Our story

We built Nikoko to run our own schools.

We're childcare owners. Before Nikoko, growing and running our daycares meant renting our enrollment from an agency and juggling a pile of software that never talked to each other. So we built the system we actually wanted.

  • Built by childcare owners
  • Tested in our own classrooms
Educators and children together in a warm childcare classroom
Built by people who run schools like yours.

The problem we lived

We were renting our enrollment — and drowning in tools.

We own and operate a handful of daycares and preschools. Enrollment isn't a side project — it's the engine of the whole business. It sets our revenue, our staffing, and our classroom plans for the entire year.

And we'd handed that engine to outside marketing agencies. We paid for leads we didn't own, waited on reports that arrived too late, and stayed 100% reliant on someone else for the thing our year depended on.

Inside the building, it wasn't any calmer. Marketing lived in one system, the classroom in another, payroll in a third — none of them talking. Each had its own quirks, its own login, its own way of breaking. Worst of all, they were hard for our teams to use, so the software meant to save time kept creating more of it — and pulling us away from the kids.

Why we made Nikoko

So we built the system we wished we had.

We wanted to own our enrollment instead of renting it. We wanted to automate the busywork that ate our team's day. And above all, we wanted something simple enough that anyone on staff could pick it up without a training week.

Nikoko brings growing and running a school into one place — marketing, tours, parent messages, enrollment, and the classroom, all on a single family record. One system to learn. One place to look.

We didn't build Nikoko to add another tool. We built it to take the work out of running a daycare — so we can spend our time where it matters: caring for kids.

What we believe

The principles we built Nikoko on.

Own your growth

Your enrollment is too important to rent. Nikoko brings marketing and admissions in-house, so the engine of your business is yours.

Software your team likes

If it takes a training week, it's the wrong tool. Nikoko is built to pick up in an afternoon — for directors and brand-new staff alike.

More time for kids

Less busywork and fewer disconnected systems means more hours back for the only thing that really matters: caring for children.

Run your school the way we wanted to.

Book a quick demo and we'll show you how Nikoko brings your marketing, admissions, and classroom into one place your whole team can actually use.

Own your enrollment
One tool teams like
More time for care