A complete guide for school founders and curriculum creators who want to launch, operate, and grow — without paying for infrastructure or authoring tools. Everything you need is already on the free plan.
Before platforms like SprintUp Education, launching a digital school required assembling a stack of expensive tools. Getting started required €10,000 or more before a single student enrolled. The free school model replaces all of that with a single platform — every piece of infrastructure at zero cost.
Students never cost credits. Generating course content does not cost credits either, as long as you use the relax lane, which is unlimited on every plan including Free. Credits buy one thing: the fast lane, where a request starts immediately and can use premium models.
A credit is not a fixed price per tool — it tracks how much text the model reads and writes, so a six-week course outline costs more than one exit quiz. Pro includes 5,000 credits a month, Academy 250 per active student pooled. Top up any time: €10 buys 2,500 credits and they never expire.
Schools on the free plan can earn in two ways — both available without a subscription, from the moment the campus is live.
Sell enrolments through your own school website. Stripe processes payment — 100% of tuition revenue goes to the school, minus Stripe's processing fee (~1.4% + €0.20). SprintUp Education takes nothing.
Publish curriculum to the marketplace. When schools adopt it, creators keep 80% of the sale — permanently, from the first adoption, with no minimum catalogue size required.
The free school model is a specific sequence. These five steps take a school from a blank account to live with students enrolled, all within a single working day.
Campus builder: create your school structure — departments, classrooms, and admin workspace. 20 minutes.
AI curriculum tools generate a full course outline in under an hour. Alternatively, browse the marketplace for free listings.
Your public-facing school website with enrolment pages, course catalogue, and Stripe payment integration — included free.
Define your enrolment flow — application, approval, and onboarding. Students get their own portal under your school brand.
Publish your school website. Start enrolling. All revenue from tuition goes directly to you via Stripe.
AI lesson plans, exit quizzes, differentiation, and course outlines — all on the free plan.
Set up your school free →See what schools getEvery feature on the free plan, what it does, the exact limits, and how unlimited relax-lane AI covers active teaching for most schools.
Building your digital campus from scratch — the setup walkthrough, school structure decisions, and configuring your public school website and enrolment pages.
Building a full year's curriculum with AI — course outline generation, lesson planning prompts, and the strategy that decides when speed is worth spending credits on.
Using the marketplace to source free curriculum — how to find quality listings, evaluate them, and blend marketplace content with your own AI-built curriculum.
Setting up student enrolment for free — the student portal, application flows, and a practical checklist for managing your first cohort.
Publishing and selling your curriculum for free — how to list your first curriculum, price it, and grow your creator profile so schools find your work.
Running multiple schools from one free account — multi-campus setup, shared credit pools, and knowing when to split into separate campuses vs departments.
Growing your school — the signals that tell you it is time to upgrade, how top-ups compare to moving up a plan, and the growth roadmap from founding school to established institution.
Every feature on the free plan, what it does, and the exact limits. The reference guide for confident free-tier setup.
AI compresses the weeks-long course outline process into a single focused session. The sequence that makes it work.
Six steps from preparing your content to your listing going live.