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Education & HR · From course business to software product

Turn your course or staffing business into a product that scales without you.

We're CPI Technologies from Frankfurt, building software for business owners since 2017. For education providers and HR firms, that means learning portals, student administration, and applicant workflows as a product of your own — from idea to first version in about 90 days, tested with real students and clients. You end up with a software asset that earns recurring revenue and takes real work off your team.

Free and non-binding. Together we'll find the software product hiding in your course or staffing business.

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Maximilian Schmidt — founder of CPI Technologies
Maximilian SchmidtFounder & CEO, CPI Technologies · Frankfurt

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Sound familiar?

Fully booked isn't the same as scalable

Seminars, training programs, placements — your business runs on people. That's what makes it good, and it's also what makes it hard to scale: every additional course and every additional placement means more coordination, more admin, more staff. The demand is there — but your calendar and your back office set the pace.

Your revenue is chained to the seminar calendar.

  • A course only happens when a trainer, a room, and enough participants line up.
  • Once the calendar is full, revenue is capped — no matter how good your content is.
  • Your knowledge lives in heads and PowerPoint decks, not in a product that sells without a date.

Your team administers instead of selling.

  • Sign-ups by email, participant lists in Excel, certificates by hand, plus invoices and Zoom links.
  • Every new course and every new mandate adds to the admin pile.
  • Your team spends its days on workflows a piece of software could run overnight.

Candidates and students wait — then walk.

  • Good candidates are off the market in three days — their application is still sitting in an inbox.
  • Students ask three times where their paperwork stands.
  • Anyone who can't see a status moves on to the next provider.
  • Your people chase phone calls instead of winning new clients.

What we build

What we build for education providers and HR firms

Always software someone pays for — your students, your corporate clients, or your own team moving faster. Which of these fits your business is exactly what the Potential Analysis is for.

Video Course & Learning Platform (standard product)

Our ready-made course platform as your foundation: video player with chapters, progress tracking, quizzes, certificates, and direct sales — in your branding, live in about 14 days.

Your course business as SaaS

Your curriculum, your method, your exam process as a subscription product: students learn at their own pace, corporate clients license seats for their teams — and you earn on content you created once.

Applicant portal with matching

Candidates apply online, see their status, and get matched to suitable roles — with AI supporting the matching. Your team focuses on the conversations that actually lead to a placement.

A portal for your corporate clients

Your clients see candidate profiles, assignments, contracts, and invoices in their own account — instead of requesting them by email. That locks in clients and sets you apart from recruiters still working with PDF lists.

AI assistants for recurring questions

A digital coworker answers questions about course dates, documents, and application status — instantly, evenings included. Your team only steps in for the cases where a human is genuinely needed.

Mobile app for learners and candidates

Learning, booking, applying — right in your users' pockets. Push notifications remind them of course dates or flag new job openings, reaching your audience before the competition has even replied.

Integrations

Connected to the systems you already work with

A platform running alongside your existing tools just creates double data entry. So we connect to what you already use — from your LMS to billing.

Your internal systems

LMS & HR system
Calendar & course planning
Billing & accounting
Email & communication
Your learning & applicant platformone place for students, candidates, and clients

Tools it talks to

SlackGmailHubSpotSalesforceWhatsAppNotion+ 1,500 more apps

A few examples — we connect what you actually need: HR systems like Personio or SAP SuccessFactors, video conferencing tools, payment providers, accounting. The integrations you need go into the written scope before the project starts.

How it works

About 90 days to a platform your students and clients pay for

No agency black box, no never-ending IT project: three steps, each with a clear deliverable — at a fixed price that's set before we start.

Step 1 · Weeks 1–2

Prove it before you build it

  • In the free 30-minute Potential Analysis, we work out how much revenue and relief your idea holds — a learning portal, an applicant platform, or your course as SaaS.
  • We talk to five of your students or corporate clients and find out what they'd actually pay for.
  • You walk away with a written scope, a fixed price, and a launch date.
  • If the idea doesn't hold up, we stop right there.

Step 2 · Weeks 3–9

Weekly sprints to version one

  • With AI-powered development, a clickable prototype of your portal exists within days — no months of waiting.
  • Every Friday you review the latest build in your browser: course catalog, sign-up flow, candidate view.
  • You decide what gets built the following week — the fixed price never changes, no matter how many hours we put in.

Step 3 · Weeks 10–13

Test with real users — then go live

  • Five to ten users from your world — students, candidates, corporate clients — work with the platform for four weeks.
  • We watch where they get stuck and build in their feedback before you spend a cent on marketing.
  • After launch, we stay on to run and grow the product — a full handover is possible anytime, because code, credentials, and accounts are 100% yours.
Maximilian Schmidt speaking to business owners at a CPI event

What you get out of it

What you're left with when it's done

Software that works for you: as a second revenue stream, as relief for your team, and as an asset on your balance sheet.

Revenue that doesn't hang on your calendar

Your course as a digital product, your portal as a subscription: students and corporate clients pay monthly — ten of them or ten thousand, your costs barely move. A fully booked calendar stops being your revenue ceiling.

A team that sells again instead of administering

Sign-up, course materials, certificate, status update — it all runs through the portal instead of inboxes and Excel. Your back office wins back hours every day, and you grow without hiring another administrator for every new cohort.

A more valuable company

In a valuation or a succession, recurring software revenue counts as an asset in its own right — unlike seminar days that hang on individual trainers. You're building substance that keeps running even when you stop teaching yourself.

The comparison

Why your own platform — and not another rented system

A standard LMS or off-the-shelf HR tool is set up quickly — and stays a cost line that forces your business into its mold. Your own dev team is expensive and hard to find. Our approach: a platform of your own, built by people who have shipped software since 2017.

