Product engineering for EdTech startups and training providers
Ship the product, then add the AI your buyers ask about.
Datics builds MVPs, portals, marketplaces and payments for EdTech startups and training providers, and adds AI modules when you are ready, from the same team.
Built for: Funded EdTech startups, academies, marketplaces and training providers.
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Northstar College · Pathly
DemoStep 1 of 5
Illustrative demo on a fictional institution. Not client work.
Where these products get stuck
- 01
The roadmap is bigger than the team
Investors and first customers expect a working product and an AI story, and the same few engineers own both.
- 02
Most of it is not new
Profiles, search, booking, payments and admin portals are the same every time, and building them from scratch burns runway.
- 03
AI bolted on late
An AI feature added after launch, without evals or cost limits, becomes the support ticket nobody can close.
AI inside your product
The modules that fit this kind of platform.
Each one is a reference build shown on a fictional institution. It runs inside your product, on your data, and ships under your name.
Pathly
AI course and program recommendations
An advising agent that knows your catalog and books the next step.
Fits: Admissions, enrollment, CE and corporate learning catalogs
Rehearsly
AI skills practice and roleplay
Voice roleplay practice with rubric scoring, inside your course.
Fits: Workforce learning, CE, health-professions education, bootcamps
MVPs, portals and payments
MVP and V1 builds for EdTech startups, learner and provider portals, marketplaces, booking and tuition payments by card and ACH for training providers.
Built on marketplaces and payment portals we have delivered.
How it works
One AI feature, working inside your product, in two weeks. $10,000, fixed.
Startups usually start with a fixed-scope build for the product, or with the Sprint when the product exists and the question is which AI feature to ship first.
- 01
EdTech Product Review
30 minutes, free
We look at your product with you and pick the module or capability that protects your next release, what it would cost to serve, and what your customers' security review will ask.
- 02
The Sprint
$10,000, two weeks, fixed
One AI feature working inside your product: running in your staging environment on your catalog, documents or synthetic data, behind a feature flag, delivered as pull requests. You also get quality and safety evals, a cost estimate on two models, a data-flow sheet and a fixed-price quote for production.
- 03
Targeted Unlock, then Capability Waves
Quoted at the end of the Sprint
The first production capability, delivered by pull request into your repo with no standing production access. Then the next module, on the foundation the first one built.
Built for education data
Controls your customers' security reviews ask about.
Each control is a design fact about how the module is built and how we work, not a compliance claim.
- Runs on your catalog, documents or data through the APIs your product already exposes. No rebuild.
- Sprint work uses synthetic or de-identified data and ships as pull requests to your repo. No production student data.
- Every answer that matters shows its source; material actions go to a person for approval.
- Built around FERPA, COPPA, accessibility and institutional requirements.
- Built to ship under your product's name. Model and hosting are your choice.
We build around your FERPA, COPPA, accessibility, security and institutional requirements. Compliance depends on the complete product, contracts, policies and operating environment; Datics does not present software engineering alone as legal certification.
How we handle student dataProduct improvements you can measure
What we agree to measure in the Sprint, so the production decision rests on your numbers, not ours.
Faster V1
Weeks from scope to first paying customer
Fewer rebuilds
Share of the V1 codebase kept at Series A
AI with a cost model
Inference cost per active learner
Proof
What we have built that this rests on.
33 case studies across 17 industries, 19 of them AI products or brownfield AI builds shipped inside software customers already use. Each EdTech module starts from one of those engines, so you are not paying for us to learn.
Learning-agency directory
EdTech · Directory / Marketplace
A vetted, subscription directory that helps education buyers find and compare learning agencies
A members-only directory of vetted education agencies with search, filters, shortlists, moderated comments and Stripe subscriptions, built end to end in six milestones.
Leadership-development practice app
EdTech · Learning App / Mobile & Desktop
A leadership-development practice app taken from the web to iOS, Android and desktop
A daily leadership practice built on seven inner archetypes, taken from a web app to native iOS, Android, Windows, macOS and Linux apps from one codebase.
Adaptive Intake Platform
Healthcare SaaS · Adaptive Intake / Multi-Tenant SaaS
Adaptive intake taken from a one-site prototype to a multi-tenant product
Intake that adapts its questions and writes a structured summary, taken from a single-practice prototype to a multi-tenant SaaS with self-serve onboarding, billing and full isolation.
Dawa
Financial Services · Investment Operations Software
Adding production AI around a regulated investment platform without replacing its .NET core
Production AI and automation added around a regulated .NET investment platform instead of rebuilding the core.
Voice Roleplay Trainer
Insurance Sales Training · Skills Practice / Voice AI
AI voice roleplay that makes skills practice measurable
Agents pick a scenario, a prospect personality and a difficulty, hold a live voice call with an AI prospect, and get a scorecard, transcript and coaching against the firm's own method.
Read next: EdTech startups: ship the product first, then the AI your buyers ask about
Other EdTech platforms we build for
Workforce learning
Corporate LMS, CE and certification providers, bootcamp platforms
Admissions and enrollment
Enrollment CRM, application and student-recruitment platforms
Learning platforms and content
LMS, courseware, curriculum and content platforms
K-12 platforms
K-12 SaaS vendors serving districts, schools, teachers and families
Student records and analytics
SIS, analytics and student-success vendors
See one module on your own product.
Bring one product, workflow or AI initiative. In 30 minutes we pick the module that fits first, what it would cost to serve and what your customers' security review will ask.
Calls run in US Central time. No generic AI presentation: we discuss your product, users and production constraints.