IndiaHigher education — private university networkScale · $100K
Amity University

Amity admits at national scale — every cycle, tens of thousands of families ask the same questions faster than counselors can answer

Amity's admissions funnel spans dozens of programs, multiple campuses, and an online arm; an agentic admissions layer answers every family the night they ask — programs, fees, scholarships, hostels — in their language, chases applications to completion, and books counselors only into decision-ready conversations.

Entry use case
Admissions inquiry response & application completion at national scale
Expected outcome
Respond to every program/fee/scholarship inquiry within minutes during peak season, cut application drop-off through automated document chasing, and lift enrollment conversion without expanding the counselor bench.
Recommended next step
Pilot admissions inquiry response and application chasing for two campuses plus Amity Online ahead of the next results season, with speed-to-first-response and completion-rate baselines.
What we understand

Amity University's operating reality

Amity operates one of India's largest private university networks, with its flagship Noida campus, multiple campuses across Indian states, international campuses, and a substantial online education arm.

Public fact

Its program portfolio spans engineering, management, law, health sciences, and liberal arts across undergraduate and postgraduate levels — a wide inquiry surface with campus-specific answers.

Public fact

Private-university admissions in India concentrate into short post-board-result and post-entrance windows, multiplying inquiry volume against a fixed counseling capacity.

Reasoned inference

Families comparison-shop across private universities; first-response speed and fee/scholarship clarity likely decide which shortlists Amity survives.

Reasoned inference

Application drop-off between inquiry, document submission, and fee payment is likely the largest silent funnel leak, with no systematic chasing today.

Seller hypothesis — validate

Validate with the account team before outreach: Current inquiry-to-enrollment conversion and median first-response time in peak season · Admissions CRM landscape and whether campuses run centralized or local funnels · Decision ownership: group leadership vs. per-campus administration for CX tooling

Build vs buy

Why we have a right to win here

Buy-led target

Limited internal ability or appetite to build the core platform — strong candidate for the packaged solution

Evidence: An education institution, not a technology organization: its IT estate is admissions portals, LMS, and ERP procured from vendors, and there is no AI engineering bench. Admissions automation at national scale is a classic packaged purchase with campus-level configuration.

Why they won't build the full stack: University technology teams run systems, they don't build conversational AI — and the admissions calendar punishes slow internal projects: capability must be live before the next results season. Buying with campus-grounded configuration is the only timeline that matters.

What management is signalling

Continued campus-network and online-program expansion signaled in public communications and admissions marketing.

InferencePublic admissions communications (validate) · 2025-26 cycle

GTM implication: Every new campus and online program multiplies the same inquiry patterns — one deployment with per-campus grounding scales at near-zero marginal cost, strengthening the network-wide pitch.

What already exists (don't pitch this)
  • Admissions portals and web inquiry forms
  • Counselor call centers during office hours
  • Amity Online digital funnels
  • Campus admission offices handling walk-ins and calls
What customers still can't do end-to-end (pitch this)
  • →Minutes-level response at results-season spike scale
  • →Vernacular two-way family conversations beyond English/Hindi forms
  • →Grounded fee/scholarship answers consistent across campuses
  • →Systematic application document chasing and melt prevention
Opportunity map

Where agentic communications pays off first

WorkflowWhy it matters hereValueComplexitySpeedChannels
Admissions inquiry & counselor booking
Instant grounded answers on programs, fees, scholarships, and hostels; qualified families booked onto counselor calendars.
Every unanswered inquiry in season is an enrollment lost to a faster-answering competitor.
Friction today: Web forms feed shared inboxes; counselor callbacks lag days behind spikes; families decide fast.
WhatsAppVoiceWeb chat
Application completion & document chasing
Automated checklist tracking and vernacular nudges; application completion rate lifted measurably.
Started-but-stalled applications are recoverable revenue nobody systematically chases.
Friction today: Missing documents and unpaid fees surface in reports, not conversations.
WhatsAppSMSEmail
Post-admit engagement & melt prevention
Structured post-admit nurture — hostel, orientation, fee plans — cutting melt into enrollment gains.
Admitted students who enroll elsewhere are the most expensive losses in the funnel.
Friction today: Between admit letter and fee deadline, the only touch is the deadline reminder.
WhatsAppVoice
Watch the change

Admissions inquiry response & application completion at national scale: today vs the agentic model

Scenario: Board results drop and a family in Ranchi asks at 10pm whether B.Tech CSE at Amity's Noida or Gwalior campus fits their budget with a scholarship — the web form promises a response in 2-3 working days
Today
same interaction, two worlds
Agentic layer
First response time
2–3 days
under 2 minutes
Benchmark
Cost per contact
$13.50 median assisted
$1.84 median self-service
Benchmark
QA coverage
1–2% sampled
100% scored
Platform capability
Sources & assumptions
  • · First response time: Process design; 78% choose the first responder (vendor funnel studies — directional)
  • · Cost per contact: Gartner customer service cost benchmarks, 2024
  • · QA coverage: Platform capability: every interaction logged and evaluated
  • · Gartner, customer service cost benchmarks (2024): $13.50 median assisted vs $1.84 self-service per contact
  • · McKinsey, digital-first collections research: 20–25% NPL reduction among leaders; up to 40% opex reduction with gen AI
  • · Baymard Institute: ~70% average cart abandonment (meta-analysis)
  • · IAMAI–Kantar via IBEF (2025): 900M+ Indian internet users; 98% consume Indic-language content
  • · LeadSquared and vendor funnel studies: 78% of students choose the first institution to respond (directional, vendor data)
  • · HDI / ITSM operator benchmarks: $15–25 per L1 ticket; 40–60% of L1 volume is resets/status (validate per customer)
  • · Conventional-flow wait times and volumes are typical operator patterns — assumptions to replace with the customer's own baseline
  • · Agentic-flow behaviors (context retention, 100% logging, in-line policy checks) are platform capabilities, not projections
Recommended solution

One integrated stack, opinionated for this account

Channels · Tilicho Labs
WhatsAppVoiceWeb chatSMSEmail

Voice & channel orchestration, telephony, conversational execution, session/state, routing, integration build. Capability coverage validated during implementation.

