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Alumni engagement platform for a national secondary-school past students' union

Client
A national secondary-school past students' union
Sector
Education and membership
Engagement type
Product build

Client anonymised at the client's discretion. Reference available on request under NDA.

The situation

A past students' union with a large, dispersed membership and no single place where members could prove membership, find each other, or take part in the union's activities.

Membership verification, events and rewards were handled by hand, and the union wanted a platform it could run itself.

What we were asked to do

Design and build a membership platform for mobile and web, with an administrative back office and an API, and ship it to a public app store.

What we did

  1. 01

    Membership first

    Verified membership with an administrative gate came before any feature that depended on it. A member who cannot be verified cannot be trusted with a wallet or a door.

  2. 02

    Build on shared rails

    The platform was built as a React Native application, a web administration console and a REST API, so that the same foundation could carry later features and later clients.

  3. 03

    Ship

    The application was released to the Play Store, with the administrative gate, check-in and wallet in the released version.

What was built

  • React Native mobile application, web administration console and REST API
  • Verified membership with an administrative gate
  • QR member ID and door check-in
  • AI matching for people, jobs and mentors
  • Points, badges and rewards
  • A wallet with a bank e-money top-up integration
  • AI-assisted reunion planning
  • Released to the Play Store

What it produced

  • The union now has a released application in the Play Store through which members are verified, checked in at the door, matched to people, jobs and mentors, and rewarded for participation, and a wallet its members can top up through a bank e-money integration.

Client anonymised at the client's discretion. Reference available on request under NDA.

Next step

Information Technology Consulting

Two to three weeks

Product Discovery and PRD Sprint

A build-ready PRD with requirement IDs, data model, non-functional requirements and acceptance criteria: the same artefact the firm writes for its own products.

Deliverable
A build-ready PRD with requirement IDs, data model, non-functional requirements and acceptance criteria