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Drive site selector decisions. Drive student enrollment. Win the patient before the first visit.

We turn your community, campus, and care environment into
self-guided virtual experiences that work on your website, 24 hours a day.

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Your industrial sites,
college campus, and
healthcare facility are
already compelling.
Site selectors, students,
and patients just can't
experience them yet.

That gap costs you. Investors choose elsewhere. Students pick a different school. Patients go to the facility down the road.

Not because your place isn't compelling. Because they couldn't experience it.

A self-guided virtual experience puts site selectors, prospective students, and patients inside your place before they decide — without scheduling, without waiting, without a visit that may never happen.

The places that win aren't the ones with the best descriptions. They're the ones people experienced first.

Economic Development Higher Education Healthcare
$25.9M
Bond campaign. Voters experienced the schools first. It passed.
11.5×
More engagement than video or photos. When people walk through a place, they don't skim. They explore and decide.
24/7
Always on. No scheduling. No app. Whenever your audience is ready.
Who We Serve
Three sectors where we work

Three sectors where the experience gap is costing the most.

Sheldon Chamber economic development aerial view
Economic Development
Sheldon, Iowa
Northwest Iowa Community College interior
Higher Education
Northwest Iowa Community College
Cherokee Regional Medical Center lobby
Healthcare
Cherokee Regional Medical Center
01 — Economic Development

EDOs &
Chambers

Site selectors form opinions before they visit. Give them a reason to choose you first.

Site selectors and investors form opinions before they ever visit — whether they're local, regional, or international. The communities that make themselves walkable before the RFP, before the pitch, before the site visit — start every conversation with an advantage that's hard to overcome.

  • Let site selectors walk your industrial parks, spec buildings, and available sites before the RFP closes
  • Give investors ground-level context they can't get from a plat map or a pitch deck
  • Compete with communities that have already made themselves explorable
  • Support relocation decisions with an experience, not just documents
  • Make your region accessible to any site selector, anywhere, at any point in the process
02 — Higher Education

Colleges &
Universities

Most admitted students decide without ever visiting. Make sure they've experienced your campus before they do.

Most applicants will never visit before deciding. The institution that gives them the next best thing to being there wins the students others lose to "I just couldn't picture myself there." A 2% yield improvement outperforms most marketing budgets combined.

  • Give applicants a way to experience campus before yield decisions are made
  • Reach out-of-state and international students who will never visit before deciding
  • Let transfer students explore before they commit
  • Give communities a way to see the schools they're being asked to invest in
  • Reduce melt by keeping admitted students connected to campus after the offer
03 — Healthcare

Hospitals &
Health Systems

Patients, clinical candidates, and donors decide before the first visit. Be there first.

A patient choosing where to receive care doesn't need more information — they need to feel ready. When they can walk through your facility before their first appointment, the unfamiliar becomes familiar. Anxiety drops. Trust builds. The decision to choose you becomes harder to walk back.

  • Reduce no-shows by making your facility feel familiar before the first appointment
  • Help patients choose your system over the one they already know
  • Let clinical candidates walk the unit before accepting an offer
  • Give referring physicians and donors a way to see your facility without a scheduled visit
  • Address pre-visit anxiety before it becomes a cancellation
The Explorer

This is what your audience experiences.
Walk through it yourself.

Choose your audience and step inside a real completed experience.

Who is your audience? Select to experience their perspective.
Nonprofits · Community

A donor can't give confidently to a cause they've never experienced.

The most powerful connection to a mission isn't a brochure — it's being inside the place where the work happens. This is what your donors walk through before they decide to give.

  • Donors experience impact before writing checks
  • Caseworkers evaluate placements via the experience
  • Volunteers understand what they're giving their time to
  • Community members engage beyond what a report achieves
egents.com/explorer — Nonprofits · Community
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360° Self-guided
Walk Through This Space
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How It Works
Four steps. Your team manages none of them.
01

Conversation

We start with a conversation — not a pitch. We learn about your goals, your audience, and what you need people to feel when they experience your place. No pressure, no commitment. Just an honest look at what's possible.

02

On-site

Our team comes to you and captures everything — interior, exterior, aerial. We handle all logistics from start to finish.

03

Build & Review

We build the experience and send you a private preview before anything goes live. Tell us what to change. We refine until it's exactly right.

04

Live

Your experience goes live on your website — embedded, hosted, accessible to anyone with a link. We deliver QR codes, a 60-second social video, and engagement data so you know who's experiencing your place and how. We stay available as your needs grow.

Results
What we've seen change
South OBrien boiler room
"1925 Boiler Room has served its life expectancy."
South OBrien locker room
"This locker room is beyond its life expectancy."
Wade Reiley
Wade Reiley
Superintendent, South O'Brien Community School Districts
Education · Community$25.9M bond passed

A community was asked to invest $25.9M in schools they hadn't seen inside in years. An immersive experience changed that.

Voters couldn't invest in what they couldn't see. Egents built a self-guided virtual experience showing the spaces that needed investment — including spaces the community had never been inside.

"The tour was critical to our bond campaign. We were able to successfully communicate the magnitude of our facility issues, drive empathy, and build a compelling case for investment. The tour became a powerful catalyst for change — inspiring our community to take action."
6,900
visits in first week
11.5×
interactions/visitor
✓
bond passed
W
Wade Reiley
Superintendent, South O'Brien Community School Districts
Economic DevelopmentNew investment secured

Site selectors were evaluating Sheldon from a distance. We gave them a way to stop guessing and start exploring.

Site selectors evaluating Sheldon's industrial parks, shovel-ready sites, and available commercial lots were forming opinions from a distance. The virtual experience put them on the ground before any visit.

"You don't get that by sending a plat map over an email or sitting across the desk from somebody. This actually gives them a real touch and feel and immersiveness in the development itself."
C
Curt Strouth
former Community Development Director, Sheldon Chamber & Development Corporation
Aerial view of Sheldon Iowa industrial development sites and community infrastructure
Curt Strouth
Curt Strouth
former Community Development Director, Sheldon Chamber & Development Corporation
Crittenton Center tiny homes aerial view
Aerial · Tiny Homes Project