KollegeApply launches Orbit at Elevate Bengaluru to simplify AI-led student admissions

Choosing a college today often means navigating multiple websites, entrance examination portals, PDFs, forums, and fee pages before students can begin comparing their options. While information is readily available, finding, connecting, and understanding it can unnecessarily complicate one of the most important decisions in a student's life. 

KollegeApply is addressing this challenge with Orbit, an AI-powered conversational admissions assistant unveiled at the Bengaluru chapter of Elevate on August 22, 2026. The second chapter of Elevate brought together leaders from the higher education ecosystem to discuss the future of admissions, institutional growth, innovation, technology, and student-centric strategies, with Orbit's unveiling forming a key highlight of the evening.

Orbit is designed to bring college and admission-related research into one conversation. Students can ask questions in their language ocabout colleges, entrance examinations, admissions, eligibility, rankings, courses, fees, scholarships, and placements - and continue with follow-up questions within the same conversation rather than starting a new search each time.

Orbit brings together information across 10,000+ institutions, 200+ entrance examinations, and 1,200+ courses, and is designed to be available 24x7. It uses KollegeApply’s broader AI-powered tools and decision-support capabilities to understand student questions, draw on relevant information and tools, and provide contextual answers across colleges, examinations, courses, fees, rankings, and admissions.

These capabilities include an AI College Predictor, AI Rank Predictor, Fees and Scholarships Guidance, Counselling Companion, Placement Insights, and Course Finder. Together, they allow Orbit to go beyond simply retrieving information and use KollegeApply’s AI capabilities to help students explore different aspects of their college and course decisions within one experience.

Orbit builds on KollegeApply's existing presence in the higher education ecosystem, with 60,000+ students having applied through the platform and 830+ institutions connected with it. This existing scale gives KollegeApply a strong foundation for understanding the questions, challenges, and decisions students face throughout the college admission journey.

Unlike traditional search experiences that return pages of results, Orbit is designed around the context of a student’s questions and the decision they are trying to make. A student can start by asking about a college, follow up about its courses or fees, and then explore admission requirements or placement information without restarting the interaction. The aim is to reduce this fragmentation and make higher education research easier to navigate and act upon.

Sanjay Meena, Founder, KollegeApply, said: “Our vision is to build an AI ecosystem where every query a student has about their college journey gets answered. From choosing the right college to landing the first job, we want a student to never have to look beyond one place for the right answer.”

Orbit forms a key part of KollegeApply's broader AI ecosystem. The company’s wider product vision brings together conversational assistance with predictive admission tools, rank prediction, college matching, ROI calculators, structured counselling reports, application assistance, and intelligent calling capabilities. The broader objective is to move students beyond information discovery towards informed decision-making by connecting guidance, prediction, and decision-support capabilities in one integrated experience.

The discussions at Elevate Bengaluru also highlighted the growing role of technology in responding to changing student expectations and reshaping the admissions experience. Against this backdrop, Orbit represents KollegeApply's approach to applying AI to one of the most important stages of the student journey: understanding options and making informed decisions.

For KollegeApply, Orbit is a step towards extending AI-led guidance beyond the admission decision itself. Future capabilities will include predictive college recommendations, predictive rankings, personalized college selection, and career discovery.

The longer-term ambition is to support students throughout their journey, from choosing the right college and navigating higher education to preparing for a career and eventually landing their first job.

The unveiling of Orbit at Elevate Bengaluru marks another step in KollegeApply's AI-first approach to higher education, with the company aiming to move students from simply finding information to understanding their options, evaluating opportunities, and making more confident academic and career decisions.

Orbit is now live on the KollegeApply platform.