About
Why we built ReadyHo
A transcript shows attendance and exam marks. It says nothing about whether a graduate can do the work. ReadyHo is the proof that is missing.
A degree does not show what a graduate can do
A transcript proves a student turned up and passed exams. It does not show whether they can draft a contract, take a studio project through review, or turn a client brief into finished work.
So employers test your graduates again themselves, and placement takes longer than it should. A student can be excellent and still invisible, because nothing an employer can look up shows the work they did.
The work already exists on your campus. It gets marked against whatever standard is in a teacher's head, then thrown away. Professionals visit, give real feedback, and it is gone the same afternoon.
ReadyHo keeps it, and turns it into something an employer can check.
What happens on a course
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Your teacher sets a real project
FacultyThey also write a simple scorecard: what is being marked, and what good work looks like at each level.
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Students hand in real work
StudentsA contract, a drawing set, a report, a design. Whatever your course already asks for.
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A first draft score comes back in minutes
SoftwareEvery point is tied to a line on the scorecard, with comments. It is a draft, and it is never the mark.
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Your teacher reads it and decides the real mark
FacultyThey can change any score and any comment. Nothing moves without them.
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A working professional checks it and signs their name
PractitionerSomeone from your own network, from the industry the student wants to enter.
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The result becomes a page an employer can open
The student decidesOne link, checkable in seconds, with no phone call to your office.
Structure
The software is yours. The public check page is ours to run
One half you control completely. The other half we operate, and it is worth deciding about now rather than later.
| The software | The public check page |
|---|---|
| Runs on your servers | Runs at readyho.com |
| You control it | We run it |
| Free to use, and yours to keep | Free for colleges, students, and employers |
| You can change it or fork it | Cannot be forked |
| Produces the marked work | Confirms it, and makes it findable |
| You pay your own hosting and AI costs | Costs you nothing |
The software runs on your own servers, free to use and yours to keep. No licence fee, no purchase order, and you can change it. If this project stopped tomorrow, your installation keeps working.
The page an employer opens is one service we run, at readyho.com. It is free for colleges, students, and employers. It cannot be copied and run separately, because a record is only worth checking if there is one place to check it.
Your library staff will recognise the shape. It is how ORCID and DOI work. The tools are free, and there is one shared register behind them.
If one central service is a problem for you, decide now
We put this on the home page and here, in plain sight, because it is better decided before a deployment than after one.
There is no licence fee
You never pay us. You pay your own hosting and your own AI usage, direct to those providers, and you can cap both.
Running cost is 200 to 700 rupees per student per year, and you set the ceiling.
200 to 700 rupees per student per year
Hosting and AI usage, paid to your own providers.
Support is public, and that is the whole of it
Questions are answered in public, in the documentation and the issue tracker. There is no private support line and no promised response time.
If you need more than that, you can hire anyone you like to support it. The licence allows it, and we take no cut.
- What support is
- The public documentation and the public issue tracker
- What it is not
- A private line, or a promised response time
Run it at your college
Start with one course or roll it out across your departments. It is free and open source.
What you need
- One course that already sets project work.
- One teacher to write the project and the scorecard, and to review the draft marks.
- One working professional from your own network.
- About half a day of IT time, or a cloud instance.
- A decision on student consent, taken with whoever owns data protection.
What you get
Scorecards for your subject, written with your faculty and published free for anyone to use. An installation that is yours to keep whether you continue or not, and real numbers from your own course: how long it took your faculty, and how closely the draft scores matched your professional's judgement.
- Scale
- One course, or every department you teach
- Cost
- Free and open source