Meet Bodhi

An AI centre manager that knows your business

Let Bodhi take on the admin so you can focus on what you got into this for in the first place.

How we keep it safe
An operator checking their centre's day on Bodhi from the coast path
How’s Saturday looking?
Bodhi

Six sessions, 42 of 50 places sold. The 2pm coasteering is the only one under half — 4 of 10.

Wherever you are. In Swellbase, on WhatsApp from the beach, or waiting with your manifest at 7am.

Just say it out loud. Talk to Bodhi. No typing, no menus, no forms — useful with cold hands.

Nothing without your say-so. Every change waits for your approval, and Bodhi only ever acts with your own permissions.

Tell Bodhi what you need done

The jobs that eat an afternoon, handled.

  • “Cancel Thursday and email everyone booked on it”
  • “Take a booking for four on Saturday, card link”
  • “Add £45 cash against SB-4LFH”
  • “Move the 9am to 11am”
  • “Put Meg on the 2pm coasteering”
  • “Send a payment link for the outstanding balance”
  • “Issue a £100 gift voucher for Sarah”
  • “Drop the 3pm to eight capacity, we only have 1 instructor”

Ask anything about your centre

Bodhi reads your live bookings, sessions, customers and payments. You get the answer you need and get on with your day.

  • “What’s on today?”
  • “Who hasn’t paid for Saturday?”
  • “Which sessions are unstaffed this week?”
  • “Has everyone signed a waiver for the 10am?”
  • “How did last month compare to last year?”
  • “How can I increase bookings in the shoulder season?”
  • “Which customers have booked more than three times?”
  • “What kit is going out on hire today?”

Wherever you are, whenever you need it

Bodhi meets you where the work actually happens.

  • Inside Swellbase

    A full conversation on its own page, and an ask line waiting on your dashboard.

  • On WhatsApp

    Message Bodhi from the beach in a wetsuit and get the day’s numbers back.

  • On a schedule

    Your manifest at 7am. A nudge when a session is half empty two days out.

  • In Claude and ChatGPT

    Connect Swellbase to the AI tools you already use, under the permissions you set.

You can just talk, no typing required

Hold the mic and say what you need. No typing on a phone with wet hands, no hunting through menus between sessions — say it the way you’d say it to someone standing next to you.

A day at the centre

  1. 07:30

    Your manifest lands on WhatsApp before you’re out of the van. Two waivers outstanding on the 10am.

  2. 09:40

    A group of six rings up. Bodhi finds the slot, takes the booking and emails them a card link.

  3. 13:15

    Wind gets up. “Cancel the afternoon and let everyone know.” One approval, 34 customers emailed.

  4. 15:10

    “Anything outstanding?” Two balances. Payment links out before you’ve got the kit away.

  5. 16:55

    “How did today go?” Numbers in, numbers out, and what tomorrow looks like.

Sensible guardrails that keep Bodhi safe

  • Every change waits for you

    Bodhi reads on its own. It never writes on its own — it proposes the change, tells you what it will do, and stops until you approve it.

  • It acts as you, not above you

    Bodhi inherits the permissions of whoever is talking to it. An instructor’s Bodhi can’t see the takings, and nobody’s Bodhi can widen its own access.

  • Everything it does is logged

    Every action is written to your activity log, attributed to Bodhi and to the person who approved it. Nothing happens off the record.

  • It answers from your data or not at all

    Every figure comes from a live lookup, quoted against the booking or order it came from — so you can check it. If it doesn’t know, it says so.

An AI that knows your centre. And operators who know your job.

Bodhi handles the admin. For everything a booking system can’t answer, Swellbase comes with operators who have already run the centre you’re building.

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Questions

Can Bodhi change anything without asking me?
No. Reading is instant, but every change — a cancellation, a booking, a payment — comes back as a card describing exactly what it is about to do. Nothing happens until someone approves it, and approving is a deliberate tap rather than a default.
Can Bodhi see everything in my account?
Only what you can. Bodhi runs as the person talking to it and inherits their role, so an instructor asking about takings gets the same answer the app would give them: no. It also can’t widen its own access — changing roles and permissions is one of the things it is not allowed to do.
What is Bodhi deliberately not allowed to do?
Refunds, deletions, sending marketing campaigns, inviting or removing team members, changing roles and permissions, and changing your company settings. Those are either irreversible, impossible to recall once sent, or would let Bodhi widen its own ceiling — so they stay with a human in the app.
Which of my team can use it?
Whoever you choose. Bodhi is controlled by its own permission on your roles, so you can give it to managers and not instructors, or to one person while you try it out.
What if it gets something wrong?
Every figure Bodhi gives you comes from a live lookup and is quoted against the record it came from, so it can be checked rather than taken on trust. And because it can’t make a change without you approving it first, a misunderstanding costs you a tap rather than a day of trading.
Do I have to use it?
No. Swellbase works exactly as it does now without ever opening Bodhi — it’s a faster way to do things you can already do, not a replacement for doing them yourself.

Less admin. More bookings.

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