How it works
The Golden Thread
Two interconnected journeys: how a school runs day to day, and how a learner progresses from school to skills to work. A website explainer — not a claim that every workflow is live today.
From allocation to a verified outcome
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.
School operational thread
- Actor
- Principal
- Trigger
- New academic year
- Business rule
- Capacity & calendar rules
- Data recorded
- Terms, grades, classes
- Next action
- Open admissions
- Expected outcome
- A planned year
Lifelong learner thread
- Actor
- Learner & school
- Trigger
- Enrolment
- Business rule
- School progression rules
- Data recorded
- Learner 360
- Next action
- Post-school transition
- Expected outcome
- Foundation record
Value for every role
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
See the value in real situations
Each scenario follows challenge → participants → connected workflow → intelligence → value. Names and values are fictional.
Learner at academic risk
- Challenge
- A Grade 9 learner’s attendance falls and Mathematics marks decline.
- Participants
- Class teacherLearnerGuardianSupport practitioner
Connected workflow
- Attendance & marks recorded
- Signals correlated
- Teacher reviews recommendation
- Guardian contacted
- Support plan tracked
- Reassessment measures improvement
Intelligence & action
Early-warning indicator with supporting evidence, routed for teacher review.
Value
Earlier, measurable support.
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.