15 million answerbooks digitised, with 100% recorded uptime since launch.

The ask

University evaluation ran on paper. Millions of physical answerbooks had to be moved, stored and tabulated by hand, which held up results and cost money at every step.

Two things blocked digitising it. No scanner on the market took an A3 answerbook without cutting the spine, and every university marks to its own rules.

The scanner nobody sold

So we built one. We designed, prototyped and manufactured an A3 scanner that digitises an answerbook without cutting it, which keeps the original intact. More than 3,000 of them were deployed on premise at client sites, feeding scans into the cloud platform.

How the workflow runs

1. 01Operators scan answerbooks on our own hardware, on premise at the university.
2. 02A quality control module lets checkers pass or fail each scan.
3. 03Passed scans upload to secure S3 buckets.
4. 04Authorised assessors log in and mark the digital answerbooks on demand.
5. 05The system collates the marks and exports results to the university.

How it grew

One university at launch in 2020, a second in 2021. By 2022 the platform carried more than 1,000 assessors at once through peak examination periods. Two more universities came in 2023, and throughput reached a million answerbooks a month. 2024 passed 15 million answerbooks in total.

System uptime

100% recorded since July 2020

Answerbooks processed

15,000,000+

Data under management

70+ TB

Peak throughput

1,000,000+ a month

Assessors at once

1,000+

Universities served

4

Scanning centres

300+

Custom scanners deployed

3,000+

Microservices

10+

The end customers the platform served

The job transfers