Consenna & HP for Education

In 2020, HP hired Consenna to support a program it runs to help schools get credit when trading up old equipment. This program, HP for Education, requires tight coordination between lots of different groups (i.e. schools, resellers, service providers, etc.)

As a consultancy, Consenna needed to work fast and deliver its commitments on-budget and on-time. With a 3-month runway to launch, the team needed a custom solution that met the following objectives:

Highly functional, managing a complex 4-sided program architecture.

Sleek and intuitive, eliminating friction in school participation.

Scalable and designed to serve 30k+ schools across the UK and Ireland.

Consenna couldn’t risk burning its budget and time building a custom platform that didn’t meet HP’s very specific functional requirements, which included: 

Intuitive school onboarding and equipment trade-in flow.

Administrative portal for staff to review and approve claims.

Authorized reseller portal where staff can track and support customers.

Digital storefront where schools can spend earned wallet funds on solutions.

This meant that traditionally coded software development was a liability. To make sure that Consenna delivered HP a bespoke digital asset that met all program objectives — both immediately and over time — Airdev spent 1 week translating Consenna’s strategy into detailed product specifications, wireframes, and success metrics. 

After this initial high-touch scoping process, Airdev’s dedicated visual development team built the app in 3 weeks – with weekly milestones and check-ins for Consenna to see progress and provide feedback. For the next 5 weeks, Airdev tested the product internally and with HP clients to iterate and add functionality (e.g. reseller self-service) as business needs evolved. 

Finally, after 2 months, Consenna and the HP team launched the platform at the 2020 Bett conference — a global community event for education technology. 

By building with Airdev using no-code, Consenna was able to cut its originally scheduled development time by more than half. In its first month live, the custom no-code marketplace facilitated hundreds of school registrations. 

Today, the online platform supports 30k schools across the UK wanting to upgrade their hardware. Notably, the shift to remote work and schooling that happened due to the pandemic resulted in a large increase in the need for hardware, and this program helped schools make the transition.

As for Consenna, they were able to deliver a successful product that generated very positive feedback and resulted in additional requests from HP for their work. 

Read more about how Airdev helped Consenna & HP deliver a custom no-code marketplace to over 30K schools.