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SPARK · OPERATIONS PLATFORM FOR EDUCATION

Ignite what education can be.

The heavy lifting off your MIS and IT teams. Managers, tutors and leaders back on teaching. Plan events, run the front desk, issue digital IDs, tap to check in, and get phenomenal reports in seconds — on top of the Microsoft 365 you already have.

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Ofsted-readyISI dual frameworkOfS B-conditionsKCSIE · DfEGDPR · UK data residencyMicrosoft 365 native
WHY WE BUILT SPARK

Education deserves software that feels like the best tools of our time.

Teachers and leaders have spent a generation wrestling software from the 1990s at 2020s prices — paying professional-services invoices for work an AI can do in thirty seconds, waiting six months for a report that's already out of date, and tying their teams to contracts that shouldn't have been signed. Spark is our answer. Modern, fast, a breeze to use. Built on the tools you already have. We called it Spark because we think software should ignite creativity — in students, in staff, in leaders — not steal their time.

— The Spark team · London
THE COST OF WAITING

A report that takes six months. Or a thirty-second chat.

The legacy tax

What most colleges pay for today

  • Reports scoped over months, delivered when the moment has passed.
  • Thousands in professional services for simple changes.
  • Multi-year lock-in, glacial release cycles, no way out.
  • Password reset tickets. Shadow accounts. Leavers who still have access.
  • MIS and IT teams drowning in tickets they shouldn't be fielding.
What Spark does instead

Modern operations, in seconds

  • Ask a question in plain English. Get a cited, live report in thirty seconds.
  • No change-request invoices. Configuration is a conversation.
  • Monthly and annual plans. No multi-year lock-in. Export everything.
  • Zero new passwords. Zero reset tickets. Leavers deprovisioned with the tenant.
  • Managers self-serve. Your MIS team gets its week back.

Spark replaces the thing you've been quoted £12,000 and six months for with a thirty-second chat. That's not a feature — that's the whole point.

ONE PLATFORM · SEVEN SURFACES

A single closed loop. From the front gate to the Ofsted folder.

Each surface stands alone. Together they retire a dozen spreadsheets, paper sign-in books, group inboxes, and the middleware that used to glue them all.

EVENTS

Plan any event in minutes

Careers talks, open evenings, enrichment, parents' evenings — 72 UK-education templates pre-wired to attendance, comms and registers.

Explore Events →DIGITAL IDS

The ID on the phone they already carry

Apple Wallet and Google Wallet passes. Rotating, fraud-resistant, and the key to tap-to-check-in everywhere.

Explore Digital IDs →SCANNER

Tap. Done in half a second.

Wallet NFC tap, with QR fallback on Wallet, printed card, or email. Offline-capable. Sub-500ms. Never locked out.

Explore Scanner →Launch 2026VISITOR ENTRY

The front desk, multi-site, closed loop

Pre-registration, DBS checks, badge printing, host notifications, live on-site roster, and one-tap emergency evacuation — tied to the same events and scanner.

Explore Visitor Entry →COMMUNICATIONS

Every parent, on the right channel

Email through your Microsoft 365 tenant. UK SMS via GOV.UK Notify. Voice via 3CX. Your infrastructure, Spark's orchestration.

Explore Communications →SPARK AI

Your data, in plain English

Ask a question, get a cited answer in thirty seconds. Claude by default; ChatGPT available. Every answer auditable.

Explore Spark AI →COMPLIANCE

Inspector-ready, every week

Ofsted · ISI · OfS · DfE/KCSIE · GDPR — each with a live, pre-built evidence pack. Hand it over in the meeting.

Explore Compliance →
VISITOR ENTRY · IN DEVELOPMENT · LAUNCHING 2026

A proper front desk. Multi-campus, multi-building, closed-loop.

Spark Visitor Entry brings every arrival — parents, contractors, speakers, inspectors, social workers — into the same system that runs your events, registers, and comms. No separate lobby app. No paper book. No blind spots at 8:47 on a Tuesday.

