Modern K.B.S
A school website plus admissions portal and a self-serve admin — delivered in 7 days, against a six-month agency quote.
- Client
- Modern K.B.S.
- Location
- Ladwara, Himachal Pradesh
- Sector
- Web App · Admin
- Year
- 2024
- Stack
- Next.js · Supabase
- Scope
- School website, admissions portal, admin panel
The brief
A senior secondary school needed a public website and an admissions application portal, without a recurring SaaS subscription.
The build
- 01Public website and admissions portal in one sprint
- 02Live admin panel threaded through every surface
- 03Applications for classes I to XII managed by staff
- 04No developer on call, no SaaS fees
The result
“Every other agency said 6 months. Delivered in 7 days.”
The notes
- 01
What we shipped
Public site + admin panel, one sprint
Faculty pages, fee structure, an enquiry-to-admission pipeline, and a dashboard the office uses daily. Zero learning curve — designed so any office staffer can update content without calling a developer.
- 02
The result
Live for the admissions cycle it was built for
Seven days from brief to a working admissions portal, against six months quoted elsewhere — which mattered because the deadline was not a preference, it was the academic calendar. A six-month build would have missed the intake entirely and the school would have run another year on paper forms. Classes I–XII now apply through the site, the office processes them in the dashboard, and there is no recurring SaaS fee attached to any of it. What a build like this costs and includes is broken down in school website cost and features in India.
- 03
Why six months
Where the other quotes came from
Six months isn't fraud. It's what happens when a project passes through discovery, wireframes, design review, development, staging, feedback rounds and QA, each with its own people and approvals. Here one person took it from brief to deployment. Just as important, only what the school needed was built: no general-purpose CMS, no theme with 300 settings, no features added “just in case”. That's how a site stays lightweight and fully functional at once.
- 04
The lesson
Ask what the deadline is attached to. "Six months" is a reasonable estimate for a portal and a completely unreasonable one for a portal that has to exist before an intake — and scope, not speed, is what closes that gap.
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Questions I get.
Modern K.B.S. is a senior secondary school in Ladwara. Divyansh Sood Studio built its public website plus an admissions application portal and a live admin panel, all in one sprint.
Seven days — where other agencies had quoted six months and a recurring SaaS fee.
Office staff, not developers. The dashboard was designed with zero learning curve so any staffer can update content and process admissions without calling a developer.
A multi-person agency process of discovery, wireframes, design review, development, staging, feedback and QA adds weeks at every handoff. Building with one person from brief to deployment, and only building what the school actually needed, is what made a 7-day delivery possible without cutting corners.
