Built for real-life learning — not school-at-home

A simple log for real-life learning

Orbia World started at our kitchen table, surrounded by books, half-finished projects, muddy boots, and multiple children learning in their own ways. We needed a practical way to capture real learning and turn it into clear records if the Ministry of Education ever requests reporting — without spending hours every week doing admin.

  • Capture in seconds
  • Organised automatically
  • Ready to report when needed

🇳🇿 NZ-owned • Privacy-first • Built for unschooling

Why we’re building Orbia World

Because learning is real — but proving it is hard

Orbia World helps you capture learning naturally and turn it into clear records when needed.

Orbia World brings it into one simple timeline.
Join Founding Families to help shape the first release

Notes scattered across apps

One idea here, another there — hard to find later.

Photos everywhere

Phone galleries fill up, but nothing is organised.

Reporting becomes stressful

When you need evidence, it takes hours to gather.

What it does

Orbia World is being designed to help families:

Capture

Log it in seconds
Quick notes, photos, messages

Organise

Auto-sort into categories
Over time, with zero effort

Report

Ready when you need it
Readable summaries and reports

Orbia World isn’t the Ministry of Education and isn’t legal advice. You stay responsible for your reporting requirements — we just make record-keeping far easier

Who’s behind Orbia World

Jansi Rautenbach

Co-founder • Family life & product

Jansi brings the “real home” side of Orbia World. She’s a hands-on mum who understands what day-to-day learning actually looks like — the beautiful chaos, the meaningful moments, and the reality that admin often steals time from what matters. She helps shape Orbia World to be simple, human, and genuinely supportive for families.

Ruaan Rautenbach

Co-founder • Engineering & platform

Ruaan is a family man, a dad, and an open-minded problem solver. He’s an electronic engineer by trade, and over the past few years, he has focused on custom website development — especially membership portals and systems that securely handle structured information with reliability and care.

Built in New Zealand by a homeschooling family — privacy-first, practical, and designed for real days.

Our values

Our values are simple: family-first, practical, and respectful.

In practice, that means

Parents know their kids best
Orbia supports your judgement, not replace it. You choose what matters and how it’s described.
Admin should stay light
Logging should fit into real life — quick to capture, easy to find later, and ready when you need it.
Real life is real learning
Learning happens in kitchens, gardens, libraries, workshops, and conversations — not only at a desk.
Trust and privacy matter
Your family’s learning story belongs to you. Your data isn’t sold, and you stay in control.

What Orbia is (and what it isn’t)

  • A learning log + evidence organiser
  • A way to generate clear summaries
  • The Ministry of Education
  • Legal advice
  • A “school at home” curriculum
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Orbia World is made with ❤️ by the Rautenbach family, a NZ homeschooling family based in the Rangitikei District.
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