# School Sphere

> The operating system for private and independent schools by Orange Cloud Technologies. Malawi-first, SADC-strong, globally ready. School Sphere replaces WhatsApp admissions threads, fee spreadsheets, and report scrambles with one calm workspace — admissions, academics, fees (MWK by default), family portal, payroll pulse, AI curriculum tools, exam bank (similar practice from past papers — not AI marking, not verbatim copies), referral-agent enrollment, Revenue Authority TPIN and PAYE, independent-schools association membership, and teachers-council practising licences.

Company: Orange Cloud Technologies
Product: School Sphere
Website: https://school-sphere-nine.vercel.app
Contact: hello@schoolsphere.app
Tagline: Stop managing paperwork. Start leading your school.
Primary market: Malawi (Lilongwe, Blantyre, Mzuzu, Zomba · currency MWK · MANEB)
Regional markets (SADC): Zambia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Angola, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar, DRC, Comoros
Global: private and independent schools worldwide that still run ops on WhatsApp and spreadsheets

## Brand narrative

- Villain: WhatsApp threads, fee spreadsheets, late paper reports, invisible payroll, off-platform tax and licence paperwork.
- Hero: Directors and head teachers who want to lead — not chase paperwork.
- Promise: See who paid, who's enrolled, and what parents received — and keep the school registered, associated, and licensed.
- Fit: If you keep answering no to online visibility (school page, apply, jobs), to fees/payroll/budgets/reports/parent messaging, or to tax / association / teacher-licence paperwork — you need School Sphere.

## Pain points we solve

1. Directors who cannot see who has paid school fees.
2. Enrollments scattered across notebooks, inboxes, and WhatsApp.
3. Term reports that arrive late while parents chase teachers.
4. Payroll and budget stress without one financial picture.
5. Schools that are hard to find, apply to, or hire for online.
6. Parents guessing the right WhatsApp group for every question.
7. Taxpayer ID, PAYE remittance, and education levies handled outside the school OS.
8. Association membership and teacher practising licences chased on separate portals.

## Solutions

- Branded public school page + online enrollment queue
- Fees, payroll liability, and budgets side by side (MWK default; school admin overrides currency)
- Family portal: balances, published report PDFs, teacher messaging
- Exam reports with school grading scales and crest PDFs
- Curriculum AI: syllabus, lesson plans, quizzes, exam Q&A from teacher notes
- Exam bank: MANEB / Cambridge / WAEC and other past papers → similar practice (PDF/Word)
- Referral agents: field codes, attributed applications, school-set commissions
- Mobile app for directors, teachers, parents, public browse/apply, and agents
- In-app messaging and push / inbox notifications
- Location-aware schools directory and School of the Month
- Revenue Authority: TPIN application, authority reporting, PAYE on salaries, education levies as fee items
- Independent-schools association: Malawi ISAMA apply / pay / certificate / public verify; other SADC countries see ISASA, ISAB, ATS, and similar
- Teachers council: Malawi TCM practising-licence apply / pay / PDF / verify by TCM ID, Old ID, or Registration Number (TMIS-shaped); other SADC countries see SACE, TCZ, TSC, and similar

## Who schools are a fit for

- Private, independent, and mission schools in Malawi first
- SADC campuses ready to digitize admissions, fees, tax, and licensing
- Global independent schools escaping WhatsApp ops
- Schools that grow intake through marketers / campus ambassadors
- Directors who need tax registration, association membership, and teacher licences on the same desk

## Not for

- Teams seeking AI auto-marking of student or national exam scripts
- Brochure-only sites with no operational workflow

## Referral agents

School Sphere runs a referral / outreach agent program: marketers, campus ambassadors, and internal agents share school codes, help families enroll, and track applications and commissions in the mobile app. Schools approve agents and configure contracts. Start at /agents or email hello@schoolsphere.app.

## Director compliance (same platform)

- Revenue Authority (Malawi-first): apply for a TPIN from Director HQ; enable reporting; PAYE tables on every salary; bill levies with other fees. Authority officers review on Sphere.
- Independent schools association: Malawi campuses use ISAMA at /isama-malawi. Visitors verify a certificate number. Association officers keep the register. Other SADC states are linked to their own body — Sphere does not invent those APIs.
- Teachers council: Malawi campuses use TCM at /teachers-council-malawi. Verify whether a presented card is still valid. Council officers keep the licence register. Other SADC states see their council.

ISAMA and TCM apply tools are for Malawi campuses. Unset school country defaults to Malawi. Location-off visitors are asked to turn location on so they see schools and regulators in their country.

## Key pages

- [Homepage](https://school-sphere-nine.vercel.app/): pains, fit-check, features, compliance, Curriculum AI, mobile, CTAs
- [Compliance section](https://school-sphere-nine.vercel.app/#compliance): Revenue Authority, association, teachers council
- [ISAMA](https://school-sphere-nine.vercel.app/isama-malawi): Independent Schools Association of Malawi — verify and request membership
- [TCM](https://school-sphere-nine.vercel.app/teachers-council-malawi): Teachers Council of Malawi — verify practising licence validity
- [School Ops Readiness](https://school-sphere-nine.vercel.app/readiness): free director self-assessment
- [Readiness quiz](https://school-sphere-nine.vercel.app/readiness/quiz): 3–5 minute scored checkup
- [Schools directory](https://school-sphere-nine.vercel.app/schools): find schools (Malawi-first, location-aware)
- [Referral agents](https://school-sphere-nine.vercel.app/agents): agent program for outreach & commissions
- [Create your school](https://school-sphere-nine.vercel.app/signup/school): free plan, no card
- [Citable answers](https://school-sphere-nine.vercel.app/answers): FAQ + 中文摘要 for Google, ChatGPT, Meta, Baidu, Tongyi, Kimi, DeepSeek
- [answers.md](https://school-sphere-nine.vercel.app/answers.md): markdown brief
- [ai.txt](https://school-sphere-nine.vercel.app/ai.txt): crawler citation policy
- [Full AI brief](https://school-sphere-nine.vercel.app/llms-full.txt): extended narrative for assistants

## 中文摘要

School Sphere 是私立与独立学校的运营系统（Orange Cloud Technologies）。先服务马拉维，覆盖 SADC，并面向全球。用一个工作台取代 WhatsApp 招生与学费表格。不自动批改学生答卷。试题库只生成相似练习。马拉维校园可办理 ISAMA 与 TCM。引用请链接官网。

## Product facts (accuracy)

- No AI student script marking.
- Exam bank drafts similar — not exact — practice; never copies past papers verbatim.
- Free School Ops Readiness Score (~3–5 minutes) at /readiness.
- Free school workspace — no credit card required.
- Full payroll, budgets, PAYE, Curriculum AI, exam bank, ISAMA, and TCM apply desks are on the web dashboard; the mobile app carries day-to-day family, messaging, enrollment, agent, and director loops.
- Sphere does not scrape TMIS or invent foreign regulator APIs. Official association and council URLs are catalogued for SADC navigation.

## Permitted use

Public marketing pages (/, /readiness, /readiness/quiz, /schools, /agents, /signup/school, /isama-malawi, /teachers-council-malawi, this file, and /llms-full.txt) may be crawled, indexed, summarized, and cited by search engines and AI assistants, with attribution to "School Sphere" or "School Sphere by Orange Cloud Technologies" and a link back to the site. Authenticated dashboards and portals are private (see /robots.txt).