Build EdTech platforms that actually scale with your learners

You’re past the prototype stage. Now you need a learning platform that can handle real learners, across countries, devices, and bandwidth realities — without breaking. EPixelSoft designs and builds scalable, offline-ready EdTech systems for serious teams in Africa and emerging markets.

Build EdTech platforms that actually scale with your learners

Why most EdTech platforms stall after the pilot

You’re not struggling because you don’t have ideas. You’re struggling because your current stack can’t keep up with your ambition.

Scaling exposes weak foundations

Scaling exposes weak foundations

Things worked for 200 learners. At 2,000, dashboards slow down, content fails to load, and support tickets explode.

Your learning experience is scattered

Your learning experience is scattered

One tool for content, another for assessments, another for analytics — and no single source of truth for what’s actually working.

Your users don’t live on perfect Wi-Fi

Your users don’t live on perfect Wi-Fi

Learners are on low-end Android devices, patchy networks, or fully offline for days. Global tools weren’t built for this reality, and your completion rates show it.

Generic dev shops don’t get education

Generic dev shops don’t “get” education

You’ve tried a normal software vendor: you got features delivered, but not learner-centric UX, not pedagogy-aware flows, and not the roadmap thinking you need.

Stakeholder pressure is constant

Stakeholder pressure is constant

Investors, deans, or donors want proof of impact — now. You need better data and a platform that can evolve quickly without another rebuild.

If this feels familiar, you’re not alone. The good news: the problem is solvable with the right product and engineering partner.

A digital engineering partner built for education in emerging markets

We help you design, build, and grow learning platforms that are built for your learners’ reality — not just a glossy demo.

The Diagnostic (Health Check)

For teams needing immediate clarity. We audit your current MVP or Legacy LMS to find the “scale-breakers” before they crash your next semester.

Outcome: A Red/Yellow/Green Technical Risk Report.

The Validation Workshop (The Blueprint)

For teams needing a funded roadmap. A structured 10-day engagement to define your architecture, budget, and rollout plan.

Outcome: A Board-Ready Technical Roadmap & Fixed-Price Build Proposal.

Dedicated Engineering Teams

For platforms ready to scale. We deploy a pod of senior engineers to execute the roadmap we built together.

Outcome: Bi-weekly releases, ISO-standard code, and reliable scale.

Built for fast-growing EdTechs and serious education programs

If your work involves teaching, training, or upskilling at scale, our engineering team is set up to support you.

EdTech Startups & SaaS Platforms

For founders who have found product-market fit and are straining under real growth.

The Challenge: You need to ship new features to keep investors happy, but your initial MVP code is starting to break under the load of new users.

How We Help

  • Refactor for Scale

    We stabilize and re-architect your backend to handle 10x growth without crashing.

  • Retention-Focused UX

    We design mobile and web experiences that keep learners coming back, reducing churn.

  • Seamless Updates

    We set up CI/CD pipelines so you can ship product updates daily without breaking what works.

Universities, TVET & Training Providers

For institutions dealing with legacy systems and learners who expect modern experiences.

The Challenge: Your current student portal looks like it’s from 2010. You need to modernize, but you can’t afford a full “rip-and-replace” of your core database.

How We Help

  • LMS Modernization

    We extend or skin your existing LMS to look and feel like a modern consumer app.

  • Unified Portals

    We build user-friendly dashboards for students and instructors that sit on top of your complex legacy data.

  • Intelligent Add-Ons

    We integrate analytics, assessments, and AI tools directly into your existing ecosystem.

NGO & Foundation Programs

For impact leaders running programs across regions with limited connectivity.

The Challenge: You need to standardize your training and data collection across multiple countries, but standard tools require internet access that your field teams don’t have.

How We Help

  • Offline-First Tools

    We build learning and assessment apps that work fully offline and sync automatically when connectivity returns.

  • Donor Visibility

    We create dashboards that give you and your funders clear, real-time visibility into reach and outcomes.

  • Standardization

    We help you implement one flexible tech stack that works across all your projects, reducing IT fragmentation.

Ready to scale your impact?

Stop Guessing. Start Blueprinting.

The biggest risk in EdTech isn't "can we build it?" - it's "should we build it this way?" Before we write a single line of code, we validate your technical roadmap.

  • The Strategic Audit

    We review your current tech stack or MVP concept. We identify bottlenecks, security risks, and user experience gaps.

