Leaders find out how teaching is going a term late
An observation cycle, a spreadsheet and a conversation that feels like a judgement. Too little, too late, and teachers feel it is done to them.
Ready-made and custom platforms for schools, built by a school leader
Whatever your workflow, we can build the platform that runs it.
If a job in your school is repetitive, rule-based or stuck in a spreadsheet, it can now be automated. We use AI-assisted development to build custom platforms around the way your school already works, in days.
Use one of our ready-made platforms, or have one built around your process.
Workflows we can automate
- Teacher performance & growth
- Duty rotas
- Assessment calendars
- Event ticketing
- Lesson observations
- Exam analysis
- Cover
- Parents' evenings
- Trips & consent
- Report cycles
- Room bookings
- + Your workflow
New
Made in schools, for schools.
- Primary
- Secondary
- International
- All-through
- Multi-school groups
The problem
Every school has a process that eats someone's week.
The details differ from school to school, but the pattern is the same: urgent, repetitive work that's easy to get wrong and usually lands on your most experienced people. Here are a few we've already solved.
Nobody is sure who's on duty where
The rota lives in a spreadsheet, swaps happen by email, and no one can say who actually turned up.
Five assessments land in one week
Departments plan in isolation, so students hit a wall of deadlines nobody saw coming.
Graduation tickets run on a spreadsheet
Families email for extra seats, tables are planned by hand, and on the night nobody knows how many people are in the hall.
What we've built
Built for real school problems. Yours could be next.
Every platform below is ready to use and can be built around your school's framework, departments and terminology. Every contract starts with a three-month free trial.
New · Flagship
GrowEd
Teacher performance and growth in one place. Heads of department keep a simple, regular record; senior leaders see every department at once; and teachers get a growth space that is theirs, not a process done to them.
- A colour-coded record for each teacher: class visits, drop-ins, book samples, planning, whatever your school checks
- Senior leaders see every department as the term goes on and click any red box to see which teachers, and why
- Teachers never see the tracking: they choose a focus from your technique library, set a goal in their own words and add evidence
- A GROW coaching script for every growth conversation, built from the questions the leader chose
- Works with your framework, your departments and your words for things
ScreenshotWhole-school overview
What school staff say
“Having an overview of how the school is performing has been invaluable from a leader's perspective.”
Requested by schools · Already built
Duty Manager
Teachers book their own duties within a fair quota, swap with colleagues in a tap and mark themselves present on the day. Leaders see exactly who was where, without a spreadsheet or an email chain.
- Teachers self-book duty slots within their quota while booking is open
- Duty swaps between colleagues, accepted in one tap
- Admins assign locations and zones, then publish the schedule
- Teachers mark themselves present; monitors confirm live as they walk the building
- Attendance records showing who confirmed each duty, and when
ScreenshotDuty Manager dashboard
What school staff say
“An absolute time saver and a no brainer. What took days and weeks now takes no time at all.”
Teaching quality · Already built
Lesson Observations
Grade lessons live against your school's own framework, on a phone or tablet, while the lesson happens. Then run the feedback meeting and produce the report without retyping a thing.
- Tap evidence as you see it, and a grade is suggested for you
- Your school's grading rules built in, so overall grades are consistent
- Keeps working when the school wifi drops mid-lesson
- Previous next steps shown at the start of every observation
- Department and year-group overviews for leaders
ScreenshotLive grading screen
Assessment · Already built
Exams & Assessment Calendar
One calendar for every in-class assessment and mock exam in the school. It checks each booking against your assessment policy before it's made, so students are never hit with too many in one day.
- Warns before any student would sit more than your daily limit
- Understands option blocks, so it knows which students actually overlap
- Heads of department book their own slots; the exams office approves exceptions with a recorded reason
- Plans mock exam series and suggests invigilators from teachers whose lessons are freed up
- Imports your timetable to flag lessons an exam would displace
ScreenshotAssessment calendar
Data & feedback · Already built
Exam Analyser
Students scan a QR code and enter their own marks, question by question. Teachers get an instant analysis of where the class lost marks and what to teach next, without typing in a single score.
