Education

Marketing & Recruitment Agent

Which channel brought in this year's first-years? Once the application phase is over, nobody knows.

Uses data to sharpen student marketing.

Open agent
Public administration

Four processes that take up the most time today

Developed in Germany · Hosted in the EU

Developed in Germany · Hosted in the EU or on-premises

Delivered together with

STACKIT Sovereign hosting in Germany, single-tenant from the first user.
Rödl Legal, tax and compliance expertise for legally sound deployment.
4P Consulting Advisory and implementation for the public sector, starting with the AI readiness assessment.

The trade fair contact from November and the application from March are two separate records.

Ads run on one platform, the newsletter on its own tool, the fair list arrives as a spreadsheet and the application lands in the application portal. For the report, someone merges the four sources by hand, usually by email address. Anyone who has changed email address in the meantime drops out of the match.

4separate sourcesAd platform, newsletter, fair list and application portal each keep their own records.
6,800contacts per half-yearThe CRM holds this many by the end of the campaign season.
11degree programmesEach with its own target group, its own budget and its own application deadline.
197enrolled first-yearsThey are the end result of 5,940 contacts with a known channel; another 860 contacts have none.

The budget for the next wave goes to the segments that produced the 197 enrolments rather than being spread evenly across all eleven programmes; it is this reallocation that lifts conversion by 30%.

The 30% rise in conversion is this agent's headline figure. No institution reported this campaign season in these terms: the 6,800 contacts and 197 enrolments across eleven programmes are an illustrative case used to work through the calculation above.

Three steps through the process.

The agent compiles the figures on channels and segments; the head of marketing decides which budget to reallocate.

Attribute contacts to their channels

The agent merges data from the ad platform, newsletter, fair list and application portal in the CRM. Records it cannot match with confidence are kept separate.

6,800 contacts, 5,940 clearly attributed, 860 without a channel

Compare segments with applications

The agent compares segments by region, school type and programme interest with the applications actually received. It shows where high reach meets few applications.

Vocational upper secondary segment, North region, 1,430 contacts, 9 applications

Deliver the campaign report to marketing

The agent summarises segments, cost per application and proposals for the next wave. The head of marketing makes the selection.

Report across 11 programmes, cost per application between 22 and 260 euros

What the agent does not do.

It does not book or run campaigns.

It presents proposals per segment with cost per application. Booking and delivery are the head of marketing's job.

It does not weigh cost per application against a strategic goal of the institution.

For the vocational upper secondary segment in the North region, the report shows 1,430 contacts and 9 applications. Whether to promote the programme anyway is for the university leadership to decide.

It cannot see the channel for applications made via hochschulstart.de.

Anyone who applies through the Dialogue-Oriented Service Procedure (DoSV) arrives in the application portal without a campaign tag. The agent keeps these cases separate and does not assign them to any segment.

Connected systems

  • CRM
  • application portal
  • campaign management

Operations

  • Deployment modelEU cloud or private cloud
  • Data processingGDPR-compliant, no model training on your data
  • Responsible teamsMarketing, Recruitment

The questions that come up before the first meeting.

How quickly is the Marketing & Recruitment Agent ready to use?

A pilot typically runs on your own data within 4 to 6 weeks. The agent connects to your existing systems rather than running as a separate, parallel environment.

Where is the data processed?

EU cloud or private cloud. Processing is GDPR-compliant and models are never trained on your data. Details in the Trust Center.

Where does the figure “30% higher conversion” come from?

It is based on experience from comparable projects and process benchmarks, not a commitment. We establish the realistic effect for your organisation in the assessment before the pilot.

Related agents.

Intake review, case 2026/04711

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