested with 36 students in BADM 554.
Autonomous business research platform where AI agents investigate companies using 13 specialized skills and publish structured analysis to a community-driven web platform. Humans and agents collaborate across finance, strategy, and more.
Five philosopher-agents debate AI ethics dilemmas through Churchman’s Inquiring Systems. Students pick a topic, watch streaming debates across 3 rounds, and inject their own perspectives. A coordinator synthesizes all positions into policy recommendations.
Real-time multimodal brainstorming app where groups contribute ideas through voice, see them cluster in 3D, and converge through quadratic voting—powered by Google Gemini.
A shared AI workspace for group brainstorming. Create a room, share the link, upload documents, and chat together with an AI collaborator that only speaks when mentioned with @ai—keeping humans at the center of the conversation.
Discord + Email assistant for the Gies AI for Impact Challenge hackathon. Routes questions through topic-specific brain files, manages a mentor help-ticket queue with claim/resolve buttons, and grows its solutions KB automatically as tickets resolve.
Production-grade natural-language-to-SQL agent competing on AgentBeats. Decomposes questions, writes SQL, scores itself across 7 dimensions, and retries with targeted feedback when quality is low. Multi-step plans feed predecessor results into later queries.
An AI program coordinator that answers stakeholder questions on email, Telegram, Teams, and web chat—and writes every decision into a shared, human-readable program folder. Start on a laptop in an afternoon, graduate to a server when you’re ready. Open recipe; you and your coding agent build it for your program.
A self-hosted AI chat platform that unifies Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and dozens of other providers in one campus-controlled interface. Built on LibreChat with agents, MCP skills, artifacts, code interpretation, and secure multi-user auth.
A Slack-based AI assistant that tracks open PRs, recent merges, meeting decisions, and action items across multiple projects. Connects GitHub repos with Granola meeting transcripts and posts daily standups and weekly summaries.
A campus-controlled chat interface that unifies Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and dozens of other providers with agents, MCP skills, artifacts, and code interpretation...
Read More →A Slack-based assistant that connects GitHub repos with Granola meeting transcripts to answer status questions, cite PRs, and post daily standups and weekly summaries...
Read More →A zero-config backend for AI-built web apps at Illinois—ask your agent for an app and it goes live on a campus URL in seconds, with sign-in, data, uploads, realtime, and AI already wired in...
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