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Post-Discovery Assessment

UTP can't account for 39% of its graduates.

For a PETRONAS-owned university with 37,000 alumni and a mandate to demonstrate institutional impact, this isn't a data gap — it's a blind spot.

37K
alumni across two decades
~40%
absorbed into PETRONAS
(trackable today)
60%
joined other employers, started businesses, emigrated
39%
employment status completely unknown
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Excel spreadsheet on SharePoint = the alumni "database"

Three root causes. One framework.

In alumni engagement, the 3Ts describe what graduates give back: their Time, Talent, and Treasure. But the 3Ts work just as well turned inward — as a diagnostic lens on UTP's own institutional capacity.

Time
Nobody owns this problem
Alumni tracking is nobody's job at UTP. Without dedicated time, contact data decays at 20-30% per year. An alumni record accurate at graduation becomes stale within two to three years.
The Opportunity
This is the easiest problem to solve. Assigning ownership — even a 0.5 FTE with a clear mandate — immediately begins reversing data decay.
Talent
No capability to turn data into intelligence
UTP lacks the internal talent to do anything useful with alumni data even if it had it. There is no analytical capacity to distinguish "our graduates do well" from "our graduates do well because of us."
The Opportunity
UTP doesn't need a permanent analytics team on day one. It needs a targeted injection of capability with a handover pathway that builds internal capacity.
Treasure
Spent in the wrong order
UTP has already invested in alumni infrastructure — a portal, a dashboard. It was built before the data problem was solved. Technology procured without underlying data is treasure misspent.
The Opportunity
Invert the sequence. A modest investment in data infrastructure creates a foundation that makes every subsequent investment actually work.

The Missing Fourth T: Trade

Why alumni don't engage

Time, Talent, and Treasure describe what UTP needs to invest. But they don't address what alumni get in return. There is no value exchange.

  • No career services portal
  • No exclusive alumni directory
  • No mentorship matching platform
  • No reason to stay connected
The Opportunity

Alumni data is a byproduct of alumni engagement, not the other way around. Build the engagement value first, and data collection becomes natural.

Next The Solution
Product Requirements Document

Alumni Discovery System

MVP Specification for Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
v2.0 February 2026
Section 1

Purpose

Build a system that takes alumni names and institutional context and continuously discovers, assembles, and maintains professional profiles using publicly available sources.

This is not an analytics platform. It is not a dashboard. It is a discovery engine — it finds people, assembles what it learns, and keeps looking.

Section 2

Product Principles

Find, don't ask.

The system discovers information from public sources rather than requiring alumni to self-report.

Accumulate, don't snapshot.

Each crawl cycle adds to what is already known. A profile gets richer as new information surfaces.

Confidence over completeness.

Every field carries a confidence score. High-confidence partial profiles are more useful than low-confidence complete ones.

Institutional context as search advantage.

UTP knows things about each alumnus that public search does not. Every piece becomes a disambiguation signal.

Section 3

System Architecture

📋
Alumni Registry
Source of truth imported from UTP records. Name, programme, graduation year, student ID.
🔍
Discovery Engine
Searches publicly available sources to find current professional information.
🗄️
Profile Store
Structured alumni profiles with provenance tracking. Every field is linked to its source.
🖥️
Interface Layer
Review UI for operators, batch operations, export capabilities.
Section 4

Investment

Development
RM 78,000
120 mandays x RM 650
Operational
RM 10-18K
3-month MVP period
Total MVP
RM 88-96K
Within charter budget

This covers the full MVP build: discovery engine, extraction pipeline, profile store, operator interface, and export capabilities.

See It In Action Interactive Demo
Proof of Concept

Alumni Discovery

Enter a name and whatever context you have. The system searches publicly available sources and assembles what it finds into a profile.

Demo Mode: This uses pre-populated example profiles to show how the system works.

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Discovery Summary

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