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Notes from building institutional software

Practical writing on digitising school operations, choosing systems that last, and the unglamorous parts of shipping software.

School operations3 min read

How to digitise school fee collection without losing a term to it

A practical sequence for moving fee collection off spreadsheets — what to change first, what to leave alone, and the reconciliation step almost everyone skips.

Buying software2 min read

Twelve questions to ask before you buy a school ERP

The demo will always look good. These are the questions that tell you what the system is actually like to live with in year two.

Engineering2 min read

Building for two bars of signal

Why offline-first is not a premium feature in Pakistan and the Gulf, and the three patterns we use to make software survive a bad connection.

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