About Edsynk
Built in Bauchi, for how Nigerian schools actually run.
Edsynk is school software written in northern Nigeria for Nigerian schools. Not a foreign system with Naira stapled to the price list — one built by people who know what a term looks like here: the exam officer with a broadsheet in a spreadsheet, the teacher marking on a phone with one bar of signal, the parent at the gate asking whether the card in their hand is really their child’s.
- Built in Bauchi
- Results first
- Your data exports free
- First term free
Why it exists
A school is judged on one document it produces by hand.
Three times a year a school turns hundreds of mark sheets into hundreds of report cards. It is done under time pressure, usually in the last week, often by one person re-typing figures from other people’s books. The totals are added twice and disagree. Positions are worked out by hand. Somebody’s elective is missing. Corrections are made in pen. And then the card goes home, where it is the only thing most parents ever see of the school’s work all term.
So that is where Edsynk started, and it is still the spine of the product: scores entered by the teacher who marked them, totals and positions computed on your school’s own scheme, the sheet checked and then sealed, and a card that carries a code any parent or any secondary school can check without an account and without phoning your office.
How we build
Six habits, and you can hold us to all of them.
One school at a time
We would rather a handful of schools finish a term properly than a hundred sign up and none publish. Every school we take on now gets set up by the people who wrote the software.
Your scheme, not ours
Two CAs or three, your weights, your pass mark, your grade bands — and a different scheme on the junior ladder if that is how you mark. Nothing about your school is hard-coded into ours.
We do the moving
Hand us the exercise book, the Excel file, or the export from the system you are leaving. We put your current term in first so you can go live, and history follows afterwards.
The bad network is the normal case
A teacher enters scores on a cheap Android. The phone holds them through the dropout and sends them up when the line returns. That is the condition we build for, not the exception we apologise for.
Nothing is published alone
Scores are entered, computed, checked on the broadsheet, then sealed. A correction after sealing becomes version two, is written into the audit log, and the old QR still resolves.
Leaving is a download
Export every record, in full, at any time, free. We do not want a school that stays because getting out is painful.
Where we are
Edsynk is new, and you should know what that buys you.
We are not going to tell you that a thousand schools run on this, because they do not. Edsynk is early. The honest version is that being early with us is a trade: you carry the risk of a young product, and in return you get things a school cannot buy from an established vendor at any price.
You reach a person who can change the software — within a school day — rather than a ticket queue and a release note in eighteen months. What you ask for goes near the front of the queue, because the schools who start with us have the strongest claim on what gets built next. And your first term is free: long enough to publish a real set of results, which is the only test that counts.
What we will not do to win you
- We only sell what is built. If a page here does not mention fees collection or WhatsApp results, it is because we have not built them — not because we forgot.
- We tell you the limits before you meet them. The Hifz register on our Islamic schools page carries a paragraph on what it does not do yet, on the page we are trying to sell you with.
- Your records are yours. Export everything, any time, free — and the right to do it sits in the agreement, not in a support conversation.
- A child's name never reaches an AI model, and no AI in Edsynk can set or change a mark. Every figure on a card is computed from what your teachers entered.
- We do not resell or mine your school's data. It is a school's record of its own children, and the only people who see it are the people you give access to.
Who it is for
Including the schools most software quietly leaves out.
Islamiyyah, Tahfiz and hybrid schools are not an afterthought here. Most systems assume JSS 1 to SS 3, assume every class splits into arms, and assume every subject has an English name — so a school whose ladder runs Hadda to Thanawiyyah spends its first week fighting the software. Edsynk holds your levels in your words and your order, prints Arabic as Arabic on the report card, and keeps a Hifz register the head of Tahfiz can actually use. That page also states, in our own words, what the Hifz register does not do yet.
Where this goes
Schools first. Not schools only.
The problem we are actually solving is not the report card. It is that Nigerian institutions produce records people are asked to trust — a term result, a certificate, a transcript — and there is usually no way to check one. That problem does not stop at secondary school, and neither does the machinery we are building for it.
We also work with bodies that are not conventional schools at all — education boards, agencies, training institutions and NGOs that need attendance, marking and records but do not run terms and classes the way a school does. That is a different agreement, priced differently, and it is a conversation rather than a signup form.
Beyond that, higher institutions are on our roadmap and not on our price list. We are not going to sell a polytechnic something we have not built, and we are not going to start it while the schools who trusted us first are still mid-term. When it is real, it will be on this site with the same plainness as everything else here.
Talking to us
Ask the hard question before you commit a term.
Tell us what your school runs on now, what broke last term, and what your marking actually looks like. If Edsynk does not fit, we would rather say so in the first conversation than in your results week.