My pain point is this: I’m the GIS Manager at Baylor University, and a core value of my department is making geospatial data available to non-GIS and non-technical users, particularly faculty and staff, to support data-driven decision-making. We primarily use Experience Builder to deliver that access. Even when these experiences are designed to be intuitive and accessible, many users still feel overwhelmed by the learning curve or simply want a direct answer without having to learn how to navigate the app.
What I want is an AI assistant plugin for Experience Builder that can act as either the main interface or a key component of an experience. The user would describe what they need, the assistant would ask clarifying questions, evaluate the request against administrator-defined guardrails, confirm intent, and then perform the necessary searching, filtering, calculations, navigation, or exports within the map and constraints already configured for that experience.
For example, users could ask questions like “Show me buildings constructed after 2015,” “Find assets within 500 feet of this location,” or “Export the visible features to CSV.” The assistant would translate those requests into GIS actions and return the result directly in the experience.
This would essentially place a virtual GIS professional inside every Experience Builder app. It would lower the barrier for non-GIS users, increase adoption and engagement, reduce support requests, and help organizations get more value from their ArcGIS deployment
