Regions, United States

The SIS is not the problem. The operating layer above it was never built.

American campuses own the best point solutions in the world: one system for the funnel, another for teaching, another for alerts, another for the catalogue. What nobody sells is the layer where curriculum, assessment, faculty work and clinical education share a single record, so that accreditation evidence is a by-product of the operation instead of a project. Creatrix starts with one workflow no current system owns, and extends from there.

Talk to us about a US evaluation See where the gap is
One workflow first We enter where no incumbent owns the job, then extend across the same record.
Coexists by default Your student information system, your LMS and your admissions platform stay exactly where they are.
US residency, FERPA aligned United States cloud region, role based access, full audit history. ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO 27701:2019, GDPR.
Proven under peer accreditors Universities across Europe, Asia, the Gulf and Oceania run on Creatrix today. The United States is next.

How the American market got here

Four decades produced great instruments and no operating layer.

The best-of-breed market is not an accident of taste. It is the predictable result of four shifts, and each one made the academic record more fragmented than the year before.

The enterprise SIS solved records, then stopped The enterprise systems of the 1990s proved the value of one relational record, and never answered communication, publishing or assessment. Third parties filled each gap, one office at a time.
Departments left IT behind The breakout products of the last twenty years did not only win on features. They let an office buy without IT, and every office since has expected the same freedom, with its own copy of the student.
Professional associations set the standard A conduct office, a career centre or a housing office buys what its association trusts. Credibility is earned in the society first, and it can move fast when the right institution vouches for you.
Suites re-aggregated by logo, not by record Several vendors now sell a family of products to the same campus, most of it assembled by acquisition. Integration at the brand level is not integration at the data level.

Where it runs today

Not in the United States yet. Proven under frameworks built the same way.

Business schools, dental hospitals, research universities and open universities across four continents run their academic operation on Creatrix, each under a different national framework.

How we approach a new market
No American installed base yetWe would rather say so than imply a domestic reference we have not earned
Framework agnostic by constructionStandards, criteria, thresholds and evidence types are configuration, so a new framework is setup rather than a release
Evaluated on your own programsTwo programs, your curriculum, your assessment data, your review calendar
4 continentsUniversities live today
Multi-frameworkSeveral reviews, one evidence set
US residencyCloud region of your choice

A few of the institutions running on Creatrix

University of Oxford, Saïd Business SchoolOxford, Saïd Business SchoolOxford · United Kingdom
Dublin Dental University HospitalDublin Dental University HospitalDublin · Ireland
National University of SingaporeNational University of SingaporeSingapore
University of OtagoUniversity of OtagoDunedin · New Zealand

Alongside universities in the UAE, Kuwait, Malaysia and India. See all customers →

The category map

Every category has a leader. None of them is the operating layer.

An honest reading of the American market: what each category of software owns, and precisely where its ownership ends.

Recruitment & admissionsCampaigns, applications and the funnel through to depositHands over a prospect, not a governed academic record. The academic life of that student starts somewhere else.
Financial aidNeed analysis, packaging and awardingNo view of attainment, progression or a program change, even though all three affect eligibility.
LearningCourse delivery, materials and the gradebookA gradebook is not outcome attainment, and it is not accreditation evidence. Mapping happens outside the course.
Faculty activity reportingA central store of teaching, research and service activityReports what faculty did. The promotion and tenure operation around it still runs on dossiers, committees and email.
Advising & retentionRisk prediction, caseloads and early alertsPredicts on a record it does not own, so the intervention closes outside the system that raised it.
Catalog & schedulingCatalogue publishing, approval routing and room allocationCurriculum outcomes, assessment design and review impact sit beside it, so a curriculum change updates the catalogue and nothing else.
Student servicesConduct, housing, transcripts, careers, each its own productEach is defensible in its own category, and each keeps its own copy of the student.
Assessment & accreditation reportingCriteria structure, narrative and document storageA reporting shell above data a person assembled elsewhere. The evidence itself is still made by hand.

Read one row at a time, this is a healthy market. Read together, it describes a single condition: most of these categories are reading an academic record that none of them own. That record, and the operation running on top of it, is the part nobody is selling.

Built to carry any framework

We do not ship one country’s rulebook. We ship the model underneath it.

Standards, criteria, thresholds, artefacts and review cycles are configuration rather than code. Select a piece of the model to see what it does.

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How Creatrix answers it

Where American campuses lose time today

The academic workflows nobody's software actually owns.

