About

15 years of building systems.
9 years of running lessons.

WinClass was built by someone who ran his own centers, trained teachers himself, and knows exactly why you don't feel like preparing a lesson on a Sunday evening. Here you learn the method first — and start teaching with it right away. We built what replaces a franchise: no entry fee, no royalties.
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Platform live since 2025 20+ disciplines No entry fee, no royalties 200 ₽ per student a month
Why we do this

Strong methods shouldn't require someone else's permission

Strong teaching methods do exist. The problem is that most teachers can only use them by someone else's permission: an entry fee, royalties on every student, a contract that forbids working "off-brand". Meanwhile a teacher in a small town is left with a notebook, printouts and an evening eaten by lesson prep.

For nine years we sat on both sides of that table: we opened centers, we paid and we were paid, we trained teachers — and we watched strong people fail to grow simply because the entry ticket cost money they didn't have.

So we took everything a franchise normally charges an entry fee for — methods, trainers, teacher training, olympiads, tools under your own brand, student and payment records — and priced it at 200 ₽ per student. We don't sell a franchise. We replace it.

And one thing we never compromise on: the tools are for the teacher, not for the child. The platform doesn't teach instead of you and doesn't replace the lesson. A human runs the lesson — the platform simply stops stealing their evening.

"A teacher in a small town should have the same tools as a large network. With no entry ticket."

Timur Araspayev, founder of WinClass
Timur Araspayev
founder of WinClass · 5 marathons and an Ironman 70.3 — a habit of long distances
How we got here

Twenty years in two professions

A product ends up shaped by the experience of the person building it. So — year by year, with facts you can verify.

2001–2011

Systems that aren't allowed to fail

Ten years at Bank CenterCredit in IT operations. There, an outage at nine in the morning means a queue in the branch and lost money.

→ We know what downtime costs. The platform has to open at 5 p.m. on Monday when your group is waiting. Not "it usually works".

2011–2014

Where a process actually breaks

Risk management director at Caepco and National Information Technologies. Built risk management from scratch and reviewed IT projects.

→ That's why WinClass isn't only trainers, but a center's whole loop: students, groups, payments, attendance, analytics. A lesson is a process too.

2014–2016

Explaining so people go and do it

Rolling out corporate governance in large companies across Kazakhstan. Training sessions with 200 people in the room.

→ Hence the platform's principle: the teacher learns the method first, then runs a lesson with it immediately. No "please read the button manual".

2016–2018

Our own centers. 15 cities

Co-founded a network of mental arithmetic schools. 2,000+ students in Almaty, Astana and Shymkent, another 4,000 across the regions. An offline olympiad for 500 participants.

→ I enrolled, retained and lost students myself. Everything in the platform about retention was written from that pain, not invented on a call.

2018–2019

Fifteen hundred teachers

An international online school for teachers: 10+ original supplementary-education methods, 1,500+ teachers and center directors trained across the CIS.

→ We know what teachers are missing because fifteen hundred of them asked us in person.

2019–2024

The first platform

An IT platform for mental arithmetic teachers: 2,000 paying users in the first two years. An international online olympiad with 1,000+ participants from 15 countries.

→ This isn't our first product. We had already built a platform for teachers, and people paid for it. WinClass is the second iteration, an order of magnitude wider.

In 2025 all of it came together in one platform: twenty-plus disciplines, live lessons, olympiads, student and payment records — everything that used to take four separate services and one franchise.

What stands behind it · projects before WinClass, 2016–2024
15
cities in the school network
6,000+
students in those centers
1,500+
teachers trained
15
countries at our olympiad

These are figures from earlier projects, not WinClass. The platform's own numbers are below, separately.

What we believe

Six rules the product is built on

Each one isn't a slogan but a specific decision inside the platform.

Tools for the teacher, not instead of the teacher

The platform doesn't replace the lesson and doesn't teach the child on its own. It amplifies whoever is running the class. A good teacher is always needed — and will be, whatever technology does next.

Learn it first — then teach it right away

It's one place: you learn the method and that same evening run a lesson with it, using the same tools. No hunting for training in one place and materials in another.

A teacher shouldn't pay for the right to work

No entry fee, no royalties, no cut of your students. 200 ₽ per student a month, free from 5 students up, plus a free plan.

Format isn't an ideology

In class, in a center, at home, online. We're not pulling you "into online" — the tools adapt to how you already work.

