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Advisory
Strategic guidance
Best for: Organizations exploring AI for the first time. You need clarity on where AI fits, which tools to trust, and a roadmap before committing resources.
$X,XXX/month
Includes 5 hours of pro-bono discovery
Includes:
- AI readiness assessment
- Tool evaluation
- Responsible AI framework
- Integration roadmap
Sample scope: A 6-week engagement for a mid-size non-profit exploring AI tutoring. We assess your current tech stack, evaluate 3-4 AI tools against your pedagogy, draft a responsible AI policy, and deliver an integration roadmap with prioritized next steps.
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Embedded expertise
Best for: Teams with a clear AI initiative that need experienced hands to execute: prototyping, model selection, and educator-centered workflow design.
$XX,XXX/month
Includes 10 hours of pro-bono discovery
Includes:
- AI readiness assessment and integration roadmap
- AI tool prototyping
- Prompt engineering
- Model selection
- Educator-in-the-loop design
Sample scope: A 3-month engagement for a curriculum publisher building an AI-assisted content review tool. We prototype with two LLM providers, engineer prompts for standards alignment checking, design the educator approval workflow, and deliver a working proof-of-concept.
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End-to-end development
Best for: Organizations ready to build an AI-powered product from concept through launch and optimization in real classrooms.
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Starts with pro-bono scoping sessions
Includes:
- Full AI product development
- ML integration
- Content generation tools
- Educator-in-the-loop design
- Ongoing optimization
Sample scope: A 9-month engagement for a foundation launching an AI-powered formative assessment platform. We handle product design, ML model training on rubric data, content generation pipelines, teacher dashboard development, pilot school rollout, and post-launch optimization.
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Strategic guidance
Best for: Organizations assessing their content landscape. You need clarity on standards alignment, LCMS choices, and distribution before making big investments.
$X,XXX/month
Includes 5 hours of pro-bono discovery
Includes:
- Content standards review
- LCMS evaluation
- Distribution strategy
- LTI planning
Sample scope: A 4-week engagement for a state education agency reviewing their OER strategy. We audit current content against state standards, evaluate three LCMS platforms, map distribution channels, and deliver a recommendation report with an LTI integration plan.
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Embedded expertise
Best for: Teams actively building or migrating curriculum content that need hands-on help with systems, content pipelines, and LTI integration.
$XX,XXX/month
Includes 10 hours of pro-bono discovery
Includes:
- Content standards review and distribution strategy
- LCMS configuration
- Content pipeline development
- LTI integration
- Authoring workflows
Sample scope: A 4-month engagement for a science curriculum provider migrating to a new LCMS. We configure the platform, build automated content pipelines from authoring tools, set up LTI connections to three major LMS platforms, and train the editorial team on new workflows.
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End-to-end development
Best for: Organizations that need a complete content platform built end-to-end: authoring tools, distribution infrastructure, and ongoing maintenance.
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Starts with pro-bono scoping sessions
Includes:
- Full platform build
- Content management system
- Distribution infrastructure
- Authoring workflows
- Maintenance and support
Sample scope: A 12-month engagement for a non-profit building an open-source K-8 curriculum platform. We design and build the CMS, create authoring tools for contributors, build distribution APIs for district partners, handle launch, and provide ongoing maintenance.
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Strategic guidance
Best for: Organizations questioning their current technology foundation. You need an honest, vendor-neutral assessment of your architecture and ability to scale.
$X,XXX/month
Includes 5 hours of pro-bono discovery
Includes:
- Architecture review
- Technology audit
- Vendor evaluation
- Scalability assessment
Sample scope: A 5-week engagement for an EdTech company concerned about scaling. We audit the existing architecture, benchmark performance, evaluate two alternative vendors, and deliver a scalability report with a prioritized remediation plan.
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Embedded expertise
Best for: Teams with active development that need senior engineering support for API design, system integration, or prototyping.
$XX,XXX/month
Includes 10 hours of pro-bono discovery
Includes:
- Architecture review and technology audit
- API development
- Systems integration
- Prototyping
- Project management
Sample scope: A 4-month engagement for a credentialing organization building a public API. We design the API architecture, build endpoints for credential issuance and verification, integrate with two partner systems, and manage the project through beta launch.
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End-to-end development
Best for: Organizations that need a product built from scratch or a major platform overhaul, from UX through launch, with open-source options.
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Starts with pro-bono scoping sessions
Includes:
- Product design (UX/UI)
- Full-stack development
- Systems integration
- Launch and maintenance
- Open source options
Sample scope: A 10-month engagement for a foundation building an open-source learning record store. We handle UX research, full-stack development, xAPI and Caliper integration, district pilot onboarding, public launch, and first-year maintenance, released as open source.
