Case Study - Academic operations, finally under one roof
Alef University is a bilingual student information system for running academic operations end to end. It brings students, professors, administrators, records, and digital library workflows into one role-aware platform.
- Client
- Alef University
- Year
- Service
- Web development, Academic systems design
Overview
Alef University needed more than a polished dashboard. The product had to coordinate the daily realities of an academic institution: student records, program structures, course catalogs, grading, enrollment, documentation, and an expanding digital library, all while serving students, professors, and administrators from the same codebase.
We built the platform as a bilingual, role-aware system on Next.js 15, React 19, TypeScript, Convex, and Clerk. That stack made it possible to pair a fast frontend with real-time backend queries, authenticated workflows, and a navigation model that reshapes itself by role, while next-intl, Tailwind CSS 4, and shadcn/ui kept the experience consistent across English and Spanish.
Some of the most elegant work happens beneath the interface. Class and bimester status are computed from dates in real time rather than maintained manually, grades are translated into a 12-band American letter scale with a 65% passing threshold, and the library pipeline can enrich uploaded PDF records through ISBN lookups, Open Library, Google Books, and sampled OpenAI extraction when metadata is incomplete.
What we did
- Next.js 15
- React 19
- TypeScript
- Convex backend
- Clerk authentication
- next-intl localization
- Tailwind CSS 4
- shadcn/ui
- PDF reporting
- Library metadata extraction
Alef brought operational clarity to the institution. What used to live across disconnected workflows now moves through one deliberate academic system.