Custom LMS Development for Edtech Founders and Training Businesses

Cohorts, certificates, instructor marketplace, community and payments — built as your product, on your code, in weeks.

  • Founder-led
  • Built The Raising Club academy
  • 5.0★ client reviews on Google
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Custom LMS course catalogue built by SigmaticAI for The Raising Club
5
modules live, shipped as one platform
EN + ES
English and Spanish at launch, not retrofitted
23-screen
admin console, built for a non-technical owner
3
audiences: parents, caregivers and organisations

Built the training academy inside The Raising Club — courses, assessments and credentials that become a searchable filter in its caregiver marketplace. First commit 29 May 2026 · five modules in production 2 July 2026. See the case study

If you want to sell one course, use Teachable. If your learning platform is the business, keep reading.

Who we build learning platforms for

Edtech startups

Building a course, tutoring or credentialing product for a market — where the platform is what you sell, not where you host content.

Training companies and academies

Outgrown Kajabi or Thinkific and now need white-label, custom pricing logic, SSO and your own data.

Learning plus something else

Associations, care networks and franchises that need training, community and a marketplace as one product rather than three subscriptions.

What your LMS includes

Six modules. Most learning products need four of them; the instructor marketplace is what separates a platform from a course site.

Course curriculum editor in a custom LMS built by SigmaticAI

Courses and lessons

Video, text and downloads, with drip scheduling and prerequisites. Content structure is modelled to your curriculum rather than forced into modules-and-lessons, which matters the moment you have cohorts, tracks or prerequisites that cross courses.

  • Video, text and downloads
  • Drip and prerequisites
  • Tracks and curricula
Course and assessment builder in a custom LMS built by SigmaticAI

Assessments

Quizzes with multiple question types, timed tests and auto-grading, plus the reporting that tells you which question everyone gets wrong. Talking Books, our AI learning platform, runs eight question types mapped to Bloom’s taxonomy — MCQ through to reasoning, auto-graded with feedback — so this is well-travelled ground.

  • Multiple question types
  • Timed tests
  • Auto-grading and item analysis
Verifiable credential badge shown on a learner profile

Certificates and badges

Verifiable credentials with expiry, renewal and public verification pages. For regulated or safety-critical training the expiry logic is the product — a certificate nobody can check, and that never lapses, is decoration.

  • Verifiable certificates
  • Expiry and renewal
  • Public verification
Instructor and course administration in a custom learning platform

Cohorts and instructors

Multi-instructor teaching, cohort schedules and an instructor marketplace with revenue share. Instructors get their own dashboard, payouts and student lists, which is what turns a catalogue into a supply side that grows without you.

  • Cohorts and schedules
  • Instructor dashboards
  • Revenue share and payouts
Organisation-hosted live sessions in a custom learning platform

Community and events

Discussions, live sessions and a calendar attached to the course rather than bolted alongside it. Completion rates move when learners can see each other; this is the cheapest retention feature in a learning product.

  • Discussions
  • Live sessions
  • Shared calendar
Admin console with moderation and reporting in a custom learning platform

Analytics and admin

Per-learner mastery, completion and revenue, with a CMS for the marketing pages your team edits weekly. Built for the person running the academy — enrolments, refunds and support in as few clicks as possible.

  • Per-learner mastery
  • Completion and revenue
  • Enrolments, refunds, CMS

Not sure which modules you need? That is what the call is for.

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Case study: the training academy inside The Raising Club

The credential is the filter.

The Raising Club needed caregivers to earn credentials a family could check before booking. We built the courses, the curriculum editor and the credentials as one module of a five-module platform.

What makes it work is that the credential a caregiver earns becomes a searchable filter in the marketplace — the academy raises the quality of the supply side, and the badge is what converts a booking. Built as part of a platform that went from first commit on 29 May 2026 to production on 2 July 2026.

“They delivered on time and were very proactive in recommending new capabilities for the marketplace.”

SigmaticAI delivered a complete MVP with five feature areas, including a vetted caregiver marketplace, membership plans, courses, and events. The team was proactive, talented, and knowledgeable, recommending new capabilities and using the latest technology.

Read the full case study
Curriculum editor in a custom LMS built by SigmaticAIThe learner dashboard with its navigation in Spanish — bilingual from the first releaseCredential filters in the marketplace a learner is listed in

And a learning product of our own

Talking Books is an AI learning platform we built end to end: it turns a textbook chapter into a narrated lesson, generates adaptive exercises, runs eight auto-graded question types mapped to Bloom’s taxonomy, and gives teachers a course dashboard. If your LMS needs assessment and adaptive content rather than video hosting, that is the ground it covers.

See Talking Books

What clients say, in their words

Left on our Google Business and Clutch profiles, quoted exactly as written.

