Industry

EdTech software
students don't abandon

Collaboration platforms that bridge students, professors, and real industry projects. We build software universities can procure, professors can run, and students actually open after syllabus week.

FERPA and COPPA-aware student data handling
Multi-tenant by university, isolated by default
WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility across every flow
Built for the bandwidth students actually have

Most EdTech dies at syllabus week. The rest dies at midterms.

We've built and rebuilt enough education platforms to know exactly where engagement drops, professors revolt, and IT procurement blocks the rollout. A few of these probably sound familiar.

—Students log in on day one, abandon the app by week three, and your retention dashboard quietly rots in Looker.
—Professors won't use the LMS you bought. They email PDFs to their TAs and grade in Excel. Your platform sits empty while they work around it.
—FERPA review blocks launch for six months because the platform stores student work in a shared bucket with no per-institution isolation.
—Your mobile app crashes on the Android tablets the university gives out to first-year students.
—A student uploads a 4GB video for a project review. The server bill triples overnight. Nobody noticed until the invoice.
—Accessibility was promised in the procurement RFP. Six months in, the screen reader team can't navigate the dashboard. A complaint lands on the dean's desk.
—Multi-tenant by university means every school needs its own SSO, branding, and admin role — and you built it as a fork, not a config.
—Semester-end is a traffic spike. The platform buckles at 11:59 p.m. on the submission deadline. The students who missed it tweet about it.

Education software lives at the intersection of three users who don't trust each other by default — students, professors, and institutions. A platform that ignores any one of them gets routed around. The cost of a failed launch is measured in students who don't finish the course, professors who quit the platform, and IT contracts that don't renew.

Three realities of EdTech software.

The constraints, the products, and the delivery model that make working with us different.

01 — Constraints

Privacy, accessibility, and the academic calendar.

FERPA in the US, GDPR-K for European schools, COPPA when minors are in the room. Multi-tenant by institution with strict per-university data isolation. WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility across every flow — not just the marketing pages. WCAG-aligned screen reader support, keyboard navigation, captioning, and color contrast tested before every release.

"We are happy with the output and are currently using the screens and the prototype to seek investment."

— Aaron Braich, Co-Founder, Toggled

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02 — What we ship

The full academic workspace.

Project boards where companies post live challenges. Professor review workflows that match the academic grading cadence, not a corporate approval queue. Real-time collaboration hubs with chat, file sharing, and dashboards. Swipe-based matching for mentorship and project assignment. LTI compliance for LMS integration. Analytics that show engagement without surveilling students.

"We love the new dashboard; it looks amazing."

— Head of News Company

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03 — How we de-risk

Survives syllabus week and final exams.

Load-tested for the submission-deadline surge — every semester, twice a year, predictably. Lightweight enough to run on the Android tablets a first-year student gets. Accessibility tested with real users who use assistive tech, not just an automated checker. Post-launch coverage through finals week and the start of the next semester.

"Their knowledge and experience were instrumental to the project's success."

— Evelyn Ackah, Founder & Managing Lawyer, Ackah Business Immigration Law

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Who we build for

You probably run one of these programs.

01

Universities running capstone and industry-project programs

You have a dean who wants industry projects, a faculty who wants grading control, and a career services office that wants measurable outcomes. We build the platform that serves all three without compromising the academic standards.

02

Bootcamps and online schools with mentor workflows

Cohorts, projects, code reviews, mentor matching, graduation metrics. The model breaks the moment a cohort scales past two hundred students. We build the systems that let you keep the small-cohort feel at five times the size.

03

Corporate L&D platforms with cohort-based courses

Internal training that has to feel less like compliance and more like a course worth finishing. We build the cohort mechanics, the manager dashboards, and the skill-tracking that turns a one-time rollout into a measured program.

04

Tutoring and peer-learning marketplaces

Matching, scheduling, session quality, and tutor retention. We build the matching algorithm and the rating systems that keep both sides honest without turning the platform into a gig-economy race to the bottom.

How we make it happen.

A typical EdTech build pulls on the same five capabilities.

