Product Development
IITM Grade Suite: Automating Academic Planning
Overview
IITM Grade Suite is an academic performance planning platform built for IIT Madras BS Degree students. It automates CGPA calculation, grade prediction, target-score planning, and academic performance analysis. See the full product page for the live link and feature list.
The problem
Before this existed, students calculated CGPA, projected required scores, and planned for upcoming exams by building and maintaining their own spreadsheets. That's a manual process that has to be redone every term as grading formulas and course loads change -- the spreadsheet isn't wrong, exactly, it's just work that has to be repeated by every student independently, using a formula they have to get right themselves.
The solution
IITM Grade Suite automates CGPA calculation, grade prediction, and target-score planning in one tool, built directly from the official IITM grading document -- so the formula is implemented once, correctly, instead of re-derived by every student who wants this. Students can see where they stand and what they need on upcoming exams without maintaining their own spreadsheet.
Architecture
The tool runs entirely in the browser. There's no account or login required, and all inputs -- scores, course data -- persist in the browser's local storage rather than a backend database. That's a meaningfully different shape than most of what we build, where Supabase-backed accounts are the default; here, the absence of a login is itself a real design choice: the tool is for a quick, personal calculation, not a system of record that needs to sync across devices.
Impact
IITM Grade Suite is used by over 1,000 IIT Madras BS Degree students to calculate CGPA, predict grades, and plan target scores. That figure is specific and verified, not an estimate -- and it's the clearest evidence that "automate the spreadsheet" was the right scope for this problem, rather than something larger.
As with Findora, we're holding off on publishing Decisions, Tradeoffs, and Lessons Learned sections for this product until there's real, specific reflection to share -- not a generic-sounding placeholder dressed up as one. See the full product page, or visit the live tool directly.