From manual to
machine. ITS,
reimagined.

Seven systems. Zero integration.
Everything done twice.

ITS has Category 1 NZQA status, 39 courses, and genuine expertise in vocational training. What it doesn't have is a platform that lets that expertise scale. Every enrolment is a manual process. Every compliance report is a spreadsheet. Every at-risk learner is someone a tutor hasn't heard about yet.

Right now, its.ac.nz is actively costing enrolments before anyone even sees a course.

This isn't a design opinion — every number below is a real measurement of the live site this week, checked against Google's own published research and independent industry benchmarks. The backend platform in this document is only half the fix. The public site is the other half, and it's currently working against every other thing this platform does well.

Real path, walked this week: homepage → course listing → CTA choice → Shopify product page → cart → checkout → confirmation → a separate enrolment form. Eight visitor-facing steps across three unconnected systems, before a learner is actually enrolled.

The platform in this document already solves the backend half — one enrolment record, no re-keying, compliance captured at the source. The front-end is the other half of the same fix: one fast, single-domain path from "interested" to "enrolled," hosted on the same Cloudflare edge network as everything else in this document, with no separate Wix bill and no Shopify transaction cut. Included in the build — this isn't a second project.

Eight interconnected modules.
One platform. No vendor lock-in.

Every part of the platform is purpose-built for ITS — not adapted from a generic SaaS product. It runs on enterprise-grade infrastructure (Cloudflare's global edge network), managed specifically for ITS — not a shared, multi-tenant platform carrying other providers' data alongside yours.

Government-ready data, not a translation job

The compliance agent doesn't just flag what's missing — it produces the actual file TEC accepts. Ethnicity coded correctly by Pacific island (not generic "Pasifika"), NSN handled honestly (real allocation via SELMA's NSI integration, never invented), disability indicators, IR numbers — all mandatory at enrolment, all TEC-format on export.

• Direct-upload format — LEAR/REGT/ENRL CSVs generated on demand, not a data dump someone reformats.
• SDR Readiness panel — every learner's compliance gaps visible instantly, fixed inline.
• iQAF evidence generator — AI drafts structured self-review evidence across all 8 indicators, human reviews before submission.
• Pre-moderation audit — every lesson scored against NZQA Rules, TEC, UDL, and proof-of-learning before delivery, not after a moderator flags it.

Not a mockup. This is running right now.

Screenshots of the actual platform, taken from a live session this week — real learner data (demo names, real structure), real AI output, real charts. Every screen below is one click away at its-dev.pages.dev.

The front door — what ITS's learners and prospects see

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Public homepage — the marketing site sits on the same platform as everything behind it. No separate Wix account, no separate login for staff to manage content.

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Enrolment form — ethnicity, prior education, disability indicator: all mandatory here, at the source, not chased down after the fact for SDR.

The clincher — not another admin panel

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World Explorer
A walkable, self-paced learning world — built specifically for neurodivergent learners. This screenshot is mid-session: score building live (Step 4 · Score 8), Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act content correctly cited, evidence log writing itself as the learner explores. No timers, no penalties, no wrong answers — just exploration that quietly produces NZQA-ready evidence. Nobody else in this sector has this.

The other clincher — an R&D agent that answers "what should we build next?"

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Growth Report
A real strategic report, not a template. This run combined ITS's actual Xero revenue by category, untapped NZQA units already in your registration, and live research into TIA funding policy — correctly identifying that Fees Free never covered ITS's short courses, and that TIA (the Government's $127.6m benefit-recipient training fund) is the biggest underused growth lever available right now. Sourced and cited, not generic advice.

The daily engine — where staff actually live

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Daily AI Brief — Donna's actual morning brief, generated fresh, naming a specific at-risk learner by name with a reason to call today.

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SDR Readiness panel — every learner's TEC-mandatory fields, gaps visible instantly, fixed inline.

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Leadership Dashboard — 7 live charts on real enrolment, ethnicity, and risk data, with an AI insight button on every one.

Course creation — from idea to NZQA-ready in one pipeline

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AI course design — one brief in, a full UbD/ADDIE course structure out: graduate profile, modules, real unit standards — auto-populating every other tab in the build.

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Pre-moderation audit — a real scored verdict against NZQA/TEC/UDL/proof-of-learning, run on an actual generated module, before it ever reaches a learner.

Not "does more with less." Frees people to do the work only a person can do.

Every hour automation removes from re-keying, chasing, and manually checking is an hour a real staff member spends on the part of the job that actually needs a human — a call to an at-risk learner, a real conversation with a school, catching a compliance gap before it's a finding, not after.

None of this replaces staff — it removes the parts of the job that were never the reason anyone joined ITS to do them. The tutor still makes the call. The platform just makes sure they know to make it three weeks earlier, with the context already pulled together.

Category 1 NZQA — maintained,
not scrambled for.

The platform treats compliance as a feature, not an afterthought. Every module generates audit-ready evidence. The moderation agent checks content against NZQA Rules, TEC requirements, UDL v2.2, and proof-of-learning standards before anything goes to learners.

Not a chatbot bolted on.
AI wired into every workflow.

Every AI function in the platform is contextual, role-aware, and grounded in real ITS data — learner risk signals, NZQA unit standards, regional demographics, historical enrolment trends. The model never hallucinates a unit standard number or an at-risk score.

• Daily AI brief — personalised morning summary per staff role. Donna gets ops + compliance; Nathan gets his at-risk learners; James gets marketing performance.
• AI risk scoring — 15 engagement signals (login frequency, progress, Kōrero usage, assessment overdue) → 0-100 risk score, band, and recommended action, nightly.
• Intervention drafts — claude-sonnet-4-6 writes a personalised message for a flagged learner. Human reviews and approves. Nothing sends automatically.
• Campaign Agent — aware of season, current cohort, at-risk learners, and funding opportunities. Drafts email + SMS + social post. Staff judge, amend, approve.
• Course content generation — full ADDIE module with Gagné's 9 Events, Kolb cycle, 5 learner adaptations (Plain English, Standard, Te reo Māori, Visual, Supported). ~4 credits/module.
• Pre-moderation audit — 5-dimension compliance score (NZQA alignment, TEC requirements, UDL, proof of learning, assessment validity). Go/no-go verdict before delivery.
• Kōrero AI tutor — learner-facing, course-specific, culturally aware. Answers questions 24/7, renders markdown responses. Available in te reo Māori.
• Leadership chart insights — click any chart → claude-haiku-4-5 returns 3-4 specific, actionable bullet points about that data point, in NZ vocational training context.

One subscription. Everything
included. Nothing metered.

No per-learner fees, no hourly invoices, no surprise AI bills. Your subscription bundles hosting, security, compliance currency, support, and a monthly allowance of Platform Credits — the simple unit behind every AI action.

Growth covers ~10 full course builds or ~100 moderation audits a month — more than a busy quarter of curriculum work. Unused credits roll one month. Compare: current tools + manual compliance hours ≈ NZ$5k–15k/yr with none of this automation.

The platform is built. These
four switches make it live.

The full platform is deployed and functional on demo data. Connecting real production credentials is the final step — each one unlocks a specific capability set.

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