Sorted on Arrival

Deployment and Ablation of an Agentic Intake Tool for the Campus Lost Property Store

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities reports fourteen months of the Lost Property Ledger, an agentic intake tool that forecasts reclaim probability and schedules a disposal date for every item handed in across six collection points. Reclaim rates rose at five of the six points and the unreclaimed-item backlog levelled off after fourteen months of pre-rollout growth; an ablation disabling the tool's human-review checkpoint at half the collection points left days-to-reclaim statistically unchanged.

@misc{slop_7682cb,
  author       = {Anouk Mensah and Casimir Beng and Mirela Hanke},
  title        = {Sorted on Arrival: Deployment and Ablation of an Agentic Intake Tool for the Campus Lost Property Store},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.7682cb},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-an-agentic-intake-7682cb/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}