We use Canvas or Teachable for cohort management and it breaks down past 2-3 simultaneous cohorts. Can you build something that handles 10+ cohorts without the admin overhead?

Yes. Generic LMS platforms treat every learner as an individual and add cohort features as afterthoughts. A purpose-built cohort management system assigns instructors per cohort, tracks each cohort's progress against a shared curriculum schedule, surfaces alerts when a cohort falls behind, and gives you a single operations dashboard across all active cohorts. We scope the exact cohort configuration, reporting, and scaling requirements during discovery.

Can you build a code review and project submission workflow that replaces our current GitHub plus Slack plus spreadsheet patchwork?

Yes. A purpose-built submission and review system lets students submit project work directly in the platform, routes it to the assigned instructor, tracks review status and feedback history, and surfaces completion rates per cohort in real time. It integrates with GitHub via the GitHub API so students still work in the repository environment they will use on the job, while instructors review, annotate, and grade from one place inside the platform.

How long does a bootcamp platform build take and what does it cost?

A core cohort, curriculum, and project-submission platform launches as a validated v1 in 10 to 14 weeks. Adding a hiring marketplace, alumni network, or digital credential issuance extends the scope to 14 to 20 weeks. We scope every project before pricing. The fixed cost is agreed before development starts.

Can you integrate with Stripe for tuition payments, Zoom for live sessions, and Accredible or Credly for digital badges?

Yes. Payment processing via Stripe, live session scheduling and recording through the Zoom API, and digital credential issuance via Accredible, Credly, or a custom-built badging system built on Open Badges or IMS Global standards are standard integration points for bootcamp platforms. We also integrate with the LinkedIn Credential API so graduates can publish verified badges directly to their profiles. The full integration list is scoped during discovery based on your existing tool stack.

We want to build a hiring marketplace where employer partners can search our graduate pool. Is that a separate product or part of the platform?

It can be either. A hiring marketplace is typically a distinct module: graduates build a verified profile with completed projects and credentials, and employer partners log in to search and contact candidates. Your career services team manages the matching workflow inside the platform. We have built marketplace features as extensions of existing platforms and as standalone portals connected via API to the core LMS.

Do you build for workforce development organizations and corporate upskilling programs, or only for traditional coding bootcamps?

We build for the full spectrum: standalone coding bootcamps, corporate upskilling and reskilling programs, professional skills training organizations, and government-funded workforce development programs. The platform architecture differs between a consumer-facing bootcamp with open enrollment and a corporate program with single-employer access, but the core capability areas are the same: cohort management, skills assessment, credential issuance, and employer or internal hiring integration. We scope the correct model during discovery.

Our placement numbers are under scrutiny. Can the platform produce defensible outcomes reporting?

This is the fear that ends businesses: false placement-rate claims end in enforcement. We build outcomes reporting on verified data the platform already holds: the graduate's completed projects, the issued credentials, and the employer interactions tracked in the hiring marketplace. Placement rates generate from that record, not from a spreadsheet assembled for the report. Defensible numbers start with defensible data.

Coding Bootcamp and Skills Platform Development

What they use a bootcamp for is a bridge into a career. Off-the-shelf LMS platforms were built for self-paced video libraries, not cohort-based technical education. When a student can't log in, can't access a video, or can't figure out how to submit an assignment, who handles it? On Teachable and Thinkific, you do. Instructors spend evenings chasing submission statuses across disconnected tools. Hiring partners get no visibility into graduate readiness. The platform you deserve is one built around how a bootcamp actually runs.

Cohort and curriculum management built for synchronized technical education, not self-paced video libraries
Project submission and code review workflows that cut instructor admin time and give students faster feedback
Hiring marketplace integrations that connect verified graduates directly to employer partners
Digital credential and certificate issuance with one-click LinkedIn sharing and instant verification

The problem

Sound familiar?

Managing cohorts across spreadsheets, Slack, GitHub, and a generic LMS that was never designed for synchronized technical education?
Graduates finishing your program with no verifiable credential that hiring partners can trust or check in seconds?
Instructors spending hours per week manually tracking project submissions and giving feedback in tools that don't connect?

Short answer

RaftLabs builds custom bootcamp platform software for coding schools, professional skills training organizations, and workforce development companies. We ship cohort and curriculum management, project submission and code review, hiring marketplace integrations, alumni networks, and digital credential issuance. A core cohort platform launches as a validated v1 in 10 to 14 weeks. We scope every project before pricing. Fixed cost, agreed before work starts.

