What this demo proves

• Answers are trustworthy. A confident match returns the office’s approved wording verbatim. Comparisons and eligibility checks are rendered from database fields, so the model never types a dollar amount or a GPA.
• Staff can change it themselves. Q&As, program facts, colours and every visible string are editable in Admin, with draft/publish and one-click revert.
• It embeds. The panel on the right is the exact /embed route Google Sites would load.

Try these

• “Do I need a faculty mentor?” → the office’s approved answer, word for word
• “Compare CRSP, BFF and CSTEP Scholars on stipend, GPA and length” → a table whose numbers come from the database, not the model
• “I’m an international student with a 2.7 GPA, what can I apply to?” → per-program eligibility checklist
• “I’ve never done research and can only commit one semester” → a composed answer with its sources shown
• “Where do I park on campus?” → honest miss + how to reach a human

Putting it on Google Sites

Insert → Embed. Both tabs work — this route sends frame-ancestors allowing Google’s sandbox origins, and no X-Frame-Options.

<iframe
  src="https://your-domain/embed?key=demo"
  title="BMCC Research Office Assistant"
  width="100%"
  height="620"
  style="border:1px solid #D7DEE5; border-radius:12px;"
></iframe>

Two practical notes. Google Sites is HTTPS, so a localhost URL won’t reliably load there — use a deployed URL or a tunnel to test it for real. And the widget lives inside the box you place: it scrolls internally and cannot float over the page, which is a Google Sites constraint rather than a limitation of the widget. On bmcc.cuny.edu, a one-line script loader can give you the floating bubble instead.