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EdTech

EdTech Platforms Students And Teachers Actually Use

LMS, assessment, and live-class platforms designed around real classroom realities — shaky networks, distracted teens, and over-worked teachers.

★ 12+ years building for production · Senior engineers only · Domain-literate teams · Manoj Pillai signs off every plan
500+
Projects Delivered
12+
Years In Business
50+
Industry Clients
99%
On-Time Delivery

Why Most Edtech
Projects Quietly Fail

Most edtech software doesn\'t fail because the tech is hard. It fails because nobody spent enough time with the people who\'ll actually use it, or took the regulations and integrations seriously early. We start there.

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Breaks on bad networks

Video buffers, quizzes lose answers, student gives up. No offline mode, no retries.

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Boring course UX

Uploaded PDFs labeled "interactive". Engagement craters in week 2.

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Teachers drowning in tooling

Five tools for attendance, homework, grading, and comms. Nothing syncs.

What You Actually Get

No vague deliverables. Here's exactly what lands in your hands.

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Roadmap & Plan

A written plan with milestones, owners, and risks — not slides.

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Architecture / Design

Documented architecture, schemas, and design decisions you can defend to auditors.

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Production Code

Reviewed, tested, deployed code in your repo — not "delivered" via zip.

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Runbooks & Handover

How to run it, debug it, restore it. Your team owns it from day one.

Why Edtech Teams Choose Us

Specifics, not adjectives. Here's what makes this engagement different from the generic agency you tried last time.

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Domain-literate

We read your regulations, walk your floors, and interview your users before designing.

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Senior engineers only

No juniors hidden behind a charming PM. The person on the call is the person doing the work.

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Written plan first

Every engagement starts with a documented plan you sign off on. No surprise pivots.

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Compliance-aware

Audit logs, access controls, and data residency designed in — not bolted on before the audit.

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Real-time visibility

Live dashboard with tasks, logs, and decisions. You're never out of the loop.

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After-launch support

30-day stabilization included. We don't vanish at handover.

Zero-Blindspot Delivery

You See Everything. In Real Time.

Every Pillai Infotech project comes with a dedicated client dashboard. Kanban boards, live logs, test results, meeting notes — it's all visible the moment it happens. No status-report theatre, no "we'll get back to you", no surprises at the demo. You work with us like you work with your own team.

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Kanban Board, Live

Every epic, every story, every task — visible on your dashboard. Drag, comment, reprioritize. It's the same board our team works from.

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Documented Everything

Every decision, spec, API contract, and architecture diagram lives in the dashboard. Searchable, versioned, linked to the tasks they shaped.

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Live Logs & Test Results

Build logs, deployment logs, test suite results — streamed to your dashboard the moment they run. You never have to ask "did the build pass?"

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Meetings → Tasks, Automatically

Every meeting is recorded, transcribed, and every action point is auto-converted into a tracked task assigned to the right person. Nothing gets lost between calls.

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Sprint Burndown & Velocity

See exactly how much work is done, how much remains, and our velocity over time. If a sprint is slipping, you see it the same moment we do.

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Comment, Approve, Decide — In-Place

Comment on any task, approve designs, sign off on specs, and raise blockers directly in the dashboard. Everything tied to the work, not buried in email threads.

What We Build For Edtech

The most common shapes our edtech engagements take. Yours is probably similar — and if it isn't, we'll tell you.

📚 LMS Platforms

Courses, lessons, assignments, grading, and reports for schools and academies.

🎥 Live Class Platforms

Low-latency video with whiteboard, polls, breakout rooms, and attendance.

📝 Assessment & Proctoring

Question banks, adaptive tests, and AI-assisted remote proctoring.

📱 Student Mobile Apps

Low-bandwidth, offline-first learning apps for Tier 2/3 markets.

🏫 School ERP

Admissions, fees, timetables, and parent communication in one stack.

🤖 AI Tutors & Grading

LLM-backed doubt solvers, essay feedback, and auto-grading with guardrails.

Tools We Reach For

We pick stacks based on what your team can run and what your regulators will accept, not on what's trending on Hacker News.

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Backend

PHP Node.js Python Go
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Frontend

React Vue Next.js Tailwind
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Cloud

AWS GCP Azure On-Prem
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Data

Postgres MySQL Redis Elasticsearch

How We Run The Work

Six steps. Documented at each step. You see what's happening at every stage — no black boxes.

01

Discover

Goals, users, regulators, integrations. We ask the questions your last vendor didn't.

02

Design

Architecture, schemas, and UX decided on paper — and signed off — before code.

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Build

Sprints with daily progress on the dashboard. No silent weeks.

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Test

Unit, integration, and user testing — caught here, not in production.

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Launch

Staged rollouts with rollback paths. Nothing big-bang.

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Evolve

Stabilization, metrics, and a handover plan your team can run.

How We Engage

Three engagement models, picked by what fits the work — not what fits our sales quota.

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Fixed Scope

Defined deliverables, defined budget, milestone payments.

  • Best for tightly-defined projects
  • Written scope and SoW
  • Milestone-based payments
  • 30-day post-launch warranty
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Dedicated Team

A senior team embedded in your sprints. Scales up and down as you need.

  • Best for evolving products
  • Dedicated engineers + PM
  • Monthly billing, sprint cadence
  • Scale team size on 30-day notice
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Staff Augmentation

Senior engineers integrated directly into your existing team and workflow.

  • Best for in-house teams that need depth
  • Engineers in your standups
  • Reports to your tech leads
  • Hourly or monthly rates
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Questions You Should Ask

The questions every smart buyer asks before signing. Here's what we tell them.

Can you build for low-bandwidth / offline?

Yes. We design offline-first for Tier 2/3 markets — local storage, background sync, and optimistic UI so students don't lose work on a bad connection.

Do you handle live video at scale?

Yes. WebRTC, LiveKit, 100ms, Agora, Zoom SDK — we pick based on cost, latency, and recording needs, and we've run classes with thousands of concurrent students.

How do you protect minors' data?

COPPA / DPDP-aware design, parental consent flows, minimized data collection, and strict access controls on anything involving under-18 users.

Can you integrate with Google Classroom / Microsoft Teams?

Yes, and with existing school ERPs and SSO providers. We've done LTI, OAuth, and custom integrations.

Can you build proctored exams?

Yes — browser lockdown, face/gaze monitoring, multi-device detection, and human reviewer workflows. We're realistic about false positives and design accordingly.

Do you build AI tutors?

Yes — with guardrails. We evaluate outputs, cap token spend, and design for "I don't know" instead of hallucination.

Who owns the content and student data?

You do. Data stays in your cloud account in your chosen region.

How long does a typical edtech build take?

8–20 weeks depending on whether you need live classes, adaptive tests, and mobile apps.

Let's Build For Edtech — Properly

30-minute scoping call. We listen, ask hard questions about your edtech operations, and tell you honestly whether we\'re the right team for the job. No pitch, no slides.

Not ready for a call? Chat with our AI Engineer first — it'll help you understand how your project can be executed, which engagement model fits best, and what a realistic scope and timeline look like. Trained on 200+ Pillai Infotech builds.