/ 01 Accreditation
Evidence on demand, not in retrospect
QAA, OfS, NAAC, NBA, ABET, AACSB, EQUIS. The evidence pack has to be assemblable on the day, not produced in the run-up to the cycle.
07 Industry · Education
A credential is worth what the verification takes.
A degree that takes three weeks to verify is a recruitment delay. A transcript that cannot be produced in an accreditation window is an accreditation risk. A student who waits eight minutes for an admissions answer is a student who applies somewhere else. We build the platforms and pipelines that close those gaps — without adding another system to the stack.
Where the credential is the institution.
We work with universities, multi-campus schools, examination boards, accreditation bodies and ed-tech platforms — in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Our engagements concentrate where paper and process friction erode the student, researcher or employer experience — admissions, credentialing, accreditation evidence, research publication and student services.
We do not add another system. We connect the ones you already run.
Trusted in this industry
University of Cambridge
University of Edinburgh
King's College London
QAA · Office for Students
Multi-campus school networks
National examination boards
Accreditation bodies (UK · India · Middle East)
The briefs nobody else says yes to.
Six structural problems we hear repeatedly from universities, schools and accreditation bodies — and the honest answer to each.
/ 02 Compliance
Student data, three frameworks deep
UKVI for international students, UK-GDPR for student and staff data, safeguarding for schools. Three regimes meeting in one record.
/ 03 Credential trust
A degree is worth what the verification takes
Three-week verification windows do not survive recruitment cycles. Credential fraud is rising. The registry has to answer in minutes.
/ 04 Fragmented data
Information scattered across the stack
SIS, LMS, CRM and departmental systems — each with their own schema. The student record is fifteen records in twelve systems.
/ 05 Legacy archives
Historic credentials in mixed estates
Transcripts, certificates and accreditation evidence in mixed paper / digital estates. Some go back further than the current SIS.
/ 06 Slow upgrade cycles
SIS replacements take years
Ellucian Banner, PeopleSoft Campus, Tribal SITS — long upgrade cycles. The intelligence layer must work alongside, not after replacement.
What we ship into publishing operations.
Three workstreams that run together. The output is one connected institution — not a stack of pilots.
01 Custom Software
School and university platforms, end-to-end
School and university ERPs. Student information systems. Admissions and applicant portals. Credential verification portals. Examination platforms. Parent / guardian apps.
- School & university ERPs — admissions, academics, finance, parent portal under one login.
- Credential verification portals — minutes, not days.
- Examination platforms — question-bank intelligence, paper assembly, secure delivery.
- Parent / guardian apps — safeguarding by design.
02 AI + Human-in-the-loop
Admissions, accreditation and integrity, automated
Admissions enquiry assistants. Credential verification at scale. Accreditation-evidence assembly. Plagiarism and research-integrity detection.
- Admissions assistants — cited answers across policy and prospectus, multilingual.
- Credential verification — transcript and certificate extraction with confidence on every field.
- Accreditation-evidence assembly — citation and version control on every claim.
- Research-integrity detection — plagiarism and misconduct surface evidence, not flags.
03 Integrations
Wired to the SIS, LMS and registries you already run
SIS (Banner, PeopleSoft, SITS), LMS (Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard), UKVI / SLC / HESA returns, national credential registries, research repositories.
- SIS adapters — Banner, PeopleSoft, SITS — bidirectional, schema-mapped.
- LMS adapters — Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard.
- Statutory returns — UKVI, SLC, HESA.
- Research repositories — DSpace, Fedora, Eprints, OAI-PMH.
Actigen Edu — the education edition.
The Actigen module for universities, schools, examination boards and accreditation bodies. Handles the document estate every institution must keep and produce under pressure.
View the platformA·u
Actigen 2.0 · Module
Actigen Edu
A complete education document pipeline. Transcripts, certificates, theses and dissertations, exam paper archives, accreditation evidence, historic textbook digitisation, student and alumni records, multilingual research. Ships with credential-verification APIs and accreditation-pack generation already wired in.
Credential extraction
Transcripts, certificates, awarding-body letters — with field-level confidence and verification API.
Accreditation-evidence assembly
Citation and version control. NAAC, NBA, ABET, AACSB, EQUIS narratives.
Thesis & dissertation indexing
Multilingual search; integrity checks; OAI-PMH out.
Privacy masking
Student and alumni records masked by default; consent-aware retrieval.
SIS / LMS / registry integration
Banner, PeopleSoft, SITS · Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard · national credential registries.
Reviewer copilot
Accreditation reviewers, examination panels — cited evidence on demand.
Real briefs, real corpora.
Six briefs we are running this year — each anchored in a specific process and audited outcome.
01
Credential verification in minutes
Transcripts, certificates and awarding-body letters extracted, verified and returned to recruiters and registries in minutes — not days.
Universities · Awarding bodies
Outcome
Days → minutes
02
Accreditation-evidence packs on demand
Citation and version control on every claim. The pack assembles on the day the reviewer asks, not the week the cycle ends.