Seven workflows that every institution runs and almost none of them run on one model. Select a workflow to see the pattern, and what changes when it sits on one record.

3Assembled by hand
3Point solution, partial
1No integrated system

Of seven core academic workflows, three are still assembled by hand, three run on tools that own only part of the job, and one has no integrated system anywhere in the market.

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Assembled by hand Point solution, partial No integrated system
Source: Creatrix market review, US higher education, 2026

What an operating layer has to prove

Three claims, and what each one actually requires.

These separate an institution reading reports from one running an operation. Each is easy to demonstrate in a proof session, and each depends on the record underneath rather than the dashboard above it.

Claim 01

Attainment is live, mid-term, not after the fact.

The windshield. The chair sees the problem while the cohort is still enrolled. Requires: assessments mapped to course and program outcomes, computed from real marks
Claim 02

The signal becomes an action.

Data to decision to next cohort. That is a quality culture rather than a compliance exercise. Requires: an owner, a due date and a recorded outcome inside the same system
Claim 03

The evidence is already there.

A live, dated, version-tracked file, not a narrative written the semester before the visit. Requires: artefacts tagged to the framework’s criteria as the work happens

Three ways institutions start

Win one problem first. The institution underneath is the same.

No American provost buys a category. They solve one urgent problem, and the second one is cheaper because it runs on the record the first one created. Choose where you would start.

For institutional effectiveness, assessment and accreditation offices

Map assessment to program outcomes once, and the criterion-tagged evidence for institutional and programmatic review is emitted from the work faculty already do, instead of being uploaded into a reporting shell each cycle.

Entry vocabulary assessment management · accreditation · program review · institutional effectiveness · curriculum mapping
Why it’s different Evidence is a by-product of grading and curriculum work, not a separate collection project One evidence set reused across institutional and programmatic reviews Readiness scored before the site visit, with owners and dates on every gap

The uncontested claim. The tools in this category report on evidence that somebody assembled by hand somewhere else.

For faculty affairs, deans and academic HR

Run recruitment, activity, annual review, promotion and tenure as one operation on one faculty record, so the dossier is assembled from real teaching, research and service rather than retyped into a reporting form.

Entry vocabulary faculty activity reporting · promotion & tenure · annual review · workload · course evaluation
Why it’s different Dossier built from activity already recorded, drawn from publication and identifier sources Review and promotion workflow with committees, stages and recorded decisions The same faculty data fills the qualification tables a review asks for

Faculty activity reporting is solved. The faculty operation around it, the part that consumes a dean’s year, is not.

For medicine, nursing, pharmacy and allied health schools

Track rotations, competency milestones, structured clinical examinations and portfolios on one clinical record, and let competency evidence come from the clinical operation itself rather than a portfolio product plus a spreadsheet.

Entry vocabulary clinical placement · rotation scheduling · entrustable activities · milestones · competency assessment · portfolio
Why it’s different Rotation planning, competency logbooks, structured clinical exams and portfolio in one record Mobile evaluation designed for preceptors at partner clinical sites Competency evidence maps straight to whichever programmatic criteria apply

Nobody owns this workflow. Placement tools, portfolio products and spreadsheets divide it between them, and none of them holds the whole record.

Evidence by design

Today’s assessment spreadsheet becomes tomorrow’s reaffirmation evidence.

Assessment and accreditation is the one area where the whole category sells a reporting shell and the data underneath is still made by hand. Connecting the pipeline removes the most manual workflow on the American campus.

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Daily academic work

Faculty grade against rubrics, evaluate clinical performance and record participation in the normal flow.

02

Outcomes attained

Course and program outcome attainment computes itself: thresholds, cohorts and per-question detail.

03

Evidence tagged

Attainment, improvement actions and artefacts tag to the configured criteria the moment the work happens.

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Review ready

Your self-study assembles continuously, and readiness is visible long before the team arrives on campus.

Why it matters: accredited status is what federal aid eligibility rests on, which means the least automated workflow on campus is also the one carrying the most institutional risk.

Creatrix Campus accreditation command centre showing four programmes in cycle with readiness scores, stage, rated criteria and next deadline, and a switch between two accreditation frameworks Accreditation command centre: programmes in cycle, readiness scored per programme, and a switch between frameworks. The framework shown here is one configuration of many. Creatrix Campus program-level outcomes dashboard showing program outcome attainment by term, attained versus not attained percentages, outcomes against threshold and the course-to-program outcome mapping matrix Program outcomes: attainment by term, attained versus not attained, and the course-to-program mapping matrix underneath it.

