Software for education & training
Whether you’re a tutor, a training provider or a course creator, generic course platforms take a cut and box you into their brand. Custom software lets you own the experience — and the margin.
What usually gets in the way
- ✕Course platforms that take a percentage of every sale
- ✕Scheduling and payments for sessions handled manually
- ✕No branded home for your content and students
- ✕Student progress and communication scattered across tools
Working with education & training businesses
The economics of course platforms are worth doing honestly. Marketplaces like Udemy take a large cut and own the student relationship; hosted platforms like Kajabi or Teachable charge monthly fees that climb with your list. If you're doing real revenue, a platform you own — your brand, your student data, your margin — often pays for itself within the first year or two.
A typical build covers the parts that actually matter: video and content hosting with progress tracking, checkout for one-off and subscription pricing, and a student area that feels like your brand rather than a template. For tutors and training providers running live sessions, booking and recurring payments replace the Calendly-plus-bank-transfer patchwork.
Just as importantly, owning the platform means owning the funnel. Your course pages are proper, fast, indexable web pages that can rank for what you teach — not listings inside someone else's marketplace where the platform decides who sees you and shows your competitors alongside.
Common questions
- Should I leave Kajabi/Teachable/Thinkific for a custom platform?
- Only when the maths says so. If platform fees are a rounding error, stay put. When you're paying hundreds a month, fighting the template, or want to own student data and SEO properly, custom starts winning — we'll help you run that calculation honestly before anything is built.
- Can it handle video hosting and drip content?
- Yes — protected video via a service like Mux or Vimeo, drip schedules, prerequisites, quizzes and completion certificates are all standard course-platform features we build. You choose which of them your teaching model actually needs.
- What does a custom course platform cost?
- A focused first version — content delivery, checkout, student accounts — starts from around £15,000 fixed price. Session booking for live tutoring is often simpler and cheaper. The scoping call establishes which one you actually need.
Let's talk about your education & training project.
A free 30-minute chat, no obligation. We'll tell you honestly what would help and roughly what it would take.