  • The Validation Workshop

    For a fixed fee, we work with your team to produce a detailed Technical Blueprint. This gives you a clear budget, timeline, and architecture plan that you can take to your board, donors, or investors.

  • Agile Development

    Once the plan is approved, our senior engineers build your platform in 2-week sprints, giving you full visibility and control.

Education

What’s Inside the Grant & Program Validation Workshop

We keep the workshop structured, practical, and grounded in your real programs – not theory. Over ~10 days, we move through the following building blocks:

LMS & Learning Platforms

LMS & Learning Platforms

Core infrastructure built for scale and complexity.

  • Custom & Extended Architectures: Whether you need a bespoke platform or a powerful extension for Moodle/Canvas, we build systems that fit your pedagogy.
  • Complex Role Hierarchies: Role-based access control (RBAC) designed for the reality of education—seamlessly managing admins, instructors, learners, and external partners.
  • Content & Assessment Management: Full lifecycle handling of courses, cohorts, certifications, and learning paths.
Analytics & Program Dashboards

Analytics & Program Dashboards

Turn your data into funding and decision leverage.

  • Stakeholder Views: Custom dashboards designed for the specific KPIs of university deans, program directors, or NGO donors.
  • Deep Insights: Go beyond "login counts." Track engagement depth, completion rates, and cohort comparisons.
  • Reporting Engines: Data models built to make quarterly reporting easier, not a manual spreadsheet nightmare.
Assessments & Grading Tools

Assessments & Grading Tools

Verify knowledge without the administrative burden.

  • Flexible Testing: Support for complex quizzes, file-upload assignments, and timed structured assessments.
  • Smart Marking: Automated grading logic for scale, paired with intuitive instructor tools for manual review.
  • Progress Visualization: Clear, visual progress bars and module completion views that help learners stay on track.
Mobile Classroom & Microlearning

Mobile Classroom & Microlearning

Reach learners where they are—even on low-end devices.

  • Device Agnostic: Android and PWA (Progressive Web Apps) optimized to perform smoothly on $50 smartphones and older hardware.
  • Engagement Loops: Built-in microlearning flows, streaks, and push notifications to keep completion rates high.
  • Tailored Experiences: Interfaces specifically designed for your audience, whether they are out-of-school youth, workforce trainees, or lifelong learners.
Ecosystem Integrations

Ecosystem Integrations

Your platform shouldn’t live in a silo.

  • Local & Global Payments: Seamless integration with Stripe, PayPal, and crucial local gateways (e.g., M-Pesa, Paystack).
  • Communication Channels: Direct connections to SMS, WhatsApp, and email for alerts and reminders.
  • Identity Management: Enterprise-grade SSO, institutional login, and certification tool integration.
Product Discovery & Roadmap Design

Product Discovery & Roadmap Design

Align strategy before execution.

  • Alignment Workshops: Collaborative sessions to align stakeholders, funders, and teams.
  • Feasibility & Trade-offs: Validate technical, operational, and budget constraints early.
  • Execution-Ready Roadmap: A phased plan linking outcomes, timelines, and investment.
See how these features come together in our Case Studies

What changes when your platform is built right

When your learning platform is engineered for your reality, a few important things happen:

  • You stop firefighting and start planning

    You stop firefighting and start planning

    Instead of reacting to outages and hotfixes, you operate from a clear roadmap with predictable releases.

  • Learners actually complete what they start

    Learners actually complete what they start

    Faster, lighter experiences that work on their devices, in their bandwidth conditions, lead to better engagement and completion.

  • Stakeholders see impact, not just activity

    Stakeholders see impact, not just activity

    Clean dashboards make it easy to show boards, investors, or donors what’s working, where, and for whom.

  • New countries, cohorts, or programs feel possible

    New countries, cohorts, or programs feel possible

    You’re no longer afraid to launch a new region or partner because the platform was built to scale from day one.

  • Your team has a partner, not just a vendor

    Your team has a partner, not just a vendor

    You get engineering leadership that can challenge assumptions, suggest better patterns, and help you make tradeoffs with confidence.

What changes when your platform is built right

Chosen by teams building serious learning experiences

“We needed a platform that could handle thousands of learners across countries, many of them offline. EPixelSoft helped us rethink our architecture, rebuild key modules, and launch with confidence. The difference in stability and visibility has been huge for our team.”

— Program Director

(Skills & Youth Training Initiative)

Client testimonial quote

“They didn’t just ‘build features’. They asked the right questions about our learners, our funding cycles, and our roadmap. We left with a platform and a clear plan for the next 18 months.”

