OVERVIEW ShaalaOS (SchoolOS) is an AI-native

OVERVIEW ShaalaOS (SchoolOS) is an AI-native operating system for Indian schools, covering admissions, attendance, fees, academics, and government compliance (SATS, UDISE+, RTE, mid-day meal), built WhatsApp-first for parents and fully bilingual in English and Kannada.

PROJECT BRIEF Indian schools run on paper registers, manual fee collection, and duplicate data entry across multiple government portals, while parents have no reliable channel for updates. Design a system where staff can do core tasks (attendance, payments, compliance exports) in under a minute, without asking parents to install anything.

ROLE Product Designer & Builder

METHODS I designed and am building ShaalaOS end to end. Attendance takes under 60 seconds to mark, with absences triggering automatic WhatsApp alerts to guardians in their own language, no parent app or login required. Fee collection generates a PDF receipt and sends it via WhatsApp the moment a payment is recorded.

AI is used carefully: a Digitize flow lets staff photograph a paper register and have it read automatically, but nothing becomes a real student record until a human confirms it, and a Teacher Copilot drafts lesson plans that a teacher must approve before they reach a parent.