Higher Education

AI adoption in higher education.Less administration. More time for what matters

Academics and researchers are spending a growing share of their time on administrative work that has nothing to do with research or teaching. Grant reports, committee documentation, institutional compliance. GenAI can reduce that burden significantly. But in a community that thinks critically about AI, adoption has to be earned, not imposed.

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Why Mendo ?

Administrative overhead is consuming research and teaching time

Adoption that respects academic culture

Academics are among the most skeptical AI audiences. Mendo's approach is built around critical thinking and progressive adoption, not top-down rollout. That posture builds trust where other programs create resistance.

Less overhead. More output

Grant application drafting, research reports, committee minutes, institutional correspondence. Mendo targets the administrative tasks that consume the most researcher time, freeing capacity for the work that actually matters.

Mendo Coach Agent

An AI-powered proactive coach available inside M365 to guide users in real time.

Governed AI inside your infrastructure

Mendo runs inside your approved environments: Copilot 365 or ChatGPT Enterprise. No research data, no IP, no sensitive institutional content leaves your infrastructure. Governance is built in, not bolted on.

2,8x

higher adoption rate

40%

of users deploy a business use case

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How it works

Embedded in your existing tools. Continuous, measurable, built for the pace of retail.

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Map readiness across faculties and functions

Mendo starts with a readiness assessment across academic departments, research units, and administrative functions. Identify where adoption can move immediately and where a more gradual, trust-building approach is needed.

Reduce the administrative load on your academics

Grant report drafting, research synthesis, committee documentation, institutional correspondence, project tracking. Mendo targets the tasks that consume expert time without producing research or teaching value — running inside Copilot 365 or ChatGPT Enterprise.

Build adoption around critical thinking, not compliance

Academic populations resist top-down AI mandates. Mendo's approach is built around voluntary engagement, progressive capability building, and explicit critical thinking, so adoption grows from genuine conviction, not obligation.

Give leadership visibility on adoption across the institution

Track activation, deployed use cases, and time recovered — by faculty, department, and function. Every step is reportable to your VP Digital, DRH, and executive board.

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How organizations turn GenAI into impact

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"Mendo had a real differentiator with its lab approch, with formats of 3 to 10 minutes which allows, within this lab, to discover a concept or skill applied to a usage, often directly related to the profession."

Rémi Moniot, Digital innovation director

5% to 80% Recurring use case adoption

"Gen. AI is transforming our businesses, it is essential to support our teams in the adoption of these new uses and the development of new skills.

We chose the solution proposed by Mendo, which met our challenges in every way.

This initiative aims to make AI an asset for competitiveness"

Aurélia Le Baudour, Head of Innovation and Digital Transformation

NPS: 60

60% users use Copilot >3 days a week

"The main advantage of Mendo is that we really learn by doing."

Sandrine Delmas, Quality Director

x3 the number of prompts sent

5 use cases identified / user

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Common questions

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Does Mendo protect research data and institutional IP?

Yes. Mendo runs inside your approved environments, Copilot 365 or ChatGPT Enterprise, within your existing data governance perimeter. No research data, no unpublished findings, no institutional content is processed outside your infrastructure or used to train third-party models.

How does Mendo handle resistance from academic staff who are skeptical of AI?

Mendo is built for exactly this profile. The adoption model is voluntary and progressive, starting with clear, low-risk use cases that demonstrate tangible value. The framing is always about critical judgment and responsible use — not about replacing expertise. That resonates with academic culture in a way that top-down mandates do not.

Can Mendo be deployed across both academic and administrative staff?

Yes, with distinct paths for each population. Administrative and support staff typically adopt faster and represent the highest early ROI. Academic and research staff follow a more gradual path, built around their specific documentation tasks and their higher expectations around AI transparency.

What are the highest-ROI use cases in higher education?

Based on deployments: grant report and application drafting, research synthesis, committee documentation, institutional reporting, HR and administrative correspondence. These are the tasks that consume the most time across both academic and administrative populations.

How does Mendo integrate with our existing digital learning environment?

Mendo does not replace your LMS or digital learning infrastructure. It deploys as an adoption layer on top of Copilot 365 or ChatGPT Enterprise, focused on professional tasks rather than student-facing content. Integration with existing HR or L&D systems can be configured at onboarding.

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Mendo helps organizations drive high-quality GenAI adoption, measure impact, and prepare teams for agentic workflows.

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+100 enterprise clients
+200 Use cases
User NPS: 64
+100 enterprise clients
+200 Use cases
User NPS: 64
+100 enterprise clients
+200 Use cases
User NPS: 64