Your students aren't our users

We don't collect children's contacts: no phone numbers, no emails. The teacher makes up the child's login — it can be any word. We have no need to know your students; it's enough that they enjoy it.

Parents pay for visible results

A diagnostic at the start and clear progress dynamics for every method. The renewal conversation becomes a conversation about numbers.

Our commitments

What we never do

These aren't "company values". They're what you're entitled to hold us to.

  • We charge no entry fee. Getting started costs zero.
  • We take no cut of your students. Ever. 200 ₽ per activated student, and from 5 students the plan itself is 0 ₽ (clause 5.4 of the offer agreement).
  • We don't sell a franchise — not to you, and not to someone else in your city.
  • We don't restrict you from using your own methods, your own name, or working with anyone you choose.
  • We don't collect your students' contacts: the "Student" role has no phone and no email — only a name, a login and progress. The teacher creates the child's login, using any word they like (clause 2.1 of the privacy policy).
  • We don't message your students or their parents and sell them nothing. We simply have nowhere to write to.
  • Your students, groups and data are yours. After termination the data is kept for another 30 days so you have time to export it (clause 7.3 of the offer agreement).
  • We don't change the price inside a period you've already paid for, and we announce new rates at least 7 days ahead (clauses 5.7–5.8).

None of the above are website promises — they are clauses in documents that are publicly available. Links below.

A direct comparison

A franchise, or your own business

Almost everyone reading this page is facing that choice. Let's compare honestly — including what we don't give you.

A franchise

  • Entry: a lump-sum fee
  • Monthly: royalties on revenue, often plus a marketing levy
  • Brand: theirs. Your center is their location
  • Territory and course list: limited by contract
  • If you leave: you lose the brand, often the students too
  • Methods, training, support: provided

WinClass

  • Entry: 0 ₽
  • Monthly: 200 ₽ per student. Free from 5 students up
  • Brand: yours. Your logo and name, and your own domain on the Network plan
  • Territory and course list: your call
  • If you leave: you take your students and data with you
  • Methods, training, support: 20+ disciplines, 200+ trainers, teacher training inside the platform
What we don't give you — honestly

Marketing, a flow of clients, exclusivity in your area, or a manager holding your hand. Enrolling students and selling stays your job. If that's exactly what you need — you need a franchise, not us.

A franchise sells you permission to work. We give you tools.
You don't need permission — you already have students and a head on your shoulders.

WinClass today

Where we are now — no rounding in our own favour

1,000+
teachers registered
2,000+
students learning
200+
trainers on the platform
20+
disciplines

We're a young product: the platform has been running since 2025. We say that plainly — because behind it stand twenty years of experience and a previous platform used by thousands of teachers. Both are worth looking at.

Straight talk

The uncomfortable questions

We ask them harder than you would.

Will you still be here in a year?
This is our second product for teachers in six years; thousands used the first one. We live on subscriptions, not on investors' money: as long as teachers work and pay, the platform keeps running.
Why no entry fee? How do you make money then?
From the subscription — 200 ₽ per student. It's in our interest that you grow: the more students you have, the more we earn. A franchise works the other way round — it earns on your entry.
Why so cheap? What's wrong with the product?
Nothing. We simply have no costs for "packaging a franchise", territory managers or agency commissions, and everyone pays, not a hundred partners. 200 ₽ across a large number of students is a working economy. Cheaper doesn't mean less: compare what's included above.
Will you sell a franchise to my neighbour tomorrow?
No. We don't sell franchises and we don't run centers of our own. We supply tools to teachers and centers — we don't compete with you for the same children.
Won't the platform replace me?
No, and that's by design. A child can't log in alone: the teacher grants access, the teacher runs the lesson, the teacher goes through the mistakes. We give the tools to you, not to your students. The more technology there is in education, the more a live human next to the child is worth.
What happens to my students if I leave?
They're yours. You export the data on groups, progress and payments. No lock-in, no "transition period".
What children's data do you store?
The minimum: a name, login and password, an avatar, the group and progress on tasks. No phone number, no email, no address — unlike the teacher role, where a phone number is needed to reach you. Registering a child under 14 requires parental consent. All of it is written in the privacy policy, which is public.
Why are there no testimonials from well-known networks?
We launched in 2025. We show what we have, and we don't buy logos for the website.

Let's get acquainted

See the platform from the inside — 7 days, no card. Or write to us if you run a center or a network.

Want to ask me personally — write to timur.araspaev@mail.ru. I answer myself.

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