Edtech · IELTS platform

IELTSHUTThe IELTS platform that grades itself.

A white-label, multi-tenant IELTS prep and exam platform for coaching centers — full Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking exams, AI grading against the real IELTS criteria, and a locked-down desktop kiosk for proctored mock tests. It's our furthest-along product, heading into private beta this quarter.

In development72% build complete
72%
Build progress
Q3 2026
Target launch
Private beta
Stage
4 / full
Exam modules
Platforms
Web appDesktop kiosk (Win · macOS · Linux)
Why we're building it

IELTS prep is stuck doing everything by hand.

Coaching centers run mock exams on paper, grade Writing and Speaking manually for hours, and have no secure way to run tests on their own computers. IELTSHUT turns that whole workflow into software.

01

Grading takes hours, per student

Examiners hand-mark four modules against four criteria each. IELTSHUT scores Listening and Reading instantly and drafts AI band scores for Writing and Speaking — examiners review instead of starting from scratch.

02

No secure way to run mock tests

A locked-down desktop kiosk delivers proctored exams with lockdown telemetry, license activation and offline resume — so a center can run real exam conditions on its own machines.

03

Every center wants its own brand

Multi-tenant from the ground up: each coaching network gets branded portals, custom domains, its own students, staff, roles and billing — one platform, many institutes.

What it does

Everything a center needs, in one platform.

Full exam engine

  • Four IELTS modulesShipped

    Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking — authoring, timing and delivery for every module.

  • Auto-graded Listening & ReadingShipped

    Answer-key matching with spelling-variant and normalization handling, bands computed server-side.

  • Resilient attemptsShipped

    Per-question auto-save, version-guarded concurrency, resume after disconnects, server-derived timers.

  • Student notes & highlightsPlanned

    In-exam annotation while reading passages and listening.

AI grading

  • AI Writing evaluationShipped

    Band scores across all four IELTS Writing criteria, with word-count penalties and a study-plan summary.

  • AI Speaking evaluationShipped

    Transcription, fluency/lexical/grammar scoring and pronunciation analysis from a recorded response.

  • Examiner override & publishShipped

    Teachers adjust any AI band with a reason; nothing reaches students until it's published.

  • AI question generationBuilding

    Draft passages, prompts and question sets from a topic — endpoints scaffolded, UI in progress.

Proctoring & kiosk

  • Locked-down desktop kioskShipped

    A Tauri app delivers proctored exams with fullscreen lock, hotkey blocking and process monitoring.

  • Lockdown telemetryShipped

    Violation events (multi-monitor, clipboard, VM, focus loss) streamed back with severity levels.

  • License activation & offline resumeShipped

    Per-branch license keys, OS-keychain storage, seat management and encrypted offline attempt cache.

  • Signed, auto-updating buildsBuilding

    Code-signing, notarization and a managed per-tenant update channel.

Institute management

  • Multi-tenant hierarchyShipped

    Agency → branch → student, with per-tenant branding, custom domains and white-label portals.

  • Students, batches & rolesShipped

    Roster lifecycle, batch transfers, streaming bulk CSV import, and granular role-based permissions.

  • Review workqueueShipped

    Examiners claim submitted attempts, leave per-question notes and publish results atomically.

  • Per-tenant analyticsPlanned

    Center-facing dashboards for cohort performance and usage.

Billing & payments

  • Three payment gatewaysShipped

    Stripe for international cards, plus bKash and SSLCommerz for Bangladesh.

  • Subscriptions & quotasShipped

    Plans with per-resource quotas (mock tests, AI evaluations), trials, proration and add-ons.

  • Invoices & commissionsShipped

    Invoicing across the network with manual-payment recording, retries/dunning and commission tracking.

  • Student admission feesPlanned

    Direct student-to-center payments for enrolment.

Platform & security

  • Dual web + app authShipped

    Session auth for web and JWT with refresh-token rotation for clients, with device-trust OTP.

  • Built to scaleShipped

    NestJS on Fastify, Prisma + Postgres, two-tier Redis caching, BullMQ jobs and atomic quota checks.

