Every school deserves the same technology as the ones charging ten times more
This page is not about a founder. It is about the offices, staff rooms and admission counters that convinced us Devryon had to exist.
It is the first week of June. There are 200 admission forms on the principal's desk.
The accountant is looking for a fee receipt from last year — the parent standing at the counter is certain it was paid, and the register says otherwise. In the corner, a class teacher is copying today's attendance from a WhatsApp group into a printed sheet, because the software the school pays for is "too slow to open on the staff-room laptop".
A parent has travelled twenty kilometres to collect one transfer certificate. She is told to come back on Monday.
This is not a bad school. This is a very good school. It is simply running on five registers, three Excel sheets, one biometric machine, one accounting app that was designed for shops, and one ERP that everyone quietly stopped using six months ago.
We went into schools before we wrote a single line of code.
Some of what we saw stayed with us:
- Teachers spending Sunday evenings entering the week's attendance — because the app only worked on one shared computer.
- Clerks correcting fee receipts at 9 PM, matching bank statements line-by-line with a physical register.
- Parents travelling twenty kilometres to collect a single certificate that should have been a download.
- Principals maintaining five parallel registers because "the software never matches what the board asks for".
- A vice-principal who had stopped opening her ERP dashboard entirely — "it takes eight clicks to see today's absentees, so I just ask the class monitor".
Every school we visited had already bought software at some point. Almost none of them were still using it the way it was demoed. The tools existed. Nobody liked using them.
How a school office in Maharashtra changed what we chose to build
A scene from an aided school in Palghar district. Names are held back on request; the beats are as they happened.
- Problem
8:40 PM. The clerk is still at her desk. She is tallying 312 fee receipts against a bank statement — by hand — because the ERP the school pays ₹80,000/year for cannot export a matched report.
- Frustration
A teacher walks in with a printed attendance sheet. She has typed the same names into the system, into WhatsApp, and now on paper — because the principal was told the software is 'not reliable'.
- Decision
We stopped taking notes. We asked one question: 'If we built something for you — not for a demo — what would it have to do on a Monday morning?' Her answer became the product spec.
- Sacrifice
No launch event. No investor deck. Two schools, weekly visits, and a rule we still keep: if a single staff member's day gets worse because of us, we fix it that week or remove the feature.
- Mission
Give a teacher back one honest hour a week. Give a parent an answer without a phone call. Do that at a price no principal has to justify to a trust board. Everything else is just execution.
We stopped calling it a "school ERP". We started calling it "removing unnecessary work".
The decision was small and unfashionable: we would not compete on features, dashboards or colourful charts. We would compete on how many minutes a teacher, clerk and principal got back at the end of each day.
If the fee module needed six clicks, it was broken. If a receipt could not be generated on a low-end phone in a village school with a weak signal, it was broken. If a parent had to call the office for a result that was already in the system, the system was broken.
"Every hour a teacher spends fighting software is an hour taken away from a child. That is the only metric we are willing to be measured on."
The first version was not launched. It was tested inside two real schools, for months.
Our founding partner institutions — Comrade Godavari Shamrao Parulekar English High School and IIAIC Vinayakrao Baptail Junior College of Arts and Commerce — did not receive a polished pitch. They received a rough tool, weekly visits, and a promise: "if any part of your day gets worse because of us, we will fix it or remove it."
Modules were rewritten because a clerk said "this is one click too many". A fee report was re-designed after a trustee asked, "why can't I see this by class instead of by month?" The parent app was rebuilt three times because parents kept using it wrong — which meant we were building it wrong.
We listened more than we shipped. That is still how we work.
A school should never need expensive software to provide quality education.
The private school in a metro and the aided school in a taluka face the same admissions season, the same board inspection, the same anxious parents. They deserve the same quality of software.
Devryon exists so that the size of your fee book or your city's PIN code never decides how modern your school gets to feel. If we can save a teacher one honest hour a week, and give one parent an answer without a phone call, we have earned our place in your school.
That is the whole mission. Everything else — modules, pricing, integrations — is just how we keep that promise.
Shri Vinod Kumar Ramlal Bind
Founder, Devryon EdTech Solution
Grew up close to schools that were doing exceptional work with impossible resources. Spent years watching good teachers spend their evenings fighting bad software. Devryon is the quietest, most useful answer I could build to that problem — and the team on this page is the reason it keeps getting better.
Four commitments the founder will not negotiate away
The school is the hero
Every roadmap decision is taken with a working principal, clerk or teacher in the room. If they can't use it on a Monday morning, it doesn't ship.
Reachable for every school
From a village-side high school to a multi-branch trust — Devryon is priced so no principal has to choose between a good ERP and a new classroom.
The school owns its data
No reselling, no ads, no shady exports. DPDP-aligned handling, encrypted backups, and a one-click export the school controls.
Show up when it matters
Admissions week. Result day. The night before a board inspection. That is when a school needs a partner on the phone — not a ticket number.
None of this works without the people who show up for your school
Product, engineering, academic advisory, implementation and support — organised around one goal: your school going live smoothly and staying live.
Product & Strategy
Roadmap, pricing, partner schools
Owns what Devryon builds next, based on real classroom and office workflows.
Meet the teamEngineering
Web, mobile apps, cloud infra
Ships the Teacher, Student and Parent apps, keeps the platform fast, secure and always online.
Meet the teamAcademic Advisory
Curriculum, boards, compliance
Ex-principals and academic heads who review every module for CBSE / ICSE / State board fit.
Meet the teamImplementation
Onboarding, data migration, training
Gets your school live in 7–14 days — data import, workflow setup and staff training included.
Meet the teamCustomer Success & Support
24×7 phone, WhatsApp, email
Same team through the year — no call-centre handoffs, no ticket black holes.
Meet the teamGrowth & Partnerships
Schools, colleges, channel partners
Works with founding partner institutions and district-level partners across Maharashtra and beyond.
Meet the teamTell us what your Monday morning looks like.
The admissions counter, the fee register, the parent who called at 9 PM — that is the conversation we want. Not a demo of dashboards. If we cannot honestly help, we will say so on the same call.