SigmaticAI delivered exceptional results in building our custom Agentic AI system. Ketan Khamgaonkar’s technical mastery in autonomous agent design, system integration, and workflow execution made project delivery seamless. Implementation was prompt, and the AI agents immediately streamlined our operations. Highly recommend Ketan and the SigmaticAI team!
Madhuvanti Bapat12 reviews · Google
Working with SigmaticAI has been an outstanding experience. A special mention to Ketan Khamgaonkar, whose deep technical expertise, clear communication, and structured approach made a significant difference throughout our project. Delivery was prompt, and the AI solutions implemented have had an immediate, positive impact on our workflow. Highly recommend Ketan and the SigmaticAI team!
Dr. Chaitanya V. Bhore10 reviews · Google
I have purchased clinic software from them.. it has improved efficiency and treatment quality for my patients.. Also it’s very useful for accurate accounting..
Abhishek SambreDoctor · 14 reviews · Google
Good experience with development and automating process. Great management and quick handover.
Kusumika sinha roy30 reviews · Google

How a build works

  1. Day 0

    Scope call

    Thirty minutes, free. You leave with a recommended stack, a timeline and a firm price range.

  2. Week 1

    Design and content model

    Curriculum, roles and credentials modelled before anyone writes a feature.

  3. Weeks 2+

    Weekly working builds

    A running build on staging every week, with your real course content in it.

  4. Launch

    Handover and 30 days

    Production deploy, documentation, your repo and cloud accounts, thirty days of support.

Stack, ownership and compliance

The questions an edtech buyer asks that a course-site buyer never does.

The stack

Next.js, Supabase (Postgres) and Stripe, with video on Mux or Bunny. SCORM and xAPI import on request when you are bringing existing content across.

Access and data

SSO through Google, Microsoft or SAML for B2B training, GDPR-ready data handling, and per-tenant separation when you sell to organizations.

Ownership and overlap

Your repository, your cloud accounts, IP assigned in the contract. We work 9:00–13:00 US Eastern and 9:00–17:00 UK from Nagpur, India.

Custom LMS development cost

Ranges, not a quote — the number firms up on the scope call, once we know how your learners actually move through the product.

Course platform MVP

from $8,000

4–6 weeks

  • Courses and lessons
  • Quizzes
  • Payments
  • Admin console

Scale and retain

Monthly retainer

Scoped on the call

  • New features
  • Support and monitoring
  • Analytics and reporting

Fixed fee against a scoped brief. Changes are logged and costed, never silently absorbed.

Custom LMS vs the course platform you are on now

An honest comparison, including when you should not call us.

Course SaaSCustom LMS
Monthly feeGrows with learnersHosting only
Transaction feeOften on top of StripeStripe alone
White labelPartial, plan-dependentIt is your product
Custom pricing logicRarelyWhatever you sell
Instructor marketplaceUsually notBuilt in, with revenue share
Data ownershipTheirs, exportableYours, in your Postgres

Under $5,000 a month in course revenue, stay on SaaS. The build only pays for itself once the platform is the business.

Frequently asked questions

How much does custom LMS development cost?

A course platform MVP — courses, quizzes, payments and an admin console — starts around $8,000 and takes four to six weeks. A full learning product with cohorts, certificates, an instructor marketplace, community and analytics runs $15,000 to $50,000 across eight to fourteen weeks. The scope call turns that range into a fixed number.

How long does it take?

Four to six weeks for an MVP, eight to fourteen for a full product. The variable is rarely engineering: it is how quickly decisions get made about curriculum structure, pricing logic and who can see what.

Can you migrate our courses and learners from Thinkific or Kajabi?

Yes. Course content, learners, enrolments and completion history export from most course platforms and import into the new one. Video usually moves to your own Mux or Bunny account. Active subscriptions need a plan — either they move to your Stripe or they run out on the old platform while new signups start on the new one.

Do you support SCORM?

SCORM and xAPI import on request, which matters when you are bringing across content authored in Articulate or Captivate, or selling into organizations whose procurement asks for it. If all your content is native video and text, you do not need either and we will say so.

Can instructors sell their own courses on our platform?

Yes — that is the instructor marketplace: instructor dashboards, their own course creation, revenue share and Stripe Connect payouts. It is the difference between a catalogue you have to fill yourself and a supply side that grows without you.

Can learners get verifiable certificates?

Yes, with public verification pages, expiry and renewal. For safety-critical or regulated training the expiry and renewal logic is usually the point — a credential that never lapses tells an employer nothing.

Is it mobile-friendly, or do we need an app?

Everything we build is mobile-first and installs to the home screen, which covers most learning products. A native app earns its cost when you need push-driven engagement or offline lessons — then we build it on the same backend rather than rebuilding the platform.

Who owns the code and the data?

You do. Your repository, your cloud accounts, your Stripe, learner data in your own Postgres, and IP assigned in the contract. You can move it to another developer the day after launch.

Tell us about your learners

Leave the call with a recommended stack, a timeline and a firm price range. Thirty minutes, no deck.

Book the call

Thirty minutes, free. You leave with a recommended stack, a timeline and a firm price range — whether or not you build it with us.

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No newsletter, no sequence. We reply with a range and the questions we still need answered.