01Discovery with faculty and students
02Architecture & multi-tenant model
03Build, integrate, accessibility-test
04Semester launch, on-call, iterate

Every EdTech platform we build is a stack, not a single app. The student and professor workspace is a web app built to handle semester-end traffic. The on-the-go student experience — notifications, quick submissions, attendance — is mobile apps. The matching algorithm, the recommendation engine, the at-risk-student early warnings are AI & automation. The full-stack wiring — multi-tenant data model, FERPA-aware audit logging, LTI compliance — is web-app engineering. And before any of it, we run product strategy with the faculty and a sample of students to map the workflows that actually matter — not the ones the procurement RFP said.

"The project and team were well managed, and the quality of work exceeded expectations."

— Cameron Tan-Spiers, CEO, Gaia Labs

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When we're not the right team for the job:

  • You need a replacement LMS (Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle).
    Those platforms are massive, vendor-locked, and have decades of feature surface. We build the specialized collaboration layer on top of your LMS via LTI 1.3 — not a fork that drains your IT team.
  • You want us to ship without a faculty pilot.
    EdTech that launches without professors in the loop gets routed around within a semester. We insist on a faculty pilot before the wide rollout. It's the cheapest insurance against a six-figure procurement failure.
  • You need student surveillance features — proctoring, keystroke logging, eye tracking.
    We can build the technical components, but we don't design the policies. Surveillance-first EdTech breaks trust and runs into consent issues under GDPR-K and FERPA exceptions. We'd rather lose the contract than ship something that treats students like suspects.

Real results. Real students.

EdTech platforms we've shipped and the universities, professors, and students who run on them.

University & Industry

A collaboration platform where students solve real business problems, shipped in three months.

Universities wanted students to tackle real industry projects. Companies wanted fresh research without managing internships at scale. DISSO bridges both. We built the project board, the professor review workflow, and the collaboration hub in one quarter. Three user roles — students, professors, and companies — work inside the same workspace. Seven core features shipped: project board, professor review, collaboration hub, swipe matching, messaging, file sharing, and analytics dashboard.

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Why build EdTech with us?

Accessibility built in, not bolted on.

WCAG 2.1 AA tested across every flow with real users who use assistive tech. Screen reader, keyboard navigation, captioning, color contrast — measured before every release, not after the complaint. Accessibility isn't a checkbox, it's the architecture.

Multi-tenant by university, isolated by default.

Per-institution data isolation, per-university SSO, per-school branding — as configuration, not as a fork. FERPA review passes because we designed the data model for it. Your IT team gets a tenant onboarding flow, not a sprint of one-off integrations.

Load-tested for the submission deadline.

Twice a year, every year, predictably — your platform gets hit with a 6x traffic spike at 11:50 p.m. on the last day of the semester. We design for that spike from day one. We stay on call through finals week. The students who submit at the last minute get a working platform.

EdTech buyer questions.

How do you handle FERPA and COPPA?

We design for FERPA from the first wireframe. Per-institution data isolation, role-based access, audit logs, no student data in third-party analytics. We've passed FERPA review at public university systems in under eight weeks. For minors (COPPA / GDPR-K), we add parental consent flows, age-gated features, and data minimization by default.

Are you WCAG 2.1 AA compliant?

Yes — and we test with real users who use screen readers, keyboard navigation, and other assistive tech, not just an automated checker. We provide a VPAT on request. Accessibility regressions are caught in CI, not by a complaint six months after launch.

Do you integrate with Canvas, Blackboard, or Moodle?

Yes, via LTI 1.3. Your EdTech platform launches inside the LMS your faculty already use. Single sign-on, grade passback, deep linking — the LMS stays the system of record, your platform is the experience layer. We don't try to replace the LMS. We complement it.

What about semester-end traffic spikes?

We load-test at 6x normal traffic and design for the deadline rush from day one. We stay on call through finals week, watch the dashboards in real time, and pre-warm capacity the night before each deadline. The platform doesn't blink at 11:59 p.m.

Next step

Got an EdTech platform
that needs to earn its seat?

Tell us who you serve — students, professors, universities, bootcamps — and which procurement gate you have to pass. We'll figure out the rest.