Pre-registration & event invitesVisitor gets an email with a QR code. Scan on arrival, badge prints.
DBS checks & SCR linkExpired DBS blocks sign-in. Statutory-ready.
Photo ID badge printingPhoto, name, host, escort level. Printed in four seconds.
Host notificationsTeams, email, SMS — the host knows the moment a visitor signs in.
Live "who's on site"Across every campus and building, in real time, on any device.
One-tap emergency rosterPulled up on a phone from the assembly point. Includes visitors and contractors.
Watchlist & safeguarding flagsBanned individuals blocked; safeguarding lead notified on match.
Late pupil sign-inLate mark flows straight to your MIS. Parent notified automatically.
Staff tap-in with WalletSame pass. Same scanner. Same closed loop.
Central multi-site dashboardMATs and colleges group every reception under one pane of glass.
Available at launch · included with Spark

Live on-site rosterSpark Sixth Form · 3 campuses · 8 buildings

North CampusReception · Hall · Library · Block C
412 people
Students 318Staff 67Visitors 27
West AnnexeReception · Sports · Sixth form centre
289 people
Students 198Staff 79Visitors 12
Craft CentreReception · Workshops
146 people
Students 26Staff 92Visitors 2Contractors 26
Live · last update 3 seconds ago
INTEGRATIONS · ON YOUR TERMS

Spark orchestrates the systems you already own.

You keep control of the underlying services, the spend, and the audit trail. Spark is the conductor, not the utility.

EMAIL★ Microsoft 365 native

Microsoft Graph

Sends from your own tenant, your own domain. SPF/DKIM/DMARC already aligned.

  • Works with your existing Microsoft 365 subscription
  • Arrives in inboxes, logged in Sent Items
  • Replies go to the sender, not a support inbox
SMS · UKGOV.UK

GOV.UK Notify

Your own Notify account, set up directly with GDS. Free for public sector.

  • Your credit, your sender ID, your control
  • Trusted infrastructure, built for UK public services
  • No Spark markup — ever
SMS · INTERNATIONAL★ Partner-ready

Twilio, MessageBird, Vonage

Bring your own SMS provider. We partner closely with Twilio and support the others.

  • Your account, your spend caps, your numbers
  • Sender reputation stays with you, not a shared pool
  • Twilio recommended; rolling out as Spark expands internationally
VOICEBYO or add-on

3CX

Use your own 3CX if you have it. If not, available as a dedicated Spark add-on — not a shared pool.

  • Automated-calling workflows, consent & opt-out built in
  • Add-on is a dedicated instance — your numbers, your spend line
  • Pricing on request; transparent pass-through
IDENTITY★ Microsoft Entra

Single sign-on

Your Microsoft 365 tenant is the source of truth. Sign in once, you're in.

  • Entra SSO, conditional access, MFA inherited
  • Leavers deprovisioned automatically with your tenant
  • Parents and guests use signed magic links instead
WALLETSApple · Google

Apple & Google Wallet

Every student and staff member gets a passcard that works at the door with a tap.

  • NFC tap at the Spark scanner — sub-500ms
  • Rotating QR fallback; printed card fallback; email QR fallback
  • Issued, rotated and revoked in bulk — no card printer needed

The principle: Spark never sits between you and the underlying utility. Your email runs through your Microsoft tenant, your UK SMS runs through GOV.UK Notify, your voice runs through your own PBX. Leave Spark and your infrastructure stays exactly where it is. No lock-in on the things that matter.

BUILT FOR UK EDUCATION · BUILT TO TRAVEL

UK first, because that's where we know the ground deepest.

Ofsted, DfE, KCSIE, 16–19 funding, T-Levels, ISI, OfS — we've built Spark inside these frameworks, not around them. The same approach ships next to English-speaking markets, then to progressive parts of Europe.

Available now · 2026United KingdomOfsted · ISI · OfS · DfE · KCSIE · Visitor Entry
NextIreland, Australia, New ZealandEnglish-speaking markets · partner-led
2026 / 2027United States & CanadaState & provincial frameworks · Twilio-native SMS
2027+Progressive European marketsNordics, Netherlands, Ireland-adjacent

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