Practical tools, properly designed

Quietly useful software for schools and nurseries

We build focused tools for the practical, often invisible work of educational settings. Each one earns its place by being obviously useful before it is anything else.

What we believe
Practical over flashy

Software earns its place by saving real time on a real task. If it doesn't, it's noise. We'd rather ship one tool that genuinely helps than five that look impressive in a demo.

Plain English, no jargon

No AI hype, no buzzwords, no "transformative paradigms". We write the way teachers and bursars actually speak, and we expect our software to do the same.

Built where the work happens

We make tools for the people who run schools and nurseries because we've sat in those staff rooms. Every feature comes from a real problem we've watched somebody try to solve.

Our divisions
Two product brands, one philosophy.

We're a small team, working quietly and carefully, on tools we wish existed when we sat on the other side of the desk.

If you run a nursery, school, or trust and have a problem you'd pay someone to solve — please tell us.

hello@aiforedu.co.uk

Acorn

Practical AI for early years

Two focused tools for nursery managers and owners. Built to take the guesswork out of pricing and capacity — without adding another login your staff don't have time to learn.

bluebellnursery.co.uk / fees
Live demo
Bluebell Day Nursery · Academic Year 2026/27

Nursery Fee Calculator

Configure your child's schedule below for an estimate of fees, including Government Early Years funding and optional sessions.

A standard nursery day runs 8:00 – 18:00 (10 hours).

Closed 24 Dec – 2 Jan and August Bank Holiday week. Monthly fees stay level across 12 months.

15 hours is universal for 3–4 year-olds. 30 hours requires both parents working and earning under £100k.

About this tool
What your parents see, what you control.

This is the calculator that sits on your nursery's website. Parents tweak the controls; the figure updates. They can see exactly how Early Years funding lowers their bill.

Behind the scenes, you set the hourly rate, your funding entitlements, your extras and your closure weeks. Acorn handles the maths and the funding rules so you don't have to.

app.acorn.co.uk / bluebell / capacity
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Bluebell Day Nursery

Capacity Tracker

Per-session staffing checks based on EYFS-style ratios.
This week, at a glance
Each cell shows total children booked into the session and a traffic light against your staffing ratios.
Within ratio Near limit (85–100%) Over ratio
Pupils · 0
Click a pupil to edit their schedule.
Name Date of birth Age Weekly schedule
Preview · In development

Ask Oak anything.

A modern MIS that runs on natural-language queries, in-house AI drafting, and a single unified data model. Type a question; get the answer — not a spreadsheet to wrestle with.

Wendover Park School · oak.aiforedu.co.uk
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Reports that draft themselves
Oak drafts each subject report in your voice, from the pupil's real data. You edit; you don't start from scratch.
Parents' evening prep in seconds
Generate a complete pupil briefing — grades, attendance, pastoral, talking points — before every meeting.
Plain-English search
"Year 9 girls who've improved in Science." "Boarders absent in chapel last week." Ask in English. Get the list.
One database, no bolt-ons
Pupils, admissions, academics, pastoral, finance, comms. Modular but unified — not seven systems pretending to talk.
Early access

Oak opens for design partners next term.

We're working with a handful of independent schools to shape Oak before launch. If your school is interested in being one of them, leave your email and we'll be in touch.

Thanks — we'll be in touch as soon as Oak is ready for previews.