Espen, AI infrastructure for schools

Unlockyourschool'sfullacademicpotential.

Academicintelligenceateveryleveloftheschool.Heliosforschoolleadership.Sofiaforteaching.Irisforthehome.Asterforthelearner.

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Our software powers real-time, AI-driven decisions in the critical areas of academic performance, from the school average to the topic holding each learner back, from the classroom to the home.

Our Software

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For principals

The command centre for school leadership. Every learner, every class, every pattern, already triaged, with the evidence attached.

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Helios
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For teachers

Catch every learner before they fall behind, then build the lesson, the assessment, and the report that close the gap.

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Sofia
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For parents

The school's week, translated for the home. What to do tonight, in your own language.

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Iris
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For students

Know exactly what to study next. A tutor grounded in your real marks and your syllabus.

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Aster
Live demo

See what each platform does.

Pick a platform to see what its user gets the moment 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

One source of truth

See the data. Get told what it means. Act, in one step.

01SEE

Espen syncs your marks, attendance and syllabus nightly. No data work, nothing to rip out.

02TELL

It computes what matters. Who's slipping, which topic moves the grade most. And it explains it in plain language.

03DO

Then it acts: briefings, lessons, parent messages, study plans. All prepared and ready to send.

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.

What we believe
We are here to enhance, not replace.

We don't try to disintermediate teachers, principals, or parents from the learning process. We are here to enhance it.

Academic intelligence is no longer optional.

Academic intelligence is no longer a nice-to-have product feature. It is fundamental, because it shapes how kids are prepared for the future.

FAQ

Common questions about Espen

Espen is academic intelligence software for schools. One platform with four interfaces: Helios for principals, Sofia for teachers, Iris for parents, and Aster for students. Espen doesn't just read your live school data. It aligns your entire school onto one agentic AI platform, where the school has complete control, oversight, and guardrails over how AI is implemented. Everyone works off the same context: when a lesson plan is generated, the school can see what it was generated for and which class it links to; when a struggling learner practises, they practise the exact topics they are behind on. One source of truth, from the school average down to the topic behind each mark.

No. You can start with just Helios for school leadership. Helios is the foundation: it sees the whole school, the live data, the at-risk learners, the patterns. Sofia, Iris, and Aster build on top of Helios and can be added when your school is ready. Helios first, the others as you choose.

Yes. Espen sits on top of the SIS providers used by South African and international schools, so nothing gets ripped out. Book a demo and we will confirm your specific provider.

Yes. CAPS, IEB, Cambridge, K12, and US curricula. The intelligence layer ties to the actual topics in your syllabus, not a generic model of school.

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

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

Pricing is scoped per school. Book a demo and we will scope it for your school's size, the platforms you want to start with, and the integrations you need.

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

Bring Espen to your school.

Book a 30-minute demo. We'll run all four platforms on real data from a school like yours.