Learning-agency directory
EdTech · Directory / Marketplace
A vetted, subscription directory that helps education buyers find and compare learning agencies
An education-services company wanted a trusted place for education buyers to find learning agencies. Datics designed and built a members-only directory of vetted agencies with search and filters, shortlists, moderated discussion, admin tools and Stripe subscriptions, from scope to launch in six milestones.
- Status
- Delivered and live
- Engagement
- April to May 2025, six milestones; follow-up changes September 2025
Directory / Marketplace
Moderate
Where moderators and admins review comments, flags and listings.
- Vetted listings and search
- Shortlists
- Moderated community
- Membership and admin
Members, moderators and admins with server-side role-based access, rate limiting and reCAPTCHA.
The starting point
Buyers looking for curriculum developers, e-learning studios and training providers relied on unvetted directories, outdated contact lists and word of mouth.
What had to change
There was no quality control and no useful way to filter and compare agencies within education offerings, so shortlisting took too long and carried risk.
What couldn't break
Only vetted agencies could appear, every profile had to follow the same structure, member discussion had to stay moderated, and the directory had to resist scraping.
Why this was hard
A paid, moderated directory needs membership billing, role-based moderation, clean bulk data and anti-abuse controls all working together on day one.
What Datics changed
Datics built the full product: member sign-up with email verification and Stripe subscriptions or coupon codes; listings with search, multi-select filters and pagination; favourites with private notes; comments with a moderation queue and flagging; bulk agency upload with duplicate detection; public announcements; a feature-request form; an admin dashboard with metrics; and email notifications for renewals, comments, flags and billing events.
Scoped, designed and delivered in six weekly milestones from April to May 2025, with a regression cycle before launch and a round of client-requested changes in September 2025.
Vetted listings and search
Structured agency profiles with multi-select filters and location search.
Shortlists
Favourites with private notes for comparing agencies.
Moderated community
Comments, flags and a moderation queue for moderators and admins.
Membership and admin
Stripe subscriptions, coupons, bulk upload with duplicate detection and admin metrics.
How it works
Connects to: Stripe checkout, billing portal and webhooks; transactional email.
- 1
Discover
Where members search, filter and shortlist agencies.
- 2
Moderate
Where moderators and admins review comments, flags and listings.
- 3
Administer
Where admins manage agencies, members, subscriptions and announcements.
Runs within: Members, moderators and admins with server-side role-based access, rate limiting and reCAPTCHA.
Engagement at a glance
Education buyers compare vetted agencies on consistent profiles in one moderated, members-only directory instead of scattered, unvetted listings.
- Delivery
- Six milestones, about 590 hours, scope to launch
- Team
- Six people: PM, BA, DevOps, two developers, UI/UX
- Status
- Live, with a second phase proposed
Under the hood
- Datics role
- Product management, business analysis, UI/UX, front-end and back-end engineering, DevOps and QA.
- Integrations
- Stripe checkout, billing portal and webhooks; transactional email.
- Deployment
- AWS (EC2, RDS, S3) with SSL, CI/CD and disaster recovery for compute and database.
- Production boundary
- Members, moderators and admins with server-side role-based access, rate limiting and reCAPTCHA.
Technology
What this unlocked
A second phase has been proposed: AI comment moderation with confidence scores and reason codes, AI research summaries for each agency, contributor points and badges, a resource hub, flexible Stripe plans and CRM export.
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