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Fill more seats without hiring more counsellors

One agentic AI operating system for the whole student lifecycle: enquiries qualified the minute they land, applications completed in-thread, fees collected before the deadline — and a record of everything a counsellor promised.

Built for admissions at season scale
  • The institution owns the lead
  • Multi-campus & programme routing
  • Counsellor conduct scoring
  • Parental consent for minors
  • Response-SLA visibility
  • Enquiry-to-enrolment analytics

Admissions & Enquiry

Never lose an applicant to a slow callback

Ads, webinars, education fairs and your website all pour into one thread. An AI counsellor qualifies course fit, eligibility and budget the minute an enquiry lands — at 11pm on a Sunday, in the applicant’s own language — and hands your team a warm, complete file instead of a phone number.

  • Qualified in the first two minutes

    Programme interest, academic background, marks, city, budget and intake preference captured conversationally. Applicants who do not meet the cut-off get an honest answer straight away rather than a place in a callback queue that never clears.

  • Fees, scholarships and eligibility, answered instantly

    The questions that decide whether a family applies at all get an answer immediately. The agent reads fee structure, scholarship bands and cut-offs live from your system of record, so nobody quotes last year’s numbers.

    Fee structureScholarshipsEligibilityCut-offsHostelPlacement record
  • Documents collected in-thread

    Marksheets, transfer certificates, ID and photographs requested one at a time. Blurry, cropped or wrong-year uploads are detected and re-asked automatically, so the file that reaches the admissions office is already complete.

    MarksheetTransfer certificateID proofPhotographCategory certificate
  • Deadline nudges that actually land

    Form-fill, document and last-date sequences timed per programme and per intake. An application half-finished at midnight gets picked back up where it stopped, and only the applicants who genuinely stall are escalated to a counsellor call.

  • Counsellor handoff with the whole picture

    When a human takes over, they open the same thread with the qualification summary, the documents received and an AI recap of everything already discussed — so the family is never asked the same three questions twice.

Agent Studio · Admissions agent
NI
Northfield Institute Admissions · online
Is there still time to apply for the January MBA intake?9:14 pm
Yes — applications for the January intake close on 28 September, so you have 25 days.

One quick question and I can check your eligibility: what was your graduation percentage?9:14 pm
72%, B.Com from Pune University9:16 pm
Eligibility confirmedThat clears our 60% cut-off for the MBA programme.

Total fee is ₹4,80,000 across 4 semesters. At 72% you also qualify for the Merit band — 15% off tuition, applied automatically.

Shall I collect your documents now? Takes about 4 minutes.9:17 pm
marksheet_sem6.pdf1.2 MB
Re-ask triggeredThis is your semester 6 marksheet. I also need the consolidated marksheet showing the final aggregate — could you send that one?9:21 pm
Message
Handed to counsellor · Ananya Rao
  • ProgrammeMBA · January 2027 intake
  • EligibilityB.Com · 72% · Pune
  • ScholarshipMerit band · 15%
  • Documents3 of 5 received
  • ConsentCaptured 9:14 pm

Enrolment & Fee

The gap between offer and fee payment is where seats are lost

An applicant who has accepted an offer but not paid is the most valuable and most fragile record in your funnel. Work that gap on a channel families actually read — with the fee breakdown, a payment link and a human on standby for the ones who go quiet.

  1. Offer released

    The letter, the fee breakdown and the acceptance deadline arrive as a message, not an email attachment nobody opens. Read receipts tell you who has actually seen it.

  2. First instalment

    A payment link carrying the exact amount and your own reference number, plus the instalment plan if you offer one. Receipts return to the same thread, so nobody calls the office to ask whether the money arrived.

  3. Accepted but unpaid · the silence worked

    This cohort gets its own sequence: a reminder, then the objections counsellors hear most — instalments, loan tie-ups, hostel costs — then a call from a human before the deadline rather than after it.

  4. Joining, not just paying

    Batch and campus allocation, orientation date, the document-submission list, hostel and transport options — all delivered before day one, so the first week is not a helpdesk queue.

Every fee message carries the institution’s own reference number and links only to your payment gateway — so families are never asked to trust a number or a link they do not recognise.