See it in the product

From outcome attainment to review-ready evidence, in one operation.

  • Readiness before the visit: every programme in cycle scored against its configured criteria, with the gap list and the owner attached.
  • Outcomes assessment computed from real grades: course to program mapping, thresholds and cohort views.
  • Any framework: the same evidence set answers a second review without a second collection exercise.
Book a proof session on your own programs

Connect, don’t replace

Sits above the systems you already run.

An American campus already runs a student information system for records, an LMS for teaching, a CRM for the funnel and a dozen point tools around them. Creatrix replaces none of it. It is the academic operating layer above them, connected API first through Creatrix Connect.

Portfolios versus an operating system

Several vendors already sell you many products. That is not the same thing.

The strongest positions in the American market are not single products. They are families of products sold to one campus, usually assembled by acquisition and joined at the logo. Five patterns recur.

The acquired portfolioPattern 01Dozens of products gathered over a decade of acquisitions, each with its own data model, sold as a suite and integrated at the invoice.
Products plus advisoryPattern 02Software bundled with consulting and marketing services. The relationship is the moat, and the data model is nobody’s priority.
The category familyPattern 03Several strong products around one office, evaluation, faculty, curriculum, planning, each holding its own store of record.
Analytics plus consultingPattern 04Dashboards over data somebody else produced, where every product opens a services engagement to keep the data flowing.
The reporting shellPattern 05A criteria structure and a document store, waiting for evidence a person collects by hand each cycle.
The practical test

When a faculty member enters a grade, does your review evidence change?

On a portfolio the answer is no: something has to be exported, mapped and uploaded, usually by a person whose job that quietly becomes. On one record the answer is yes, because attainment, curriculum mapping and criterion tagging are the same object seen from three angles.

That is the whole difference between buying many products and running one operating system.

What we are not claiming

Creatrix is new to the United States, and we are not going to pretend otherwise or promise you a rulebook we have not implemented here. What we can say is how the system is built: accreditation standards, criteria and evidence types are configuration, so the framework your programs answer to is set up rather than developed.

Our references are universities in the UK, Ireland, Singapore, New Zealand, the Gulf, Malaysia and India, each running a different national framework on the same model. We would rather run an evaluation on two of your own programs than show you a domestic logo we have not earned yet.

US resources

Go deeper on the American context.

Briefs written for provosts, institutional effectiveness offices, registrars and health science deans.

WhitepaperWhy the SIS and the ERP were never going to be enoughRead PrimerWhat an Academic Operating System actually isRead GuideEvidence by design: self-study without the year-long scrambleRead PlaybookHow we price a first workflow, and what the second one costsRead

United States FAQ

Questions American institutions ask.

Do we have to replace our student information system?

No. Creatrix is the academic operating layer above the student information system you already run. Records stay where they are and Creatrix connects API first through Creatrix Connect. Institutions that later choose to consolidate can, but nothing on this page depends on it.

Which accreditation frameworks does Creatrix support?

Standards, criteria, thresholds and evidence types are configuration rather than code. A framework is set up as a criteria model with its own artefacts and review cycle, which is how the same product serves very different national systems today. It also means one evidence set can answer an institutional review and a programmatic one without a second collection exercise.

Where does an American campus start?

With one academic workflow no current system owns: accreditation and outcomes assessment, the promotion and tenure operation, or clinical and competency-based education in the health sciences. Each runs on the same record, which is why the second costs materially less than the first.

How is this different from an assessment or accreditation reporting tool?

A reporting tool organises evidence that a person assembled somewhere else. In Creatrix the evidence is a by-product of daily academic work, because grading, curriculum mapping and clinical evaluation all happen on the record the reviewer eventually reads.

Is Creatrix FERPA aligned, and where is our data held?

Creatrix supports United States cloud residency with role based access, field level permissions and full audit history on views, edits and disclosures, and is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO 27701:2019 with GDPR compliance.

Do you have United States customers today?

Not yet, and we will not imply otherwise. Creatrix runs at universities in the UK, Ireland, Singapore, New Zealand, the UAE, Kuwait, Malaysia and India, each under a different national framework on the same model. We would rather run an evaluation on two of your own programs than show you a domestic logo we have not earned yet.

GET STARTED

Pick the one problem worth winning first.

Bring two programs and your next accreditation cycle. We will run the evaluation on your own curriculum, your own assessment data and your own review calendar.

Talk to us about a US evaluation See how we price

One workflow first · No rip and replace · Evaluated on your own programs