Education

Education, Tutoring & Coaching Suite

Turn enquiries into enrolments, keep students progressing, and make renewals almost automatic.

An operating layer for tutoring centres, private coaches, and course businesses that attacks the five quiet revenue leaks every operator knows but rarely fixes: enquiries that never enrol, discovery sessions that ghost, students whose parents or clients don't see progress and quietly cancel, non-renewals at the term or programme boundary, and testimonials that never get collected. It works the existing client base first (the cheapest growth a learning business has) by surfacing progress clearly, prompting renewals before the window closes, and collecting social proof automatically. New-enquiry conversion, scheduling reliability, and content prep time sit on top of that so the owner spends less time firefighting and more time teaching.

Designed playbook · not a deployment claim

A starting configuration to test against the business's actual evidence and operator constraints.

Illustrative failure hypotheses

Questions for the audit to verify

Enquiries answered too slowly or abandoned after one message: prospects enrol elsewhere

Discovery and trial sessions that are agreed but never confirmed, or simply no-showed

Students whose parents or clients see no visible progress and churn silently at term end

Renewals and re-enrolments missed because no one reached out before the student drifted away

Scheduling admin and reminder chasing consuming hours the teacher should spend preparing

Curriculum and lesson-content prep time that scales with head-count instead of staying flat

Happy clients who never leave a review or refer anyone because they were never asked

Proposed starting point

A pilot hypothesis to review

Designed role · approval required

Enquiry Nurturer

Responds to new enquiries immediately, answers common questions, and nurtures the lead to a booked discovery call.

Most tutoring businesses have a backlog of enquiries that were never followed up past the first message. The Enquiry Nurturer works that list within days and delivers booked discovery calls from demand that already exists.

Designed playbook

Proposed work streams and roles

These are configuration ideas to test during an audit. They are not autonomous workers or evidence of a live deployment.

01Forma Core · included with every suite

Forma Core

Runs under every suite. The shared operating spine: front desk, follow-up, reputation, owner reporting, cash, and content.

Front DeskFollow-Up EngineReputation EngineOwner's DigestMoney FlowContent Engine
Designed role descriptions ↓
  • Front Desk

    Captures and triages every inbound (email, web form, missed call, DM), then replies, classifies, and routes it to the right place.

  • Follow-Up Engine

    Runs persistent, polite multi-touch follow-up on every quote, no-show, and stalled enquiry until it converts or is cleanly closed.

  • Reputation Engine

    Asks happy customers for reviews at the right moment, drafts replies to every review, and routes negative feedback to a human first.

  • Owner's Digest

    Compiles the weekly (and on-demand) operating picture into a plain-English brief: what happened, what's at risk, what needs a decision.

  • Money Flow

    Issues and chases invoices, tracks AR aging, and reconciles payments so nothing slips and cash comes in faster.

  • Content Engine

    Turns the brand kit into a steady cadence of social, email, and blog content, ready for one-click approval.

02

Enrolment & Admissions

Convert every enquiry into a booked discovery session and every trial into a paying enrolment.

Enquiry NurturerTrial & Discovery Converter
Designed role descriptions ↓
  • Enquiry Nurturer

    Responds to new enquiries immediately, answers common questions, and nurtures the lead to a booked discovery call.

  • Trial & Discovery Converter

    Confirms discovery and trial sessions, reduces no-shows, and follows up after the session to convert the family to a paid enrolment.

03

Scheduling & Attendance

Keep the timetable full, cut no-shows, and surface attendance patterns before they become a churn signal.

Attendance ManagerSession Reminders
Designed role descriptions ↓
  • Attendance Manager

    Tracks session attendance, fills last-minute cancellation slots, and flags students with declining attendance before they churn.

  • Session Reminders

    Sends timely, personalised session reminders to students and parents to cut no-shows and late cancellations.

04

Progress & Client Comms

Give every parent or client a clear, regular view of their learner's progress so they feel the value.

Progress Report GeneratorMilestone Alert
Designed role descriptions ↓
  • Progress Report Generator

    Compiles session notes and assessment data into clear, readable progress reports sent to parents or clients on a regular cadence.

  • Milestone Alert

    Detects when a student hits a meaningful learning milestone and sends a celebratory message to reinforce value and build loyalty.

05

Retention & Renewals

Catch at-risk students early and make term-by-term renewals and re-enrolments near-automatic.

Renewal EngineChurn Watchdog
Designed role descriptions ↓
  • Renewal Engine

    Identifies students approaching the end of a term or programme and proactively secures the next enrolment before the family drifts away.

  • Churn Watchdog

    Scores each active student on churn risk using attendance, progress, and engagement signals, and alerts the owner to intervene early.

06

Reputation & Referrals

Harvest testimonials and reviews from satisfied clients and channel happy families into referral campaigns.

Testimonial HarvesterReferral Campaigner
Designed role descriptions ↓
  • Testimonial Harvester

    Collects reviews and testimonials from satisfied parents and clients at the ideal moment: after a milestone or positive progress report.

  • Referral Campaigner

    Runs structured referral campaigns to active families, turning satisfied clients into a reliable low-cost acquisition channel.

07

Curriculum & Content

Reduce teacher prep time by generating lesson plans, worksheets, and course content on demand.

Curriculum Assistant
Designed role descriptions ↓
  • Curriculum Assistant

    Generates lesson plans, worksheets, and practice materials for tutors on demand, cutting individual session prep time.

Measurement design

Candidate measures to baseline

These labels do not claim a result. The audit must define the source, window, method, baseline, and owner before a metric can support a pilot decision.

Enquiry-to-enrolment rate

The share of inbound enquiries that convert to a paid enrolment, the single most leveraged conversion point for growth.

Trial no-show rate

% of booked discovery or trial sessions that are not attended. Each no-show is a lost enrolment.

Term renewal rate

% of students who re-enrol at the end of each term or programme period, the primary driver of LTV.

Monthly churn rate

Students lost as a % of the active base, monitored against at-risk interventions to close the loop.

Average attendance rate

Session attendance across the active cohort, a leading indicator of engagement and renewal likelihood.

New reviews per month

Velocity of new ratings on Google or Trustpilot, driven by the Testimonial Harvester at milestone moments.

Connector boundary

Availability is scoped per controlled pilot

Connector names in the internal playbook are planning inputs, not a public integration promise. Current code-live readers are bounded and require account-specific verification before use.

See the commerce pilot boundaries →

Audit first

Validate the playbook against your operation.

Pricing, scope, data access, review boundaries, and success measures are agreed in writing before any paid work.