Espen, AI infrastructure for schools

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See what Espen can do for every stakeholder in your ecosystem.

One platform, configured personally for your principals, teachers, parents, and students. Pick a role to see what they get when they sign in.

Mr. Janse van Rensburg, let's move the needle today

Your school average is down 1.2% this week. Grade 7 Maths is dragging. Ask me where to focus, and I'll prepare the interventions.

Suggested ways I can help

Outcomes-Driven Academic Intelligence

Bring super intelligence into your school.

Four things Espen delivers, every day, inside one platform. Find the students slipping. Generate teacher lesson plans. Personalize every learner's path. Keep parents informed. Click an outcome below to see what gets generated.

Improve academics

Find the students slipping. Save them before the exams.

Finding students at risk is as simple as just asking. Espen scans every learner's marks daily, surfaces the ones drifting, and prepares the intervention plan. Teachers just say go.

AskWho's at risk this week, and what should I do?
At-risk this weekGrade 7 · Maths
DM
Divan Malan
Ratio and Rate
32%
LvW
Lize van Wyk
Ratio and Rate
38%
PB
Pieter Botha
Algebraic Expr.
35%
Intervention plan prepared. Approve to send to teachers.
Espen OS

Your school's AI orchestration system, not another tool.

Take complete control of how AI shows up in your school. No more fragmented use of AI tools, scattered across teachers, students, and parents. With Espen OS you see and control everything from one single place: the models, the knowledge base, the guardrails, the tone, the integrations. Espen is the orchestration layer for your whole school.

AI Configuration
Agentic Interface Configurations
Dashboard-wide configuration for Springfield Secondary School
Test in principal portal
AI Model
Claude Sonnet 4.5↓
Pedagogy
Bloom's Taxonomy↓
Knowledge base
springfield_ss_kb_v3 · 248 docs indexed
System prompt
Academic intelligence assistant for Springfield Secondary School.
This is a secondary school (Grade 8–12). Use Bloom’s Taxonomy when generating lessons, assessments, and feedback.
Focus on actionable insights for the principal: at-risk learners, teacher support priorities, and weekly briefings grounded in the school’s SIS data.
SIS connectedWhatsApp connectedKnowledge base · 124 docsGuardrails · v2.1
Knowledge base

Upload your policies, curriculum, and past papers. Espen grounds every response in your school’s data.

AI model + tone

Choose the model, the language, the persona. Different settings per stakeholder if needed.

Your guardrails

Define what Espen can and can’t answer. Reviewed by your team. Enforced every response.

Audit + adoption

See every conversation, every action, every result. Track adoption across teachers, parents, and students.

Designed for teachers

Espen is designed to empower teachers, not replace them. It tells them exactly where to focus, generates the lesson plans, writes the reports, and gives them back the time to teach.

The Espen design principle
FAQ

Common questions about Espen

Espen is academic intelligence software for schools. One AI platform that gives principals, teachers, parents, and students personalized insights from every system the school already runs, so academic outcomes go up and admin goes down.

Yes. Espen integrates with most major SIS providers used by South African and international schools. Contact us for the current list of supported providers.

Costs are calculated based on individual schools' implementations. Book a demo and we'll scope pricing for your school's size, curriculum, and integration needs.

Yes. Espen supports CAPS, IEB, Cambridge, K12, and US curricula.

One to five days, depending on the school's data readiness and the SIS provider being integrated.

All major languages, including the 11 official South African languages, English, and the languages most commonly used by international schools.

Yes. Espen runs on enterprise-grade infrastructure with role-based access, encryption at rest and in transit, and South African data residency. Student data is never used to train external AI models.

Espen is live in 62 schools, supporting 46,464 learners and 3,541 teachers, and reaching 60,093 parents across South Africa and internationally. We work with leading independent and government schools.

Unlock your school's full potential with academic intelligence.

Don't just adopt another tool. Espen is the intelligence layer that sits across every system you already use, one platform, one click, every stakeholder.

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