Why we built teache

Hours of copying every Sunday, and almost none of it teaching.

Francisca Akoto · July 6, 2026 · 2 min read

Ask a Ghanaian basic-school teacher what Sunday evening looks like and you'll hear the same story: an exercise book or a laptop, the NaCCA curriculum open somewhere, and hours of copying. Week ending, strand, sub-strand, indicator codes, core competencies, three phases per lesson, five days a week, every subject you teach. Then the same again for the record of work, and the tests, and the marking schemes.

Every note gets signed before it counts

The thinking part, how you'll actually get fractions across to your B4 class on Tuesday, is a small island in a sea of formatting. And the formatting decides whether the note counts. A headteacher or circuit supervisor vets it, and the header, the codes and the structure all have to be right before it gets signed.

What the job actually was

Make the compliance work disappear and leave the teaching alone. That one line shaped everything in teache, starting with two ways in:

Guided asks you questions and you answer in your own words. Slower, and the lesson is unmistakably yours.
Generate drafts faster, from your seed: your topic, your class, your week.

Either way, the printed note reads like you, because it is you.

The invisible half is the curriculum

There's no API for NaCCA, so we transcribed it, subject by subject, from the official documents:

Fourteen subject curricula, B1 through B9
4,166 indicators
12,505 exemplars, kept in their original order

So every code teache prints traces back to a line we transcribed. If you want the vocabulary itself, we wrote a plain-language guide to strands, sub-strands and indicators.

Ghana-first, on purpose

The print format is the one GES expects, vetting block and all. Pricing is credit packs paid with mobile money from GHS 20, because that's how money moves here.

Starting costs nothing. A new account gets 30 credits, which covers a whole year's scheme of work plus three weeks of notes, and every month after that carries a standing grant of its own. You top up only when you want more, and you pay per document. The full breakdown is on the pricing page.

We'd like you in the first cohort

If you teach in Ghana: start with one week's notes and tell us what to build next. The things teachers ask for are what we build, in that order.