Learning platforms built by people who run one.
Most agencies pitching education software have never operated any. We built and still run a GCSE and A-Level revision platform, with an exam question bank in the tens of thousands, AI marking of typed and handwritten work, and separate student and teacher applications. Everything we know about learning platforms, we learned by having to keep one running.
We have shipped this, not just pitched it.
Ilmino
GCSE and A-Level revision platform. Question bank in the tens of thousands, AI marking of typed and handwritten work, web and mobile.
EduSpace
Student and teacher applications built in two editions from one codebase, one for schools and one for universities.
The problems we are normally called in to fix.
Off-the-shelf platforms do not fit how you teach
You end up shaping your teaching around the software instead of the other way round, and paying per seat for modules nobody uses.
Content and assessment do not scale
Building a question bank or course library by hand does not scale past a few hundred items. Doing it properly needs a generation and quality pipeline, not more staff.
Teachers will not use what is slow or ugly
Adoption is the whole game. A platform teachers avoid is a platform that failed, however complete the feature list.
Reporting never answers the actual question
Leadership wants to know which students are at risk and which topics are not landing. Most systems report activity instead of understanding.
Software and marketing for education.
Learning management systems
Courses, cohorts, enrolment, assignments, submissions, marking and progression. Built to your curriculum rather than a generic template.
School and college management
Admissions, timetabling, attendance, behaviour, parent communication and reporting, integrated rather than bolted together.
Question banks and assessment
Exam-board-aligned question generation, marking against a mark scheme, and quality gating at the scale of tens of thousands of items.
Student and parent portals
One place for timetables, homework, results and progress, on web and on mobile from the same backend.
AI marking and feedback
Typed and handwritten work marked against your criteria, with feedback students can act on and staff can override.
Analytics that name the problem
Which students are at risk, which topics are weakest, which interventions moved the number.
- LMS development
- Custom software development
- Website design and development
- Mobile apps
- AI and automation
- Hosting and support
The commercial outcome we are aiming at.
- Staff hours returned by automating marking and reporting
- A platform that scales to more cohorts without more administrators
- Content produced at a scale manual authoring cannot reach
- A system you own outright, with no per-seat licence rising every year
Straight answers.
Do you build learning platforms from scratch or customise an existing one?
Both, and which one is right depends on how unusual your teaching model is. If Moodle or Canvas covers 80% of what you need, extending one is cheaper and faster. If your assessment or progression model is genuinely your own, a custom build stops you fighting the platform forever.
How do you handle student data and safeguarding?
UK GDPR from the start, with data minimisation, role-based access, audit trails and a defined retention policy. For schools that means being able to answer a subject access request without a developer, so we build that in rather than adding it later.
Can you integrate with our MIS?
Yes. Integration with existing management information systems is usually the difference between a platform being adopted and being abandoned, so we scope it in the first conversation rather than treating it as a later phase.
How long does a learning platform take to build?
A focused first version that real students use is normally eight to fourteen weeks. We deploy early and add to it weekly rather than disappearing for six months.
Tell us how you teach, and we will tell you what to build.
A couple of lines is enough to start. You will get a straight answer on what it needs, what it costs and how long it takes.
Tell us what you need building and who it is for. You will hear back from the person who would do the work.
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