Smarteroperations,simplydelivered.
Practical platforms for UK schools and organisations, built by people who've done the job, not just studied it.
Trusted by schools across London
Built by people who've worked in schools.
Sotara is a small, focused team with more than 50 years of combined experience working in and around UK education. Our backgrounds span school administration, IT support, admissions, operations, human resources, marketing, finance, reporting and data compliance. Every product we build is shaped by people who have sat in the same chair as the staff using it.
We know what a school office looks like at 8am on a Monday. We know the frustration of a spreadsheet that won't reconcile, a paper sign-in book that gets lost, or a GDPR query that arrives without warning. That lived experience is not incidental. It is the reason our products are designed the way they are.
Being a small team is a deliberate choice. It means every school we work with receives genuine attention, honest answers and direct access to the people who built the software. There are no call centres, no ticket queues and no account managers reading from a script.
Our products are not built to impress procurement panels with long feature lists. They are built to make the working day easier for the people who rely on them. Quietly, reliably, and without complexity.
Experience across every corner of a school.
Between us we have held roles across every major function of a school, which means we understand not just the software problem, but the operational context around it.
One platform. Eight tools.
Built for UK schools and organisations. Each tool solves a different operational problem.
Staff leave, sorted without the spreadsheet
Staff request leave online and the right person approves it. Balances, TOIL and term-time hours are worked out for you.
- Leave, sickness, CPD and time off in lieu in one request form
- Approvals go to the department head or a named approver
- Term-time hours, carry-forward and TOIL balances calculated for you
- Calendar sync to Outlook and Google, with absence analytics
Pending Approvals
Sarah Johnson
Annual Leave
Emma Davies
Annual Leave
Michael Brown
Sick Leave
Lucy Wilson
Personal Leave
Simple from day one.
Choose your platform
Pick one platform or as many as you need. Each works independently or alongside the others. No bundle pressure, just what fits your organisation right now.
We set it up for you
Our team handles onboarding from start to finish. No IT department needed, no long implementation cycles, no consultancy fees.
Go live in days
Your team is up and running within days, not months. We stay close after launch to make sure everything works exactly as you need it.
Ready to simplify your operations?
Get set up in days, not months. No long contracts, no complexity. Just tools that work.