Ask LC

Ask LC — the app answers

Ask LC is the one intelligence layer behind every app. Prospects and owners talk to it, staff type to it, management holds a live full-duplex conversation with it. Same brain, different doors — and always inside the caller's RBAC.

One brain, many doors
Is the AI done?

Yes — Ask LC is designed, priced and part of Phase 1

Phase 1 ships Ask LC live: AI text concierge for everyone, AI voice for purchased owners and a full-duplex voice copilot for management. Phase 4 extends voice to the entire workforce.

AI chat (text)

Prospects — LC Discover

  • Villa availability, pricing, facing, floor plans
  • Location, connectivity and neighbourhood questions
  • Payment plan and investment estimation
  • Book a site visit and issue a QR pass in chat
No voice minutes, no owner or project data.
AI voice + chat

Owners — LC My Villa & LC Living

  • Construction progress, dues, documents, key dates
  • Raise complaints, customisations and service requests by speaking
  • Book amenities, create visitor passes, pay dues
  • Handover prediction for their own villa only
Scoped to their own villa; 100–250 voice minutes per month.
AI text assistance (voice-first from Phase 4)

Workforce — LC Workforce

  • Task detail, checklist guidance and note drafting
  • Evidence completeness check before closure
  • Material and labour request drafting
No AI voice credits in Phase 1; no financial or customer commercial data.
Full-duplex voice copilot

Management — LC Management

  • "What needs my attention today?" answered out loud
  • Top risks with contributing factors and reasoning
  • Create, assign and approve by voice with confirmation
  • Cross-department drill-down into Villa 360°
Every voice action shows a confirmation screen and is audit-logged.
How a request travels
The Ask LC family
Assistants & guides

Purpose-built guides, one shared brain

Each guide is the same intelligence layer with a different scope, vocabulary and permission set — so an owner, a site engineer and a director each get answers written for them.

Owners & residents

LC Concierge

The day-to-day voice assistant: dues, documents, bookings, complaints, visitor passes and villa status in plain language.

Owners under construction

LC Site Guide

Explains construction stage photos, quality checks, what happens next and the predicted handover window for that specific villa.

Owners & finance

LC Money Guide

Payment schedules, milestone dues, receipts, interest implications and a plain-language explanation of every charge.

Owners choosing customisations

LC Design Guide

Walks through approved materials, brands and upgrade options with cost impact, then routes the choice for technical and management approval.

Residents

LC Amenity Guide

Availability across clubhouse, banquet, party deck, sky lounge, pool, amphitheatre and tennis court, with layered booking rules explained.

Residents & security

LC Safety Guide

Emergency options, SOS, elder and child safety settings, visitor rules and what the community does when an alert is raised.

Management & executives

LC Copilot

Full-duplex voice copilot for KPIs, risks, approvals, instructions to departments and cross-department drill-down.

Workforce & site teams

LC Field Assist

Checklist guidance, evidence completeness checks, indent drafting and note dictation, offline-tolerant on site.

When each guide arrives

  • Phase 1 — Concierge, Site Guide, Money Guide and Copilot on text, with voice for owners and management
  • Phase 2 — Amenity Guide and Safety Guide for residents and the security control room
  • Phase 3 — predictive answers: risk explanations, delay forecasts and recommendation cards
  • Phase 4 — voice-first field assistance and hands-free proof of work for the workforce
  • Phase 5 — assistants connected to IoT, access control and emergency partners
Conversation pipeline

Speak once — the platform does the rest

Every Ask LC request runs the same seven steps, so a spoken sentence is as safe and as auditable as a typed form.

Ask LC pipeline
  1. Speak or type
  2. Intent + entities
  3. RBAC + policy check
  4. Data / action plan
  5. Human confirmation
  6. Execute & notify
  7. Evidence & audit
Who gets what
Access matrix

AI access is a permission, not a default

Free prospects get text only. Purchased owners get metered voice. Workforce gets text help in Phase 1. Management gets the full-duplex copilot.

