About Us

Rachael

Rachael has spent eight years teaching Spanish and French at secondary level, including time as a Head of Department. She's built curriculum plans from scratch at more than one school and adapted lessons for students who needed something genuinely different from the rest of the class — and found that the tools available for either job weren't good enough. Every time she moved schools, she started again from nothing, another set of evenings gone before she'd even reached the actual marking.

Tillie

Tillie is primary trained and has just completed her first ECT year. Prior to completing her PGCE, she spent five years as a teaching assistant in London, and is ELSA-trained, with a further year working as a Link Worker. That combination gave her a close, practical view of how children with additional needs actually experience a classroom — not just what the theory says should help, but what genuinely lands day to day. She's shaped ClassThread's approach to differentiation and support from that ground-level experience.

Marco

Rachael's husband Marco has spent 12 years in tech and is now a product manager for a large international tech company, and has built ClassThread from the ground up, with Rachael and Tillie both setting the bar for what it needed to do at every step.

Claudio

Tillie's husband Claudio has spent five years in tech sales, moving through account management and now customer success — experience that shaped how ClassThread is positioned, priced, and explained, and how it supports teachers once they're actually using it, not just how it's built.