Custom LMS development for the way your learning business actually works.
For founders and operations leads who have outgrown their LMS, we build an owned platform around the learner journey, commercial model, and systems you already run.
Buyers who need the platform to fit their operation.
Education businesses
Companies whose product is the learning platform: cohort programmes, professional courses, certification bodies. The LMS decides how the offer can be sold and delivered, which is why it stops being someone else's job to fix.
Training companies
B2B and B2C providers running blended or on-demand programmes with enterprise buyers, seat allocation, cohort scheduling, and structured reporting back to end clients.
Schools, universities, and multi-tenant academies
Institutions and networks whose learner base needs role-specific access, SIS or SSO integration, and reporting that a generic LMS cannot produce cleanly.
Problems we solve
The specific work your current platform leaves behind.
Your commercial model doesn't fit the LMS's product model.
Bundles, seat purchases, memberships, and cohort rules built into the platform rather than glued together with coupons, plugins, and manual admin work.
Enrolment reconciliation runs on a spreadsheet.
Payment providers, identity, and course access wired together as a tested handoff, so a successful sale grants the right access without a human in the middle.
Compliance and reporting evidence is assembled by hand.
Attempts, versions, expiry, and certificates recorded as structured data with role-scoped reports, so an audit or renewal is a query, not a scramble.
Migration risk is blocking a platform change.
Users, cohorts, progress, and content migrated with a mapping plan, dry-run validation, and a documented rollback path before cutover.
Integrations break when a partner or system changes.
SSO, SIS, LTI 1.3, payments, video, and CRM connections built with typed contracts, retries, and observability rather than one-off scripts.
Capabilities
What we build inside custom LMS development.
01
Student Portal
Learner accounts, catalogue, enrolment, progress, assessments, certificates, and account recovery. Designed for the exact learner journey (self-paced catalogue, mentor-reviewed cohort, or hybrid) rather than a generic 'my courses' tab.
02
Admin Dashboard
Course publishing, enrolments, roles, cohorts, refunds, and support tools that an operator can use without emailing an engineer. Includes an audit trail so mistakes can be safely reversed.
03
Integrations
SSO (SAML, OIDC), SIS, LTI 1.3, payment providers (Stripe, Adyen, PayPal), video (Mux, Vimeo, Cloudflare Stream), CRM, and email, implemented with error handling, retries, and clear logs when a partner API misbehaves.
04
Reporting & Analytics
Role-scoped reports built around real decisions: overdue training by team, cohort completion, revenue by programme, at-risk learners. xAPI-compatible event stream so records stay portable across future systems.
How projects work
From first call to handover.
01
Week 1: map the work
Discovery sessions, a walkthrough of your current learner journey and admin workflows, and a written scope with the risky decisions flagged.
02
Weeks 2 to 3: prove the risky paths
SSO, payment, migration, or reporting path prototyped end to end so vague requirements become tested code, not planning-document phrases.
03
Weekly builds: working software
Live-review environments every week with the real learner and admin flows. Feedback lands in the next slice, not after months of build.
04
Launch: cutover and handover
Import validation, role and permission acceptance tests, operational runbooks, and code plus infrastructure handed over with continued support available but not required.
Deliverables
What you receive at handover.
Product discovery and written scope
UX and interface design system
Learner-facing application (student portal)
Admin dashboard and operator tools
Identity and SSO integration
Payment and commerce integration
SIS or LTI 1.3 integration (where scoped)
Data migration plan, dry run, and cutover
Reporting and analytics module
Automated test suite and CI pipeline
Deployment infrastructure and runbooks
Full source code and technical documentation
Handover training for your operations team
Budget and tradeoffs
What moves the price
The cost of a custom LMS moves with the same handful of decisions every time: how many distinct learner and admin flows, the shape of the data you're migrating, the integrations you can't avoid (payments, SSO, LTI), and how far reporting has to go beyond dashboards to actual evidence. We would rather scope a smaller first release with a clear second step than pretend every possible feature belongs in version one. Once the plan is specific, so is the number, shared with the assumptions and what would change it.
We scope in the open. You see the assumptions, what is excluded, and what would change the estimate. A fixed price without those details is only a delayed surprise.
SCORM 1.2
the content-packaging standard most existing courseware still ships in. A custom LMS has to import, launch, and report against it correctly on day one, or a whole library of learning material becomes stranded.
The platform should make the next decision easier.
The result is a platform your team can explain without apologising for its limits. Learners see a coherent product. Administrators spend less time stitching systems together. And when a new revenue model or teaching idea arrives, you have a codebase that can change with it.
It depends on the hard parts: how many distinct learner flows, how much data you're migrating, the integrations, and the reporting you actually need. We scope a narrow first release with a clear second step and share the assumptions in the open, then quote the specific piece of work. A number without those details is a delayed surprise.
How long until the first release?
Most focused platforms are usable in 8 to 12 weeks. We work in weekly slices, so you're clicking through the real thing early instead of waiting months for a slide deck.
Do we own the code?
Yes. At handover you get the application code, deployment docs, and the infrastructure access we agreed in the plan. Ongoing support is available, never required.
Can it work with the systems we already run?
Where the API or standard supports it, yes. We confirm identity, payments, content packages, and reporting during technical discovery rather than assuming an integration is simple.
Bring the awkward part of the current setup.
We will map the real constraint, tell you whether a custom build makes sense, and outline a first release that does not pretend to solve every future problem.