Inquia

You're losing leads while you teach.

Inquia answers every tutoring inquiry and books the session. It replies only from the prices and answers you approve, offers times from your tutors' real availability, and sends you anything it can't answer.

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SAT 9:42 PM · NEW INQUIRYANSWERING

A sample conversation. The assistant answers only from the FAQs, prices and availability you set. When it doesn't know, it hands the question to you instead of guessing.

~1MIN
Replies in about a minute, nights and weekends included. See measured numbers
24/7
Parents book a session themselves, at any hour
21×
More likely to qualify a lead contacted in 5 minutes than at 30, per the MIT/InsideSales response study
5MIN
Signup to a live inquiry link

For solo tutors, school and nonprofit programs, and tutoring centers.

Each program’s data kept separateNo student data soldEvery reply checked before it is sent
01 · Intake
Replies to every inquiry in about a minute
From your hosted inquiry page. Each reply answers the subject, grade and question the parent actually asked.
02 · Booking
Parents book the session themselves
Parents pick a time from your real availability and get an email confirmation.
03 · Checks
Every reply checked before it is sent
A price, discount or link you did not set stops the reply and sends the conversation to you.
04 · Inbox
Your inquiries in one place
Every inquiry, its status, the AI's replies and what got booked.
The problem

The leak you never see.

A missed inquiry never complains. It just enrolls somewhere else. Lead-response research shows how quickly that happens.

Speed decides who gets the conversation

Parents looking for a tutor often contact more than one program in the same sitting. The MIT/InsideSales lead-response study found a lead contacted within five minutes was 21 times more likely to qualify than one contacted at thirty. A follow-up study in Harvard Business Review found that firms replying within an hour were nearly seven times more likely to qualify the lead than firms replying an hour later.

21×More likely to qualify at 5 minutes than at 30

Most inquiries wait, and many are never answered

Harvard Business Review sent a web inquiry to 2,241 US companies. The average reply took 42 hours, and 23% never replied at all. A tutor who teaches back-to-back sessions is usually teaching when inquiries arrive.

42hAverage reply time in HBR's audit; 23% never replied

Each miss is a student, not a message

One student at one hour a week for a 36-week school year, at $30 to $140 an hour, is $1,000 to $5,000 in tuition. One missed inquiry can be a year of tuition.

$1–5kOne student, one hour a week, for a school year

Sources: Oldroyd, MIT/InsideSales.com Lead Response Management Study (2007); Oldroyd, McElheran, Elkington, “The Short Life of Online Sales Leads,” Harvard Business Review (March 2011). Neither study is specific to tutoring.

What it does

A front desk, not a form autoresponder.

An autoresponder sends a template and a booking link, then goes quiet. Inquia answers what the parent asked: the price, whether a tutor works with test anxiety, which times are open. It keeps answering until the session is booked or the question needs you.

Intake

A specific first reply

Every inquiry from your hosted inquiry page gets a reply in about a minute. The reply answers the subject, grade and question the parent asked, using only your approved answers.

Sample inquiry · Mon 3:12 PM
“Hi, my daughter is a junior, looking for SAT help. Do you have availability after school?”
Inquia reply · 38 seconds later
Booking

Parents book the session

When the parent is ready, Inquia sends a booking link. Parents pick a time from your real availability and get an email confirmation. They can change or cancel from the same link.

SAMPLE DATA
MON
TUE
WED
THU
FRI
3:30
4:00 ✓
4:00
4:30 ✓
3:30
4:30
4:30
5:00
5:00 ✓
4:00
5:30
5:30
5:30 ✓
5:30
5:00
Checks

Checked, then saved

A fixed set of rules, not another AI, checks each reply. A price, discount, link or promise you did not approve holds the reply and sends the conversation to you. Every conversation is saved for you to read.

SAMPLE DATA
Pricing question · Wong family answered · 0:42
Times for Thursday · Patel family booked · 0:18
Follow-up to Lee family sent · 1:04
Sibling discount · Ortiz family sent to you · held
Refund policy · Kim family answered · 0:51
Inbox

Your inquiries in one place

Every inquiry, its status, the AI's replies and what got booked. Anything the AI handed to you is marked.

SAMPLE DATA
First reply
38s
median this week
New inquiries
7
this week
Sessions booked
9
this week
Waiting on you
2
handed to you
Try it

Autoresponders stop at message three.

A template with a booking link covers the first message. It does not answer the question about price or which times are open, and those are the messages where a family decides.

