Every summer, schools call Ambit to update phone menus.
Summer hours change. Offices are open on different days. Enrollment questions start rolling in. Parents need to know who to call. Staff members are working with smaller summer teams, and the phones still keep ringing.
That’s one of the reasons we think summer is the right time to test something new.
Ambit has been developing our own AI Receptionist for Schools, built in-house by our team!
The goal is not to replace front office staff. That is not our heart, and it is not the point of this technology.
The goal is to support the people who are already doing the work.
A school’s AI Receptionist can help answer common questions, route callers to the right department, and collect basic information for follow-up. It can help with things like:
- Summer office hours
- Enrollment and registration questions
- Attendance calls
- Athletics and extracurricular schedules
- Open house and back-to-school information
- Department transfers
- Message collection for staff follow-up
So instead of your front desk answering the same question over and over, they can focus on the conversations that really need a person.
This summer, we’re launching a pilot program and giving 9 schools a free AI Receptionist for the summer:
3 high schools
3 middle schools
3 elementary schools
We want to learn from real schools in real environments. We want to see what helps, what needs improvement, and how this can become a genuinely useful tool for school offices, principals, IT Directors, and families.
We put together a short explainer video showing how it works:
Watch the explainer video here:
If you know a school in your district that could use help answering calls this summer, we’d love for you to nominate them!
The nomination form is short and simple.
Deadline to nominate schools is Friday, May 29.
After the nomination window closes, we’ll follow up with the selected schools to begin configuring their AI Receptionist for the summer pilot!
We’re excited to build this with schools, learn from your teams, and keep improving a tool that helps staff answer more calls, support more families, and get back to what matters most.