CPI TechnologiesStandard LMS / HR SaaSIn-house dev team
Maps your workflow — not a standard mold✓✕✓
Sellable to students and clients as your own subscription product✓✕✓
Code, data, and accounts 100% yours✓✕✓
Becomes an asset of your company✓✕✓
Fixed price and a fixed launch date✓?✕
No in-house IT team required✓✓✕
Connects to your LMS, HR system, and billing✓?✓

Case studies

References from staffing and the knowledge business

From staffing marketplace to membership club: these clients turned their idea into a product of their own.

SAY App

A digital marketplace reinventing temporary staffing: job seekers, employers, and agencies come together through AI-powered matching — as a web platform and mobile app, with over 100,000 jobs brokered.

View case study →

Ameritum

An exclusive virtual membership club for ambitious professionals: expert workshops, tiered subscriptions, and networking events with enterprise partners — knowledge turned into a recurring business model, live in record time thanks to AI-powered development.

View case study →

Frequently asked questions

What education and HR owners want to know before the project

How secure is student and applicant data?

Application documents, learning records, references — data doesn't get much more sensitive, which is why privacy is part of our architecture, not a checklist at the end. Hosting is in the EU, GDPR-compliant, on accounts owned by your company. At any time, you get a full breakdown of every service in use and the running costs. There's no lock-in that only we can undo.

Can you connect to the systems we already use?

Yes. A portal running alongside your existing tools just creates double data entry. So we connect to what you already work with: HR systems like Personio or SAP SuccessFactors, video conferencing tools, payment providers, accounting. Which integrations you need is settled in the Potential Analysis — and they go into the written scope before the project starts.

We already use a standard LMS. Why build our own platform?

If a standard LMS is all you need, we'll tell you so in the first call — you don't need to hire us for that. Your own platform pays off when your workflow doesn't fit the standard mold, or when the software itself is meant to make money: your course as a subscription product, your portal as a selling point with corporate clients. A rented LMS stays a cost line — your own platform becomes a company asset.

How can the price be fixed before the platform is built?

Because the scope is set before you sign: in the free Potential Analysis, we find out together whether your idea holds up. You then receive a written quote with scope, fixed price, and launch date. Once you sign, that number doesn't move — no matter how many hours we put in. Anything you want later, say another module for the student portal, gets its own quote.

Who owns the platform and the data?

You do. The source code, all credentials, the documentation, and every piece of student and applicant data belong to your company — including the hosting and service accounts. We keep running the platform long after launch, but a complete handover is possible at any time: to your own team or another provider. If you never hire us again afterwards, you're not missing a thing.

You build with AI. Does that make the code worse?

For us, AI speeds up writing code — not making decisions. Architecture, data model, and reviews are handled by a human who has been building software for nearly ten years. Every line goes through the same tests and standards as hand-written code. That way of working is what lets a student portal go live in about 90 days instead of eighteen months — and we've documented it publicly in our book (vibecodingbuch.de).

Maximilian Schmidt on the trading floor of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange

First conversation

How much revenue is hiding in your expertise?

Walk us through your course or staffing business: in 30 minutes we'll work out how much revenue and relief your idea holds — and tell you honestly whether it carries.

Free and non-binding · Reply within two business days

Send your request

Use the form to tell us briefly what kind of education or staffing business you run and what you have in mind — two sentences are plenty.

Potential Analysis (30 min)

By video or phone: we go through your business, pressure-test your idea — learning portal, applicant platform, or your course as SaaS — and clarify which systems would need to be connected.

Written assessment

Within two business days you receive an assessment with scope, price range, and launch date. If we think the potential is too small, we'll tell you that just as plainly.

Testimonials

Owners who made the move

Problem

E-commerce know-how was being sold as a service — there was no scalable platform behind it.

Goal

Enter the e-commerce SaaS business with a robust, user-friendly platform.

Result

Sellerpoint is live and routes tens of thousands of orders per day — with CPI as a long-term partner.

Nicklas SpelmeyerNicklas SpelmeyerSellerpoint · CEO eCommerce.de

Problem

Only a bare-bones prototype of the travel app — a long way from a market-ready product.

Goal

A full-fledged AI app with mobile and web presence that stands out in the market.

Result

Vacabee is live as an AI app across iOS, Android, and web — one of a kind in this form.

Dennis LulicDennis LulicVacabee · CMO & Founder

Problem

The idea for a membership platform was there — a path to fast execution wasn't.

Goal

Get Ameritum to market fast.

Result

Platform delivered in record time thanks to AI-powered development — more joint projects are underway.

Ulvi AydinUlvi AydinAmeritum · Founder & Interim Manager

Problem

Fundraising required a platform that could withstand regulatory scrutiny.

Goal

A BaFin-compliant fundraising platform, delivered in time for launch.

Result

Launched on schedule and entered the market successfully — exceeding requirements.

Martin AlbertMartin AlbertBitalo AG · CEO

Problem

Real-world assets were ready to be tokenized — but an experienced technology partner was missing.

Goal

Build and operate a tokenization platform in a regulated environment.

Result

intokia.com was built with remarkable efficiency — CPI is a permanent partner in the ecosystem.

Sven BüchelSven BüchelIntokia · Van Sterling Capital

Problem

Manual processes were holding back precious metals trading and market presence.

Goal

A modern platform that automates operations and scales the business.

Result

Trading is significantly more efficient and profitable — they commissioned a second app on the spot.

Zhenwei WangZhenwei WangPrecious metals trading platform

Problem

A Web3 social media app needed blockchain solutions and a comprehensive API — without an in-house tech team.

Goal

A robust, seamless solution from architecture through implementation.

Result

Delivered on time and beyond expectations — the app launched successfully.

Jordan YallenJordan YallenWeb3 social app

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