A bilingual digital campus serving 8,000+ students
Year
2024–2026
Client
Al Hadi Institute
Al Hadi Institute is a Minnesota-based education brand offering family and faith-based courses, coaching, books, and events to Somali audiences worldwide. Carasant built their complete digital infrastructure — an LMS backbone serving 8,000+ students across 11 programs, and a fully bilingual English/Somali web platform wired into an end-to-end commerce and automation engine.
Scope of Work
“The LMS Carasant built for us handles everything seamlessly. Our students love the experience and our instructors spend less time on admin.”
Al Hadi Institute
Institute Director
The challenge
Al Hadi's audience is genuinely global and genuinely bilingual — a site in English alone excludes half the community; a translated afterthought insults them. And for an institution, platform stability is non-negotiable: enrolment, course delivery, and student progression across 11 concurrent programs cannot depend on manual admin.
Beyond language and scale, the business runs on multiple revenue streams — courses, tiered coaching, book sales, live events, community memberships — each needing its own payment, delivery, and follow-up flow. Off-the-shelf course platforms couldn't handle the bilingual experience or unify the streams.
Our approach
We treated Somali as a first-class language, not a translation layer — full i18n architecture with every page, CTA, and flow authored in both languages, manageable from one CMS.
On the operations side, we designed the learning backend so administration, course delivery, and user progression run on autopilot, and consolidated commerce into a single automation platform so the client runs the entire business from one dashboard instead of six stitched-together tools.
What we built
Scalable learning infrastructure
A backend managing 8,000+ students across 11 distinct programs — enrolment, delivery, and progress tracking automated end-to-end.
Full English/Somali internationalisation
A native experience in both languages via Next.js i18n — every page and flow, not just the homepage.
Sanity CMS with embedded Studio
The client's team edits all content, in both languages, without touching code.
Complete commerce & automation layer
Coaching calendars with tiered packages, course sales, book fulfilment, event registration, and automated email/SMS nurture — one GoHighLevel engine behind all of it.
Outcomes
8,000+ students managed across 11 programs — administration that once took days each term is automated.
One unified system replacing what would otherwise be five or six separate tools.
Every revenue stream — coaching, courses, books, events — bookable and payable online, in two languages.
Stack
“Two languages, four revenue streams, one system.”
Trusted by many
10+ Happy clients