● About SLAET
Lagos, Nigeria · 2025
SLAET is a Nigerian school management platform designed for the way Nigerian schools actually operate. We serve private schools, faith-based schools, and underserved community schools, free or paid, all on the same platform.
● Our mission
SLAET exists because the administrative burden in Nigerian schools is solvable, and nobody else was solving it well. When schools run efficiently, teachers teach better, parents stay engaged, and students learn more.
We believe good software is not a luxury. A school serving 60 students in a small town deserves the same quality of platform as a school with 600 students in Lekki. That is why SLAET starts free forever, stays affordable as schools grow, and is completely free for schools serving underserved communities through our Legacy Program.
● The origin story
We spent months visiting Nigerian schools before writing a single line of code. Here is what we learned.
The academic calendar, the CA1/CA2/Exam grading structure, WAEC and NECO cycles, and the specific roles like bursar, HOD, and form teacher are all unique to Nigeria. Foreign platforms do not account for any of this. They never will, because it is not their market.
Fee records in Excel. Results in ruled notebooks. Attendance registers that get lost between terms. Payroll calculated by hand every month. We watched administrators spend their Saturdays on work that computers should have been doing in seconds.
Some tools existed, but they were priced for international schools, built with interfaces that required training manuals, or architected in ways that made real teachers avoid them. We designed SLAET so a form teacher can use it from her phone with no instruction.
Nigerian parents increasingly expect digital access to their children's academic information. But most schools had no way to give it to them. SLAET gives every parent a portal that works in any browser. No app to download. No password to remember.
● What we stand for
These are the actual rules we use when we argue about what to build next. They are the reason SLAET looks the way it does.
I.
Every feature is built with Nigerian context from day zero. Naira, WAEC, the Nigerian academic calendar, Nigerian internet realities. We do not retrofit. We do not add a 'Nigeria mode.' This is the Nigeria product.
II.
We would rather ship one feature that works perfectly than ten features that confuse a form teacher. If something needs a manual to use, it is not finished. We redesign until it isn't.
III.
Our Legacy Program gives full access to SLAET, every module, every feature, to schools serving underserved communities. Not a trial. Not a stripped-down tier. The full platform, always free, as long as the school qualifies.
IV.
Your school's records belong to your school. We never sell them. We never share them. You can export everything, any time, in standard formats. We make our money by being useful, not by holding your information hostage.
● Where we are
We are still early. Here is what we have built, and what we are building toward.
● What's next
The next three years will define what Nigerian school management software looks like for the next thirty. We're building toward a world where no Nigerian teacher grades report cards at midnight, where no bursar reconciles fees from a notebook, and where every parent knows how their child is doing without having to ask. If you run a school and you want to help us figure out what comes next, we would love to hear from you.