Industry
Education
Fees, attendance and parent messages from one school system. Education spans K-12 schools, colleges, universities, coaching institutes and EdTech platforms, each with fee cycles, admissions seasons, exams and regulators. Software helps most where staff currently chase fees, attendance, marks and parent messages by hand, and where online learners quietly drop out.
- K-12 schools and school groups
- Colleges and universities
- Coaching and test prep institutes
- EdTech platforms
- Skilling and corporate training providers
The pressure points
What slows education teams down
- Admin buries teaching staff
- Attendance, mark entry, report cards, circulars and fee reminders take hours each week that teachers would rather spend teaching.
- Admissions season chaos
- Enquiries arrive by phone, website, walk in and WhatsApp in a few weeks. Many are never followed up and counsellors cannot see which source converts.
- Online learners drift away
- Recorded courses see high drop off after the first few modules, and nobody notices until completion figures come in.
- Children's data rules
- The DPDP Act requires verifiable parental consent for children's data and limits tracking and targeted advertising aimed at children.
Systems this sector runs on
The software we build and connect
Each of these can be built new, extended from what you already use, or connected to your existing ERP and accounting.
- Learning Management SystemLMSCourses, live classes, assignments, quizzes and progress tracking, with mobile apps that work on low bandwidth connections.
- Enterprise Resource PlanningERPStudent information, admissions, fees with GST where applicable, timetables, exams, transport and hostel in one institution ERP.
- Customer Relationship ManagementCRMAdmission enquiries from every source, counsellor follow ups, campus visit booking and conversion by channel.
- Customer and Partner Self-Service PortalsCustomer portalsParent and student apps for attendance, homework, results, fee payment and school circulars.
- Human Resource Management and PayrollHRMS and payrollFaculty attendance, leave, substitution, payroll with PF and professional tax, and appraisal records.
Built for this sector
Systems specific to education
The work that generic software does not cover, and where most of the value sits.
- Examination and results engine
- Question banks, paper setting, online and OMR exams, moderation, grade rules and report cards in the board's format.
- Accreditation evidence store
- Data and documents organised against NAAC criteria or NBA requirements, so the self study report draws on records already in place.
- Academic Bank of Credits and APAAR links
- Credit records and student IDs prepared for upload to the national ABC and APAAR systems for higher education.
- Transport tracking
- GPS bus tracking, route planning and pickup alerts for parents, with attendance on boarding.
Where AI helps
AI use cases with a clear return
Study assistant on course material
Students ask questions and get answers grounded in the institute's own notes and textbooks, with guardrails for age and subject.
Doubts get answered between classes, and teachers see which topics cause most questions.
Admissions enquiry agent
Answers fee, eligibility and process questions on WhatsApp and the website, books campus visits and hands warm leads to counsellors.
No enquiry goes unanswered during peak season.
First pass assignment feedback
Gives draft feedback on essays and short answers against a rubric for the teacher to edit before returning.
Students get feedback sooner while teachers keep control of grading.
Drop off prediction
Flags learners whose activity, quiz scores or attendance is slipping so mentors can reach out.
Interventions happen while the learner can still be helped.
Timetable generation
Builds timetables under teacher availability, room and subject hour constraints, which the coordinator then adjusts.
A task that took days becomes a review of a workable draft.
What your team would see
- Fee collected (term)
- 86%
- Avg attendance
- 91.5%
- Admission conversions
- 312
- Course completion
- 58%
Weekly admission enquiries
Enquiry source, %
- Website32
- WhatsApp26
- Walk in18
- Referral15
- Education portals9
A sample of the kind of dashboard we build for this sector. Figures are illustrative.
Connects with
- Razorpay and UPI for fee collection
- Zoom and Google Meet
- Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 for Education
- WhatsApp Business and SMS gateways
- Tally for fee accounting
- GPS devices on school buses
- DigiLocker for certificates
Rules we design for
- DPDP Act 2023 (verifiable parental consent)
- UGC (Open and Distance Learning Programmes and Online Programmes) Regulations
- National Education Policy 2020
- Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016
- WCAG 2.1
- GDPR (for overseas learners)
Typical stack
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Work and writing for this sector
Before you start
Education: common questions
Can you build on Moodle or do we need a custom LMS?
If Moodle covers your teaching model, we customise and integrate it. A custom LMS pays off for EdTech businesses where the learning experience is the product.
How do you handle children's data?
We collect only what is needed, record verifiable parental consent, avoid tracking and ad profiling of children, and restrict staff access by role.
Will teachers actually use it?
We test screens with a small group of teachers first and keep daily tasks, like attendance and marks, to a few taps on a phone.
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