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Education operations, coordinated.

Procurement, vendor onboarding, approval routing, enrollment intake, and compliance tracking across campuses and districts.

The shape of the operation

Coordination lives in four places. None of them talk.

A typical mid-market district or campus runs on Banner, PowerSchool, or Workday Student for the SIS, Munis, Tyler, or Workday for finance, Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 for everything else, and a stack of spreadsheets for procurement, federal grant tracking, and board reporting. Approval chains span school, district, and board. Compliance evidence gets reconstructed when the auditor asks.

The work the platform removes is not the work the SIS or ERP is supposed to do. It is the coordination between them. That is where requisitions stall, vendor onboarding drags, federal grant compliance leaks, and the business office spends weeks building reports for board meetings.

Tool landscape
Typical setup
How data moves

Procurement lifecycle, today.

Requisition to reconciliation. Five stages. Each one currently sits in a different system, owned by a different person, updated by hand. This is what we automate first.

  1. Stage 1
    Requisition
    School or department raises
  2. Stage 2
    Approval
    School, district, board chain
  3. Stage 3
    Procurement
    Vendor selected and PO issued
  4. Stage 4
    Receiving
    Goods or services confirmed
  5. Stage 5
    Reconciliation
    Reported against grant or fund
Where automation lands

Six workflows we automate first.

Identified by procurement, the business office, school leaders, and compliance officers running the work today. Each one replaces something a person is doing manually. We build them as discrete engagements, in priority order.

Procurement requisition intake

Requisitions raised by schools, departments, and program leads come in via email, web form, and PDF. Navon classifies the category, validates against the budget code, and opens the record in the finance ERP with the right cost center.

Replaces: Procurement staff retyping forms

Multi-level approval routing

Spend moves through school principal, district business office, superintendent, and board approval in the right order. Authority limits respected automatically. Audit trail intact for board review.

Replaces: Forwarded emails and signature chases

Vendor onboarding doc collection

W-9s, COIs, background-check certifications, and required compliance documents collected automatically from new vendors. Expiry reminders built in. Filed against the vendor record before the first PO.

Replaces: Email back-and-forth with vendors

Federal program compliance flag

Spend that touches Title I, IDEA, Title IX, or other federal programs flagged automatically with the relevant compliance officer in the loop. Documentation requirements surfaced before the spend posts, not after.

Replaces: End-of-year audit fire drills

Cross-campus reporting rollup

Spend, vendor performance, and compliance status rolled up across campuses and departments on a schedule. One dashboard the business office actually opens, instead of stitching together exports.

Replaces: Manual board-packet preparation

Enrollment document intake

Enrollment paperwork, residency documents, IEPs, and immunization records intake from email and parent portal. Classified, redacted where required, and filed against the student record in the SIS.

Replaces: Front-office data entry by hand
Where Navon fits

Advisory leads. Automations do the work. The platform hosts it.

For education specifically, here is what each practice line looks like.

Advisory

We start in the business office.

Time with procurement, the business office, school leaders, and compliance officers. Walk-throughs of the requisition-to-pay cycle, federal program tracking, and how board reporting actually gets built. Written findings, phased plan, sign-off before anything ships.

AI automations

Intake, route, report.

Procurement requisition intake. Multi-level approval routing through school, district, and board. Vendor onboarding doc collection. Federal grant compliance flagging. Enrollment document intake. Each one scoped discretely, sequenced by what saves the most administrator time first.

Platform

The layer underneath.

Requisitions, approvals, vendor records, federal program logs, enrollment intake. All in one place with structured ownership and role-based access. Pulls from and writes to Banner, PowerSchool, Workday Student, Munis, and Tyler. Your existing systems stay.

FAQ

Education-specific questions.

The operational questions district and campus buyers ask before the first call.

Does this replace our SIS or finance ERP?

No. Banner, PowerSchool, Workday Student, Munis, and Tyler stay as systems of record for students, staff, and finance. Navon sits alongside them and removes the coordination work between procurement, vendor onboarding, approval chains, compliance tracking, and reporting that lives in email and spreadsheets today.

How do you handle FERPA and student data privacy?

FERPA boundaries are part of the audit phase on every engagement. Student data is segregated by role at the platform level, with access logs against every record view. Redaction and consent workflows are configured per district during advisory.

Can the platform handle multi-campus or multi-district operations?

Yes. Cost centers, school codes, and approval authority limits are configured per location. The platform respects the hierarchy you already use. Cross-campus rollups are built specifically because most ERPs make this hard for districts and higher-ed systems.

What about federal grant rules and program compliance?

Title I, IDEA, Title IX, ESSA, and other federal program requirements are configured per grant during deployment. Spend touching those funds is flagged with documentation requirements surfaced inline. The audit trail stays intact for the program officer's review.

What does the first engagement usually look like?

An operational audit. We spend time with procurement, the business office, school leaders, and the compliance officer. Walk through the requisition-to-pay cycle, vendor onboarding, federal program tracking, and enrollment intake. Written findings, phased plan, sign-off. Usually two to three weeks.

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