Writing · Field notes
Notes from the school office.
Short essays on the real problems modern schools wrestle with — and the thinking behind building one platform, with a single source of truth, instead of ten tools that never quite agree.
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Platform thinking
Your school doesn't have a software problem. It has a seams problem.
Twelve apps, one school, and none of them talking. The real cost of fragmented school software was never the licences — it's everything that falls through the gaps between them.
Samuel Chikpa
5 Jun 2026 · 6 min read
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More field notes are on the way — on logins built for children, fees the bursar can trust, and keeping parents in the loop without another app to install.