“Is tomorrow a holiday?” × 200
Answered one by one, by a teacher, from home, after dinner.
CHITTY · YOUR SCHOOL ON WHATSAPP
You sent one clear notice. Why did forty parents still ask “what time?”
Often the notice is fine. It just arrives as an English PDF, on the father’s phone, in a home that reads Kannada. Paste your next notice: within the hour, it’s ready in four languages, as text and voice.
Within the hour: your notice in four languages, replies sorted.
Chitty · your schoolreplies in your language · quiet after 8 pm
Friday
Reply, or hold 🎙 to speak
Is this your starting point?
I’m and what hurts most is
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY
Reaching the home isn’t reaching the parent who reads the note.
of rural 14–16-year-olds had a smartphone at home in 2024
ASER 2024 national findings · asercentre.org · ASER 2024 All-India findings
of women aged 15–49 had 10 or more years of schooling, 2019–21
NFHS-5 (MoHFW), key insights via UNFPA India · india.unfpa.org · nfhs_5_key_insights.pdf
of women had their own mobile phone, 2019–21
NFHS-5 (MoHFW), key insights via UNFPA India · india.unfpa.org · nfhs_5_key_insights.pdf
SOUND FAMILIAR?
One notice, fifty questions, and a teacher’s evening gone.
The circular goes out in English at 6 pm. The mother reads Kannada more easily and isn’t on the group. So the class teacher answers the same question until 10 — and one sharp message sets the tone for three hundred families.
The PDF nobody opened
An English circular reaches homes that read Kannada, Telugu or Urdu more comfortably.
The thread that sets the tone
One complaint in a 300-parent group, and that’s what everyone remembers by morning.
HOW IT WORKS
Tell them. Hear them. Hand it to a person. Close it.
One school number on WhatsApp. The software drafts and translates, and says so; a named person decides and replies.
1Tell
Notices and Friday notes go out in each family’s language — to read, or to listen to.
2Hear
Families reply by voice or text. Each reply is sorted: a question, a thank-you, or a concern.
3Hand to a person
A concern goes to one named person with a reply-by time — never into a group.
4Close
It closes only when the family replies. Quiet hours hold throughout.
ChittyNo reply from the family? It stays open, with a name beside it.
THREE WAYS TO START
Send one notice yourself, pilot a grade, or hand it over.
Every way ends in the same place: families who hear you in their own language, and concerns with a name beside them. Switch whenever you like.
For a principal who wants tonight’s notice to land.
- 1Paste your next notice or circular
- 2We draft it in four languages, with voice
- 3Send to one class; watch replies sort
- YOU’LL SEE IT
- Within the hour
- WHAT IT TAKES
- Free. No card, no call.
For schools moving families off groups, one grade at a time.
- 1A 30-minute call to pick the grade
- 2We verify every family within a week
- 3Review on day 14: questions, concerns, closures
- YOU’LL SEE IT
- Day 2
- WHAT IT TAKES
- A short paid pilot, credited to year one
For owners who want a family desk without hiring for one.
- 1We verify every family and their consent
- 2Our desk answers routine questions in your name
- 3Concerns reach your staff with reply-by times
- YOU’LL SEE IT
- Week one
- WHAT IT TAKES
- Set-up plus a per-family fee, quoted for you
WHAT YOU’LL SEE FIRST
You’ll feel it when a father replies by voice in Telugu — and his one worry is already with Ms Rao.
MAKE IT YOURS
Families hear the principal, in the language they speak at home.
ONLY AT YOUR SCHOOL
The principal’s voice, in every family’s language
The principal records ten minutes once. Notices that matter — an early closing, an exam date — go out as a voice note in her voice, in Kannada, Telugu, Hindi or English. With her written consent, labelled as AI, and she approves each one.
- Her written consent first, revocable anytime
- Every note says it’s an AI voice
- She approves each notice before it goes
EXPLAIN IT BACK · 2 MINNotice · school closes early on Friday
TRANSCRIPT
“ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ. ಶುಕ್ರವಾರ ಶಾಲೆ 12:30ಕ್ಕೆ ಮುಗಿಯುತ್ತದೆ. ಬಸ್ 12:45ಕ್ಕೆ ಹೊರಡುತ್ತದೆ.”
Principal’s voice · AI
Kannada · 0:22
Principal-approved
Your quiet hours
You set them. Nothing that can wait goes out inside them.
Your people on call
Named staff for each grade, each with a reply-by time they can keep.
Your name on WhatsApp
Families see your school’s name and crest, not a vendor’s number.
WHY IT GETS BETTER EVERY TERM
Every reply teaches your desk what families actually need.
Questions asked twice become answers families find themselves. Concerns that repeat become patterns your leaders can fix at the source — the bus stop, the homework load, the unclear circular.
It learns from your own families, so each term fewer questions arrive and real ones get answered sooner.
- 1Notices landTheir language, text or voice
- 2Replies get sortedQuestion, thanks or concern
- 3Concerns closeOne name, one time
- 4Answers get savedAsked once, found often
- 5Evenings come backTeachers off the night shift
- ↻ Your family desk’s memory
WHERE IT LEADS
Once families start replying, you’ll notice what they keep asking.
If your own replies point somewhere, we’ll show you the maths first. Whether it’s worth it is your call.
WHEN YOU NOTICE
A quarter of the questions are about PTM slots, events or bookings.
PupilConnectTHE MATHS · AN EXAMPLE
e.g. 900 questions × 4 minutes = 3,600 minutes, or 60 hours, back a term
WHEN YOU NOTICE
Forty or more families a year ask how a relative or neighbour can apply.
Pupil JoinTHE MATHS · AN EXAMPLE
e.g. 40 enquiries × 25% joining × ₹40,000 fee = ₹4 lakh a year
WHEN YOU NOTICE
One concern in ten is about fees, receipts or due dates.
PupilCollectTHE MATHS · AN EXAMPLE
e.g. 500 fee questions × 6 minutes = 3,000 minutes, or 50 hours, back a year
A SCHOOL GROUP · BALLARI · CLASSROOMS SINCE 2001
We message our own parents every week. Here’s our word.
PupilTree runs schools in Ballari, so we know the 10 pm WhatsApp from the inside. Founding schools shape how Chitty speaks to families, hold founding terms, and can walk away easily if it isn’t earning its place.
Founding terms
Founding-school pricing, held for three years.
Quiet hours, built in
Nothing that can wait goes out between 8 pm and 7 am.
Leave whenever you like
Stop any time. Contacts and consents return to you; our copy is deleted.
Never for marketing
Family numbers are used only for what each family agreed to.
WHAT WE’LL TRACK WITH YOUFamilies verified and consentedNotices read or heardConcerns closed with a replyTeacher messages after 8 pm
QUESTIONS
Before you move a single grade.
Didn’t see yours? Ask on WhatsApp — a person replies, usually within the hour.
Ask on WhatsAppNo. Groups can stay announcement-only while you move one grade at a time. Families simply get one school number for everything else.
How many of your Class 6 families actually heard Friday’s notice?
Paste your next notice. Within the hour it’s in four languages — and by evening you’ll know who heard it and what they asked.
Quiet hours by defaultConsent for every useA person on every concern