Education. Skills. Opportunity.
SkillsCortex
From Education to Employment.
One Intelligent Platform.
An AI-first operating system designed to connect institutions, funding, learning and work — one governed thread of people, processes, evidence, money and outcomes.
See the Golden Thread- 01School
- 02Further & higher education
- 03Skills & funding
- 04Work
Six pillars. One operating model.
From planning and funding to verified learning, accountable payments and employment outcomes.
SkillsCortex
People · Processes · Evidence · Money · OutcomesGovern & Plan
Sector plans, institution structures, policy, accreditation and delegated authority. Human authority and scoped access connect each handover.
Education outcomes are lost between systems
Every institution keeps its own records. The learner’s journey — and the evidence of what worked — breaks at every handover.
Disconnected records and duplicate capturing
Manual attendance and late interventions
Delayed payments and fragmented approvals
Inconsistent evidence across providers
Poor programme and funding oversight
Weak employment tracking after learning
One connected operating model
Not another MIS, LMS or dashboard. Connected operational workflows, a longitudinal learner record, evidence-based insight and human oversight.
The full journey, not disconnected modules
Ten connected solutions across education, skills, funding and employment. Explore detailed scope and governed workflows.
SETA ERP
Tenant onboarding, organisation structures, departments, governance, committees, delegations.
02End-to-end Skills Development
Needs analysis, programme proposals, funding, budgets, implementation plans, provider and implementing entity appointment, contracting, cohorts, learn.
03Training Provider Management
Recruitment, delivery, facilitators, venues, assessment and moderation.
04School Management
Run the school, support every learner and improve every decision.
05University & TVET
Connect enrolment, funding, academic progress and workplace pathways.
06Learning Management System
Course authoring, qualifications, competency pathways, modules, content library, documents, videos, interactive lessons, quizzes, assignments, discuss.
07Assessment & Moderation
Assessment plans, rubrics, formative/summative/practical assessments, observations, portfolios of evidence, evidence uploads, competency decisions, as.
08Funding, Grants & Bursaries
Funding sources, funding calls, proposals, eligibility, due diligence, evaluation matrices, conflict declarations, committee approvals, awards, contra.
09Financial Management & PayMesh
Budgets by funder/programme/provider/cohort, cost centres, procurement, suppliers, purchase orders, contracts, commitments, expenses, invoices, stipen.
10Workplace Learning & Employment
Placements, workplace learning and skills outcomes.
Four pillars, one platform
School education extends the platform — it does not replace the skills-development core.
School Education
School operations, learners, staff, curriculum and assessment on one operational thread.
ExploreHigher Education & TVET
Enrolment, funded programmes, assessment and work-integrated learning.
ExploreSETA & Skills Development
Tenants, funding programmes, providers, evidence and verified outcomes.
ExploreWorkplace & Employability
Placements, workplace learning, credentials and employment pathways.
ExploreEvery handover has an owner
01 / 12 · SETA discretionary grant
Funding call
- Accountable owner
- Grants officer
- Evidence & records
- Published criteria, budget and conflict declarations
- Rule & approval gate
- Committee approves the funding window
- Reporting KPI
- Award turnaround, milestone evidence and reconciled claims
- Next action
- Provider application
- Permission boundary
- Assigned programme and records only; cross-party sharing requires explicit authorisation.
Review exceptions before progressing
Website demonstration of intended workflows. No real records, approvals, credentials or payments are processed.
Four flagship school capabilities
Manage School
Profiles, calendars, grades, governance, facilities and School 360.
View capability BLearner 360
Admissions to progression on one longitudinal learner record.
View capability CStaff Management
Educator records, allocations, workload, leave and substitution.
View capability DCurriculum & Assessment
Curriculum, plans, coverage, assessment, moderation and progression rules.
View capabilitySignals become explainable, governed action
Four execution approaches, each used where it fits. People keep authority over sensitive decisions.
Deterministic rules
Admissions checks, assessment weighting, promotion criteria, attendance thresholds.
Optimisation
Timetables, staff allocation, venues and capacity.
Statistical / ML
Forecasting, anomalies and early-warning patterns.
AI reasoning
Evidence-grounded summaries, natural-language analytics and recommendations.
Explainable insight
Illustrative Data- Finding
- Elevated risk of falling behind in Grade 9 Mathematics
- Affected entity
- Learner “Thandi M.” (fictional) · Grade 9B
- Supporting evidence
- · Attendance 94% → 78% over 4 weeks
- · Mathematics term marks 61% → 44%
- · Two missed assignment submissions
- Recommended action
- Teacher review, guardian contact and a 4-week support plan
Human approval required. The class teacher decides whether and how to act.
Each role sees what it needs to act
Only assigned tenant, institution, programme and records; cross-party access requires explicit permission
Full role perspectiveSETA executive
Illustrative DataGovern strategy, budgets and sector outcomes
- Actions
- Review sector skills plan · Act on grant pipeline · Coordinate with grants officer
- Records
- Sector skills plan; APP; committee decisions
- Approvals
- Awards and delegations within authorised limits
- Dashboard
- Grant pipeline, outcomes and strategic risks
- AI assistance
- Evidence-grounded summaries of grant pipeline, outcomes and strategic risks; recommendations do not replace accountable decisions.
- Notifications
- Assigned tasks, missing evidence, due dates and exceptions within the seta executive scope.
- Connected roles
- Grants officer; finance; funders
- Permission scope
- Only assigned tenant, institution, programme and records; cross-party access requires explicit permission
Connected intelligence, finance and opportunity
Intended integration relationships. No live connections are verified by this website.
Intelligence & orchestration
OneCortex
Document review, workflow assistance and evidence-grounded insight.
Intended relationship · connection not verified
Payment orchestration
PayMesh
Approved instructions, disbursement status and reconciliation.
Intended relationship · connection not verified
Employment pathways
HustleHub
Opportunities, referrals, applications, placements and outcomes.
Intended relationship · connection not verified
Governed by design
Built for sensitive learner, staff and funding data. We describe design principles, not certifications we have not confirmed.
Multi-tenancy
Intended tenant boundaries for each SETA, authority or institution; operational isolation requires verification.
Access controls
Role- and scope-based access down to district, school or class.
Auditability
Design scope: versioned records of who changed what, when and why; operational controls require verification.
Privacy
Consent management and designed alignment with POPIA principles.
Configurable policies
Rules for admission, assessment and funding set per tenant.
Human approvals
Sensitive decisions always require an accountable person.
Integration design
Proposed API-first exchange; no live connector is verified by this website.
Questions we hear most
A school MIS records data. SkillsCortex is designed to connect that data to governed workflows — attendance to intervention, leave to substitution, coverage to catch-up — and to carry the learner record beyond school into skills programmes and work.
Discuss a pilot or book a demo
Tell us about your schools, district or programme. We’ll show how SkillsCortex could connect your workflows — and agree what a scoped pilot would prove.