ClementineSyracuse's own AI platform

Clementine is run by Syracuse University, for Syracuse University. It lets students, faculty and staff build personalized AI agents that answer from your material — not from guesswork.

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What you can buildAn agent that knows your material

Every agent you create is grounded in the documents, courses and resources you give it — so the answers cite real sources instead of inventing them.

For students

Build your own study agent. Create a tutor around your courses, your textbooks and your goals, then work with it at whatever hour you actually study.

Learning that adapts. It follows your pace and understanding, gives targeted feedback and pulls together practice questions worth doing.

Verified, not invented. Answers are grounded in your course materials, with citations back to the source.

For faculty and staff

A teaching assistant that scales. Hand the repeat questions and course FAQs to an agent built on your own approved material.

Support for review and design. Draft lesson plans, quizzes and first-pass feedback in minutes, with you keeping full oversight of what goes out.

You control the content. Each agent answers only from material you approve, so accuracy and academic integrity stay in your hands.

How it worksYou decide how it behaves

An agent is more than a prompt. Clementine gives you control over the model behind it, the material it reads and who is allowed to use it.

Choose the model

Pick the model that suits the job — Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini — and switch at any time. Each has its own strengths, so an agent built for long-form writing feedback need not use the same model as one built for data questions.

Ground it in your material

Upload the sources your agent should rely on: PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint decks, spreadsheets and plain text, or connect Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, a website, a GitHub repository or a video with captions. Clementine reads text, so text-based sources give the best results — a scanned PDF or an image-heavy slide has little for it to work with.

Set the tone and the guardrails

System prompts define the agent's purpose and voice. Proactive and guided prompts give people an obvious place to start. Moderation and safety settings let you filter inappropriate input and keep the agent from wandering into medical, legal or financial advice — redirecting to the right campus resource instead.

Control who sees it

Decide whether an agent is visible to students, to administrators or to anyone, and whether it requires a Syracuse sign-in to chat. When it is ready for a wider audience, you can embed it directly in a webpage.

Build on it programmatically

Clementine has an API for working with agents and their datasets in your own code. To request access, email aihelp@syr.edu from your Syracuse account with your NetID and a short description of what you plan to build.

Get startedCreate your first agent

Sign in

Go to mentor.ai.syr.edu (opens in a new tab) and sign in with your Syracuse account.
Start a new agent

Select New Agent from your dashboard, then give it a name, a short description of what it helps with and a category so people can find it.
Add your material

Upload the documents or connect the sources it should answer from. This is what separates a useful agent from a generic chatbot.
Shape how it responds

Adjust the system prompt, add a few suggested questions to get people started and review the safety settings before you share it.
Share it

Set who can view and chat with it, then share the link or embed it in a page.

Full documentation lives in Answers, the University's IT knowledge base — Clementine documentation (opens in a new tab) (sign-in required). Questions can go to aihelp@syr.edu.

Whatever you build, the Responsible AI Guidelines still apply — check them before loading material that includes student records or other confidential University data.

Build something useful

Clementine is available now to every Syracuse student, faculty and staff member.

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