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Every platform that operates in Kenya arrived from somewhere else and tried to fit in. Cradeum starts here. CBC, NEMIS, M-Pesa, TSC — these are not integrations added later. They are what Cradeum was built around from the first line of code.
Our Mission
Cradeum is Kenya's School Operating System. A single, multi-tenant, cloud-hosted platform built specifically for the Kenyan education system. Not a generic school management tool adapted for Kenya — built from the ground up around how Kenyan schools actually work.
Every feature, every data field, every workflow is designed around Kenyan realities: the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC), NEMIS student registration, TSC staff records, M-Pesa fee payments, Africa's Talking SMS, KRA/NHIF/NSSF/HELB statutory compliance, Kenya Data Protection Act 2019.
Cradeum replaces every disconnected tool a Kenyan school currently uses — the WhatsApp groups, the Excel fee registers, the paper CBC assessment sheets, the manual M-Pesa reconciliation — with one platform that every role in the school uses simultaneously, all sharing the same underlying data in real time.
Kenya-First by Design
Cradeum starts with CBC — strands, sub-strands, EE through BE, PP1 through Grade 12 — and builds everything else around it. The report card is right because the foundation is right. We don't rename percentage grades. We implement the actual CBC framework from KICD.
M-Pesa is the payment system Cradeum was designed around. STK Push goes to the parent's phone. They enter their PIN. The bursar's dashboard updates. No reconciliation. No phone calls. No Excel. This is how fee collection works in Kenya — not how we wish it worked.
Every student record has a NEMIS UPN field. Every staff record has a TSC number, a KRA PIN, NHIF, NSSF, and HELB. Not as optional fields that schools might fill later — as the default. This is what Kenyan schools actually need.
Cradeum was built with Kenya's data protection law as a constraint, not an afterthought. Welfare logs are encrypted. Parents control their consent. The platform handles student data the way Kenya's law requires — not how international privacy guidelines suggest.
Our Philosophy
Schools should never think about the platform. They should just use it. They should never know that Africa's Talking delivers their SMS. They should never configure an M-Pesa webhook. They should never wait for a developer to change a business rule.
This principle governs every product decision. The platform does the heavy lifting so schools can focus on what matters: teaching students, managing operations, serving families.
When the platform works, schools just work.
Book a demo and see Cradeum running on a real Kenyan school. CBC report cards, M-Pesa payments, NEMIS records — all live.
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