Cerkl Makes Broadcast Foundations Free for Educational Use
New program gives faculty and students access to the same internal communications platform used daily to reach over 5.5 million employees
CINCINNATI, OH, February 10, 2026 – Cerkl today announced that Broadcast Foundations is now available for free to educational institutions for educational use. The move extends Cerkl’s free-forever Foundations plan to schools, colleges, universities, and accredited educational programs seeking a purpose-built way to communicate with staff and faculty.
Foundations provides educators with structured internal communications tools including audience management, templates, and engagement insights. The platform is designed as a replacement for ad-hoc email workflows that lack segmentation, consistency, and measurement. Educational institutions can use Foundations immediately with no contracts, no credit card required, and no setup fees.
“Education teams are doing critical work with limited resources, and internal communication is often held together with inbox hacks and guesswork,” said Tarek Kamil, CEO and Founder of Cerkl. “Making Foundations free for educational use is a practical decision. Clear communication should be basic infrastructure for schools, not a budget line item that competes with classrooms.”
Cerkl’s Foundations plan is built for organizations that primarily communicate via email and need a simple, reliable system to reach the right people with the right information. For education teams, this includes communicating operational updates, policy changes, staff announcements, and time-sensitive information with visibility into who has received and engaged with messages.
The free educational offering reflects Cerkl’s broader position that internal communications tools should be accessible early, not introduced only after complexity and scale force the issue. Foundations is already used by small and mid-sized organizations as an alternative to general-purpose email tools that were never designed for internal communications.
“We see Foundations as a teaching tool as much as a communications tool,” said Rachel Folz, Head of Product at Cerkl. “It helps education teams build better communication habits from the start by making audiences, structure, and insight part of the workflow.”
Broadcast Foundations for educational use is available now. Eligibility details and signup information are available on Cerkl’s website.
About Cerkl
Cerkl is a global leader in internal communications technology, trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises and growing startups alike. Cerkl’s flagship product - Broadcast is used by companies globally to reach nearly 6 million employees every month. Broadcast offers plans for companies that communicate primarily via email as well as companies with multiple channels for employee communication (SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Slack, mobile and more). Learn more at cerkl.com.
