Education Publishers

Estimates and business case

Until you have an accurate understanding of costs and timelines, you don’t know if a project is realistic. We’ll answer as many questions as possible on your first call and set up a discovery process that includes interviews with both business and technical analysts.

Option 1: Light-touch discovery: This includes a site visit and rapid investigation into your existing capabilities and goals to validate a business case and provide cost estimates and timelines. This could be as short as a single day or extended up to a week.

Option 2: Multi-week discoveries: This includes offline research and interviews by a range of specialists to undertake detailed analysis and develop a full proof-of-concept.

We can take a multi-staged approach that breaks your project down into smaller phases, so you can get valuable outcomes at every stage without committing to one costly project.

Case study: Discover how we streamlined Explore Learning’s assessment authoring platform to deliver higher-quality questions while accurately tracking time and costs.

Focus on the technology

If you want to use technology to change business outcomes, you’ll need to speak with technical experts from day one.

We start by looking at the learning assessment tools you already use, be that Power Apps, custom-built, or SaaS solutions — and identify the gaps. We’ll look at UX expectations and capability, integration requirements and IT change capability to build the most effective plan to close that gap and meet your goals.

If you’re looking for a rapid time-to-value, we might suggest starting with a solution like Learnosity that can be adapted to fit your needs.

Our technical experts will ensure:

Data storage centralisation: Learning data might be spread across multiple systems. We may suggest implementing a data lake approach for more effective data use.

Compliance standards: Our systems are built to accommodate data privacy laws, responsible use of AI, and any relevant curriculum requirements. We also put accessibility and security at the centre of everything we develop to ensure compliance and quality learning outcomes.

Integration simplicity: You may want to continue working with your existing systems. We’ll identify integration requirements and suggest solutions that meet those needs.

Build and iterate a long-term solution

Agile development allows us to put functional solutions live quickly. However, digital transformation requires long-term thinking.

Even if you don’t know the next step, it’s important to build flexible foundations that will allow you to grow without starting over.

We always take the following into account:

Cloud-native applications: Cloud-based scalability and ease of access are important in most EdTech use cases. Applications need to be built for the cloud to take full advantage of these capabilities.

Integrations and flexibility: Applications need to work well with other technology, and be iteratively improved to grow over time. APIs and microservice architecture are often important to long-term success and development.

AI from the start: AI isn’t the future, it’s already here. We’ll use it for development, and bake AI into the use of applications where valuable. This makes it easy to expand AI use cases as they develop.

IP ownership: Ensuring ownership of your data is critical to analysis and improvement. However, so is ownership over your custom software, which can improve company valuation.

We don’t just help you build applications. We build technology that delivers results today and makes it easier to solve the challenges you’ll face tomorrow.

Real-world example: Explore Learning were using a SaaS solution that restricted the control they had over their data. Our in-depth review and hands-on development team were able to propose a change programme and develop a new custom assessment engine. They were able to enhance learning experiences with adaptive question delivery and gain ownership over their e-learning data.