Trusted by

01 Diagnosis

Where bootcamp operations actually leak

01
Problem
Your LMS was built for video libraries, not synchronized cohorts
Solution
Canvas, Teachable, and similar platforms treat every learner as an individual progressing through a course at their own pace. A bootcamp cohort needs the opposite: all students on the same schedule, a single source of truth for where each cohort stands, instructor assignment per cohort, and alerts when a group falls behind a milestone. When you run more than two or three simultaneous cohorts, the gaps become visible. Instructors pull cohort status from a spreadsheet that was last updated yesterday. The cost is instructor hours, student outcomes, and your reputation with hiring partners.A purpose-built cohort management system gives your ops team a live dashboard across every active cohort, automates milestone alerts, and lets instructors see exactly where their students are without touching a spreadsheet. The outcome is cohorts that run themselves, not cohorts that run the team.
02
Problem
When a student can't log in, who handles it? You do
Solution
On Teachable and Thinkific, student support is your job. Most bootcamps run project submissions across GitHub, Slack, email, and a generic LMS that doesn't connect to any of them. Students submit pull request links in Slack. Instructors check GitHub manually, leave comments in the repo, and then update a separate grading spreadsheet. At 20 students per cohort this is manageable. At 80 students across four cohorts, instructors spend two to three hours a week on submission admin alone before they write a single line of feedback.A unified submission and review system routes project work to the correct instructor automatically, tracks review status in one place, delivers feedback in a structured format, and gives students visibility into their queue position. Instructors review more, administer less. The outcome is feedback in hours, not days.
03
Problem
The product is a bridge, not content
Solution
Those who can learn under those conditions can easily learn the material for free. What they use a bootcamp for is a bridge into a career. A PDF certificate with a bootcamp logo is not a verifiable credential. Hiring partners have no way to confirm the certificate is real, what curriculum the graduate completed, or what projects they can demonstrate. The result is graduates who struggle to distinguish themselves from self-taught candidates, and a bootcamp whose placement rate suffers because the credential it issues carries no independent verification signal.A digital credential and badging system issues verified, tamper-proof certificates the moment a graduate meets completion criteria. Each credential carries a verification URL, a QR code, and a shareable link. Graduates add it to LinkedIn in one click. Hiring partners confirm it in seconds. The outcome is a credential that opens the interview.
04
Problem
Your hiring pipeline runs on email threads and manual follow-up
Solution
Say goodbye to 20+ hours of weekly manual sourcing. Employer partners who want access to your graduate pool should not need to email your career services team to get a spreadsheet of candidates. When the hiring handoff is manual, employer engagement drops, response times to graduates slow, and your career outcomes data stays fragmented across inboxes. Bootcamps with the strongest placement rates treat the employer relationship as a product, not a task.A hiring marketplace module gives employer partners a login, a searchable graduate directory, and a direct messaging workflow managed inside the platform. Your career services team sees every conversation, tracks every outcome, and can report placement rates without rebuilding the data from email history. The outcome is time back for the team to support people into work.

02 What we ship

Bootcamp platform software we build

Cohort and curriculum management
We build cohort management systems designed around the actual operating model of a bootcamp: multiple simultaneous cohorts, each on a defined schedule, with assigned instructors, a live curriculum calendar, and milestone tracking at the cohort and individual learner level. Curriculum is authored once and applied to cohorts with date offsets, so your content team manages one version of the curriculum rather than a separate copy per cohort.
Ops dashboards give your team a single view across all active cohorts: enrollment numbers, milestone completion rates, at-risk learner flags, and instructor workload distribution. No spreadsheets, no Slack pings to get a status update.
Project submission and code review
We build submission and review systems that integrate with GitHub via the GitHub API, so students work in the repository environment they will use on the job while instructors review, annotate, and grade from a single interface inside the platform. Submission routing assigns incoming work to the correct instructor based on cohort assignment, removes the manual triage step, and tracks review queue depth so you can redistribute workload before a backlog builds. Students see their submission status, estimated review time, and completed feedback without messaging an instructor directly.
Digital credential and certificate issuance
We build credential issuance systems that issue verifiable digital badges and certificates automatically when a learner meets defined completion criteria. Credentials are built on Open Badges or IMS Global standards so they carry independent verification that any hiring partner, ATS, or LinkedIn profile can confirm without contacting your team. Each credential includes a unique verification URL, a QR code, and a shareable link. Graduates add it to their LinkedIn profile via the LinkedIn Credential API in one click.
Hiring marketplace and graduate directory
We build hiring marketplace modules that give employer partners a dedicated login, a searchable graduate directory filtered by skill tags, cohort graduation date, and project portfolio, and a structured messaging workflow managed entirely within the platform. Graduate profiles are built from data the platform already holds: the curriculum modules completed, the projects submitted and passed, the credential issued, and any skills assessments taken. There is no manual profile-building step for graduates or career services staff.
Alumni network and community platform
We build alumni network platforms that keep graduates engaged with your organization and with each other after program completion. An active alumni network is one of the strongest trust signals for prospective students, and one of the most common features bootcamps fail to build because generic community tools like Slack or Discord don't connect back to program data. Alumni profiles display verified credentials, completed projects, and current employer information. Mentorship matching connects current students with relevant alumni based on skill focus, industry target, and cohort history.
Skills assessment and progress analytics
We build skills assessment systems that measure learner capability at defined checkpoints rather than relying on self-reported progress or project completion alone. Progress analytics give instructors, ops managers, and program directors views calibrated to their role. Instructors see learner-level data: which students are at risk and how their performance compares to cohort average. Program directors see cohort-level trends: which curriculum modules show the highest failure rates and how current cohorts track against historical completion benchmarks. The analytics also power graduate readiness signals for the hiring marketplace.

