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Education Publishers

Square Root Solutions offers education software development services for publishers, building platforms Irish education publishers actually need, not a generic CMS with "education" added to the name. We help you move from print to digital without losing the rights control, curriculum alignment, or distribution relationships your business depends on.

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The problem Irish education publishers actually face

Publishing in Ireland means smaller print runs than international markets, deep relationships with individual schools, and curriculum content that has to track NCCA changes closely. Most digital platforms are built for large international publishers and don't fit how an Irish education publisher actually operates or sells.

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If you're running an Irish education publishing business, some of this will sound familiar:

Generic content platforms don't handle the licensing and rights models Irish schools actually buy under
Curriculum changes mean content updates across formats, and keeping print and digital in sync is manual work
Usage data that would help you understand adoption barely makes it back to you
Integrating with the LMS and procurement systems schools already use is left as the publisher's problem, not the platform's

None of that is really about whether digital publishing works. It's about platforms built for a different market's publishing model, instead of platforms built around publisher revenue models.

How we help education publishers

As an education publishing software development company offering software development for education publishers, we provide structured content management for learning materials.

Our services

Rights-managed content platforms

Digital delivery built around your actual licensing model, whether that's per-school, per-student, or another structure entirely, through digital rights and licence management, part of our broader digital publishing platform development.

Curriculum-aligned content management

Content structured against the curriculum it supports, with curriculum and learning outcome mapping, so updates track NCCA changes without a manual rebuild each time.

LMS and procurement integration

Built to connect with the school systems your content actually lands in, through dedicated publisher LMS development, not published in isolation and left for the school to figure out.

Usage analytics that come back to you

Visibility into how your content is actually being used in schools, not just download or purchase numbers.

Print-to-digital transition support

Platforms that extend an existing print catalogue digitally, without forcing a full rebuild of content you've already invested in.

Multi-format delivery

Content that works across app, web, and offline access, through multi-format digital publishing workflows, matched to how students and teachers actually use it day to day, backed by assessment and interactive content development.

A publishing partnership, not just a project

CJ Fallon is one of Ireland's most respected educational publishers, and one of the relationships we're proudest of. We built EduSmart Planner, automating uploads, categorisation, and quiz generation so educators spend more time teaching and less time managing content. Alongside that, we developed Leaving Cert Plus and Junior Cycle Plus with CJ Fallon under the PlusEd platform suite, curriculum-aligned learning tools now used by thousands of students and teachers across the country.

It's the kind of relationship that shows what's possible when a publisher and a technology partner build together over multiple projects, not just a single handoff.

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From Publishing Content to Digital Learning

Explore how we've helped education publishers turn established content libraries into structured digital experiences, automate content workflows and deliver curriculum-aligned learning across schools, teachers and students.

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EdTech

We built EduSmart Planner, an AI-powered curriculum and school planning platform for CJ Fallon. It converts curriculum PDFs into structured academic plans, helping schools reduce manual planning work.

Teachers can manage lessons, assignments, and quizzes more efficiently, while admins track progress and resources through a centralized dashboard built to streamline school operations.

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250+ schools using the platform across Ireland
4,500+ teachers benefiting from automated plan creation
75% of time saved in curriculum management
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EdTech

We built a modular Content Intelligence Platform for Druid Learning that transforms large archives into AI-ready data. The platform ingests content from multiple formats, intelligently categorizes and enriches individual assets, and preserves original source content. Role-based interfaces provide control over indexing and taxonomies, while APIs deliver enriched datasets directly into existing client systems.

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500k+ assets processed
100k+ data points generated
140+ languages supported
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EdTech

We built Leaving Cert Plus, a subscription study platform providing students with bite-sized video lessons, notes, flashcards, and exam questions across subjects and topics.

Unified search, flexible playback, and synced progress support seamless learning across app, iPad, and web. An admin panel enables content publishing, access management, teacher verification, and pricing control.

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Trusted by over 25,000 Irish students
Rated 4.5 on the App Store and 4.9 on Google Play
Self-service plans handle upgrades and renewals automatically

Why choose Square Root Solutions?

We're an Irish edtech and educational technology development company, built to internationally recognised standards. Our custom edtech software powers learning platforms trusted by schools, universities, and training providers, backed by independent certification, not promises.

10+

Years of
Experience

125M+

Platform
Users Served

350+

Projects
Delivered

150+

Engineers on
Our Team

100+

EdTech Solutions
Deployed

The Technology Behind Every Platform We Build

We choose the stack based on your project, not the other way around, this list reflects what we reach for most often, not a fixed template.

ReactJS
Next.js
TypeScript
.NET
Node.js
Python
PostgreSQL
mys ql
aws
azure
Docker
graphql
redis
elasticsearch
openai

Built for how Irish publishing actually works

We know an Irish education publisher isn't competing on the same scale as an international one, and doesn't need to be. Smaller print runs, closer school relationships, and curriculum content that has to stay current, we build platforms around that reality, not a generic content management system with education features added on.

That's the standard our education publishing software developers Ireland relies on, delivered through curriculum platform development services and educational content management system development, builds to, every time.

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What we typically build for education publishers

Digital content platforms and libraries
Licensing and rights management systems
Integrations with school LMS and procurement platforms
Usage analytics for schools and for the publisher
AI-powered content automation
Mobile and web learning applications

We also modernise and extend existing publishing platforms for publishers who already sell digitally, adding AI, new formats, or scale without a full rebuild.

Every one of these draws on our textbook app development company experience, including digital textbook software development and assessment content platform development.

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Data stays where it should

GDPR-compliant by default, hosted in Ireland, not just "somewhere in the EU." Content, licensing, and usage data stay protected as the baseline, whatever your distribution model.

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“Square Root Solutions built a platform our students actually use every day. Reliable, easy to use, and exactly what we needed.”

Aaron Keane (Founder, Leaving Cert Plus)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Most of our publisher work extends an existing print catalogue digitally, rather than requiring a full rebuild of content you've already invested in.

Yes, built to connect with school systems directly, so your content isn't published in isolation.

Yes, usage analytics are built to come back to you, not just sit with the schools using the content.

Yes, built around your own model, whether that's per-school, per-student, or something more specific to how you sell.

Yes. Content is structured against the curriculum it supports, so updates can be tracked and applied more easily as the curriculum changes.

Possibly. A number of Irish and EU grant schemes support education and technology projects. We can point you toward relevant options during your Discovery Call, though eligibility and funding decisions sit with the relevant grant body, not us.

Yes. As well as building new platforms, we modernise and extend existing publishing systems, adding AI, new formats, or scale to a product you already sell, without a full rebuild.