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Strategic guidance
Best for: Organizations sitting on valuable data but unsure how to use it. You need your landscape mapped and your options laid out before building anything.
$X,XXX/month
Includes 5 hours of pro-bono discovery
Includes:
- Data landscape audit
- Pipeline assessment
- Credential strategy
- Reporting needs analysis
Sample scope: A 4-week engagement for a workforce development organization. We map all data sources across five programs, assess existing pipeline health, draft a credential strategy aligned to CTDL, and deliver a reporting needs analysis with dashboard mockups.
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Embedded expertise
Best for: Teams ready to build or improve data infrastructure, including pipelines, credential registries, and dashboards, with experienced engineers alongside your team.
$XX,XXX/month
Includes 10 hours of pro-bono discovery
Includes:
- Data landscape audit and credential strategy
- Pipeline design and implementation
- Credential registry setup
- Dashboard prototyping
Sample scope: A 5-month engagement for a state agency building a credential registry. We design the data pipeline from institutional sources, configure the registry on Credential Engine infrastructure, build prototype dashboards for policy staff, and train the team on maintenance.
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End-to-end development
Best for: Organizations that need a complete data ecosystem built and maintained: pipelines, registries, dashboards, and automation, so you can focus on the insights.
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Starts with pro-bono scoping sessions
Includes:
- Full data infrastructure build
- Credential registry
- Analytics dashboards
- Pipeline automation
- Ongoing support
Sample scope: An 8-month engagement for a national non-profit unifying data across 12 regional programs. We build the full data infrastructure, automated ingestion pipelines, a credential registry, public and internal analytics dashboards, and provide ongoing support and iteration.
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On-call strategic counsel
Best for: Teams with technical decisions piling up and no one senior enough to weigh in. A trusted advisor for architecture, vendor choices, and strategic direction.
$X,XXX/month
Includes 5 hours of pro-bono discovery
Includes:
- Technology strategy review
- Architecture guidance
- Vendor and build-vs-buy evaluation
- Monthly check-ins with leadership
Sample scope: Monthly retainer for a 15-person EdTech company. Two strategy calls per month, async Slack access for architecture questions, quarterly vendor review, and a written recommendation for each major technical decision.
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Hands-on technical leadership
Best for: Organizations with active development and no full-time CTO. Someone owning the roadmap, mentoring engineers, and showing up every week.
$XX,XXX/month
Includes 10 hours of pro-bono discovery
Includes:
- Technology roadmap ownership
- Architecture decisions and code review
- Engineering team mentorship
- Security and infrastructure oversight
- Weekly leadership syncs
Sample scope: Ongoing engagement for a non-profit with a 4-person dev team. Weekly leadership meetings, bi-weekly code reviews, monthly 1:1s with each engineer, ownership of the technical roadmap, and hands-on incident response when needed.
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Your CTO, fractionally
Best for: Organizations in build mode or major transformation that need a CTO fully integrated into the team: hiring, vendors, board reporting, and technical vision.
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Starts with pro-bono scoping sessions
Includes:
- Full technical leadership
- Hiring and team building
- Stakeholder and board reporting
- Vendor management
- Ongoing strategic direction
Sample scope: A 12-month engagement for a foundation launching a new digital initiative. Full CTO responsibilities: hiring the engineering team, selecting vendors, presenting to the board quarterly, managing the technical budget, and driving the product from architecture through launch.
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On-call product counsel
Best for: Teams that aren’t sure their product is heading in the right direction. An experienced eye to audit UX, challenge assumptions, and prioritize.
$X,XXX/month
Includes 5 hours of pro-bono discovery
Includes:
- Product strategy review
- UX audit and recommendations
- Feature prioritization guidance
- Monthly check-ins with leadership
Sample scope: Monthly retainer for a mission-driven EdTech startup. A UX audit of the core product, monthly strategy sessions to review the roadmap, written prioritization recommendations each quarter, and async feedback on designs via Figma.
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Hands-on product leadership
Best for: Teams actively building or redesigning an education product that need someone owning the vision, running research, and aligning stakeholders.
$XX,XXX/month
Includes 10 hours of pro-bono discovery
Includes:
- Product vision and roadmap ownership
- User research and testing
- Stakeholder alignment
- Design system development
- Weekly product syncs
Sample scope: Ongoing engagement for a non-profit redesigning their teacher-facing platform. Weekly product syncs, monthly user interviews, stakeholder presentations each sprint, design system documentation, and direct collaboration with the engineering team on specs.
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Your product lead, fractionally
Best for: Organizations launching a new product or transforming an existing one, needing a fully embedded product leader from concept through go-to-market.