Broadcast & Voice Campaign Studio

Admissions — January intake

Running
Enquiries 12,840
Applications 3,916
Offers released 1,204 Offer out
Accepted, unpaid 338 AI Voice
Fee collected this week₹2.41 Cr
AAditya Menon MBA · ₹1,20,000 Paid 04 Sep Link · settled
SSana Qureshi B.Tech CSE · ₹95,000 Instalment 1 of 4 Plan · active
RRahul Nair MBA · ₹1,20,000 Deadline 09 Sep Escalated to counsellor
PPriya Das B.Des · ₹88,000 Paid 03 Sep Link · settled

Engagement & Outcomes

Once they enrol, the channel keeps working

Schedules, deadlines, attendance and progress on the one channel students and parents both actually open — so faculty spend their time teaching rather than chasing, and the office stops answering the same four questions all term.

Schedules and deadlines

Timetables, exam dates, assignment deadlines and live-class links, delivered per batch and per student. A room change or a postponed test goes out the moment it is made, not when someone remembers to post it.

TimetableExam scheduleLive-class linkAssignment dueRoom change

Attendance and drop-off nudges

Students falling below an attendance or progress threshold get a nudge before it hardens into a backlog — and the mentor sees who is slipping without having to run a report to find out.

Parents in the loop, on the right channel

Progress updates, attendance summaries and fee-due reminders reach parents where they read, in the language they read it in — and without anyone handing out a teacher’s personal number.

Doubts routed to the right person

Subject doubts land in the Unified Inbox and route to the faculty member or teaching assistant who owns that subject, with the student’s history and prior questions already attached.

NI
Northfield InstituteParent updates · online
Monthly progress · Aarav SharmaGrade 9-B · August
Attendance94% · 28 of 30
Mathematics82
Science78
English88
Next up: unit test on 14 September.6:30 pm
Thanks. Can I speak to the maths teacher this week?7:02 pm
Of course. Mrs Dsouza has slots on Thursday at 4:15 pm and Friday at 3:30 pm. Which suits you?7:02 pm
Thursday 4:15Friday 3:30Full report

What stops being a phone call

  • “When is the exam?” and every timetable question
  • “Has our fee payment been received?”
  • Absence notes, leave requests and medical certificates
  • Bonafide certificates, transcripts and ID reissues

Retention & Renewal

The next course is cheaper to sell than the first

Whether it is next term’s fee, the next certification or an alumni referral, the relationship already exists. Most institutions lose it to silence between terms — and then pay an agency to buy the same student back.

Re-engaging the ones who went quiet

Self-paced learners who stopped at module three and cohorts that never started at all get sequences built on exactly where they dropped — not a generic “we miss you” blast to the whole list.

Renewal before the term ends

Next-term fees, re-registration and course-continuation windows run as a campaign with the payment link in the same message — worked while the student is still on campus, not after they have gone home.

Placements and alumni

Placement drives, alumni events and giving campaigns to segments you can actually target — batch, programme, graduating year, city — instead of one undifferentiated mailing list.

Referrals from the people already sold

Current students and parents are the cheapest admissions channel you have. The referral ask goes out at the moment satisfaction is highest — results day, placement day — with a trackable link per family.

Operations & Governance

What your counsellors promise is a liability you cannot see

Admissions is a high-churn, incentive-driven function talking to families about a life decision and a large cheque. Everything below exists so that scaling those conversations does not scale your exposure — where the leads sit, who answered them, and what was actually said.

The institution owns the lead

Enquiries, threads and documents live in the platform — never in a counsellor’s personal WhatsApp. When a counsellor resigns mid-season, as they do, the pipeline does not leave with their phone.

Routing across campuses and programmes

One branded number in front; routing by campus, programme, language and intake behind it. A Pune B.Tech enquiry never lands on the Delhi MBA desk, and no applicant is ever asked to message a different number.

Lead leakage, made visible

Response-time SLAs per counsellor and per source, with unanswered enquiries surfaced while they are still warm. You can finally tell a slow counsellor apart from a bad channel instead of guessing at the end of the season.

Over-promising, caught the same day

CX Governance scores every counsellor conversation for guaranteed-placement claims, inflated salary figures, accreditation that was never granted and discounts nobody approved — with the exact line quoted.

Consent — and consent for minors

Consent is captured and timestamped at the point of collection. Where an applicant is under 18, parental-consent capture and the DPDP Act’s treatment of children’s data are part of the flow rather than something bolted on afterwards.

What families are actually asking

Conversational analytics clusters enquiry themes across the whole season — a fee objection, an eligibility rule nobody understands, a hostel question that never gets a straight answer — while there is still an intake left to fix it for.