  • Cost-controlled AIShipped

    Per-bucket AI budgets, evaluation dedup, prompt-override A/B framework and a cost dashboard.

  • 2FA & social loginPlanned

    TOTP and Google/Microsoft sign-in.

Build progress · transparent

Done, in progress, and what's next.

We build in the open. Here's exactly where IELTSHUT stands — the bulk of the platform is already shipped.

Shipped13
  • Listening, Reading, Writing & Speaking exam engine
  • Instant auto-grading for Listening & Reading
  • AI Writing & Speaking evaluation (4 criteria each)
  • Examiner review, override & atomic publish
  • Proctored desktop kiosk + lockdown telemetry
  • Desktop license activation, seats & offline resume
  • Multi-tenant agency / branch / student hierarchy
  • White-label branding + custom domains
  • Streaming bulk student import (CSV)
  • RBAC: roles, permissions & impersonation audit
  • Stripe + bKash + SSLCommerz payments
  • Subscriptions, invoices, commissions & dunning
  • AI cost dashboard, budgets & evaluation dedup
Building now5
  • AI question & passage generation UI
  • Examiner-facing Speaking review surface
  • Signed / notarized auto-updating kiosk builds
  • Student self-registration flow
  • Shared Zod contract migration (server ↔ client)
Up next7
  • Private beta with pilot coaching centers
  • In-exam student notes & highlights
  • Per-tenant performance analytics
  • Multi-attempt history for students
  • 2FA, OAuth & magic-link sign-in
  • Native mobile companion app
  • LMS bridges (Canvas / Moodle)
The roadmap

From foundation to launch.

72%
  • 3 phases shipped
  • 2 in progress
  • 1 still planned
  1. 01

    Foundation

    Shipped
    • Multi-tenant core, auth & RBAC
    • Billing, subscriptions & three gateways
    • Media, email & background jobs
  2. 02

    Exam engine

    Shipped
    • Authoring for all four modules
    • Delivery, timers & resilient attempts
    • Instant Listening / Reading grading
  3. 03

    AI grading

    Shipped
    • Writing & Speaking evaluation
    • Examiner override & publish
    • Cost controls, dedup & observability
  4. 04

    Proctoring kiosk

    In progress
    • Lockdown delivery & telemetry — live
    • License, seats & offline resume — live
    • Code-signing & auto-update — in progress
  5. 05

    Private beta

    This quarter
    • Pilot with real coaching centers
    • AI question generation in the authoring UI
    • Self-serve onboarding polish
  6. 06

    Public launch

    Q3 2026
    • White-label general availability
    • Per-tenant analytics
    • Marketplace of ready-made test papers
Becoming a platform

More than exams — a full coaching OS.

The exam platform is the start. IELTSHUT is growing into everything a coaching center runs on — these modules are on the way.

Website builder

Planned

Drag-and-drop institute websites and landing pages, white-labeled per center.

Online courses

Planned

Self-paced lessons, video, quizzes and certificates alongside live exams.

Marketing & CRM

Planned

Lead capture, email/SMS campaigns and a pipeline to convert enquiries to enrolments.

Automation flows

Planned

No-code triggers — onboarding, reminders, result publishing and follow-ups.

Admissions & payments

Building

Direct student enrolment with admission fees, invoices and receipts.

Analytics & reports

Planned

Cohort performance, band trends and center-level dashboards for owners.

Under the hood

Built on a serious stack.

Backend
NestJS on FastifyPrisma + PostgreSQLRedis (2-tier cache)BullMQ jobsArgon2
Web & desktop
Next.js 16React 19TanStack QueryTauri 2 (Rust)Tailwind v4
AI & media
Anthropic ClaudeDeepgram (speech)ElevenLabs (TTS)Cloudflare R2Embeddings dedup
Payments
StripebKashSSLCommerz

Want IELTSHUT the day it goes live?

Join the early-access list and we'll bring you in as soon as the beta opens — or reach out if you run a center and want to pilot it with us.