The Anthill Group was founded on the conviction that specialist settings deserve better than the software industry has given them. We are a small team with deep sector knowledge, a working platform in production, and an architectural approach that is genuinely differentiated.
We know the people who work in SEND do some of the toughest, most important jobs in education. They come to work for the children, not to wrestle with software. The technology should get out of their way and let them do what they are actually good at.
Amy spent years running operations inside a specialist education group, an outstanding FE college with seven residential houses, a working hotel, and respite care. The kind of place where the day's complexity outpaces every system supposedly designed to support it.
She started Anthill to build the operational software that would have actually helped, and to make sure other settings never had to make do the way hers did.
Nikky brings the technical depth: years inside school IT and digital transformation, building the bridges between what education leaders need to know and what the systems are actually doing under the hood.
She leads the architecture, the data model, and the quiet but critical decisions about how AI is allowed near pupil data, and how it isn't.
Somewhere right now, a SENCO is preparing for an annual review. She knows this child. She has worked with him for three years. She knows what helps and what doesn't, what he's frightened of, how far he's come.
She's spending her afternoon pulling that knowledge together from four different systems, a shared drive, and her own memory. Because that's the only way to see the whole child: manually, slowly, at the expense of everything else she should be doing.
This is normal. It shouldn't be.
The systems that are supposed to support the most complex children in England were built around data structures, not children. We think someone should fix that.
We work with a small number of schools, MATs, and Alternative Provisions at any one time. Long relationships, real partnerships, software that grows with you.