Intelligence · Google Cloud
Gemini reasoningEnterprise groundingWorkflow agentsMulti-agent orchestrationGoverned actionsEvaluation & analytics
Systems · Amity University
Admissions CRMProgram/fee catalogCounselor calendarsAdmissions portalDocument managementPayment gatewayFee systems

API access to these systems is the critical-path dependency.

Trust & languages
HindiEnglishBengaliMarathiTelugu

Identity-bound sessions, policy-bounded actions, 100% audit logging, human approvals at defined points, in-tenant intelligence.

Business case

The economics, with your numbers

Addressable monthly interactions500K
Seller assumption — replace in discovery
Current cost per interaction ($)$0.6
Industry benchmark scale — validate
Automation / assistance rate (%)55%
Seller assumption — pilot proves this
$300K
Current operating cost / mo
$825K
Modelled gross benefit / yr
1.5 mo
Payback on Scale
67%
3-yr ROI (modelled)
Automated/assisted interactions per month275K
Modelled AI run-cost per month (usage + cloud, system estimate)$96K
New monthly operating cost$231K

All figures are modelling estimates from the labeled inputs above — nothing here is customer-provided yet. The pilot's first job is replacing these assumptions with Amity University's measured baseline. Package price covers implementation only; recurring usage billed separately.

Recommended package

Scale — $100K implementation

Scale · $100K · A multi-channel production deployment10–14 weeks to production across priority workflows

Why this package for Amity University: Admissions across campuses plus the online arm and post-admit melt-prevention is a multi-workflow deployment with campus-level grounding; Launch would cover one campus's funnel and strand the network effect.

Included
  • 4–6 channels
  • 2–3 priority workflows
  • Multiple enterprise integrations
  • API credential & security setup
  • Advanced orchestration
  • Multilingual support
  • Agent Assist / human escalation
  • Production analytics
  • Expansion roadmap
Not included
  • ✕Usage & consumption (billed separately)
  • ✕Enterprise-wide governance build-out
  • ✕Multi-BU rollout
Recurring costs (separate from the package)

Packages cover implementation and integration only. Recurring costs are billed separately: Tilicho Labs platform usage (~$0.15/call-min indicative, usage only), Google Cloud consumption, telephony/carrier charges, managed operations, and support & optimization. No package includes unlimited usage.

Customer resources required
  • · API access + credentials for: Admissions CRM, Program/fee catalog, Counselor calendars
  • · A named business owner for admissions inquiry response & application completion at national scale
  • · Security review counterpart and policy sign-off (Admissions CRM scope)
  • · Baseline metrics for the pilot's success thresholds
Executive messages

What to say to whom

Chancellor / Group Leadership

“Amity's scale is its admissions argument — but scale that answers in days loses to boutiques that answer in minutes. An agentic layer makes national scale feel personal to every family.”

CIO / CTO

“Integration is the admissions CRM, program catalog, and payment systems — weeks, not quarters. Every answer grounds on approved fee and scholarship data; nothing is improvised.”

Director of Admissions

“Your counselors' hours should go to borderline and scholarship cases, not batch timings and hostel fees. The agent absorbs the volume; your team gets decision-ready families with context.”

Campus Operations Heads

“Each campus answers the same questions differently today. Campus-grounded answers from one deployment standardize accuracy while keeping local details local.”

Chief Risk / Compliance Officer

“Handling minors' and applicants' data is DPDP-aligned with parental-consent flows; fee and scholarship commitments come only from approved sources, with complete conversation audit.”

CFO / Procurement

“Measure cost per enrollment and application-completion lift against the counselor-only baseline in one admission cycle — the funnel math is self-evidencing at Amity's inquiry volume.”

Outreach

Pre-built offer emails for Amity University

Written from this account's own research — the strategic signal, the capability gap, the entry workflow, and the modelled economics — not a mail-merge template. Pick the moment and the persona, edit anything, then copy or open in your mail client.

Moment in the deal
Cold outreach — no prior conversation
Who it's addressed to
Cares about: The workflow itself and its daily failure modes
Register
Length
Draft — edit freely before sending
Open in mail client

Customer-safe by construction: drafts are composed only from customer-facing fields. Account tier, build-vs-buy classification, priority score, internal routing, and partner-commercial detail are not inputs to the composer, so they cannot appear in a draft. Money figures are always framed as modelled from the customer's own volumes. Read before sending — you own what goes out.

The pursuit

Tier 3 — longer-term / partner-led

Why this tier

One of India's largest private university networks — multiple campuses across India plus international locations and a large online arm — running admissions at national scale every cycle; huge seasonal inquiry volume, but education-sector budgets and decentralized campus operations temper deal size.

Recommended next step

Pilot admissions inquiry response and application chasing for two campuses plus Amity Online ahead of the next results season, with speed-to-first-response and completion-rate baselines.

Entry: Admissions inquiry response & application completion at national scale · Scale package · 10–14 weeks to production across priority workflows. Human fallback throughout; success thresholds agreed before build.

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