Who builds Enaton
Enaton started with a question anyone who has run a school will recognise. Why is this still so hard? Fees in one book, results in another, and nobody able to say by Friday what is actually owed.
A school should be able to spend its attention on teaching
Most of the administrative weight in a Kenyan school is not difficult work. It is repeated work, done by hand, in several places at once, by people who did not join a school in order to reconcile a bank statement. That is where the term goes.
Enaton exists to take that weight off. One system for fees, payments, academics, attendance, transport, communication and the parent portal, so the numbers agree with each other and a director can answer a question in the moment it is asked rather than the week after.
We are a Kenyan company building for Kenyan schools, and we intend to stay close enough to them that the roadmap keeps being written by the people using it.
What Enaton runs today
Billed and tracked, not collected. Collection is the gap the platform exists to close, and claiming otherwise would sell against our own argument. Each of these figures uses the lowest end of its real range, and the working is published on how we count.
There is one thing we deliberately do not publish, and that is the names of the schools we work with. A school’s finances are its own business, and we are not willing to trade a client’s privacy for a logo wall. Where we describe a school it is anonymised but specific, for example a private CBC academy in Kiambu with 780 learners.
One price for the school, never per learner
Enaton starts at KES 4,060 a month for a school, with every module switched on. It is never priced per learner, so the year you finally fill your classes is not the year your software bill goes up. Groups running several schools are quoted.
Migration from your current system, configuration, training and retraining as staff change are part of that, rather than a separate invoice at the start. Larger organisations are quoted, and we tell you where you land before you commit to anything.
What we hold to
Access is granted by role, each school’s records are kept apart from every other school, and everything a school puts in belongs to the school. If you ever decide to leave, your data is exported and handed to you.
Terms rather than semesters, vote heads rather than line items, CBC and 8-4-4 and Cambridge side by side, and fees paid the way parents actually pay them. This is not a system from somewhere else with a Kenyan flag added to it.
Nearly every module in Enaton exists because a bursar or a head teacher described a problem precisely enough that it could be built. We would rather ship the unglamorous thing that removes an hour a day than the impressive thing nobody opens twice.
Every number we publish uses the floor of its real range, and the arithmetic sits on a page anyone can read. A figure you can verify is worth more than a bigger one you cannot.
A small team, and you will meet it
Enaton is built by a small team in Nairobi. Elvis Sautet is Head of Product, which in practice means he is usually the person you end up talking to about how a fee structure should behave, or why a report card is laid out the way it is.
We mention it only because it is worth knowing that a school with a good idea is one conversation away from the person who decides what gets built next, rather than several tickets away from nobody in particular.
Come and see it on your own numbers
Thirty minutes, your fee structure, your classes. We will show you the gap and exactly how it closes.