Founder + Author
John Thomas
Founder of SchoolIntel. I write and review the international school market intelligence guides published on this site. Twelve years building software for education and EdTech sales — split across operator side (running engineering at a venture-backed school operator) and vendor side (founding teams that sold curriculum, assessment, and data tooling into international schools).
What I do at SchoolIntel
I review every market, source, event, and role guide that ships on schoolintel.co. The reviewed-by byline at the top of each page links back here. I do this because most of what gets sold as "international school data" is a static spreadsheet exported the day someone bought it; I want SchoolIntel to be the opposite — the same source substrate that powers our product, published openly, with citations and dates so EdTech sales and marketing teams can verify the claims.
The pages cover the markets I have firsthand experience selling into (UAE, Qatar, the wider GCC) plus the source layers EdTech vendors actually need to validate accounts (KHDA, ADEK, BSO, IBO, Cambridge, COBIS, BSME, EARCOS). When I cite a number, I cite the source URL and the date I last verified it. When the source goes stale, the byline date moves and the row's freshness stamp updates.
Background
- Founder, SchoolIntel — building live international school sales intelligence.
- Prior: engineering and product at education and EdTech startups — across operator-side school groups and vendor-side EdTech companies serving international schools.
Contact
The fastest way to reach me is hello@schoolintel.co. If you're an EdTech sales or marketing team evaluating SchoolIntel, book a demo and I'll likely be the one running it. Press, partnerships, and schools should email directly.
This is a living author page. Verified affiliations, links, and press will be added here as they go live.