A major university partnered with Burwood to build an AI-powered assistant to streamline support for their high-performance computing (HPC) resources. This solution frees up expert staff from routine questions, allowing them to focus on complex, high-impact technical challenges.

Solution: A chatbot built on Google Cloud Platform using a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture provides secure, accurate answers based on the university’s official documentation.

Impact: The assistant provides researchers with 24/7 on-demand support, accelerating their research workflows.

A premier entrepreneurial studies center partnered with Burwood to create an AI-powered "Startup Generator". The goal was to provide on-demand, expert feedback to every student, overcoming the challenge of scaling faculty mentorship.

Solution: Built on Google Cloud Platform with Gemini models, the tool uses a specialized knowledge base to give students secure, consistent feedback on their business ideas. It leverages the center's official venture evaluation rubrics and best practices from professors.

Impact on Business & Users: The tool empowers students to rapidly iterate on their ideas and arrive at faculty meetings better prepared. This elevates mentorship sessions, allowing them to focus on high-level strategy and market positioning.

Value: By providing a consistent and rigorous ideation process, the tool helps the institute develop stronger, more viable ventures and improves overall program outcomes.

A prominent K-12 school partnered with Burwood to address the need for a safe, secure, and responsible way to introduce generative AI to students and teachers. They wanted to provide access to cutting-edge technology while ensuring data privacy and content filtering.

Solution: Built a custom AI platform on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), providing a secure "walled garden" for students to interact with AI models like Gemini and Claude. The platform includes robust content filtering, session limits, and a review process for chats.

Impact: The platform, named Alice AI, gives students and teachers equitable access to multiple, leading AI models. It provides a safe environment for developing AI literacy while maintaining critical thinking skills.

Value: This solution enables the school to innovate and stay at the forefront of educational technology in a controlled, low-risk way. It helps them prepare students for a world where generative AI is commonplace.

A major research university partnered with Burwood to create an AI-powered platform to streamline the grant discovery and application process. The goal was to combat falling success rates for funding and reduce the administrative burden on researchers, allowing them to focus on their primary work.

Solution: Built a "GenAI for Research" platform on Google Cloud. The tool uses Generative AI and semantic meaning to intelligently match a researcher's abstract with relevant grants, moving beyond simple keyword searches.

Impact: The platform drastically improves efficiency by automating the time-consuming process of finding grants. Researchers are empowered to create higher-quality proposals faster by receiving deep insights and writing assistance.

Value: This solution gives the university a strategic advantage in securing funding, with the potential to directly increase the success rate of applications and enhance the institution's reputation.

A leading R2 research university partnered with Burwood and Google Cloud to implement a self-service portal called "Cloud Lab". The goal was to democratize access to Generative AI and streamline the provisioning of cloud resources for its community.

Solution: The Cloud Lab portal, built on Google Cloud Platform, allows users to request cloud resources and enables administrators to manage approvals, budgets, and project end-dates efficiently. It leverages scalable, cost-efficient serverless components like Firebase, Firestore, Cloud Run, Cloud Build, and App Engine.

Impact: This implementation accelerated the adoption of advanced technologies across the university. It also streamlined resource management, improved the overall user experience, and ensured responsible consumption through budget and end-date enforcement.

Value: The solution provides a way to simplify project management and maintain cost control, allowing the university to expand access to cutting-edge technology responsibly and efficiently.