Every counsellor conversation scored, not a spot check

Manual audits sample a handful of calls a month, usually only after a complaint has already been made. CX Governance reads all of them — chat and voice, in every language your counsellors work in — and flags what was said on the day it was said.

AI Conversational Intelligence · CX Governance

Conduct surveillance All counsellor chat and voice, last 7 days

Scoring 100%
Conversations scored21,480
Conduct flags raised74
Confirmed on review23/74
Median time to flag6 min
WhenFlagWhat was saidCounsellorStatus
Today12:40 pm Placement guarantee “100% placement guaranteed, everyone from this batch gets a job” A. Rao Under review
Today11:02 am Salary claim Quoted an average package the published brochure does not support Voice agent Under review
Yesterday6:15 pm Unapproved discount Offered 30% off tuition with no approval on record M. Iqbal Coached
Yesterday3:28 pm Accreditation claim Described the programme as approved by a body that has not approved it S. Kulkarni Blocked & corrected
02/095:12 pm Minor’s data Documents requested from a 16-year-old before parental consent Voice agent Rule updated

What changes

Where the operating leverage shows up

  • 3–4×more enquiries qualified per counsellor per working day
  • 40–55%of routine student and parent queries resolved without a staff reply
  • 100%of counsellor chats and calls scored for conduct, against a typical monthly spot check
  • 15–25%more accepted applicants paid before the fee deadline passes

Illustrative ranges modelled on common deployment patterns for this class of workflow. They are not measured results from a named institution, and your own numbers will depend on programme mix, enquiry sources, intake calendar and how much automation you already run.

Questions from admissions, IT and the registrar

The objections we get asked first

Short answers here; your IT and compliance teams get the full documentation pack during evaluation.

Does this connect to our SIS, LMS and admissions CRM?

Three ways, usually combined. The Embedded SDK drops the unified inbox directly into your admissions CRM so counsellors never leave it. APIs and webhooks move events both directions with your SIS and LMS — application stage, fee status, attendance, marks. And AI agents call your systems as tools at conversation time, so an eligibility answer, a fee balance or an application status is read live from the system of record rather than from a stale copy.

We run several campuses and a dozen programmes. How does routing work?

One number in front of all of it. Routing rules dispatch on campus, programme, intake, language and source, so an enquiry reaches the counsellor who can actually answer it. Each counsellor sees only their own queue, admissions heads see everything, and reassignment when someone leaves or goes on leave is a change of rule rather than a change of phone.

Do we message the student or the parent?

Both, on separate threads, with different content. A student gets timetables, assignment deadlines and doubt-clearing; a parent gets progress summaries, attendance and fee reminders. Contacts are linked to the same student record so nobody has to reconcile two systems, and consent and opt-out are tracked per contact rather than per student.

Many of our applicants are minors. How is that handled?

Where the applicant is under 18, the flow is built to collect the parent or guardian as the consenting contact before personal data or documents are requested, with that consent timestamped and retained. The DPDP Act treats children’s data as a distinct category with its own obligations, so this is configured deliberately per institution during onboarding rather than assumed — and conduct scoring flags conversations where documents were requested ahead of consent.

Our volume is ten times higher in admissions season. What happens then?

That is the case the AI agents are for. The agent layer absorbs the enquiry spike without a proportional counsellor spike, and AI voice picks up the numbers that never open a message. Where it matters is the shape of the season: the last week before a deadline is not the same problem as a steady Tuesday, so cadences, escalation thresholds and human-queue routing are set per intake rather than left on one static configuration.

Will WhatsApp approve templates for education content?

Outbound templates go through Meta’s approval process, and the platform manages submission, versioning and rejection reasons in one place. Education content has real constraints — no guaranteed-outcome claims, care with minors, clear opt-out language — so an internal approval step runs before submission. In practice that means fewer rejections and a documented approval chain, which matters when a regulator or a parent asks what you actually sent.

What happens to the counsellors we already have?

They stop doing the work that never needed a human. The agent handles first response, qualification, document collection and status questions around the clock; counsellors get the applicants who are genuinely deciding, with a summary already loaded. The measurable change is usually not headcount but where the hours go — and, for the first time, a manager can see which counsellors are actually converting rather than which ones are busiest.

Bring your admissions head to the demo

We would rather show you one intake end to end than talk in the abstract. Bring admissions, IT and whoever owns the counsellor team, and we will walk an enquiry from first message to fee receipt — including the conduct trail behind it.