01The same ten questions by phone
Answered on WhatsApp in seconds, in the student’s language.
- Cited from the uploaded brochure, with the page
- Quick replies for the next question; a button to reach the office
The counter queue moves to WhatsApp
InsightCampusDesk · WhatsApp student assistant for colleges
Every student question answered, from your own documents.
For colleges, universities and coaching institutes. Students ask on WhatsApp in English, Hindi or their own language; CampusDesk answers from the brochures, circulars and timetables you upload — cites the page — and hands anything it cannot find to the office.
- 91% answered by the assistant
- 3 s first reply, 24 × 7
- Every answer cites its document
WhySound familiar?
Three things we hear in every first conversation.
From principals, registrars and admissions heads at colleges and universities. Composite quotes from discovery calls — the problems are real; the names are left out.
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“Admissions week, the phone does not stop — and it is the same ten questions.”
Documents required, last date, fees, subject combinations. All on page six of the brochure.
RegistrarOffice staff on the phone all day
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“Students ask at 9 pm. The office closes at 5.”
Half the questions arrive after hours and wait until the next morning — or go unanswered.
Admissions headEnquiries lost overnight
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“Whoever picks up gives a different answer.”
Fees quoted from memory, dates from last year’s circular. Nobody knows which answer the student got.
PrincipalWrong answers, no record
HowWhat changes with CampusDesk
The same three problems, on the screens that solve them.
Product screens with illustrative data. In a walkthrough we load your own brochure and try your ten most-asked questions.
02Enquiries lost after hours
Every conversation, live, with its source.
- 24 × 7 replies; anything not covered goes to the office queue with the full chat
- Take over any conversation from the dashboard
No question waits for the morning
03Answers from memory
One document library the assistant answers from.
- Upload a circular and it is learned in minutes; retire the old version
- Nothing invented: no passage, no answer — a person instead
One answer, the official one
FieldCampusDesk in the field
The people, the phone, the place.
The workplace it runs in, the person who uses it on a phone, the team at the desk and the detail it reads.
Photographs are illustrative — real customer sites are not shown.
- 24 × 7Student supporttwo peaks: mid-morning and after the office closes
- 91%Answered without a personillustrative · the rest handed to the office
- MinutesFrom circular to answerupload a PDF; it is learned, not retyped
- CitedEvery answerdocument and page shown; nothing invented
- OfficialWhatsApp Business APIgreen tick, your number
- 3 +Languagesauto-detected per student
01The screens
From a photo of a brochure to a cited answer at 9 pm.
The dashboard, the document library, live conversations and the student’s side on WhatsApp.
autowhat · CampusDesk / Dashboard
Illustrative data
Conversations, students helped, share answered by the assistant and questions by category.
Product screens with illustrative data — every name, place and figure is a placeholder.
02Before and after
The office phone rings with the same ten questions.
Admissions week doubles the calls; most of them are answered on page six of the brochure nobody reads.
| Area | Today | With CampusDesk |
|---|---|---|
| Questions | Phone calls and counter queues | Answered on WhatsApp in seconds, 24 × 7 |
| Source | Whoever picks up remembers | Cited from the uploaded document and page |
| Updates | A notice on the board | Upload the circular; the assistant knows it in minutes |
| Languages | English at the counter | The student’s own language, auto-detected |
| Unknowns | A guess, or “come tomorrow” | Handed to the office with the full chat |
| Insight | None | What students ask, when, and what is missing from your documents |
03One question
Six steps, from WhatsApp to a cited answer.
Only the documents you upload are used as sources; the model is told to say “I don’t know” rather than guess.
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Receive
WhatsApp Business API
The student’s message arrives on the college’s official number.
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Understand
Intent & language
Admissions, exams, fees, academics or other — and the language to reply in.
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03
Search
Vector index
The relevant passages found across every learned document.
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04
Answer
Grounded LLM
A short reply written only from those passages, with document and page.
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Hand off
Office queue
No passage found, or the student asks for a person: the office gets the chat.
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Learn
Analytics
Categories, peaks, unanswered questions — and which document to write next.
04The platform
Answer, manage, hand off and learn.
Built for the principal’s office and the admissions desk; no IT team needed to run it.
Students · 4
- WhatsApp assistant
- Multilingual replies
- Quick-reply buttons
- Talk to the office
Knowledge · 4
- PDF · DOCX · text upload
- Automatic learning
- Retire old versions
- Answers citing documents
Office · 4
- Live conversations
- Hand-off queue
- Take-over from the dashboard
- Answer review
Insight · 4
- Conversations & students
- Category split
- Daily trends & peak hours
- Unanswered questions
05How we deliver
Live in two weeks, on your own number.
We load your brochures and circulars, connect the WhatsApp Business number and train the office in an afternoon.
- Week 1 · LoadYour brochures, fee structures, timetables and circulars learned.
- Week 2 · ConnectOfficial WhatsApp number live; QR codes on the notice board and website.
- Month 1 · OperateAdmissions week handled; unanswered questions reviewed weekly.
- Then · ExtendAlumni, parents and placement cells on the same assistant.
FAQQuestions we get about CampusDesk
Straight answers, before the call.
CampusDesk is a WhatsApp student-support assistant for colleges and universities. Short, factual answers for buyers, procurement and the assistants people ask first.
In short. CampusDesk is a WhatsApp student-support assistant for colleges and universities. It is built for principals, registrars and admissions heads at colleges, universities and coaching institutes. It exists to remove the problems those teams describe in almost every first conversation: the same ten questions on the office phone all admissions week; enquiries that arrive at 9 pm and wait until morning; and different answers from whoever picks up. With CampusDesk, teams get cited answers from your own documents, in the student’s language, on the official WhatsApp number, a document library that learns a new circular in minutes and retires old versions, and live conversations, a hand-off queue and analytics by category, day and hour. It connects to WhatsApp Business API, PDF · DOCX upload, Vector search and Analytics dashboard, is used by Students · office · principal, and runs on whatsapp + web. Like every Autowhat AI product, CampusDesk goes live on one site, lane or process first, usually within weeks, on managed cloud, in your own VPC or on-premises, and shares one operational record with the other products, so the second deployment reuses the data and integrations of the first.
Who is CampusDesk for?
Principals, registrars and admissions heads at colleges, universities and coaching institutes. A WhatsApp student-support assistant for colleges and universities.
What problems does CampusDesk remove?
the same ten questions on the office phone all admissions week; enquiries that arrive at 9 pm and wait until morning; different answers from whoever picks up.
What do we get with CampusDesk?
cited answers from your own documents, in the student’s language, on the official WhatsApp number; a document library that learns a new circular in minutes and retires old versions; live conversations, a hand-off queue and analytics by category, day and hour.
What does CampusDesk connect to, and who uses it?
It connects to WhatsApp Business API, PDF · DOCX upload, Vector search, Analytics dashboard. Users: Students · office · principal. Channel: WhatsApp + web.
How do we start with CampusDesk?
With a 30-minute working session on your own data — an engineer from the relevant sector, not a sales queue. The first wave is scoped in that call; most products go live on one site, lane or process within weeks and then scale.
Where does CampusDesk run, and who owns the data?
On managed cloud, in your own VPC (AWS, Azure or GCP) or on-premises, with your keys. SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 controls, India data residency when required, and local or open-weight models when policy demands it. The data stays yours.
06Walkthrough
Bring your admission brochure. We’ll have it answering questions in an hour.
A working session: your documents loaded, your ten most-asked questions tried, and the dashboard explained.