SaaS product • In-house product
Talkcore
We unified school communication —scattered across WhatsApp, email and paper circulars— into a single in-house platform, designed for schools and families to adopt without friction.
- UI/UX Design
- Product strategy
- AI-assisted development
- Client
- In-house product · Kramber Designs
- Industry
- EdTech · School communication
- Year
- 2025
- Our role
- Product, design and development
- Duration
- Ongoing evolution
01
Context
Communication between schools and families is fragmented: overloaded WhatsApp groups, emails no one reads and paper circulars that get lost in the backpack. Coordinators lose hours repeating messages, and families lose critical context about their children. We saw the opportunity to build our own platform that would solve this chaos at the root.
02
The challenge
The challenge wasn't technical but one of adoption: any new tool competes against the convenience of WhatsApp. We needed a platform simple enough for a teacher to send their first announcement in minutes, and powerful enough to manage multiple channels, audiences and read receipts at an institutional scale.
03
Our approach
- 01
Product research and strategy
We mapped the real workflows of coordinators, teachers and families to understand where communication broke down and what would make a new tool worth adopting.
- 02
Designing a frictionless experience
We designed a behavior-centered UX: sending in a few taps, reusable templates and a unified inbox. Every decision aimed to reduce effort compared to the status quo.
- 03
Scalable multichannel architecture
We built the platform to orchestrate multiple channels (app, email, notifications) from a single place, with audience segmentation and read receipts.
- 04
AI-assisted development
We built the platform with AI as an instrument under human direction: a minimal team sustaining five applications in production, with mandatory adversarial review before every merge. The use of AI is formally declared in the software's authorship registration.
- 05
From announcements to retention
A school's underlying problem isn't sending messages: it's keeping families engaged. We built a radar that flags families who stop opening announcements and stop responding to permission slips and forms, so the institution can step in before disengagement turns into a student leaving.
04
The solution
Talkcore is a SaaS platform that centralizes all school communication in one place: multichannel messages, segmentation by class or role, templates, read tracking and a retention radar that flags families who are disengaging. A clear interface for institutions and a calm experience for families.
1 single
platform instead of multiple scattered channels
3 channels
app, email and notifications from a single dashboard
No ramp-up
designed to send the first announcement with no onboarding
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