For school and network leaders

I can help youDo Less.So you canDo More.

Give me 30 minutes, I’ll give you three hours back a week, every week.

I’ve been a dean of students and a superintendent, and I co-founded DeansList. I know schools and I know the tech, and I work alongside your AI or tech lead.

I build it, help you deploy it, and hand it off to you.

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What I Build

Coverage Schedule Maker

For ops directors

I find and fix situations like this:

Three people call out, one is leaving early, and one just called you with a flat tire, and there is a network PD you forgot about. It’s 6:40 in the morning, and everyone is looking to you for the plan.

Difficult? No

Necessary? Yes

Worth your time? …absolutely not

Can we automate this safely? …Yes.

It does the schedule Jenga in under two minutes, down from about 20. You type or dictate who’s out and it builds the whole day’s coverage from rules you set, spreads the load fairly, protects the blocks you said were sacred, and hands the close calls back to you.

Watch the demo: Coverage Schedule Maker

Dismissal Hub

For whoever runs dismissal

When a parent asks, “Where is my child?” the answer can never be “I don’t know.”

The Dismissal Hub puts today’s dismissal on every phone that needs it. Each bus and door sees only the kids it should expect, and the office sees who is still unaccounted for, with their teacher and bus. It replaces the list printed on Monday, the clipboard, the radio to the office and the scramble when a parent changes the plan at 2:55.

The office enters each change once, with an end date so a one-day change cannot become permanent by accident, and adults tap each name as kids leave. Every tap is saved with who, where and when.

Watch the demo: Dismissal Hub

Attendance Suite

For the attendance team

The Attendance Suite runs the daily calls home, the letters at set benchmarks and the weekly attendance meeting in one place. It replaces the trackers spread across the office, the dean and the teachers, where a student can be out for days before anyone calls home.

The front office logs each call and whether the student came in, and prints letters from your own templates. The dean runs Monday’s meeting from one list of the students who are in school 80 to 89 percent of days, each with a named adult and a next step, and when the meeting closes the principal gets one line: counts and commitments, no student names. Nothing goes home until someone on your staff prints it.

Watch the demo: Attendance Suite

Chief of Staff

For school leaders

The Chief of Staff is your command center. Your whole day is on one screen, what you owe, what matters today, what somebody outside is waiting on and every compliance date a month ahead, and it triages what comes at you, drafts what goes out and thinks through the judgment calls with you. It replaces the next steps kept in your head and across several trackers, and the dates that sneak up.

Dump in the email, the requests and the to-do list, and each item comes back sorted with the reason in plain words; you confirm or move it with one tap, hand it off with a check-in date, and anything that has sat five school days comes back at Friday’s review. It keeps track of the what and the when, and you save your brainpower for the how.

Watch the demo: Chief of Staff

Weekly Memo Maker

For the principal

The Weekly Memo Maker turns the notes you already have into this week’s staff memo, in the format you and I set up once. It replaces the hour spent rebuilding the memo from scattered notes every week.

Paste in the week’s notes and the draft comes back with this week’s actions, each with an owner and a date, attendance and tardies against last week, a shout-out per person and what is coming up. Your words stay your words, every number is checked against your records, and you copy it into your own email. It runs on rules, not AI, and it never sends.

Watch the demo: Weekly Memo Maker

Meeting Suite

For anyone who runs the meeting

The Meeting Suite builds the agenda, the next steps, the calendar invites, the reminders and the follow-up email for every weekly meeting you run. It replaces the agenda in one place, the notes in another, the next steps in a third, and the next steps nobody checked on.

You enter the objective and the feedback from last meeting, dump in your high-level thoughts, and the agenda comes back with last week’s commitments at the top. In the room, each next step gets an owner and a date, and afterward the follow-up email and the invites are drafted for you. Nothing goes out until you send it. It is not for evaluation or performance meetings.

Watch the demo: Meeting Suite

Academic Health Data Reports

For anyone who has to do something with the data

The Academic Health Data Reports turn the vault of academic data from a blob of CSV exports into one page per teacher, one page per student and one tracker of the students on the edge, every week. It replaces the data that sat in the export until the end of the quarter, when it was too late to act on.

Drop in the week’s export, a script swaps every student name and ID for a code before any AI touches it, and the reports come back: for each teacher, where they shine and the next one to three things to work on; for each student, the gap to the target and the moves that close it. The Academic Health Coach is the conversation after the report. Bring the week’s numbers and leave with the one move worth making this week and a plan by owner. It is live and free.

Watch the demo: Academic Health Data Reports

Try the demos

Each demo runs on a made-up school with made-up data, so you can click through it yourself.

Demo: Coverage Schedule Maker, middle and high school

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Demo: Incident Tracker

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The tools, in one place

The tool proposes, and the leader decides.

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Who Can Speak to My Work

These are the folks who can speak to my work as a consultant.

Some of the schools and networks I’ve worked with

More than fifty schools and networks, every one of them a referral, and 91% came back the next year.

For over a decade I’ve consulted with schools on culture, operations and leadership coaching. I’m doing the same type of work now, helping leaders find and fix problems, with tech that wasn’t available before. I’m using AI to help leaders get their time back. AI isn’t going to do the job of a principal, but it can do some of the jobs a principal shouldn’t have to do.

I’m still applying the same systems thinking, and there’s a person in the loop every time.

**Jerel Bryant** · CEO, Collegiate Academies · Louisiana State Principal of the Year

If a teacher’s most difficult task is to make the most obscure skills feel instinctual, Chris is the best around. He did not change me; he did not manage me; he showed me a more complete version of myself and how to fill that role. He’s that good.

Dan Parsons · Blackstone Valley Prep

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Tell me what you’re up against and what you’re thinking, and I’ll give you a place to start. Give me a call if you want to talk it through.

If your network already has an AI lead or a tech team, I work alongside them. They own the strategy and the systems, and I bring the school side: finding the exact problem with your leaders and building the fix with them.

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