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TritonAI Roadmap

A public, status-based view of approved TritonAI work from the 2023 chatbot launch through the 2026 governed builder path. The platform now serves 73,000+ students, faculty, and staff. Completed work links to verified program updates when a corresponding public update is available.

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What each status means

  • ShippedPublicly available
  • PilotBounded testing with oversight
  • In developmentActive work without a committed launch date
  • ExploringDiscovery only; no delivery commitment

Current horizon

2026 delivery detail

Each quarter groups supervised solutions, the reusable pieces underneath them, and the work of getting prototypes to supported services. A quarter's status covers the group as a whole, so an individual service linked below may be further along.

Q1 2026 — Agents

Pilot

Ecosystem Expansion

Launched transcript OCR and student record matching, expanded instructional AI to 8 courses with scheduling assistant pilots, and opened the TritonAI site with API access and early N8N workflows.

  • OnBase pathTranscript matching
  • 8 coursesInstructional AI
  • API accessCampus builders
  • Transcript verification moved from an OCR and matching proof of concept toward an OnBase handoff for enrollment operations.
  • Instructional AI added one-click assistant creation while scheduling and spring-course pilots continued.
  • Contract review expanded as a supervised Procurement workflow with configurable, policy-backed redlining.
  • The TritonAI site and Developer APIs opened governed model access for campus builders.
  • Research proposal risk and research alignment proofs of concept tested focused research-support workflows.

Owner TritonAI solutions team and sponsoring unitsReviewed 2026-07-27

Q2 2026 — Refine

Pilot

Process Automation

The builder path expanded, and TritonGPT moved into the campus mobile app. A Canvas-integrated instructional assistant shipped. The July update confirmed transcript matching and contract review in production; finance work remained in pilot. Research, BioBib, and observability pilots moved ahead as well.

  • Campus mobileTritonGPT
  • CanvasInstructional assistant
  • ProductionTranscript and contract workflows
  • Developer API access and N8N Agent Builder broadened the path from model access to supervised workflow orchestration.
  • TritonGPT extended into the campus mobile experience and began surfacing live campus signals with stronger response traceability.
  • A Canvas-integrated instructional assistant established a reusable delivery pattern for course support.
  • The July program update confirmed transcript matching in production with an OnBase handoff for enrollment and contract review in a supervised Production workflow.
  • BioBib formatting, risk-based proposal review, and AI IT observability expanded the bounded prototype portfolio.

Owner TritonAI solutions teamReviewed 2026-09-06

Q2–Q3 2026 — Expand

In development

Multi-Institution Expansion

The platform is expanding beyond UC San Diego as a governed multi-tenant service shared across UC and partner institutions.

  • LiveUC Berkeley, UC ANR, FDU, and UC Merced
  • SharedPlatform and governance
  • BearGPT is live at UC Berkeley as a partner deployment of the shared TritonAI gateway and governance model.
  • ANR AI serves staff at UC Agriculture and Natural Resources. Partner service renewal work continues.
  • FredGPT is live at Fairleigh Dickinson University as a research-oriented institution instance.
  • UC Merced's SCOUT assistant is now broadly available to the campus, moving from production beta into full launch.
  • Partner instances inherit the same hosting, model choice, trust, and observability controls as the UC San Diego deployment.
  • Partner expansion reuses the existing platform and shared infrastructure.

Owner TritonAI platform teamReviewed 2026-09-18

Q3 2026 — Ecosystem

In development

Governed Builder Path

The TritonAI Harness now has a public access and installation path. The pilot is expanding through reusable skills, supported hosting, shared project knowledge, and governance for broader agent work.

  • Access path liveTritonAI Harness
  • Library liveSkills and connectors
  • Proofs of conceptHosted apps
  • The TritonAI Harness pilot now has a public Gateway request, billing, installer, and setup path. Broader adoption remains staged.
  • Class Planner is in production. Current integration work prioritizes sign-in and saved plans; degree-audit guidance and registration integrations depend on additional campus APIs.
  • Fall instructional AI signup is open for instructors to request a Canvas course tutor. Self-service course activation remains in development.
  • Campus App Hosting continues with limited-scope proof-of-concept apps and a shared-responsibility path to support.
  • The live UCSD Skills Library publishes reusable skills and is preparing a reviewed path for community contributions, MCP integrations, and data-source patterns. The Citizen Developer Guide now helps teams scope a first project and choose a supported delivery path.
  • Shared project knowledge is defining named ownership, authoritative sources, approval boundaries, and freshness checks before agents can reuse it.
  • Academic advising remains in a scoped prototype and build phase.
  • Governance and observability work is documenting data, security, reliability, and operational requirements before broader access.

Owner TritonAI platform and solutions teamsReviewed 2026-09-06

Q3–Q4 2026 — Adoption

In development

Supported Rollout

Preparing more UC San Diego teams to use the TritonAI Harness and related builder tools through staged onboarding, training, peer support, and rollout measurement.

  • Pilot groupsOnboarding
  • Peer supportTraining and office hours
  • Follow-upReadiness measurement
  • Pilot groups are testing onboarding, installation, training, and support before broader outreach.
  • AI use-case office hours are sharing staff-built agent workflows and lessons from supervised development.
  • An early-adopter community will focus on the TritonAI Harness, skills, MCP integrations, and n8n workflows.
  • Readiness and follow-up measures will track access, use, connected tools, and safeguards.
  • The Skills Library contribution path will combine automated checks with human review before publication.

Owner TritonAI program, platform team, and learning partnersReviewed 2026-09-06

Beyond Q3 2026

Exploring

Governed agency at campus scale

Evaluating repeatable, supervised agent workflows that can use approved tools and connectors while retaining accountable human review.

  • Agents would retrieve approved data and call approved tools only within bounded workflows.
  • Shared context would move from private task context to reviewed team or service knowledge through explicit promotion.
  • Human review would remain at consequential decisions and actions.
  • Observability would capture the reliability, usage, and evidence needed to operate services responsibly.
  • Before agents can change systems, each service would define allowed scope, required tests, audit logs, and recovery ownership.
  • Approval points and rollback ownership would be assigned before a workflow can move beyond read-only or proposal-only access.
  • Successful pilots would graduate through a named service owner, governance review, support model, and approved hosting path.

Owner TritonAI program and campus governance partnersReviewed 2026-08-22

Foundation

How we got here

Earlier milestones, from opening up broad access to building the shared infrastructure and the first focused campus workflows.

2023 — Alpha

Shipped

Beta & Training

Secured Chancellor's Office funding, invited 400+ staff to the campus beta, and launched AI Essentials I in the UC Learning Center.

Owner TritonAI program

Q2 2024 — Live

Shipped

Campus-Wide

Opened campus-wide availability for ~37K employees, upgraded to Llama 3 with campus SSO, and refreshed the UI with file upload.

Owner TritonAI platform team

Q3–Q4 2024 — Growth

Shipped

Adoption

Grew Fund Manager Coach adoption, expanded departmental use cases, and began infrastructure planning for the next platform phase.

Owner TritonAI solutions team

Q1 2025 — Build

Shipped

Platform Prep

Upgraded the platform architecture for scale and prepared the model gateway for both commercial and local LLMs.

Owner TritonAI platform team

Q3 2025 — Integrate

Shipped

Widget & Infra

Deployed the Blink AI widget without a login requirement and integrated LiteLLM to enable model choice.

Owner TritonAI platform team