Education Technology Consulting Platform Engineering AI Strategy

We tell you the hard part first.
It’s not always a popular move.

But that's how better decisions get made. And why our clients tend to stay for a decade.

12+
Years
70+
Projects
10+
Innovations
Millions
Learners Reached
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Things we’ll say in the first meeting

If you’re nodding along, we should talk. If you’re not, we’re probably not your firm.

Start with the problem, not a product.

Some of our most valuable engagements involve zero lines of code. We help organizations evaluate technology without trying to sell them ours.

Just because we can build it doesn’t mean that it should exist.

Everyone can deploy a chatbot. We’ve turned down projects that don’t create value for education. The projects we take on put learning at the center.

The best technology partnership is the one you can walk away from.

We don’t create dependency. We rely on open standards and documented architecture. Our longest partnerships last because clients stay by choice, not because they’re locked in.

If you don’t design it up front, you’ll pay for it later.

Teams that rush to build end up retrofitting what should have been designed from the start. We help you define what matters and design it into the system from the beginning.

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After they called us

Here’s what happened for the organizations that made the call.

7+ years and counting

58,000 teachers

A K–12 science platform across 37 states — the first to earn all-green EdReports ratings across every course reviewed.

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Partnership since 2023

6M teachers

An AI coaching platform for the largest educator organization in the country, grounded in vetted research — leading to a $10M investment.

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Decade-long partnership

1.85M credentials

A credential registry powering a $2.34 trillion ecosystem, open source from day one with 10× productivity gains from our AI tools.

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Every engagement starts with a conversation.

No pitch. No proposal. We’ll ask hard questions and give you honest answers. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll tell you that too.