AudienceAI modeAllowanceNotes
Prospects (Discover) — free usersAI text chat onlyNo AI voice minutesEnquiry, villa Q&A, site-visit booking and brochure help through the AI text concierge. Voice is not released to free users, so discovery traffic never consumes paid voice minutes.
Purchased customers (My Villa / Living)AI text chat + AI voice concierge100 – 250 minutes per month from the voice credit packOwners talk to the application: payment dues, construction progress, customisation status, pending works, complaints and bookings. Standard + Voice gives 100–200 minutes and Premium 250 minutes per customer per month.
Workforce (site & department staff)Task app with AI text assist onlyNo AI voice minutesField staff use tap-first task flows with photo evidence. Voice-first workforce automation is a Phase 4 capability and is not part of the standard AI voice allowance.
Management & executivesFull-duplex voice copilotPooled executive minutes (fair use)Directors and department heads speak to the platform for KPIs, risks, approvals and task dispatch. Management voice is pooled at organisation level, not per user.
Voice economics
₹5 – ₹6 per minute

Voice is metered, visible and capped

Live AI voice conversation costs ₹5 to ₹6 per minute at real usage on the standard voice engine (speech-to-text, model reasoning and text-to-speech). On the Premium Voice plan — the natural, low-latency, barge-in capable voice reserved for owners and executives — the same minute costs ₹5 to ₹8. That is why voice is a separate prepaid credit pack rather than an unmetered feature: the bill can never surprise you.

Platform subscription
₹1,20,000per month

Application subscription for the four Phase 1 mobile apps and four web applications: product licence, workflow/SLA/escalation engines, dashboards, releases, monitoring, backups, store compliance and support. Cloud instances, SMS, WhatsApp and LLM/voice usage are pass-through and billed on top at actuals.

AI voice credit pack
₹75,000per month (prepaid credits)

A prepaid voice wallet drawn down at ₹5–₹6 per minute on standard voice (₹5–₹8 per minute if the Premium Voice plan is chosen) — roughly 12,500–15,000 conversation minutes a month, allocated as 100–150 minutes per purchased customer and 200 minutes per management/executive user. Unused credits do not carry forward; top-ups are instant.

Rules
  • Unused customer minutes do not carry forward to the next month.
  • Beyond the ₹75,000 monthly voice pack, additional standard voice is billed at ₹6 per minute and premium voice at ₹8 per minute, in 30-second slabs.
  • Owners see a live minutes-remaining meter in the app before a voice session starts.
  • When an allowance is exhausted, the AI text concierge continues to work at no extra cost.
  • Management can cap or top up per-customer minutes from the admin console.
For your engineers
Technical annexure
Ask LC — developer documentation
Architecture
  • One backend, one database, one auth service; six mobile apps + four web apps as clients
  • React Native (iOS + Android) for mobile, React web consoles, REST + realtime channels
  • Postgres with row-level security mirroring the RBAC matrix
  • Object storage + CDN for construction evidence, documents and media
Core services
  • Identity: OTP, biometrics, device binding, permission-set resolution
  • Workflow engine: states, approvers, value limits, parallel + sequential routes
  • SLA engine: clocks, pauses, escalation Level 0 → 5, breach events
  • Notification engine: push, in-app, SMS, WhatsApp, email with templates
  • Evidence engine: photo/video/voice with geo + timestamp integrity
  • Audit engine: append-only log of every read of sensitive data and every write
AI layer
  • Speech-to-text → intent/entity extraction → RBAC-scoped tool calls → text-to-speech
  • Retrieval limited to the caller's permitted rows; prompts injected with scope, never with raw secrets
  • Every write action goes through the same workflow engine as a manual action
  • Voice metering per user with caps, alerts and top-up; transcripts stored against Customer 360°
Quality & release
  • Environments: dev → staging → production with seeded demo data
  • Automated API tests plus device-matrix smoke tests before each store release
  • Offline-first sync queue for field apps with conflict resolution
  • Observability: uptime, error tracking, AI cost dashboard, daily backups