The learner list
One version in the admission book, another in a spreadsheet on the bursar’s laptop, a third in the class teacher’s notebook. All maintained carefully. None of them agreeing.
Built in Nairobi for Kenyan schools
Run the whole
school
on one record.
Admissions, attendance, CBC and KCSE grading, fees, transport and parent engagement — all reading from the same learner record, so a correction made once is a correction made everywhere.
- Frameworks
- CBC · KCSE · Cambridge
- Billing
- Termly, monthly or annual
- Parent reach
- App and SMS
01 The problem
Most schools do not have one record. They have eleven.
The marks
Collected on paper, retyped by somebody who did not mark them, graded against a boundary table somebody remembers, assembled into a merit list over a weekend.
The fee balance
Stored as a number a person maintains rather than derived from invoices — so the arrears list, the reminder and the principal’s report eventually disagree.
Every one of those copies is kept by somebody doing their job properly. They disagree anyway, because nothing keeps them in step. Msomi's whole proposition is one record per learner, one per member of staff, and every process reading from those rather than from a copy.
02 What you get
A complete system, not a collection of add-ons
Thirty-four modules across four areas. Everything below reads from the same learner and staff records, which is what makes the reporting trustworthy.
See all 34 modules
- Academics (12)
- People (6)
- Operations (8)
- Communication & insight (8)
03 Who it is for
Four groups of people, each seeing what concerns them
Directors, principals, deputies and administrators
For school leaders
Run the school on one record instead of eleven spreadsheets.
- Every learner, teacher and shilling on one system
- Curriculum, grading and reporting configured to your school, not ours
- The numbers your board asks for, ready before the meeting
For teachers
Less paperwork, on the phone already in your hand.
- Take the register in under a minute, in the classroom
- Enter marks for your own classes — nobody retypes them
- Works offline when the signal in the block does not
For parents & guardians
Know how your child is doing without phoning the school.
- Attendance, results, fees and homework in one app
- All your children under one sign-in
- Every alert also available by SMS, on any phone
Learners get their own portal, and drivers get a sign-in scoped to today's route and manifest — and nothing else.
04 Getting started
Running in two to three weeks
Most of that time is spent bringing your existing records across, not learning the system.
- 01
Describe your school
Your frameworks, levels, classes and streams, grading boundaries and admission number format. An afternoon, because it is a description of the school you already run.
- 02
Bring your records across
Download the generated Excel templates, fill in your existing learner and staff lists, and import. Every file is validated in full before anything is saved.
- 03
Start with the register
Teachers take attendance from day one, on a phone, in the classroom. Guardians begin receiving the same-morning alerts that make the system visible to families immediately.
- 04
Add the rest at your pace
Exams and report cards for the first series. Fees when the bursar is ready. Transport and the parent app when you want them. Nothing has to arrive at once.
05 Built here, not translated
The details that only matter if you run a school in Kenya
CBC, KCSE and Cambridge
Run more than one framework in a single school, each with its own levels, subjects and grading scale.
A three-term year
Terms are real records, and billing can follow them — because a term is the unit Kenyan schools budget in.
TSC numbers
Held on every teacher record, not in a comment box, so staff returns are a report rather than a search.
M-Pesa fee payments
Captured with their transaction code and matched to the learner, so reconciliation is a review of exceptions.
SMS to every parent
Guardians without smartphones receive the same alerts. No family is less informed because of their handset.
Data Protection Act 2019
Access follows responsibility, sensitive records are restricted further, and data is hosted in an African region.
Next step
See Msomi running on your own school data
A demo takes about forty minutes. Bring a class list and we will set up your frameworks, levels and grading while you watch — so you are looking at your school rather than ours.
Or try it first — the Trial tier gives you a full term, free, with every module unlocked.