Have that conversation yourself Same assistant, same checks. Try asking about price.
Your numbers

What slow replies cost you.

Plain math on your inputs. Every assumption is visible and editable.

Assumptions (change them)

Every input is an assumption you control. No published tutoring-specific figure exists for the first-responder share, so set the one you believe. The reply-time factor scales how often a rival beats you to it.

ESTIMATED ANNUAL LEAK$23,950≈ 10 enrollments per year lost to programs that replied first.An estimate, not a promise. Every assumption is above and editable. A missed inquiry never tells you it enrolled elsewhere, which is why this loss is easy to miss.See how Inquia would answer your next inquiry
The dashboard

Your inquiries in one place.

The owner's view, filled with sample data.

inquia / your program / overview
Sample data

This week

This week · vs last week
First reply
38s
▼ 11s · faster
Inquiries
41
▲ 6
Booked → enroll
68%
▲ 4 pts
Pipeline value
$24.1k
▲ $3.2k
New
7
Contacted
12
Session booked
9
Cold (7d+)
3
Enrolled · month
34

Sample data, not a real program.

Pricing

Free for tutors. One price for centers.

Free for solo tutors, school and nonprofit programs. $149/mo for centers. Inquia is in early beta, and every plan gets the whole product: no tiers, no per-inquiry fees, no setup cost.

FreeTutors and programs
For solo tutors and school or nonprofit programs.
$0/ month
No credit card. One short form gets you a live inquiry link.
  • AI replies from the FAQs and prices you approve
  • Answers follow-up questions and hands the rest to you
  • Self-booking against your tutors' real availability
  • Every conversation saved for you to read
  • Inbox, lead pipeline and schedule
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Tutoring centersCenter
The same product as Free. Centers pay so solo tutors and school programs don't have to.
$149/ month
Start free and upgrade from Billing when you're ready. Cancel any time.
  • AI replies from the FAQs and prices you approve
  • Answers follow-up questions and hands the rest to you
  • Self-booking against your tutors' real availability
  • Every conversation saved for you to read
  • Inbox, lead pipeline and schedule
Start as a center
Month-to-month. No contracts or cancellation fees. Keep TutorBird, Teachworks, TutorCruncher or a Google Calendar for the back office · Inquia is the front desk, not a replacement for them.
FAQ

Questions

Including what happens when the AI is wrong and how to leave.

Inquia is free for solo tutors and for school and nonprofit tutoring programs. Tutoring centers pay $149/month. Every plan gets the same product: the AI front desk, saved conversations, self-booking pages, the inbox and the lead pipeline. No credit card to start, and centers upgrade only when they choose to.

About five minutes. Setup is one short form: subjects, price, where sessions happen and your weekly times. When you submit it, your inquiry link is live and the AI answers from what you entered. You can add FAQs and adjust the voice later.

Each program's data is kept separate by database access rules. We do not sell student data. See /security and /privacy.

Export your leads and their messages as a CSV from the Leads page, in one click. There are no contracts or cancellation fees, and billing stops when you cancel.

No. Setup is one short form. The hosted inquiry page works as soon as you finish it: put the link on your website, your Google profile or your social bio. After that, check your inbox for anything the AI handed to you.

It takes the repetitive part: repeat questions and scheduling. If you have no front desk, Inquia is one. If you do, that time goes back to enrollment conversations and teaching.

Every AI reply is saved for you to read, and you can step in at any point. The AI answers only from your FAQs and settings. If a reply mentions a price or link you did not set, it comes to you instead of being sent. The checks are tested in public on the guardrail scorecard.

No. Inquia sits in front of whatever you already use, such as TutorBird, Teachworks, TutorCruncher, or a Google Calendar and a spreadsheet. Nothing needs to be connected. Today parents reach you through the inquiry page and get replies by email.

Who built this

Why this exists.

Parents often go with whoever answers first, and a tutor who teaches all afternoon is usually teaching when the inquiry arrives. Gmail, a calendar and a spreadsheet can't reply for you.

So I built the front desk I would want if I ran a program: it answers in about a minute, stays in the conversation until a session is booked, and shows you every message. Inquia is in early beta. If you try it, you'll be talking to me directly, and what you tell me decides what gets built next.

Pushkal Kumar

Founder, Inquia

Free to start.
One link to share.

Free for solo tutors, school and nonprofit programs. $149/mo for centers, only once you choose to upgrade. No credit card, no setup fee.

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Questions first? Email pushkalku@gmail.com