03 Buy, build, or wait

The bootcamp software question is really about whether the platform understands cohorts and careers.

Buy or rent

Teachable/Thinkific, for the MVP
Cheap to start before the revenue share, the support burden, and the cohort limits bite.
Canvas, for the institution
Built for individual learners progressing at their own pace. Wrong shape for synchronized cohorts.

Build custom

When the LMS is wrong for how you teach
Off-the-shelf LMS platforms are wrong for cohort-based technical education. Built around the cohort, not the individual.
When support is your hidden cost
When a student can't log in, who handles it? You do. The platform should carry its own support load.
When the bridge is the business
What they use a bootcamp for is a bridge into a career. Placement tracking built on verified data, not spreadsheets.

Bottom line

Stay on Teachable while the cohort count is low and the revenue share is tolerable. Build when the support burden, the cohort limits, or the placement pipeline outgrow it.

04 How we work

How we build bootcamp platforms

01
Discovery
We map your current cohort operations: cohort count, instructor assignment, the submission and review workflow, the hiring partner relationship, and where the friction costs your team the most time. The risk this retires: the program model the template assumed.
02
Design
We design the learner experience, the instructor workflow, and the ops dashboard in a working prototype you can click through before we write production code. The prototype maps every cohort state: enrollment, active, milestone review, completion, and alumni. The risk this retires: the scope that surprises mid-build.
03
Build
Two-week sprints with working software at each checkpoint. Cohort management and curriculum delivery ship first, so your next cohort intake can run on the new platform. Submission and review workflows follow. Credential issuance, hiring marketplace, and analytics ship in subsequent sprints in priority order. The risk this retires: the integration bolted on at the end.
04
Launch and support
We run the first cohort on the new platform alongside your ops team and confirm that submission routing, review workflows, and milestone tracking behave as specified. Edge cases that appear in a live cohort get fixed before the next intake. The risk this retires: the live cohort that exposes the edge case.

05 Track record

What coding bootcamps and skills platforms get when they work with us

Week v1 launch for core bootcamp platform builds: 10-14

Shipping production software across education, workforce, and SaaS: Since 2015

Cost agreed before development starts: Fixed

06 Case studies

Education platforms we have shipped

01
A multilingual K-12 LMS SaaS platform for schools across Africa
Concept to launch
16 weeks
Students supported per school
4,000+

08 Why us

Why choose us?

01
We've seen your problem before
Across dozens of industries, we recognise your situation fast, then frame the fix around your margin and your operations, not a generic template.
02
We own the number, not the ticket
We measure success the way you do: hours saved, revenue earned, margin recovered. We stay through launch and growth, so the result is ours to own.
03
Serious businesses trust us
Vodafone, T-Mobile, Cisco, Energia, Aldi, Nike. Building since 2015. Serious businesses keep coming back because we stay accountable long after launch.

09 Questions

Common questions

: Generic LMS platforms treat every learner as an individual and add cohort features as afterthoughts. A purpose-built cohort management system assigns instructors per cohort, tracks each cohort's progress against a shared curriculum schedule, surfaces alerts when a cohort falls behind, and gives you a single operations dashboard across all active cohorts. We scope the exact cohort configuration, reporting, and scaling requirements during discovery before any build begins.
: Yes. A purpose-built submission and review system lets students submit project work directly in the platform, routes it to the assigned instructor, tracks review status and feedback history, and surfaces completion rates per cohort in real time. It integrates with GitHub via the GitHub API so students still work in the repository environment they will use on the job, while instructors review, annotate, and grade from one place inside the platform.
: A core cohort, curriculum, and project-submission platform launches as a validated v1 in 10 to 14 weeks. Adding a hiring marketplace, alumni network, or digital credential issuance extends the scope to 14 to 20 weeks. We scope every project before pricing. The fixed cost is agreed before development starts.
: Yes. Payment processing via Stripe, live session scheduling and recording through the Zoom API, and digital credential issuance via Accredible, Credly, or a custom-built badging system built on Open Badges or IMS Global standards are standard integration points for bootcamp platforms. We also integrate with the LinkedIn Credential API so graduates can publish verified badges directly to their profiles. The full integration list is scoped during discovery based on your existing tool stack.
: It can be either. A hiring marketplace is typically a distinct module: graduates build a verified profile with completed projects and credentials, and employer partners log in to search and contact candidates. Your career services team manages the matching workflow inside the platform. We have built marketplace features as extensions of existing platforms and as standalone portals connected via API to the core LMS.
: We build for the full spectrum: standalone coding bootcamps, corporate upskilling and reskilling programs, professional skills training organizations, and government-funded workforce development programs. The platform architecture differs between a consumer-facing bootcamp with open enrollment and a corporate program with single-employer access, but the core capability areas are the same: cohort management, skills assessment, credential issuance, and employer or internal hiring integration. We scope the correct model during discovery.
: This is the fear that ends businesses: false placement-rate claims end in enforcement. We build outcomes reporting on verified data the platform already holds: the graduate's completed projects, the issued credentials, and the employer interactions tracked in the hiring marketplace. Placement rates generate from that record, not from a spreadsheet assembled for the report. Defensible numbers start with defensible data.

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