AI-Powered Student Guidance Built by People Who Understand Education at Scale
Millions of learners enquire about courses every year, yet most never receive the support they need at the right moment. Institutions want to help, but they cannot scale high-quality conversations. Students fall back into procrastination and miss opportunities that could change their lives.
What We Build
CourseAdvisor.ai is an AI SaaS company building voice agent technology for education providers worldwide.
Our platform powers Kate, an AI voice advisor that conducts thousands of compliant phone conversations weekly with prospective students. Kate handles enquiries, explains course options, qualifies leads, and books appointments with human enrollment advisors.
Current stage: Production. Live deployment processing thousands of weekly calls for major international education provider (20,000+ active students). In commercial discussions with 5 enterprise education institutions.
Business model: Software-as-a-Service. Customers subscribe to our platform and pay based on call volume. Kate operates 24/7 with minimal human involvement once deployed.
The Problem We Solve
Institutions Can't Scale Conversations
Advisors are busy. Lead volumes spike. Thousands of enquiries go unanswered. Students wait, hesitate, or give up. Great intentions become lost opportunities that affect real lives.
The Student Impact Is Real
When someone doesn't receive guidance at the moment they're motivated, they often fall into doubt, overwhelm, or procrastination. Many never return. A missed conversation can mean a missed chance to change their future.
Meet Kate: Your AI Voice Advisor
Kate is our AI voice advisor, trained to hold natural, supportive, compliant conversations that help students clarify goals, understand their options, and take the next step with confidence.
Built from thousands of real student interactions and refined through years of education sector expertise, Kate delivers the conversations students need exactly when they need them.
What Kate Does
Re-Engages Dormant Enquiries
Warm, natural voice. Real conversation. Immediate rapport that feels genuinely human and supportive.
Understands Goals and Motivations
Built on behavioural patterns from thousands of real student interactions. Kate knows what students need to hear.
Provides Clear, Compliant Information
Draws only from your approved course data. No pressure. No promises. No risk. Complete compliance confidence.
Delivers High-Grade Conversations at Scale
Thousands of calls per week. Consistent tone. Zero fatigue. Always available when your students need support.
Hands Over Ready Students
Your advisors spend their time where it matters most with students who are ready to enrol.
The Platform in Action
Voice AI Dashboard
Real-time view of active calls, transcripts, and quality metrics. Monitor Kate's conversations as they happen and review outcomes instantly.
Workflow Automation
Behind Kate sits automation infrastructure connecting your CRM, calendar, telephony, and communication systems. Leads flow automatically from Kate to your enrollment team.
Quality & Compliance Monitoring
Automated evaluation system scoring every call across 40+ criteria. Flags compliance issues, tracks sentiment, and measures conversion quality.
Product Development Stage
Current status: Production deployment with paying customer.
Live Metrics
- Processing thousands of calls weekly
- Handling 10,000+ enquiries monthly capacity
- 15-20% conversion rate (enquiry to qualified lead)
- 92% compliance score across monitored criteria
Customer Traction
- 1 paying customer (major international education provider, 20,000+ students)
- In commercial discussions with 5 enterprise education institutions
- Active pilots launching Q1 2026
Technical Milestones (2024 - 2026)
- Production voice AI system deployed on cloud infrastructure
- Automated compliance monitoring with 40 evaluation criteria
- CRM and telephony integrations with major platforms
- Real-time quality scoring and analytics dashboard
Product Roadmap (2026)
- Multi-language support (Mandarin, Hindi, Arabic, Spanish)
- Self-service customer portal for configuration
- Expanded knowledge bases for university-level courses
- White-label deployment options
How Our AI Works
Advanced Language Models
Natural language voice agent powered by LLMs with behavioural models based on real student motivations and proven patterns.
Compliance-Safe Knowledge
Education-aligned responses with secure data handling meeting privacy requirements and education standards across multiple jurisdictions.
Real-Time Adaptability
Handles interruptions, hesitations, pivots and uncertainty with emotional sensitivity and vulnerability protocols built in.
