Learning Sphere

SYDNEY · 2026

SYDNEY, 2026. An Australian education provider running recurring training cohorts across multiple programs hit the wall every LMS shopper hits. The off-the-shelf options were either too rigid to support the assessment logic the business actually needed, or priced per-seat in a way that turned profitable cohorts into break-even ones at scale. The build-it-yourself path looked like two million dollars and 18 months of engineering. The market for serverless multi-tenant education platforms in Australia did not have a category leader. It still does not.

A serverless education platform on Google Cloud Run with Firestore as the data plane. Thirty-five functions handle cohort orchestration, assessment scoring, certification issuance, and real-time progress tracking. Multi-tenant from the architecture up with strict data isolation per cohort. Vertex AI generates the assessments and grades them at consistent standard. Integrated with the client's existing payment and CRM stack.

Thirty-five Cloud Run functions in BETA. Multi-cohort scale demonstrated. Idle cost approaches zero because of scale-to-zero serverless. Certification issued in real time. Assessment generation, which used to consume an operator's morning, now runs in seconds. Architected to restore margins at scale.

BETA. Working prototype built in 1 week.