Why Brim
A foreign system is translated for Uganda. Brim is built for it.
UNEB grading, the NCDC syllabus, URA and NSSF maths, UGX, SMS and USSD. None of it is a localisation pack added at the end. These are the assumptions the whole system was designed around.
Graded the way Uganda grades
The scales Uganda actually grades on.
Report cards compute on the scale the level actually uses: UACE points, UCE and PLE divisions. A grade means what a Ugandan parent, teacher and examiner already take it to mean. No translation step, no rounding error imported from someone else’s system.
UACE grade points
UNEB · A-level · principalReport cards compute on the scale your level actually uses: UACE points here, UCE and PLE divisions elsewhere. No generic A–F translated in afterwards.
Chemistry · S3
Geometry · proof
- ∠ABC = ∠DEFgiven
- AB = DEgiven
- △ABC ≅ △DEFSAS
Music · tonic sol-fa
Written for the syllabus
Grounded in NCDC, subject by subject.
The classroom offers discipline-native blocks: balanced chemistry equations, geometry proofs, tonic sol-fa. The palette is grounded in the NCDC syllabus, so it shows only what the subject needs. It is the first classroom built for the East African curriculum rather than translated into it.
See the classroom pillarStatutory maths from source
PAYE, NSSF and WHT, computed for you.
Payroll applies the URA resident PAYE bands and NSSF at 5% employee and 10% employer, from source. No spreadsheet to remember to update each budget. The numbers are right because the rules live in the system rather than in someone’s head.
See the finance pillarPAYE monthly bands
URA · resident · UGXIncome above 10,000,000/month carries an additional 10% on the excess. Payroll applies all of this from source.
The realities a foreign system ignores
The details that decide whether it actually works here.
Priced and kept in UGX
Fees, payslips, budgets and receipts are in shillings, the way your office already thinks. No foreign currency to convert in your head all day.
SMS and USSD as the floor
A parent on a basic phone reads messages, checks fees and gets holiday notes by dialling a short code. The app is the ceiling; no family is left out for want of a smartphone.
Native apps for the devices you have
Android tablets at the gate, phones in teachers’ pockets, a desktop in the bursary. Brim is built for that hardware, never a one-size browser tab.
One person, many schools, one account
A teacher at two schools, a parent with children at different schools: one identity, one PIN, switched by context. That is how people here actually move.
Built for how schools here run.
Brim is built in Uganda, for the way schools here actually work. It is the same system we’d trust with our own children’s records.