Live Today board
Break, lunch, duty cover and lesson cover on one board, confirmed without rewriting the spreadsheet.
Education · Operations · Live product
From a fragile spreadsheet to a live rota board, with AI that always asks first.
A live product we build and run: support-staff rota software for schools. Staff plan duty and lesson cover on a live board. The system publishes to staff and produces a PDF the same morning.
The challenge
What needed solving.
When someone calls in sick before school starts, the rota person needs a board. That board must already know the duties, the teaching clashes and who can cover. Most schools do this in a spreadsheet only one person understands.
AI can help draft cover. A wrong change to a school rota has real consequences. A person must approve every change before the system applies it.
What we built
The product, piece by piece.
Clash-aware cover
Imported teaching timetables stop cover being assigned into a lesson. The system suggests support staff first.
One-click publishing
Confirmation updates the staff portal and calendars, with a PDF or Word rota the same morning.
AI assistant with previews
Chat can record absences and draft cover. The system previews every change. A person approves it before it touches the board.
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What it taught us
Lessons we bring to client work.
AI should propose, people should approve
Preview-first AI made the assistant trustworthy enough to switch on.
One owner, many viewers
Designing around the single rota owner kept the product simple for everyone else.
More work
Education · SENDLive product
We replaced paper logs with a record schools can rely on.
A live product we build and run: SEMH provision software that schools use every day. Pupils check in without a password, staff log a session in under twenty seconds, and the SENCO keeps a proper record.
How we built it inclusionloop.com
Enterprise · AzureEarly access
Enterprise Azure tooling that gives people access, not the keys to Azure.
A product we build and operate: a hosted console for Azure Virtual Desktop. Help desk and business teams manage sessions on the host pools they own, with scoped roles and a full audit trail.
How we built it avdcontrol.com
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