Versus a custom build
Building your own app: the quote is the first surprise, year two is the second.
Every established centre has thought about it. A developer, an app with the centre's name, the material loaded in. The build quote is one thing. The marking engine, the explanation that only uses your material, the parent report, the security, the hosting, and the second year of changes are the things that don't appear on the quote.
A custom build
Fully yours, fully your problem. A developer or agency builds an app to your spec. You own the code and the bugs and the roadmap.
Your platform, our engine
Branded and isolated as if it were yours, running on an engine that's already built. You own your material and your data. We own the bugs.
| Building your own app | StudyPro | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to first student | Months, often a year | About two weeks for a pilot class |
| Converting your material into questions | Someone types them in | Upload the PDF |
| Marking engine | Build it, including equivalent forms | Included |
| Explanation from your material only | Hard to build well, easy to build badly | Included, cited to the page |
| Parent report | Build it | Included |
| Hosting, security, backups | Yours to arrange and pay for | Included, isolated per centre, in Australia |
| Year two | Every change is a new invoice | Included in the monthly |
| Ownership of material and data | Yours | Yours. You keep your originals, we hold copies and delete them when you leave |
Use Building your own app when
- You have a genuinely unique product that no platform could express
- You have a technical co-founder and a budget for years
Use StudyPro when
- You want the outcome, not the project
- You want it running this term
- You'd rather spend the money on tutors
A custom build makes sense for a network with a technical team and a multi-year budget. For an owner-operator, the platform gives most of the same ownership feeling, with the engine already built and someone else carrying the second year.
Questions
What owners ask about this one.
If I use your platform, is it really mine?
Your brand, your web address, your own isolated space, your material, your data. The engine underneath is ours, which is why it works on day one.
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Next step
See it with your own worksheets.
Twenty minutes on a screen share. Send a worksheet beforehand and you'll be looking at your own material, not a demo.