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AI Counsellor for Admissions Team

Pre-qualified student enquiries across WhatsApp, web, and Meta — scheduled counsellor calls only for high-intent leads with routing by programme interest.

3.5×Enrolled Leads
-55%Cost/Lead
12 hrFaster Follow-up

Client snapshot

Client
Private higher-education institute offering 12 undergraduate and postgraduate programmes; peak admission season handles ~8,000 enquiries/year
Location
India
Timeline
5 weeks + ongoing optimisation
Our team
1 AI engineer, 1 CRM specialist, 1 admissions workflow consultant

The challenge

Admissions counsellors were drowning in enquiries during peak season — most of them unqualified or already decided on another institute.

Follow-up took 24-48 hours because every enquiry was treated the same. Parents and students lost interest waiting.

The ad spend was growing every year but enrollment conversion wasn't — the team couldn't tell which programmes, sources, or creatives were worth scaling.

Our approach

  1. 01

    Programme-aware qualifier

    Built a counsellor bot that understood the 12 programmes, eligibility, fees, placements, and asked the right follow-up questions based on which programme the student was considering.

  2. 02

    Intent-scored routing

    Scored every enquiry on intent (12th % known, city, asked about fees, asked about placements) and routed high-score leads to live counsellors within the hour.

  3. 03

    Parent + student duality

    Designed separate conversation tracks — parents want fees, ROI, placements; students want campus life, specialisations, faculty. Bot detected and adapted.

  4. 04

    Source attribution + feedback

    Every enrolled student is traced back to the first-touch source. The team now knows exactly which Meta creative and which programme page drives enrollments.

What we built

  • WhatsApp + web counsellor bot covering all 12 programmes
  • Intent scoring + hot-lead routing to human counsellors
  • Parent + student conversation tracks with different content
  • Full funnel attribution (lead → counsellor call → application → admit → enroll)
  • Counsellor dashboard with lead cards, scripts, and call recordings
  • 14-day nurture for undecided students with content by programme

Results

3.5×Enrolled Leads
-55%Cost/Lead
12 hrFaster Follow-up
  • 3.5× more enrolled leads from the same ad spend
  • Cost per enrolled lead down 55% year-over-year
  • Follow-up time down from 24-48 hr to median ~4 hr for hot leads
  • Counsellors spend 70% of their time on pre-qualified hot leads

Tech stack

WhatsApp Business APIOpenAI GPT-4 TurboMeta Lead Ads APILeadSquared CRM integrationCustom scoring + attribution dashboardNode.js + Postgres
Our counsellors used to say "please stop sending me bad leads." Now they say "please send me more like last week's."
Head of Admissions, Higher-Education Institute (NDA)

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