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Enterprise · Education·2024
Canam Consultants

An AI counsellor that doubled capacity overnight.

A unified admissions platform with an AI-assisted counsellor dashboard. Student discovery, programme matching, document handling and follow-ups, all drafted by the agent.

Engagement
Duration
5 months
Squad
Delivery partner · 3 engineers · 2 AI engineers · 1 ops lead
Status
Live in production
80%
Tasks automated
2x
Counsellor capacity
4.8/5
Student rating
< 24h
Document turnaround
The problem

What we walked into.

A large overseas-education advisory was losing counsellor time to the same handful of repetitive tasks. Programme look-ups. Shortlist generation. Document prep. Follow-up emails. Counsellors wanted to spend that time on the parts of the job a student actually remembers. The firm wanted capacity without a linear headcount spike.

Our approach

What Safemode did.

  1. 01

    Mapped the counsellor day-in-the-life down to the five-minute grain; shortlisted the repetitive tasks that cost the most hours.

  2. 02

    Built an AI counsellor agent that sits inside the CRM. It discovers matching programmes, drafts shortlists, prepares document checklists and drafts follow-up emails for counsellor review.

  3. 03

    Stood up a document-AI pipeline for common artefacts (transcripts, SOPs, LORs) with a human-in-the-loop approval step.

  4. 04

    Rolled the agent out behind a counsellor-by-counsellor feature flag with weekly retro to tune prompts, escalation rules and default behaviour.

Outcome

What moved.

  • Roughly 80% of the repetitive counsellor tasks are now drafted by the agent, with a human approval step on anything student-facing.

  • Effective counsellor capacity roughly doubled without a comparable headcount increase.

  • Student satisfaction on post-consultation surveys rose to 4.8/5, with document turnaround falling to under 24 hours.

  • The firm now has a playbook it can extend to new geographies without rebuilding the advisory workflow each time.

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