Off until you say otherwise
Simply Camps is a complete product with AI turned off. Every AI feature is opt-in for your team — turn on what helps, skip what does not, and change your mind anytime. Nothing on this page is required.
Optional AI
Camp is people work — let AI chase the paperwork.
Simply Camps runs beautifully with AI off. Turn it on and your registrar gets Ask Simply — instant answers about sessions, forms, and balances — while your website answers parent questions at 10 pm in June, from the details you publish, with your office one handoff away.
The ground rules
Four things that stay true, whatever you switch on.
AI in Simply Camps was built the way we would want it used on our own team: opt-in, supervised, explainable, and priced in the open.
People decide; people answer
Ask Simply proposes — a person approves before anything changes. The website assistant answers — and hands the conversation to your team the moment someone asks for a person. AI here extends your people; it never replaces them.
Answers show their work
Ask Simply cites the records behind every answer and previews every change before it happens. Website conversations land in your inbox with a per-answer trace for admins. Usage is metered visibly, spending caps are on by default, and every AI price is public on the pricing page.
Your permissions are the AI’s permissions
Ask Simply can only see what the signed-in person is allowed to see — enforced by the platform, not by the AI’s good manners. The website assistant knows only the information you connect. It all runs on the same AWS infrastructure as the rest of Simply Camps, and your data is never used to train AI models.
Flavor one — for your team
Ask Simply: the colleague who read everything.
Ask Simply answers from your live camp data with the asker’s own permissions, cites the records behind every answer, and proposes changes for approval instead of just making them.
“How full is each July session versus last year?”
Capacity, waitlists, and pacing in one plain answer with live numbers linked — the whole registration picture without opening five rosters.
“Which campers are missing health forms for session two?”
The chase list, the guardians, and a drafted reminder — June’s biggest headache reduced to a question and an approval.
“Build a roster view of first-time campers by cabin.”
Ask Simply proposes the view, shows what it will include, and shares it with staff when you approve — rosters that used to eat an evening.
“Who has an unpaid balance and a start date in two weeks?”
Payment status meets session dates in one answer, with follow-up drafts ready — firm, friendly, and yours to approve.
“Which staff applications are still missing references?”
Hiring season’s nitty gritty — statuses, gaps, next steps — answered from the records instead of from memory.
“Draft the winter update on summer registration.”
Updates, pages, and announcements start as solid drafts built from real numbers, in your voice — you make them yours before anything publishes.
From the big numbers to the missing-form chase to drafting the next page — if it lives in Simply Camps, you can ask about it in plain language. See Ask Simply live in a demo
On the go
Your whole system, in a back pocket.
From the waterfront, ask your phone “which cabin is Maya Chen in, and who is her pickup contact?” — Ask Simply is built into the Simply Anywhere mobile app, because camp questions rarely happen at a desk.
Chat turns out to be the perfect mobile interface for a system like this: no menus to hunt through, no laptop to open — just the question, the cited answer, and the approval, wherever the work is happening.
The full Ask Simply, inside the Simply Anywhere appSame permissions, sources, and approvals as your deskAsk for the number on the way into the meetingReview and approve proposed changes from anywhereYour records, messages, and notifications ride along
Flavor two — for the people you serve
A website that answers back — honestly.
Camp parents research at night and decide fast. A conversation widget on your camp website answers honestly from your published sessions, packing lists, and policies, registers families through your real forms, and hands anything personal straight to your office.
“Is there space in session three for a nine-year-old?”
Sessions, ages, and availability answered from your live data — with registration or the waitlist offered right there, while the decision is warm.
“What should we pack, and when is drop-off?”
Packing lists, dates, and drop-off logistics from your own pages, delivered instantly — the June email flood, answered before it is sent.
“How do you handle food allergies?”
Your published health and safety practices, explained clearly — and a direct route to your staff for the conversation about their child.
“How old do I have to be to work at camp?”
Hiring questions answered from your staff pages, with the application form in hand — recruiting help during the exact evening someone decides.
Make it sound like camp — warm, plain-spoken, safety-serious — with your own words for cabins, sessions, and traditions baked into the guidance.
The assistant is always honest about being an assistant, and a human is always one ask away — because the fastest way to lose someone’s trust is to fake a person.
Your assistant, your rules
Customization, control, and a paper trail.
A public assistant speaks for you, so you hold the controls — what it knows, how it sounds, and what it is never allowed to do.
It sounds like you
Guidance and voice settings — tone, words to use, words to avoid, example answers — teach the assistant your way of speaking. Each widget can also choose a deeper or faster AI model.
It knows what you connect — nothing else
You choose the pages, knowledge articles, and workflows behind each widget. It answers from those, says so when it does not know, and cannot wander into data you did not connect.
Real actions, same safeguards
When a visitor registers, signs up, or pays, the assistant walks them through the same verified forms and payment flows as the rest of your site. It cannot write to your data any other way.
People, one ask away
Visitors can reach your team at any point, and the assistant escalates on its own when it is unsure or the topic is sensitive. Conversations land in your inbox with full context — and offline hours are handled honestly.
Every conversation, visible
Your team can read every conversation, see what the assistant consulted for each answer, test changes before publishing, and measure satisfaction — including the questions it could not answer, so you know what to publish next.
Costs with a ceiling
AI usage is metered transparently with spending caps on by default. Plans include monthly AI credit, and live website assistants carry a flat monthly price — all published on the pricing page.
Honest answers
If you never turn AI on, Simply Camps is still Simply Camps.
Care decisions, homesick calls, and the trust of parents stay with your people, always. The AI answers packing lists and payment plans so your office can be human at pickup time.
And if you do turn it on, it stays optional forever — feature by feature, widget by widget, with visible usage, spending caps, and public prices.
Bring us opening day. We will make it feel simple.
Show us the registration tracker, the health-form binder, and the roster spreadsheet. We will map them to Simply Camps and show you the calmer version of next season.