The platform, not the school

This whole school is one file away from being yours.

Everything you are looking at — the palette, the name, the catalogue, the certificate wording, the pricing table, the voice tutor — comes out of a single configuration file. Change it and the site, the signed-in application and the issued PDF all follow. No fork, no find-and-replace, and nothing else in the codebase names a school.

Talk about a build See what it is running now

The mechanism

One file in, four surfaces out.

What a buyer actually edits

shared/brand.config.ts, and nothing else.

A maritime school, a franchise operator, a manufacturer inducting line staff — the same code, a different config. The snippet beside this is a complete, working configuration for a different school; drop it in and the deployment you are reading becomes that school on the next build.

The certificate is the tell. Its title, preamble, attestation, seal, identifier prefix and verification URL are all in that file — and the accreditation line is an empty string by default, so a school that holds no accreditation prints none. You cannot claim a regulator's approval by leaving a placeholder in.

shared/brand.config.ts

export const BRAND: BrandConfig = {
  key: "harbourline",
  name: "Harbourline Maritime Academy",
  tagline: "Crew training that holds up at sea.",
  domain: "academy.harbourline.example",

  logo: { wordmark: "Harbourline", monogram: "HM" },

  palette: {
    bg: "#07161C", surface: "#0D2530",
    ink: "#EAF4F6", ink2: "#B4CBD2", ink3: "#89A4AD",
    accent: "#4FC3D9", accentDeep: "#1E7E96", accentOn: "#04121A",
    accent2: "#E8B44A", trim: "#C6A15B",
    /* ...statuses, rule, sheen, shade, radius, grain... */
  },

  catalogue: ["deck-safety", "engine-watch", "cargo-handling"],

  certificate: {
    title: "Statement of Attainment",
    accreditationLine: "",     // print nothing unless you hold one
    idPrefix: "HM",
    verifyUrlPattern: "https://academy.harbourline.example/verify/{id}",
    seal: "trim",
  },

  voice: { enabled: true, agentId: "agent_...", tutorName: "Mate" },
};

The token contract, measured

Every text tier is computed against the surface it sits on, not eyeballed.

These ratios are calculated in the browser from the palette currently loaded. Change the config, reload, and this table changes with it — which is how a buyer finds out their brand colour fails on a label before their customers do.

Token	Value	Used for	Contrast on surface	WCAG
ink	#F4F1F7	Body text and headings	15.55 : 1	AAA
ink-2	#C3BAD2	Secondary text and every field label	9.34 : 1	AAA
ink-3	#9A90AC	Eyebrows, captions, table meta	5.77 : 1	AA
accent	#A98CFF	Primary action	6.53 : 1	AA
trim	#C7CBD8	Corner ticks, rules, rings, seal	10.74 : 1	AAA
ok	#5CD6A0	Passed	9.60 : 1	AAA
warn	#F0B84E	Retake	9.67 : 1	AAA
bad	#FF7A6E	Failed	6.85 : 1	AA
info	#7BC5F0	Informational	9.19 : 1	AAA

accent-deep is not listed because it never carries text — it is a pressed and wipe ground only, which is why it is allowed to be darker than a text tier may be.

What comes with it

The platform
Courses, modules, written lessons, worksheets as CSV, module checks, a final assessment, certificates with public verification, student progress, an admin dashboard, bulk enrolment and analytics.
The demo school
4 courses, 32 modules and 131 lessons of real material, loaded, so the platform is never shown empty. Keep it, replace it, or hide it by deleting four strings from the catalogue array.
The voice tutor
An ElevenLabs Agents session handed the exact lesson the student is reading. Point it at your own agent in your own workspace; voice minutes are billed to you, not resold by us.
Your Stripe
Your students pay into your own Stripe account on your own deployment. The money never touches ours, and that is a property of the architecture rather than a promise.
Your domain, your database
One Vercel project and one Postgres database per school. Nothing is multi-tenant, so there is no other school's data anywhere near yours.
The runbook
PROVISION.md: the exact sequence to stand a school up, the env block, the seed, the handover, and the deprovision steps with a date.

The certificate, as this config renders it

The School of Life Hacks

Certificate of Completion

This certifies that

Dana Whitfield

has completed every lesson and passed the written assessment for every module of this course.

The Occupancy Course

Rob Yeager, Instructor

Issued 8 September 2026

LH-2026-0184

school-of-life-hacks.vercel.app/verify/LH-2026-0184

Same component, same markup as the PDF. A buyer's screenshots are correct the moment their config lands — nobody has to redraw a certificate in a design tool.

Talk about a build The voice-agent version

What this is not: it is not a hosted platform with a monthly seat fee, and we are not trying to be one. It is a single-tenant deployment you own, on your infrastructure, with your Stripe keys, priced as a build. If what you want is a subscription with a support desk behind it, one of the hosted platforms is a better answer and we will say so on the call.

This whole school is one file away from being yours.

One file in, four surfaces out.

shared/brand.config.ts, and nothing else.

Every text tier is computed against the surface it sits on, not eyeballed.

The platform

The demo school

The voice tutor

Your Stripe

Your domain, your database

The runbook