EdTech software development
EdTech software development, from engineers who have shipped it to schools
We build learning platforms and AI features for education companies — with the school integrations, role models and student-data care that EdTech products live or die on. Our founder is a senior engineer on an AI-powered K-12 platform used daily across 20+ US schools.
What makes EdTech harder than ordinary SaaS
Selling to schools changes the engineering. Accounts are not created by users; they arrive from a district's rostering system and change every term. Single sign-on is expected. A teacher, a student, a parent, a school admin and a district admin each need a different view of the same data. And student data carries obligations a typical SaaS product never meets.
AI raises the stakes further. Generated lesson content and automated grading are only useful if teachers can trust them — which means measuring quality, not assuming it.
What we have learned building for schools
Drawn from our founder's production experience on a K-12 AI platform used across 20+ US schools.
Rostering and SSO are the front door
Integrations with rostering and identity providers such as ClassLink and Clever decide whether a district can adopt your product at all. They have to handle term changes, transfers and role changes without manual fixes.
Roles drive everything
Teacher, student, parent, school and district roles need separate apps or views over shared data, with permissions enforced on the server rather than hidden in the UI.
AI content needs a quality gate
LLM-generated lessons, questions and feedback are checked by evaluation panels (LLM-as-judge, calibrated against human review) before they reach a classroom.
Grading with AI, carefully
Automated grading pipelines work best as structured outputs with rubrics, confidence and a teacher in the loop for anything consequential.
Agents for guidance, grounded in local data
Advising and tutoring agents (built on LangGraph) are grounded with retrieval over curriculum and school-specific content, isolated per school.
Reliability during the school day
Usage spikes at the start of class. Testing, CI/CD and observability (error tracking and tracing) matter more than in most products.
What we build for education companies
Learning platforms and LMS features
Courses, assignments, progress tracking and teacher dashboards, built around how classrooms actually run.
School integrations
Rostering, SSO and gradebook integrations, so districts can adopt your product without manual account management.
AI content generation
Lesson, question and feedback generation with quality evaluation built in, so teachers review drafts rather than start from blank pages.
AI tutors and advisers
Student-facing assistants grounded in your curriculum and the school's own content, with guardrails appropriate for the age group.
Assessment tools
Assessments, rubrics and reporting — including AI-written summaries that stay consistent and avoid over-confident conclusions.
Typical projects
Getting district-ready
Adding rostering, SSO and role-based access to a product that so far only signs up individual teachers.
Adding AI to an existing platform
Content generation, grading assistance or a tutor inside a learning product you already run.
Building a new learning product
An MVP for a new education product, designed so school integrations can be added without a rewrite.
Measuring AI quality
Building evaluation sets and quality gates for AI features teachers have started to distrust.
Related work
Our founder's EdTech experience is employment work and is not presented as a client case study. The DablewDevs projects below show the same engineering in other domains: AI-written reports with a fixed structure, and assessment tooling.
AI-generated assessments and executive reports for a leadership consultancy
A team-assessment app where admins generate assessment templates from a topic with an LLM, participants answer through share links, and the system writes executive-summary reports.
Read the case studySaaS · Payments · CRM integrationMembership platform for a mortgage-industry association: Stripe billing, CRM sync and a Bubble migration
A subscription membership platform — member dashboard, gated content, events, vendor marketplace and a 28-page admin portal — with tiered Stripe billing, a conference ticket checkout and two-way GoHighLevel CRM sync, migrated off a legacy Bubble app onto Next.js and Supabase.
Read the case studyHow we work with EdTech teams
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Understand the buyer and the user
Districts buy, teachers adopt, students use. We map what each needs before designing features.
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Get the data model right
Schools, classes, terms, roles and enrolments modelled so rostering changes do not break your product.
- 3
Build and evaluate
Features delivered in short cycles; AI features shipped with an evaluation set from day one.
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Pilot with real classrooms
A limited rollout with feedback from teachers before district-wide use.
Student data and deployment considerations
Student-data privacy
Products used in US schools must account for student-privacy obligations such as FERPA and COPPA, and many districts require signed data-privacy agreements. We design for data minimisation and clear data flows; your legal team confirms the compliance position.
AI and student data
Only the data a model needs is sent, with personally identifiable information removed where possible, through providers and endpoints that meet your contractual obligations.
Tenant isolation
Each school or district's data — including AI retrieval indexes — is isolated, so one customer can never see another's.
Accessibility
Interfaces built to accessibility standards, since schools must serve every student.
Technology we use
Application
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- Python / FastAPI
- PostgreSQL
AI
- Vercel AI SDK
- LangChain
- LangGraph
- Anthropic Claude
- Google Gemini
- pgvector
Quality & operations
- promptfoo
- Langfuse
- Vitest
- Playwright
- GitHub Actions
- Sentry
- OpenTelemetry
Who this is for
- EdTech startups preparing to sell to schools and districts.
- Education companies adding AI content generation, grading or tutoring.
- Learning platforms whose AI features teachers do not yet trust.
- Organisations building assessment and reporting tools.
Related services
EdTech Software Development: common questions
Tell us about your education product
Tell us what you are building or what needs fixing. You will hear back from an engineer — not a sales rep — within one business day, usually with questions or a rough approach.
Your enquiry goes straight to our engineering team — the people who will scope and build your project, not a sales desk.