Every cohort is put together from scratch
A new student spreadsheet, a new chat, materials moved by hand and accounts created one by one. The producer spends a week on preparation that adds nothing to the product.
Put a cohort together, get your students to the finish line and work out the return — without merging data from five services by hand.
When there is one course and thirty students, the manual work goes unnoticed. By the third cohort and the second program it turns into a separate salary line in the team.
Every cohort is put together from scratch
A new student spreadsheet, a new chat, materials moved by hand and accounts created one by one. The producer spends a week on preparation that adds nothing to the product.
Follow-up rests on the manager's memory
Who left a request and never paid, who has already been called, who asked to be reminded after payday. Half of the unpaid orders simply drop out of sight.
Curators work in messengers
Assignments arrive in direct messages, submissions get lost, there is no review history. When a curator leaves, the context for the whole group leaves with them.
The completion rate falls and nobody knows why
Out of a hundred who start, fewer than half reach the certificate. What exactly happened is anyone's guess: maybe the fourth module turned out to be too heavy, maybe the assignment was worded badly, maybe the group simply lost its pace after the holidays. Without data on every lesson the next cohort will walk into the same trap, and the review will again come after the fact.
The unit economics of a cohort are counted by hand
Traffic in the ad account, payments in the payment system, the completion rate in the curator's spreadsheet, refunds in an email thread with the accountant. To find out whether the launch paid off, the producer spends a week merging exports. The decision about the next cohort is taken at the point when it is already too late to change anything in the current one.
On the left — the tasks schools usually hire an assistant for. On the right — how they are handled inside the account.
Materials are moved over again, accounts are created by hand, the chat is set up from scratch.
You copy the course, change the dates and the plan. The previous cohort stays untouched, together with its whole history of reviews and grades.
The list is in a spreadsheet, the statuses are in someone's head, reminders happen whenever there is time.
Every request sits at its own stage, statuses change in one click, and the sales manager works only with the unpaid ones and sees nothing else.
A duplicate course for the second plan, the extra payment by bank transfer, access granted manually.
One course with a different set of lessons and a different price. The access upgrade is bought right in the student's account, at the moment of peak interest.
Submissions get lost, no history is kept, and nobody sees the quality of the review.
Assignments, grades, comments and attempts are stored with the course. The curator sees only their own group — and you see the curator's work.
Editing a block means a ticket for the contractor, and requests are transferred by hand.
The course page is assembled from blocks, takes registrations and payments right away and needs no separate bill. The demo lesson opens right on the landing page.
The summary takes a week to put together, by which point there is nothing left to fix.
You see how much time the group spends on each lesson, where it stalls and who dropped out. Fixes go in during the cohort, not after it.
The situations people come to us with most often, and how they get sorted out on the platform.
The situation
Before every intake the producer moved the materials over, created accounts, set up a chat and matched payments against a spreadsheet by hand. The completion rate was counted at the end, when there was nothing left to fix.
What we did
We copied the course to a new group and changed the dates. We switched on the Kanban board for unpaid orders. The curators got roles with access only to their own lessons and their own group.
The result
Preparing a cohort came down to copying the course and changing the dates. Follow-up runs in one window. A dip on a lesson is visible in week three, and the program is fixed as the cohort runs.
The situation
The “on your own” package and the “with a curator” package lived as two separate courses. The upgrade was handled by a manager: the extra payment by transfer, access granted by hand, edits in two places for any change to the program.
What we did
We built one course with differentiated plans: a basic set of lessons and an extended one with curator review. The upgrade was moved into the student's account. The curator was tied to their own group.
The result
One course instead of two: the program is edited once. The student pays the difference themselves at the moment they feel they can't cope alone — with no messages back and forth with a manager.
The situation
Students from different countries, but only one payment method was available. Some payments never went through, and the school found out about it only from complaints to support. The money arrived on the previous platform's payout schedule.
What we did
We connected several payment gateways with different currencies and crypto payments. We set up notifications about failed payments in the owner's chatbot.
The result
A student pays the way people in their country normally do. The money lands in the school's account on the day of payment. A failed payment is visible immediately, and the manager writes to the person while they are still at their computer.
Five stages, and at every one of them a school usually loses either money or students.
The next cohort starts as a copy of the course, not as a build from scratch
A school is no longer one person. The platform is built on the assumption that the instructional designer fills the course, the curator reviews the work, the manager sells and the producer looks at the numbers.
15 days of full access: the course, the landing page, the plans, the curator roles and the analytics. Enough to run the whole cycle from the announcement to the first payment.
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