No spreadsheets.
No version confusion.
No guesswork.

Budgeting made simple.
Built by people like you.

Purpose-built budgeting and forecasting for Multi Academy Trusts. Designed with CFOs and School Business Managers, for CFOs and School Business Managers.

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No commitment. Just the chance to shape something better.

Everything a MAT finance team actually needs.

School budgeting is complex enough without the software making it harder. Strip away the complexity and give MAT finance teams a single, powerful platform to plan, forecast, and report with confidence.

Other systems
School-first systems
Finance bolt-ons
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Built for MATs.
By design.

Designed from the ground up for Multi Academy Trust finance - not adapted, not bolted on. Every feature reflects how MATs actually work.

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When you need support, you speak to a human. No reply-all chain. No ticket queues. Just fast, knowledgeable help from people who understand school finance.

Central Assumptions
Pay Award
3.00%
Pension Increase
2.50%
School A
School B
School C
One set of assumptions.
Across every school.

Assumptions are set once by the central team and flow automatically to every school. Whether the central team or individual School Business Managers are building the budget, everyone’s working from the same baseline.

Approved budget
Inflation
Pensions
Staffing
Reforecast
Pay scales
BFR
Live Dashboards
One database.
Total clarity.

One unified dataset means no duplicate data, no version conflicts, no "which file is latest?" Every figure you see is the right figure.

Created in partnership with the people who know school budgeting best.

Centari Education wasn’t built in a boardroom. It was built in collaboration with CFOs, School Business Managers and MAT finance leads. It was built with people who have spent years wrestling with the realities of school budgets.

That experience is baked into every part of the system. The logic, the workflows, the language – it all reflects how your team actually works.

Backed by 20+ years in educational technology.

Help shape the future of school budgeting.

We’re inviting a small group of school finance professionals to join our early access community. Share your feedback during development, influence the features that matter most, and be first in line on launch.

Already tied into an existing contract?

That’s fine. Join now, help shape the product, and we’ll support your migration when the time is right.

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