Built an AI-powered digital learning platform for one of California's largest charter schools
A unified student experience platform replacing fragmented tools with web and mobile apps for students, teachers and administrators, with AI for personalised learning, two-way translation and content recommendations.
Key Takeaways
Highlands Community Charter is a California charter school serving 15,000+ students across multiple programmes and language backgrounds. Unico Connect designed and built a web and mobile platform with role-based access for students, teachers and administrators, layered in AI for content recommendations, two-way translation and adaptive learning paths, and integrated real-time progress tracking.
The platform underpins instruction, assessment and communication across the school today, with 97 percent translation accuracy and 50 percent faster content turnaround.
The Challenge
Highlands had grown into one of California's largest charter operators, with 15,000+ students across multiple programmes and language backgrounds. That scale had outpaced the tooling — a patchwork of systems each adopted to solve one problem at one point in time.
Teachers managed assignments in one system, communications in a second, grading in a third and translation by copy-and-paste. The cost of that fragmentation was instructional time lost, concentrated on the students who could least afford it: English-language learners and those furthest behind.
The school needed a single platform that replaced the patchwork, scaled to a small district, ran natively on each role’s devices, delivered content in multiple languages without slowing instruction, and integrated AI that genuinely helped the classroom — delivered in usable phases, not a year-long monolith.
Our Approach
We engaged as a long-running product partner. The first phase framed what to unify into one platform, what to keep as a discrete integrated tool, and where AI would actually move the needle versus add noise.
Key decisions:
Flutter mobile, React web
One mobile codebase across iOS and Android for the device mix; React for the dense data views teachers and administrators need on larger screens.
RAG grounded in the curriculum
Brain AI was built as a retrieval-augmented system grounded in the school’s own content — being right about this curriculum and this student, not broadly conversational.
AI inside the workflow
Translation held to a 97% accuracy bar and AI integrated into existing workflows rather than a separate app, which is what gives teachers a reason to use it.
The solution we built
A unified student experience system across web and mobile, with role-based access, content management, real-time tracking and an AI layer across all of it.
Brain AI (RAG knowledge base)
Surfaces the right content for each student based on their trajectory, adjusting as they progress.
Two-way translation
Operates across student, teacher and parent surfaces at a 97% accuracy bar, making multilingual instruction practical.
English Master
A dedicated module for English language learning that adapts to each student’s level and pace.
Real-time tracking & grading
Live progress tracking and automated grading workflows, with role-based access enforced at the API layer.
Tech stack
Outcomes & metrics
15,000+
Students served on one integrated platform
97%
AI translation accuracy for multilingual classrooms
50%
Faster content turnaround for teachers and admins
What Our Clients Say
Bobby Valentine
Product Manager, Highlands Community Charter
We're very impressed with their responsiveness and communication skills.
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