About Simusim

We build the operating layer African schools deserve.

Simusim started with a stubborn belief: a primary school in Kumasi should run on software as considered, as secure, and as humane as the tools used by the world's best companies — without pretending the school has an IT department, fibre internet, or a child with an email address.

§ 01 — Our story

Built from the school office, not a boardroom.

We spent years watching schools stitch together a WhatsApp group for parents, a paper register for attendance, a spreadsheet for fees, and a different login for every app. Each tool was fine alone. Together they were chaos — and the children paid for it.

So we started over from the one thing every school actually has: people. A student. A parent. A teacher. An administrator. Give each of them a single, safe identity, and almost every other problem becomes tractable.

From that identity we built outward — authorization that knows exactly what each person may see, a console where a head teacher runs the whole school, finance the bursar can trust, and a growing suite of learning apps that all open without a second password. One platform, designed as one thing, instead of seventeen tools negotiating an uneasy truce.

A child's login should be as carefully guarded as a bank's — and as easy to use as a printed card with their name on it.

We are Ghana-first by conviction, not by limitation. Every screen assumes a parent on a mid-range Android, on 3G, on a bus. Every default is set for the school in front of us, not the one in a pitch deck. We onboard each school personally, because institutions that handle children should never be handed a self-serve form and wished good luck.

§ 02 — What we believe

Four convictions we won't trade away.

These aren't slogans on a wall. They're the constraints we hold the product to — the reasons we say no to shortcuts that would make the demo shinier and the school's day worse.

Everyone gets the right door.

A student signs in with a code and a PIN. A parent with the phone the school already has. A teacher and an admin with what suits them. The same data, a door that fits who you are — no email required of a six-year-old.

Built for reality, not the demo.

Low-end Android, patchy data, printed login cards, a bursar who lives in receipts. We design for the school as it actually is, then make that experience genuinely good — not merely tolerable.

One platform, not ten tools.

Attendance, grades, fees, lesson notes, and learning apps share one identity and one source of truth. No four-app shuffle, no re-keying the same roster five times, no integration held together with tape.

Schools own their data.

Every record belongs to exactly one school. Authorization is checked at the edge and again at the data layer. When something is wrong, the school can fix it — and a payment lapse never holds a child's records hostage.

§ 03 — The people

The team behind the platform.

A small core team building the learning apps and the school workspace around them: software architecture, engineering, product, design, and the school-facing work that keeps the platform grounded.

The team

Hardus Lourens

Hardus Lourens

Co-Founder/Senior Software Engineer

Builds the software backbone behind Simusim, turning product direction into dependable systems, internal tooling, and production-ready platform features.

Enoch Abassey

Enoch Abassey

Co-Founder/Senior Software Architect

Leads the platform build from the core systems outward: identity, learning apps, data boundaries, and the engineering work that keeps the whole suite reliable.

Gabriel Atter

Gabriel Atter

Co-Founder/Head of Marketing

Leads how Simusim reaches schools and families — brand, positioning, and the campaigns that bring heads, teachers, and parents to the platform.

Samuel Chikpa

Samuel Chikpa

Product & Sales Team Lead

Connects schools to the platform and the platform back to schools — shaping the product around what heads, bursars, and teachers actually need, then helping them get started.

Rodney Addo

Rodney Addo

Head of UI/UX Design

Leads the interface design for Simusim, shaping clear, welcoming product journeys for students, parents, teachers, and school administrators.

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Come see the platform your school already deserves.

Bring a roster — even a sample class is enough. We'll show your school login path, the admin console, the printed cards, finance, the portals, and the learning apps your staff and parents will actually use.