A school system with AI at its centre
Run your whole school by asking.
Attendance, fees, results, transport, payroll and 39 more: Slate keeps every record, and Ask answers and acts on them in English or Hinglish. Every change waits for your tap.
English and Hinglish CBSE-ready Families in the loop
How it works
Ask, know, act, and families know
The records do the remembering. Ask does the looking up and the paperwork. You decide.
1Ask
Ask anything, in the words you use
“Class 10 me kitne bachchon ke 70% aaye?” Ask reads the school’s own records and answers with the figures, in English or Hinglish. No reports to build, no menus to learn.
2Know
Your day, already worked out
Home shows only what needs you today: registers not taken, families behind on fees, a bus whose papers lapsed, a class falling behind the syllabus. Each with the one tap that fixes it.
3Act
Nothing changes without your tap
Ask can take the register, record a payment, publish report cards or tell a bus route’s families. Every one of them waits on a card you confirm, and is recorded with who did it.
4Families
Parents hear first, and only about their child
A child collected early, sent home from the infirmary, a report card published, a PTM to book: the family is told the moment it happens, in their own language.
Modules
44 modules, one school
Every module shares the same students, staff, calendar and approvals, so Ask can answer across them: “which children on bus route 3 were absent today?”
Every day
- ClassesSections, the daily register and homework.
- StudentsEvery student, their family and their record.
- ResultsExams and marks.
- FeesThe fee plan, invoices, the counter, numbered receipts and concessions.
- MessagesMessages and announcements to families and staff.
- RequestsLeave and everything else that needs someone’s yes.
- CalendarTerms, holidays, exams, PTMs and events.
- HomeworkHomework set by class and subject, handed in by families and checked by teachers.
- TasksWhat each person has to do by when, and how what you gave others is going.
Academics
- TimetableThe week’s timetable, built automatically around lessons placed by hand, and daily cover for absent teachers.
- Report cardsReport cards by your board’s scheme (CBSE, ICSE, state, NEP), the year’s result, suggested remarks, printed or published to families.
- InsightsWho needs attention and why, how classes move across the year, how sections compare, and support groups to help.
- MeetingsParent–teacher meetings: teachers open slots, families book them; a prep sheet for each child, the teacher’s note, follow-ups, and what was agreed sent to the family.
- SyllabusChapters per class and subject with the month they’re due, what each section has finished, and who is behind.
- LearningResources by chapter, a question bank tagged by chapter and skill, quizzes children take on the family’s phone, marked at once, and where each class is weak.
- DisciplineIncidents recorded by teachers, private until shared with the family; serious ones sent to the principal, who asks the family in and closes them; patterns by child, class and kind.
People
- StaffThe staff directory, check-in, the daily and monthly staff register, leave and its balances.
- AdmissionsEnquiries from first call to a place in a class, and the public enquiry form.
- PayrollSalaries, monthly payroll from the staff register, EPF, ESI, TDS and payslips.
- AppraisalClassroom observations against a short rubric, shared and answered; goals for the year; the year’s review in both voices.
- ConversationsFamilies and teachers talking about a child inside Slate: no personal numbers shared, office hours shown, the principal brought in when asked.
- ActivitiesHouses and their points, clubs and teams, permission slips families sign in the app; olympiads and competitions with results and certificates; skills each child grows in.
- CareCounselling referrals and sessions, kept to the counsellor; child safety reports, kept to the committee, with every step recorded.
- AlumniFormer students by batch, what they do now and who will mentor; reunions with who is coming; gifts posted to the books. A TC adds a student here.
- HRTraining hours against CBSE's 50, joining and leaving checklists, and hiring from the careers page to the first day.
Campus
- TransportBus routes, stops and riders, drivers, bus papers, the bus live on a map, card readers on the bus, the shortest order of stops, and alerts to a route’s families.
- LibraryThe catalogue, loans to students and staff, due dates, late fines and reminders.
- GateThe visitor register with badges; visitors invited ahead with a QR code, their host told when they arrive; a do-not-admit list; gate passes that tell the family the moment a child leaves early.
- PickupWho may collect each child (with photos), one-time codes for anyone else, the handover at the gate, and the family told at once.
- HealthAllergies, conditions and medicines; the medicine round; vaccinations and check-ups; the infirmary register; families told when a child is sent home or referred.
- StoreStock of stationery, uniforms, books, lab and sports supplies; uniform and book sales at the counter with receipts; every movement, reorder levels, and purchases the principal approves.
- HostelRooms and beds by block, night and morning roll calls, and out-passes from the family’s ask to back through the gate.
- CanteenThe weekly menu: breakfast, lunch and snack, for staff and families.
- FacilitiesThe hall, labs and ground booked without clashes, and the asset register with warranties, service contracts and book value.
Office
- ReportsReports with charts and drill-down (attendance, fees, results, admissions, enrolment), saved as views, shared with the office, and sent on a schedule.
- AccountsThe books, double entry: fees and salaries post themselves; expenses, petty cash and the bank; trial balance, income and expenditure, balance sheet; Tally export.
- CertificatesNumbered transfer, bonafide and character certificates, families asking for them, and printable ID cards.
- ComplianceUDISE+ and APAAR, CBSE registration checked before the window opens, statutory registers, and the public disclosure.
- SurveysSurveys and quick polls for families or staff, anonymous if you like, with results as they come in.
- CircularsNotices to families and staff, chosen by any filter, with files attached; see who has read and acknowledged, and remind the rest.
- Help deskAnything to fix or answer, from a broken fan to a fee question: to the right desk, on a promised time, rated when done.
- PurchasesVendors and purchase orders, from an approved request to goods received into the store and the bill posted and paid.
- WebsiteThe school’s public website: the front page, its own pages and menu, news and notices, photo albums, admissions and careers.
- PrivacyThe privacy notice, families’ choices for each child, their requests to see, correct or erase data, breaches, and how long data is kept.
Our promises
Built for the trust a school holds
Children’s records, families’ money, teachers’ pay. Slate is careful with all of it.
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Each person sees only what is theirs
A teacher sees their own classes, a parent their own child, the accountant never sees marks. The database enforces it, for the screens and for Ask alike.
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Every change confirmed and recorded
Anything that changes a record or reaches a family waits for a person’s yes, and the audit log says who, when, and whether it came from Ask.
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Made for Indian schools
CBSE grades and report cards, UDISE+ and APAAR, EPF and ESI payroll, UPI receipts and transfer certificates.
See your school in Slate
We set Slate up with your classes, staff and fee plan, then walk your office through it.