We build learning management systems for people who sell what they know. Courses, cohorts, certificates, memberships. Built by a team that runs four of its own, not a team that read about one.
Any agency can build you an LMS. Almost none of them have sold a course, chased a failed M-Pesa callback at midnight, or issued four hundred certificates on a Sunday.
We have taught over 5,000 students on platforms we built ourselves. Every mistake that costs a course business money is one we have already paid for, which is why your platform will not repeat it.
Cohorts and recorded courses, sold and delivered to thousands of students.
Micro learning with an instructor marketplace, corporate seats and institutional accounts.
On demand library. Passwordless entry, course player, progress tracking, certificates.
A client build. Quiz driven discounts, custom enrolment logic, live and running.
Most course platforms were built for a card economy. Your buyer has M-Pesa on their phone and no card in their pocket. They want to buy, the checkout says no, and you never find out, because a person who cannot pay does not send an email.
Groups, Drive links, codes shared by hand, certificates typed one at a time. It works at twenty students. At two hundred it is a full time job, and it is your job, which means you have stopped teaching and started doing admin.
On someone else's platform you do not own the list, the data, the pricing rules or the relationship. You pay in dollars, forever, for the privilege. The day their terms change, your business changes with them.
A learning management system built from your business outward, not a template bent to fit. Your brand, your domain, your database, your students.
For anyone running scheduled intakes rather than on demand courses. Enrolment closes itself when a cohort fills.
For a single coach, trainer or educator who has outgrown WhatsApp groups and Drive links but does not need an institution.
For colleges, academies and training institutions with real intakes and multiple instructors.
For companies training staff, partners or a dealer network, where completion has to be proven rather than hoped for.
For course businesses already on Teachable, Kajabi, Thinkific, Moodle or a WordPress plugin stack, who are tired of the dollar fee or the checkout.
If the platform is fine and the checkout is the problem, this is the smallest thing that fixes the biggest leak.
A platform that takes money needs someone watching it. This is not optional and we will not pretend it is.
A learning platform is a different animal from a website and we will not pretend otherwise. Payments, student data and certificates are things that have to be right, not fast.
We map your courses, your money flow and your students. You leave with a written spec, the screens drawn and a fixed quote.
Accounts, course structure, the player, the checkout. M-Pesa goes in first because it is most likely to surprise us.
Certificates, email, coupons, cohorts, admin, reports.
One real sale through it end to end, with real money, before we call it live.
Credited against the build.
Hosting, monitoring, payment checks and support after launch.
Ours start at KES 189,600 for a solo coach and run to KES 789,600 for a multi instructor institution. The honest answer is that it depends on whether you are selling recorded courses, running live cohorts, or building a platform other instructors sell on. The scoping sprint turns that range into one fixed number.
Use them if they fit. They are good products. But they were built for a card economy, they bill you in dollars forever, and the pricing rules that work in Kenya are not the rules they support. If your buyers reach for M-Pesa, you are losing sales you never see.
Usually. Students, courses, purchase history and progress, depending on what your current platform will export. We scope this in week one because it is the thing most likely to surprise both of us.
Yes. Your code, your database, your domain, your student list, handed over on launch. The monthly fee is for running it, not for holding it. If you leave, you leave with everything.
Then we are early and we will say so. The platform is not the hard part. The content and the audience are, and no build fixes an empty course. Start on darasa.my and prove the demand first.
Tell us what you teach and who buys it. We will tell you in the first conversation whether you should build this at all.