Ireland's first AI assistant built for schools.
DevPilot builds a purpose-built AI communications layer for Irish schools — trained on your own policies, handbooks and calendars. Parents, students and staff get an accurate answer the moment they ask it, at 8am or 11pm, without phoning the office.
“Parents get a clear answer in seconds, whenever it suits them to ask — and our office has more time for the conversations that really need us.”
St Joseph's CBS Drogheda
The questions that come up again and again.
The office phone
The school admin team spends the morning answering term dates, uniform rules and enrolment steps that are already written down somewhere on the website.
The inbox backlog
Parent emails queue behind the school day. A one-line answer takes two days to send, and the same question arrives again from the next family.
The out-of-hours gap
Most parents look for answers in the evening, when the office is closed, the PDF is three clicks deep and the search box on the website finds nothing.
24/7
Answers outside office hours
One
Source of truth: your own documents
Zero
New apps, portals or logins for parents
First
Dedicated school assistant service in Ireland
A communications layer, not a widget bolted to the corner of a page.
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Trained on your school, not the internet
We build the assistant from the school's own material: the parents' handbook, the code of behaviour, uniform and attendance policies, enrolment process, calendar and exam timetables. Answers come from your documents, and it says so.
02
Re-read every night, not rebuilt every year
A nightly crawl of the school website and document library picks up whatever changed that day — a new closure notice, an amended policy, an updated calendar or book list — and refreshes the assistant's knowledge before morning. Parents never get last year's answer, and nobody has to remember to rewrite an FAQ page.
03
It understands how schools actually work
Year groups, mocks and state exams, mid-terms, bank holidays, transition year, book lists, bus routes. A parent can ask in their own words — "what time does third year finish on Friday?" — and get the right answer.
04
Branded and named as part of the school
It carries the school's crest, colours, tone and a name the community recognises — the way St Joseph's CBS Drogheda has "Ask Joe". Families are talking to their school, not to a vendor's chat bubble.
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Where a chatbot stops, this starts
A chat widget matches keywords against a script someone wrote once, and goes stale the week the calendar changes. This reads your school's live material, answers a question it has never seen before in the parent's own words, tells you where the answer came from, and quietly hands anything personal to a human.
Ask the kind of question the office hears every day.
Pick a question to see how the assistant answers — plain language, one screen, and the school document it came from.
Two audiences, one assistant.
Parents & community
An answer now, not on Monday
Term dates, uniform, book lists, enrolment, exam timetables and closures — answered in seconds, in the evening, from the phone in their hand.
No hold music, no unanswered email, no hunting through PDFs for the paragraph that matters.
Nothing to download or sign up for: it lives on the school website families already use.
Anything genuinely personal or pastoral is pointed straight to the right person in the school.
School administration
The repetitive queries stop arriving
Routine calls and emails drop away, so office staff get their morning back for the work only they can do.
Every family hears the same accurate, approved answer — no variation, no misremembered policy.
Management can see what parents are actually asking, and where the school's own communications are unclear.
Updating the assistant is a message to us, not an IT project.
And it knows where to stop.
It answers what the school has published. It doesn't guess, and it doesn't invent a policy the school never wrote.
Anything about an individual student — attendance, pastoral care, results — is handed to the right person in the school, not answered by the assistant.
No student data is needed to run it, and the school approves every source it reads from.
Four steps, and almost none of them are yours.
01
You send us what you already have
Handbook, policies, calendar, website text, the FAQ you wrote three years ago. No new content to write.
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We build and name your assistant
Trained on your material, in your school's tone, with its crest and colours — and a name your community will use.
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It goes live on your website
One small embed on the site you already run. Nothing to install, nothing for parents to learn.
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We keep it right all year
Policy and calendar changes go in as they happen, and we review the real questions parents ask.
The school that helped pioneer this in Ireland: meet Ask Joe.
St Joseph's CBS Drogheda worked with DevPilot to build the country's first dedicated school AI assistant. "Ask Joe" sits on the school website, speaks in the school's voice, and answers the questions the office used to answer one call at a time.
What the school got
An assistant of their own — named, branded, and trained on their handbook, policies and calendar — embedded on the existing site with no new systems to manage.
What parents and staff experience
Parents ask Joe in their own words and get a clear answer at any hour. Staff see fewer of the same questions and can point families to one reliable place.
The outcome
Repetitive queries to the office reduced, faster answers for the school community, and support that is available when families are actually looking for it.
“Parents get a clear answer in seconds, whenever it suits them to ask — and our office has more time for the conversations that really need us.”
Ask Joe was the first. Your school's assistant can be the next.
Book a demoSee your own school's assistant in twenty minutes.
Send us a few details and we'll walk you through Ask Joe, what your school's version would answer, and what setting it up involves. No procurement exercise, no obligation.
Or email hello@devpilot.ie directly.