Scalable Infrastructure
Cloud-based system capable of 10,000+ calls weekly whilst maintaining consistent quality and complete security.
This is applied AI for real-world student support, not research for its own sake.
Why This Works
courseadvisor.ai wasn't built by technologists guessing at education. It was built by people who have lived it, scaled it, and transformed it.
Our founders combine deep industry insight with modern AI engineering to build technology grounded in real student needs, not abstract theory. Every conversation Kate has is informed by years of proven educational excellence.
Meet Our Co-Founders
Sean Steele
Co-Founder
Sean has spent more than 15 years scaling education companies. He has led major sales and advisory teams, built large student-facing operations, and redesigned the conversations that drive enrolment and student confidence.
- Grew annual enrolments from 5,000 to 12,000 in 3 years
- Built and ran a 70-seat call centre handling over $1m monthly
- Former Group CEO scaling portfolio from A$3m to A$50m
- Led revenue growth from A$80m to A$123m
Mario Lucas
Co-Founder
Mario is an automation and applied-AI specialist who has spent years designing systems that connect large-scale human processes with modern AI capability. He leads the engineering, architecture and agent development behind Kate.
- His work turns Sean's behavioural, compliance and conversational expertise into a stable, scalable AI voice platform that education providers can trust.
Technology Infrastructure
Cloud Services (Google Cloud Platform)
Current usage:
- Compute resources for automation workflows
- Storage for audio recordings and transcripts
- Database services for customer data and analytics
- AI services for voice processing and evaluation
Projected usage (next 12 months):
- 50,000+ AI voice calls monthly across customer base
- 500GB+ audio storage
- Real-time speech processing at scale
- Advanced analytics and quality monitoring
Integration Capabilities
Kate connects to:
- CRM platforms (Salesforce, HubSpot, custom APIs)
- Telephony providers (multiple carriers supported)
- Calendar systems (Calendly, Microsoft Bookings)
- Email/SMS platforms
- Analytics and monitoring tools
Why We're an AI SaaS Company
Software-as-a-Service model
We sell subscriptions to our AI platform. Kate runs 24/7 with minimal human involvement once deployed.
Scalable technology
Adding new customers doesn't require hiring proportional staff. Our cloud infrastructure handles increased call volume automatically.
Recurring revenue
Monthly subscriptions with usage-based pricing. Education providers don't switch systems frequently, giving us high retention.
Product-led growth
Self-service onboarding in development. Customers will configure Kate through web dashboard without custom development for each client.
Intellectual property
Proprietary conversation frameworks based on 15 years of enrollment data, custom compliance monitoring system, and specialized voice AI prompts and guardrails for education sector.
We're not consultants who manually build each client's automation. We're an AI SaaS company that sells subscriptions to Kate and the platform that powers her.
Market Opportunity
Global Education Market
- $185B online education market annually (HolonIQ 2024)
- 220M students enrolled in online courses worldwide (2024)
- Average education provider receives 5,000-10,000 enquiries monthly
- Industry standard: 40-60% enquiries never contacted
Our Target Customers
- Universities and colleges with international student recruitment
- Registered Training Organisations and vocational education providers
- Corporate training companies
- Education agencies managing multiple institution partnerships
Funding status: Bootstrapped by co-founders. Seeking cloud credits to reduce infrastructure costs during customer acquisition phase.
The Impact
For Students
- More accessible pathways into education
- Faster guidance when motivation is highest
- Supportive conversations that build confidence
- Reduced procrastination and drop-off
For Institutions
- Increased enrolment opportunities
- Higher engagement from existing leads
- Reduced advisor workload
- Consistent, compliant, high-quality conversations
Kate helps more people step into education, and helps providers serve them with care, accuracy and scale. Together, we're transforming the student journey.
Frequently Asked Questions
Contact Us
See Kate in action
Book a 15-minute demoFor education providers
mario@courseadvisor.aiFor investors or partners
sean@courseadvisor.aiCompany details
Founded: 2025
Stage: Production with paying customer. Advanced discussions with 5 more.