- Printable QR entry slips for every student, grouped by class
- Shows which skills the class is weakest on, from knowledge to evaluation
- Spots common patterns, like "argues but does not judge", across the class
- A "what to teach next" plan for every extended question
- Personal feedback for each student and a colour-coded Excel export
ScreenshotCohort analysis
Events · Already built
Event Ticketing & Door Check-in
Run ticketed school events like graduations and performances from one place. Families book their own seats online, staff scan QR tickets at the door, and leaders watch the room fill up live.
- Ticket rounds with a per-student limit, so every family gets a fair first chance
- A QR ticket for every guest, and a booking reference for buying more later
- Door scanning on any phone, with re-entry and duplicate-ticket checks
- Live capacity, entry log and a count of who is inside right now
- Seating by table that keeps groups together, and doors that lock when the ceremony starts
ScreenshotLive event dashboard
Leadership · Already built
Leadership Development
Grow your middle leaders on purpose. Each leader rates themselves against a clear rubric, works on next steps matched to their level and reflects on what changed. Your CPD lead sees where every leader is growing.
- A clear rubric for each area of leadership, from Emerging to Transforming, with examples of evidence at each level
- Leaders rate themselves and note the evidence behind each rating
- Next steps matched to each leader's level, so the work is the right size
- Try it, then reflect on what changed, all in one record
- Each leader's growth across the cycle, and a whole-team view for the CPD lead
45 seconds: a middle leader's view, and the CPD lead's. Music, with on-screen text and captions.
ScreenshotLeadership rubric
What school staff say
“It's easy to engage with, and it makes it clear what I need to work on to improve my leadership.”
More platforms we have built
We have also built tools for teacher feedback, options meetings, timetable queries and staff handbooks. Ask us about them.
Your workflow
Describe your workflow
Don't see your problem here? That's the point.
These are examples, not a menu. Describe the process that's slowing your team down and we'll show you what a platform for it could look like.
How it works
From idea to a first working version in days, refined with your team over the following weeks.
Step 1
Tell us the workflow
A short call to walk through how the job is done today, who's involved and where it goes wrong.
Step 2
We build it with you
We build a working version within days, then refine it with your team until it fits the way your school runs.
Step 3
It runs, you get time back
Staff use it from day one. We support it and keep improving it as your school's needs change.
About
Built by someone who has stood on the duty gate.
I have spent 26 years teaching, most recently as a senior school leader in international schools in the UAE. Every platform here started the same way: as a fix for a real problem in a busy school.
My work has always centred on teaching and learning, staff development, assessment, and the duty and operations that keep a school running. I build tools for the people doing that work, because I have been one of them. When you work with Serenus, you work directly with me.
Founder, Serenus Education. Senior school leader, 26 years in education.
Serenus Education grew out of years of working in busy schools. I built tools to fix the problems I kept seeing, and colleagues started asking for them. Now I build platforms for any school with a workflow worth automating.
Every platform is designed around how schools actually work, from timetables and cover to the realities of a busy school day. Nothing is built for "any business" and then made to fit.
Educator-ledDesigned from real school experience
Built to orderShaped around your process, not a template
Hands-onYou work directly with the founder
Data & trust
Built with your school's responsibilities in mind.
Schools hold sensitive information. We take that seriously from the first conversation.
How we handle data
Your data is stored with Supabase and Vercel, both established cloud providers. It's encrypted in transit and at rest, access is controlled for each user, and it's backed up daily. We're currently piloting with schools. Before any school shares student data, we'll agree a data processing agreement and confirm where the data is hosted. Use the request-a-call form to ask about data protection.
Why now
Custom software used to be out of reach for schools.
It meant big budgets and long timelines, so schools made do with generic products and spreadsheets. AI-assisted development has changed that. A platform built around your exact process can now be ready in days, at a fraction of the traditional cost.
Individual schoolsSchool groupsDepartmentsLeadership teams
Founding schools
Become a founding school and get preferential pricing.
A limited number of early partner schools get founding rates and a direct say in how their platforms develop.
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Tell us the workflow you'd love to automate.
Book a free 20-minute call. Describe the process, and we'll tell you honestly whether it can be automated and what that would look like.