Universities · Accreditation bodies
Frameworks
NAAC · NBA · ABET · AACSB · EQUIS
03
Admissions enquiry triage
Multilingual cited answers across policy and prospectus, with handoff to humans on the questions that need them. Response time falls from days to under two minutes.
Universities · Schools
Outcome
2 d → <2 min response
04
Examination platforms
Question-bank intelligence and secure paper assembly. Item analytics and cohort-aware paper construction.
Examination boards · Universities
Outputs
Item banks · Secure delivery · Audit pack
05
Student-services assistants
Policy lookups, appointment logistics, fees and timetable enquiries — cited, multilingual, escalated cleanly.
Universities · Multi-campus schools
Channels
Web · App · WhatsApp · Email
06
Historic textbook & research-archive digitisation
Multilingual research collections, rare textbooks, departmental archives — indexed and federated across repositories.
University libraries · Research programmes
Standards
OAI-PMH · IIIF · TEI
What changes after the work ships.
Three outcomes consistently reported across education engagements. Per-engagement targets agreed in writing during Discover.
/ Efficiency
Verification stops being a bottleneck
Credential verification in minutes. Admissions response in under two minutes. Accreditation packs in days, not weeks.
- Credential verification: days → minutes
- Admissions response: 2 d → <2 min
- Accreditation pack: weeks → days
/ Conversion
Faster admissions, higher conversion
A student who waits eight minutes for an answer is a student who applies somewhere else. Multilingual response shifts conversion in the international segment.
- Higher conversion on responsive enquiry channels
- Lower drop-out on document chase
- Multilingual coverage where the cohort is
/ Research quality
Repositories that researchers actually use
Better indexing, federated search, integrity-aware. The repository becomes the way researchers find each other’s work, not just a deposit point.
- +40–60% repository search relevance
- Federated, multilingual
- Integrity checks at deposit
The numbers vice-chancellors ask for.
Numbers that map to how universities, schools and accreditation bodies report up — boards, regulators, reviewers.
Days → minutes
Credential verification time
Typical post-deployment outcome
2 d → <2 min
Admissions enquiry response
Multi-campus school deployment
Weeks → days
Accreditation-pack preparation
University accreditation pipeline
+40–60%
Research-repository search relevance
After indexing & federation
100%
Records with full lineage & audit trail
By default
99.1%
On-time delivery across SBL projects
Across 4,000+ projects
Typical ranges. Per-engagement targets agreed in writing during Discover.
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Have an accreditation cycle landing this term? Send the brief — and a measured pilot proposal will be returned within the working week.
One platform. Eight industry editions.
Actigen 2.0 is the agentic decision-loop framework underneath every engagement. Configurable per industry; consistent in lineage, governance and audit posture. Below: the full platform, with the Education module highlighted.
/ A·a
Actigen Archive
Libraries, archives, publishers. HWR, IIIF, MARC / EAD / METS, paleography console.
/ A·fActigen Finance
BFSI. KYC, claims triage, contract abstraction with audit-pack lineage.
/ A·hActigen Health
Healthcare. Clinical-note summarisation, IDMP, FHIR-mapped knowledge assistants.
/ A·eActigen Energy
Oil & gas, utilities. CSRD / SEC Climate drafting, asset-document agents, HSE.
/ A·mActigen Manufacture
Engineering knowledge, supplier IP, IATF audit drafting and CAD-aware retrieval.
/ A·uActigen Edu
NAAC narratives, ABET evidence packs, credential registries and reviewer copilots.
/ A·rActigen Research
Academic research operations — TEI, scholarly editions, critical apparatus, IIIF.
/ ePeParliament
Legislatures, registries, parliaments. Multi-script archives and lawmaking copilots.
"The same loop runs every brief. Only the domain model and the schema mapping change."
View the platformThe standards your accreditor cares about.
Externally verifiable credentials and the standards every output is engineered to satisfy. The audit pack travels with the system.
/ Data security
Information security & privacy
External audits aligned to ISO 27001 and 27701. Privacy extends to safeguarding, embargoes and consent-aware retrieval for student and alumni records.
- ISO 27001 · ISO 27701 (PIMS)
- UK-GDPR · GDPR · ICO
- Safeguarding by design · NCSC CAF
/ Regulatory
Education regulator alignment
UK and international primary regulators by default; accreditation frameworks across regions.
- QAA · OfS · UKVI · SLC · HESA
- NAAC · NBA · ABET · AACSB · EQUIS
- WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility
/ Governance
Credential lineage & integrity
Credential lineage, plagiarism integrity, accreditation-evidence audit trails — the artefacts every reviewer now asks for.
- Credential lineage · verification API
- Accreditation-pack version control
- Research-integrity detection
SBL credentials
100+ clients trusted
20+ years in regulated technology
4,000+ projects delivered
99.1% on-time
“We had three vendors who had failed to ship our school ERP. SBL took the brief, sized it on the page and shipped admissions, academics, finance and the parent portal under one login. On schedule. On budget. The product still ships every fortnight five years later.“Director of Operations Multi-campus school network · ERP build
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