Kanpus

The brief

Kanpus came to us with a working prototype and a clear thesis: international curriculum students (IB, AP, SAT) lacked a tutoring platform that spoke their language — both literally and academically. Existing platforms were either local marketplaces or US-centric. The brief was to build the real thing: global, multi-language, exam-specific, and defensible.

The challenge

Booking across timezones, payments across currencies, and AI-assisted lesson prep that teachers actually wanted to use — all in one codebase, with a content model that could grow to thousands of lessons without turning into a CMS nightmare.

How we approached it

• Built on Next.js App Router with a single content model spanning subjects, tracks, lessons, and tutor profiles.
• Stripe + localized payment methods with a reconciliation layer that survives refunds, transfers, and tax edge cases.
• AI lesson-prep copilot integrated into the tutor dashboard — retrieval over past sessions, curriculum-aware summaries, and guardrails teachers can override.
• Internationalization strategy that separates UI copy from curriculum content, so new languages ship in days, not weeks.

Outcome

• Live in production across multiple countries with active students and tutors.
• Lesson-booking flow instrumented end-to-end; conversion tracked from browse to paid session.
• AI copilot measurably shortens tutor prep time for repeat topics, validated via in-product feedback.

Stack

• Next.js · React · TypeScript
• Tailwind · shadcn/ui
• Postgres · Supabase
• Stripe · Iyzico
• Vercel · AI Gateway

Services engaged

• Web development
• AI integration
• Payments