Case Study: The University of Manchester cuts research time from half a day to 30 minutes with Xapien

Research reduced from half a day to 30 minutes for more proactive research

The University of Manchester's development research team supports a large alumni network and over 20 fundraisers but struggled with time-consuming reactive research requests. This limited their ability to proactively identify new donor prospects. The team implemented Xapien to help streamline their research and due diligence processes.

Using Xapien, the team can now complete in 10 minutes the desk research that previously took up to half a day. This has cut profile writing time in half, freeing the researchers to engage in more proactive work. Xapien also provides sourced and unbiased information, eliminating the need for manual fact-checking required with other AI tools.

The University of Manchester

Oliver Taylor

Development Research Manager