Ask your school a question. Get an answer, not a spreadsheet.
An answer drawn from your live data. As a table, as a chart, or exported to Excel or PDF. Ask a follow-up and it keeps the context.
- CBSE
“Which Grade 9 sections have the most fees outstanding, and which families have paid nothing this term?”
PrincipalFees by section and by family in one question. Returns the sections, the totals and the records it read them from.
“Show me fee collection by payment mode for this term against last.”
Business managerReturns a comparison you can put into a management report as it stands, or take into Excel to work on further.
- Cambridge
“Which teachers have not submitted marks for the Class 10B Term 1 assessment?”
CoordinatorThe question that gets asked every reporting cycle, usually by email, usually twice. Returns the teachers and the gaps, so the chase is one message.
One question, thirteen modules.
The questions worth asking are the ones that cross two of these. That is why they are hard to answer today, and it is the whole reason this exists.
7 students, ₹3,36,000 due
- Admissions
- Students
- Attendance
- Timetable
- Assessment and report cards
- Fees and receipts
- Communication
- Staff management
- Library
- Transport
- Certificates and ID cards
- Reports and analytics
- Parent app
Every answer shows where it came from: the steps it took and the records it read, named. It reads live data, so the answer is as current as the record.
The boundaries, stated plainly.
Each of these is something a careful head would ask in the demo. So we said it first.
It does not act.
It answers. It will not enrol a student, raise an invoice, mark a register or send a message. Ask Me Anything changes nothing in your records; those actions stay in the modules, done by a person.
It does not see past your permissions.
It answers inside the permissions the person asking already has. A class teacher and a principal asking the same question get different answers, and that is correct.
It does not answer from outside your school.
No web results, no other schools' data, no general knowledge presented as a fact about yours.
It does not predict.
It reports what your records say. It will not tell you which child is going to drop out. Anything that claims to is guessing.
It does not replace judgement about a child.
It can show you that attendance is falling and that there is a behaviour entry in the same fortnight. What that means is a professional decision, and it stays one.
It answers from what is in iScuela.
If your fees live in another system, it cannot read them. That is an argument for one record, not a limit on the question.
It says when it cannot answer.
If a question is outside what it can read, or too unclear to resolve, it says so and asks you to narrow it. It does not fill the gap with a number.
Who can use it?
Your staff, each with their own login. Every person asks inside the permissions their role already has.
Does it need setting up?
No reports to build. It reads the records your school already keeps in iScuela, so it works from the day your data is in.
How do we know an answer is right?
Every answer shows the steps it took and the data it read, so you can check the source before you act on it.
Can a teacher ask about any student?
No. Answers stay inside each person's existing permissions. The same question from two people can correctly return two different answers.
What if it gets something wrong?
Then you will see it, because the source is on the same screen. That is why the working is shown rather than hidden: an answer you cannot check is not worth having.
Does it work in our board's vocabulary?
Yes. It uses your school's own terms. Ask about MYP 3 in an IB World School, Grade 9 Section B in a CBSE school or Class 9B in a Cambridge school, and the answer comes back in the same words.
Where does our data go when we ask a question?
Our data protection posture, including hosting and sub-processors, is set out on Trust and security. A data processing agreement is available for every school.
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