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The School Guru, the instantAIguru Guru for education

Increase your enrollments. Instantly.

By Softworx • Since 1986 • Guru in production since 2024

AI Student Support for Colleges and Universities, in Every Applicant's Language

Admissions, financial aid, scholarship, visa, registration, and program questions answered 24/7 across web, email, SMS, WhatsApp, and phone, in plain English or 100+ other languages. Live in five minutes.

No credit card. 7-day free trial. 90-day money-back guarantee.

Why it matters

Applications are not the hard part. The silence between them is.

An applicant who cannot get a straight answer about an aid package, a transfer credit, or an I-20 does not complain. They just stop responding, and enrollment teams see it as melt. It happens in the gap between the question and the answer: a weekend, a time zone, a voicemail box, a form that promises a reply within three business days. Meanwhile the same routine questions eat the hours your counselors should spend on the applicants who need a conversation.

These are also the questions where a confident wrong answer does real damage. A misstated deadline, funding rule, or visa requirement costs an applicant and the trust of everyone they tell. The School Guru answers only from your own catalog, aid pages, and published requirements, in plain English or 100+ other languages, across web, email, SMS, WhatsApp, and phone, and routes anything that needs a human to the right office.

Instantly Answers Web Chat

Tailored to your industry

Built for the way colleges and universities actually run

  • Answer the funnel, not the front page

    Admission requirements, deadlines, transfer credit, housing, orientation, and registration, answered from your catalog rather than a search box, audited at 97%+ accuracy.

  • Aid questions without the guesswork

    Cost, aid, and scholarship questions answered from your own published policy, with a handoff to a counselor for anything that depends on a student's file.

  • Domestic and international applicants

    Serve every applicant in their own language, including visa and I-20 questions for international students, at the hour they are awake.

  • Built for the peaks

    Deadline weeks and aid season arrive on schedule and bury the same team every year. The School Guru absorbs that volume on every channel without seasonal hiring.

Further reading

Inside 24/7 multilingual admissions and student support

Why you can trust it

Answers you can trust. Actions that cannot go wrong.

Answers are grounded in your own content, so the Guru cannot make things up, and every transaction runs through a deterministic engine, never the language model. That is the difference between a chatbot that sounds right and one you can actually put to work in colleges and universities. 200,000+ business flows in production, zero errors.

Read the full argument: The Third Wave

Make the case for your team

Transparent pricing. Clear comparisons.

Two pages your finance lead and your head of support will want before you commit.

Pricing

From $71.25 a month

Admissions cycles are intense and seasonal. Flat institutional pricing with unlimited seats means every counselor, recruiter, registrar staffer, and dean can use the Guru without per-seat math.

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Guru vs the alternatives

Most chat tools cannot handle aid policy, catalog depth, and multilingual applicant volume. See how the Guru compares against the alternatives enrollment teams usually consider.

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Security and compliance

Built for the regulated realities of colleges and universities

Admissions and registrar workflows involve transcripts, passport details, and financial records. FERPA-compliant handling, encryption, and GDPR compliance for international applicants keep that information protected.

  • Encrypted in transit and at rest
  • GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA compliant
  • Regular audits and penetration testing

100% Self-Serve Onboarding

Three steps. Under five minutes.

  1. Step 1

    Enter Your Website

    Type in your business URL. Our Guru automatically reads your entire site and becomes an expert on your products, services, FAQs, everything.

  2. Step 2

    Customize Your Guru

    Match your brand colors, add your logo, and type any special instructions in plain English. Want it to greet visitors a certain way? Just tell it.

  3. Step 3

    Go Live Instantly

    Copy the snippet and paste it into your site. Your Guru is live and helping customers 24/7.

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