— Co-founder

(EdTech Learning Platform)

Client testimonial quote
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Uwezo
OXFAM
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How we go from idea to live learners

Working with us is structured and transparent. Here’s how a typical engagement flows

Build EdTech platforms that actually scale with your learners
Discovery Call Discovery Call

Discovery Call

We start with a focused conversation about your learners, goals, constraints, and current stack. This is where we understand your context—not sell you a generic solution.

Discovery Call Product Audit or Workshop

Product Audit or Workshop

Next, we run a fixed-scope workshop to map learner journeys and identify technical risks early. You leave with a practical roadmap, whether or not you build with us.

Discovery Call Architecture Blueprint

Architecture Blueprint

Together, we translate requirements into a concrete technical plan. We define user flows, data models, and integrations to create a clear timeline with absolutely no surprises.

Discovery Call Build, Launch & Scale

Build, Launch & Scale

Our engineers build in agile sprints with frequent demos. We support your pilot launch and continue refining the platform based on real-world usage and learner data.

Platforms We Modernize & Scale

Moodle Moodle
Moodle Open edX
Moodle Canvas

Platforms We Modernize & Scale

React Native React Native
Flutter Flutter (Offline-Sync Logic)

Platforms We Modernize & Scale

 Python (Django/Flask) Python (Django/Flask)
Node.jsNode.js

Platforms We Modernize & Scale

AWS AWS
 Microsoft Azure Microsoft Azure

Platforms We Modernize & Scale

Zoom Info Zoom API
 Microsoft Azure BigBlueButton
 Python (Django/Flask) Payment Gateways (M-Pesa, Stripe)

Why EdTech teams choose EPixelSoft

You have plenty of options for software vendors. Here’s what makes us different

Why EdTech teams choose EPixelSoft
  • We understand emerging markets deeply

    We understand emerging markets deeply

    We design for low-bandwidth environments, shared devices, and offline usage — not just ideal lab conditions.

  • We think in terms of product, not just code

    We think in terms of product, not just code

    We care about activation, engagement, and outcomes as much as feature delivery. Roadmaps and tradeoffs are part of every conversation.

  • We stay with you beyond the launch

    We stay with you beyond the launch

    Many vendors disappear after version 1. We’re geared for long-term partnerships, supporting you across cohorts, semesters, and funding cycles.

  • We’re a focused team, not a rotating cast

    We’re a focused team, not a rotating cast

    You work with a stable core team that learns your context and sticks with you, instead of constantly re-explaining your world to new people.

If you’re building something ambitious in education, you deserve a partner who takes it as seriously as you do.

Working with EPixelSoft on EdTech projects

It’s a focused engagement where we review your current platform, UX, architecture, and roadmap. We look at how learners use the system, where performance or usability breaks down, and how well your stack matches your growth plans. You get a written set of findings, risks, and a prioritized action plan — not just a slide deck.

In many cases, we can extend or modernize what you have instead of starting from scratch. That might mean adding custom modules, building a better learner or admin interface, or layering analytics and integrations on top. Part of the audit is deciding whether “improve” or “rebuild” is the smarter move.

It depends on scope, but as a rough guide:
  • Product Audit / Roadmap Workshop: usually 1–3 weeks
  • Focused improvements or a specific module: a few weeks to a couple of months
  • Full platform build: several months with clear phases and milestones
    We’ll always give you a realistic timeline after we understand your requirements.

We work with modern, widely adopted stacks for web and mobile. The exact choices depend on your situation — existing systems, internal skills, and long-term plans. Our priority is to choose technologies that are reliable, maintainable, and appropriate for the environments where your learners actually are.

Africa and emerging markets are a strong focus, especially for programs and platforms serving learners there. We also work with global organizations and EdTech companies headquartered elsewhere, as long as the learner base or programs align with the contexts we understand best.

We’re not the cheapest option, and we’re not trying to be. Our work is suited to organizations that see their learning platform as core infrastructure, not a side project. After an initial conversation, we’ll give you a budget range and options (e.g., phased delivery) that match where you are and what you’re trying to achieve.

Ready to take your learning platform beyond the pilot?

If you’re serious about scaling your learning experience — and you’re tired of patching together tools that were never built for your context - we’d love to talk.

Let’s find the simplest, safest path from where you are now to a platform your learners, partners, and stakeholders can rely on.

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