What Halgo does

A private tutor runs four jobs at once, and only one of them is teaching. There is the week — who is coming when, and what moved. There is the money — who has paid for what, and what is left of a prepaid block. There is the material — the books you teach from and the exercises inside them. And there is the record — what each student can do now that they could not do in September.

Most tutors run these in four separate places: a calendar, a spreadsheet, a shelf of PDFs and their own memory. Each is fine alone. The cost is at the joins — the lesson that happened but was never billed, the exercise you know is in one of these books but cannot find on a Tuesday evening, the progress report written from recollection because the notes were never kept.

The pages below are those four jobs. They are listed with a status because Halgo is in closed beta and some of them are further along than others; a feature page that reads as finished when the feature is not is worse than no page at all.

Halgo is built for one tutor with a roster, not for a school with a timetable. It has no staff scheduling, no room allocation, no franchise reporting and no parent portal with a fee ledger per branch. Those are real needs and there issoftware that covers them — it is simply not this.

The other deliberate absence is content. Halgo does not supply a curriculum or a library of exercises; it works from the books you already teach from, because the material a tutor trusts is the material they chose. What it adds is the finding and the assembling, which is the part that costs an evening a week.

If you teach on a shared canvas, start with online lesson boards. If the thing that hurts most is preparation, continue with homework. If it is the admin around the lessons, start with students and billing or scheduling. If you want the reasoning rather than the feature list, the blog covers the same ground from the teaching side — planning a one-to-one lesson and tracking progress without a spreadsheet.

And if your teaching has a particular shape, the audience pages argue it directly: exam preparation, where a date and a marking scheme replace the level, and teaching online, where the board has to be the classroom.