AI for WhatsApp group and community admins

What Cole can take on

Guides for each: reminders, recaps, translation and polls.

Controls for the account that pays

From your private chat with Cole, the account owner or an admin can:

• Turn Cole off in one group.
• Let only members of your account use Cole in your groups.
• Set a monthly credit limit per person.
• Leave someone out.
• Post a message you approved in one of your groups right away, up to 6 such posts an hour across your groups.

These controls are for WhatsApp groups. To remove Cole, remove it like any other participant; Cole never leaves a group on its own. One account pays for Cole's replies in a group: the person who said yes when Cole asked in a private chat. Nobody becomes the payer without saying yes. Until someone does, each person with their own Pocodot account pays for their own questions. A WhatsApp group Cole has newly joined can try Cole once for free: someone without an account may get one short answer to a text question, with a line on how to link an account. Requests that need tools, files or live data need an account. Otherwise, Cole may post a short note on how to set the group up.

Communities

A WhatsApp community bundles groups with an announcement group, where only community admins can send announcements and members can reply, react and vote in polls (WhatsApp Help Center). Cole is added to a group as a participant, not to a community: add it to the groups inside the community where members talk. Cole cannot join from an invite link, and that includes a community link.

Limits to know

• Cole only knows what was posted after it joined. Post the group's key details again after you add it.
• In a busy group, Cole reads the most recent stretch of the conversation in full and a shorter summary of older messages, so repost key details now and then.
• Cole answers only when someone tags it, uses its name or replies to it. It does not greet new members or post on its own when someone joins.
• Approving join requests, deleting messages and pinning stay with the group's admins. Cole does not do them.
• Someone who joins later is answered from what was said after they joined. If an answer needs something from before, Cole first asks the account that pays for the group, in its private chat.
• Apart from the one free answer a new group may get, every answer uses Pocodot credits: the group payer's, or until someone says yes, the asker's own. Cole is free to start with 150 one-time credits, and paid plans start at $19 a month for 2,000 credits.

What Meta AI offers admins

Meta says Meta AI, as a group member, can help admins of large groups and communities by sharing group rules and setting up alerts, and that it cannot change group settings. It is free for everyday use where Meta offers it. A detailed comparison: Cole vs Meta AI in WhatsApp groups.

How to add Cole to your WhatsApp group

Full steps and limits: How to add Cole to a WhatsApp group. Privacy rules for groups: how Cole works in group chats.