Habix Corp — AI Chatbots for Schools, Colleges & Universities

For admissions & student affairs offices

An AI chatbot answers financial aid, deadline, and application questions the moment a student has them — not the next business day. Here's the research showing what that's worth to your institution.

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82%resolved solo

21.4%less summer melt

always onfor applicants

Nobody's proofreading financial-aid FAQs at midnight. Your chatbot doesn't need to sleep on it.

// always in session

// the mismatch

High schoolers and transfer students browse financial-aid pages, compare deadlines, and message admissions accounts late at night and on weekends — exactly when a front desk is closed.

Messaging-based inquiries to admissions offices nearly doubled between 2023 and 2025. Nobody added staff for the night shift.

2×

roughly the growth in messaging-based inquiries to admissions offices, 2023 to 2025 — nights and weekends included.

— Keystone

~50%

of college-bound students now use a generative AI tool during their college search, up sharply year over year.

— EAB

A student studying late at night in a library with a laptop

// speed is the whole game

Salesforce's own research says the bar isn't 'fast' anymore — it's instant. A chatbot is the only thing built to clear it, at 2pm or 2am.

83%

of people expect to engage with someone the moment they reach out to an organization online. For a prospective student, that's not a same-day reply — it's seconds.

— Salesforce

67%

of prospective students consult a generative AI tool at least monthly while researching schools.

— Keystone

9 pts

lift in enrollment acceptance from one well-timed call — a chatbot is what surfaces who's worth that call before they go cold.

— Keystone

A diverse group of college students walking together on campus

A generic chatbot answers questions. Yours should know your deadlines, your aid forms, and the exceptions nobody wrote down.

// proof: georgia state university

Georgia State built an AI assistant to text admitted students through the summer enrollment gap — the exact window where accepted students quietly drift to another school, or drop out of the pipeline entirely.

21.4%

drop in summer melt after Pounce launched — the single biggest lever in the whole admissions funnel.

— GetMyAI

3.3%

rise in incoming freshman enrollment, in published research on Pounce's rollout.

— LearnWise

185K

messages handled by Pounce in its first summer alone — not something a manual outreach team could match.

— GetMyAI

Three students with backpacks walking through a campus gate toward a university building

// proof: university of houston

Houston's assistant, Shasta, fields thousands of financial-aid and admissions questions a year — freeing staff for the complex, high-stakes conversations only a person can actually have.

of conversations resolved by Shasta without a staff member, across more than 33,000 conversations in under eight months live.

— Gravyty

-28%

drop in financial-aid call volume year-over-year after Shasta launched.

— Gravyty

33K+

conversations handled in Shasta's first 8 months live.

— Gravyty

Two students walking on a college campus in front of a domed university building

// the budget case

Application season creates a demand spike no admissions office can staff around without blowing the budget the other nine months of the year. A chatbot absorbs the spike instead.

Human agent$6.00 / interaction

AI chatbot$0.50 / interaction

A 12× cost advantage per interaction, with adopters reporting roughly $8 back for every $1 spent — figures that apply directly to admissions and student-services contact volume.

— Ringly

Three smiling students walking on campus carrying notebooks

Every number above is a real study, a real school, or both. Scroll down for the receipts.

// ready when you are

Give your applicants an answer before they give up on you.

We'll show you exactly what an AI assistant would look like on your admissions and student services pages — built around your actual FAQs, deadlines, and policies.

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