Prototypes & build

Functioning prototypes that show what is possible.

Our approach

The challenge

Many national education programmes commit to monitoring, dashboards or integrated systems but discover during procurement that off-the-shelf products do not fit and that bespoke vendor builds are slow, expensive and hard to maintain — long before anyone has been able to test whether the underlying idea actually works.

Our contribution

We design and build functioning prototypes that show what is possible — dashboards, monitoring platforms and integrations with device management, network and learning systems. Built in modern, maintainable stacks, they let ministries, donors and partners see, test and refine an idea before committing to full-scale procurement.

The outcome

A working artefact that de-risks the next investment decision — by showing what the system would do, what it would cost, and what it would take to maintain.

Related work

Prototypes & build: selected engagements.

2024 – ongoing
United Nations Children's Fund
Uzbekistan

A functioning prototype for national school IT monitoring

Designed and built a functioning prototype monitoring platform integrating Microsoft Intune, UniFi cloud and device management telemetry. Covers 50 schools and approximately 3,500 devices; cloud-deployed, documented and handed over to the country office.

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