Case Study: National Agricultural Library achieves 276% increase in indexed content and $1.3M in first-year savings with Expert.ai's Cogito

National Agricultural Library - Customer Case Study

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library (NAL) manages AGRICOLA, one of the largest online agricultural databases, and faced growing volumes of content that made manual indexing unsustainable. To move from manual to semi-automatic indexing, NAL engaged Expert.ai and implemented Expert.ai’s Cogito technology to automate and scale its indexing workflow.

Expert.ai’s Cogito was deployed to semi-automate content indexing, delivering a 276% increase in indexed content in the first year, reducing per-item indexing costs from $9.85 to $3.05, and producing $1.3 million in first-year savings while maintaining high-quality indexing. The automated process from Expert.ai also freed database staff for professional development and ensured consistent, scalable indexing moving forward.

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