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Starts with pro-bono scoping sessions
Includes:
- Full product leadership
- End-to-end UX/UI direction
- Cross-functional team coordination
- Go-to-market planning
- Ongoing iteration and optimization
Sample scope: A 9-month engagement for a foundation launching a student-facing learning tool. Full product ownership: discovery research, wireframes and prototypes, coordinating design and engineering, managing the pilot with three school districts, and iterating through launch.
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On-call curriculum counsel
Best for: Organizations questioning whether their curriculum approach is working. An experienced leader to review strategy, audit standards, and guide instructional design.
$X,XXX/month
Includes 5 hours of pro-bono discovery
Includes:
- Curriculum strategy review
- Content standards audit
- Instructional design guidance
- Monthly check-ins with leadership
Sample scope: Monthly retainer for a publisher entering the K-5 market. Standards alignment audit of existing content, monthly strategy calls on scope and sequence, written feedback on instructional design drafts, and quarterly competitive landscape reviews.
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Hands-on curriculum leadership
Best for: Teams actively developing or overhauling learning content that need someone owning the curriculum roadmap and setting the authoring team up for success.
$XX,XXX/month
Includes 10 hours of pro-bono discovery
Includes:
- Curriculum design and roadmap
- Content standards alignment
- Assessment framework development
- Educator training and enablement
- Weekly curriculum syncs
Sample scope: Ongoing engagement for a science curriculum non-profit. Weekly syncs with the authoring team, NGSS alignment reviews for each unit, assessment rubric development, monthly teacher training webinars, and quarterly curriculum roadmap updates.
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Your curriculum lead, fractionally
Best for: Major content initiatives or full program launches that need a curriculum leader fully embedded: overseeing authors, QA, and cross-department coordination.
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Starts with pro-bono scoping sessions
Includes:
- Full learning strategy ownership
- Authoring team oversight
- Cross-functional coordination
- Quality assurance and review
- Ongoing content optimization
Sample scope: A 12-month engagement for an organization launching a new middle school ELA program. Full curriculum leadership: managing a team of 8 authors, running QA on every unit, coordinating with product and engineering on digital delivery, overseeing pilot feedback loops, and iterating content through two revision cycles.
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On-call talent counsel
Best for: Teams planning their next key hire or rethinking team structure. Expert guidance on roles, leveling, and interview design, so you hire right the first time.
$X,XXX/month
Includes 5 hours of pro-bono discovery
Includes:
- Hiring strategy review
- Role definition and leveling
- Interview process design
- Monthly check-ins with leadership
Sample scope: Monthly retainer for a growing EdTech non-profit. We define two upcoming roles with leveling and comp ranges, design a structured interview process, review candidate materials, and provide monthly check-ins on hiring pipeline health.
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Hands-on talent leadership
Best for: Growing organizations that need to hire consistently and well: sourcing, screening, benchmarking comp, and building a team that sticks.
$XX,XXX/month
Includes 10 hours of pro-bono discovery
Includes:
- Candidate sourcing and screening
- Team structure planning
- Compensation benchmarking
- Onboarding framework
- Weekly hiring syncs
Sample scope: Ongoing engagement for an organization hiring 5 roles over 6 months. Weekly pipeline reviews, sourcing and screening for each role, comp benchmarking against EdTech market data, onboarding plan design for each new hire, and team structure recommendations as the org grows.
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Your talent lead, fractionally
Best for: Organizations scaling rapidly or rebuilding a team. A fully embedded talent leader owning employer brand, workforce planning, and retention.
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Starts with pro-bono scoping sessions
Includes:
- Full recruiting pipeline management
- Employer brand development
- Retention strategy
- Culture and team health
- Ongoing workforce planning
Sample scope: A 12-month engagement for an organization doubling its team from 20 to 40. Full talent leadership: employer brand refresh, workforce plan for all departments, managing the full recruiting pipeline, designing retention programs, running quarterly culture surveys, and advising leadership on org design.
Start a conversationWhat sets us apart
Vendor-neutral recommendations
We recommend what works for you, not what pays us a commission.
Senior-level expertise from day one
No junior consultants learning on your dime. Our team leads from the start.
Educators always in the loop
Technology decisions are grounded in classroom reality and learner needs.
Open source commitment
We build in the open when possible and contribute back to the community.
10+ years in EdTech
Deep domain knowledge across standards, platforms, policy, and pedagogy.
Mission-first approach
We prioritize impact on learners and educators over revenue maximization.
How it works
Conversation
Tell us about your challenges
Discovery
We explore your landscape and goals
Proposal
We recommend a package and scope
Partnership
We get to work
