01 · Email
Email isn't how 18-year-olds read.
Dining-hall notices, formal sign-ups, the RA check-in, quietly missed.
The platform built for
Residential
college life.
One branded home for menus, events, communities, academics and wellbeing, speaking the language of the next generation of residents. Your message reaches them under your college's name, never competing for attention.
Live at UniHall UWA · 25,000 app opens / month · two months sign-off to launch
Live deployment
UniHall, UWA
648 residents
~25k opens / month
2 months to launch
Today's reality
A patchwork of channels, and things still slip through.
02 · Group chats
Chats fragment the community.
WhatsApp, Messenger, floor chats. Conversation everywhere, admin sees nothing, quieter residents fall out of view.
03 · Cohort churn
Knowledge walks out each year.
When RAs rotate, the playbook in their heads, and the group-chat history, goes with them.
The problem isn't a shortage of channels. None of them are designed for college life.
What residents get
One front page for college life.
Menu, events, announcements, clubs, sport, wellbeing, the duty RA, the campus map: all under one roof, all under your college's name.
01
A reason to open it every day.
Today's menu, what's on tonight, who's posting. It becomes the default check, not another channel to manage.
02
Group chats, but organised.
RA floors, clubs, sport, wellbeing, the student association, with three privacy tiers: public, all-college, secret.
03
A low-friction way in for the quieter ones.
Reactions, RSVPs and reads are all visible. Peer-to-peer, not top-down broadcast, so quieter residents stay on the radar.
Today's Menu
Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner
Events
RSVP & capacity caps
Communities
Clubs, sport, wellbeing
Academics
Unit chats & study groups
Branded
Your emblem on every push
Publish
Idea to live < 1 min
Schedule
Start / expiry, RSVPs
Permissions
Layered, per community
Analytics
Reads, attendance
No tickets
Self-service, no tech background
What staff & student leaders get
Self-service. No tech background needed.
Layered admin permissions are baked in. The platform adapts to how your college runs today, and evolves with you over time.
01
From idea to live in under a minute.
Drafts, scheduling, expiry dates, RSVPs, capacity caps and push notifications, all in-app, no tickets to anyone.
02
Student leaders run their own clubs.
Delegated permissions per community. Sport captains, club chairs and RAs each moderate their own space without breaking anything else.
03
Knowledge stays when cohorts rotate.
Content, community structure and how-to knowledge stay in place year on year. Nothing walks out with each RA cohort.
Everything, under one roof
The whole of college life, in one app.
Six pillars residents reach for every day, each one configurable to how your college actually runs.
Daily menu
Real-time breakfast, lunch and dinner with serving times and dietary options. The reason residents open the app each morning.
Events & calendar
Monthly and weekly views, RSVPs with a "maybe" option, capacity caps, reminders. Turnout you can actually measure.
Communities
Clubs, sport, wellbeing and the student association, with public, all-resident and secret invite-only tiers and per-tile feature toggles.
Academics
Dedicated chats for every unit, so students in the same classes can ask questions, organise study and see who else is enrolled.
Campus map
A dynamic map of key spots on campus and around the city: libraries, cafes, study spots, all crowdsourced by residents.
Contacts & support
Emergency numbers, 24/7 campus security, the duty RA, and direct links to student services, one tap from anywhere.
UniHall, UWA · November 2025
What engagement looks like on a working deployment.
~25k
App opens / month
Across 648 residents, roughly 38 opens per resident, every month. The app has become the default place to check what's on, what's for dinner, and what the community is talking about.
648
Active residents
466
Units with ≥1 user
55.9%
Linked to their unit
Daily routine, not install-and-forget
Past the threshold where a notification, event reminder or survey actually lands. The precondition for moving any other metric.
Branded as the college's, not Meta's
Every push, event and menu reaches residents under the college's name and emblem, not a third-party platform's.
Survives churn
When RAs rotate at year's end, content, community structure and how-to knowledge stay in place. Nothing walks out with each cohort.
What the platform delivers
Three outcomes, in plain language.
Engagement & belonging
- 1Residents see what's on, anytime.
- 2Discovery of clubs, events and services.
- 3A low-friction way in for quieter residents.
- 4Peer-to-peer, not top-down broadcast.
A digital home
- 1A dedicated space, not social media.
- 2Foundation for college-specific features.
- 3Where students' attention already is.
- 4An AI-enabled platform on the roadmap.
Knowledge & measurement
- 1How-to knowledge captured, not lost.
- 2Lower cost of RA and staff churn.
- 3Real data on attendance and engagement.
- 4Comms that arrive, and are measurable.
From here
Live by Semester 2.
Two months from kickoff to launch. That's the standard path. To have residents on the app for Semester 2 move-in, the introductory conversation needs to happen in the next few weeks.
01
Within a week
Introductory meeting.
A walkthrough of the live app and a conversation about how your college runs: pastoral model, comms today, what good looks like.
02
Following week
Tailored proposal & SOW.
Scoped to your residents, your RA model, your branding. Pricing locked, timeline drawn, ready to circulate with leadership.
03
Semester 2
Residents on the app.
Branded as yours. First push sent by the college. The two-month build behind you. College life on one screen from move-in day.
Questions, answered
The things leadership asks first.
How long does it take to launch?
Two months from sign-off to your residents on the app. That's the standard path. To have residents on the platform for Semester 2 move-in, the introductory conversation needs to happen in the next few weeks.
Is the app branded as ours, or as Zizo's?
Yours. Every push notification, event and menu reaches residents under your college's name and emblem, not Meta's, not a generic platform's. Residents experience it as your college's app, because it is.
Do staff need a technical background to run it?
No. Publishing is self-service: drafts, scheduling, expiry dates, RSVPs, capacity caps and push notifications are all in-app, no tickets to anyone. Layered admin permissions let student leaders moderate their own clubs without breaking anything else.
What happens when RA cohorts rotate each year?
Content, community structure and how-to knowledge stay in place year on year. Nothing walks out with each cohort the way a group-chat history does. The platform survives churn by design.
Is there a live deployment we can reference?
Yes: UniHall at UWA. As of November 2025 the app sees roughly 25,000 opens a month across 648 residents, about 38 opens per resident every month, with 55.9% of residents linked to their academic unit.
How does it adapt to how our college already works?
The platform adapts to your pastoral model, your RA structure and your branding rather than forcing a template. Communities, permissions and feature toggles are all configurable, and it evolves with you over time.
Next steps
See it on a live app, then on yours.
Book a short walkthrough of the working deployment and a conversation about how your college runs. We'll come back with a proposal scoped to your residents, your RA model and your branding.