Advisory & ventures
For 15+ years I built the systems schools run on, from the inside. Now I work the other side of the table too: advising the teams building AI for educators, and convening the people putting it to use in real classrooms. Same instinct, new seat. I know what lands in a school and what dies on contact.
Advisor & Board Member
Ople is a video-based PD platform for K-12 educators, the place a teacher goes to watch good practice and grow from it. I sit on the board and advise the go-to-market into schools, bringing the buyer's voice (what actually gets a tool through a school door) to a team that has the product instinct.
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QWZRD is an AI tutoring platform built for productive struggle, the learning that comes from working through a hard problem instead of around it. I advise on release enablement and teacher onboarding, the unglamorous work of getting an AI product into real K-12 classrooms so it survives first contact with a Tuesday.
Post-proof-of-concept · entering schools
EducAItion Lab
Founder & LeadWhere educators and tech leaders share solutions
A cross-network working group I founded for K-12 educators putting AI to real use in their actual jobs. We trade what's working, fast, while the field's official wisdom is still catching up.
Ask me about itThe build log
A running log of what I make with AI, newest first. Some of it ships into schools. Some just runs my own house or entertains my kids on a Sunday. The through-line's the same: I don't advise on AI from the sidelines, I build the thing and put it in front of real users.
A live AI on Playlab that walks a school leader through their own data and the next move to make. It's coaching judgment, encoded, so the read a principal needs sits one conversation away instead of buried in a spreadsheet.
Open the appAt KIPP, the AI data systems my team built turned raw network data into answers leaders actually acted on. Fifty schools, one place to see what was true and decide what to do next.
A real AI agent I built for my own family. Every week it wakes up on its own and hunts down what's actually happening in Brooklyn. Then it weighs each option against our calendar and the weather, and against the test that really counts: what a five- and seven-year-old will genuinely love. What lands in my inbox is a ranked slate with one starred pick for the weekend. It's the same kind of agent I build for schools, aimed at the most important job I've got: being the memory maker for my girls.
A Star Wars app I built for my daughters and then couldn't stop improving: an interactive galaxy map, the Skywalker family tree, a full saga walkthrough, and a cockpit-style flight nav, all in one installable web app. Fifty-five characters and counting.
Open itThe best tools for educators get built with educators in the room while the thing is being made, not surveyed after it ships. That's the seat I take.
Work with me
If you're building an edtech or AI-in-education product and you want someone who knows schools from the inside, the read you only get from having run the building, let's talk.
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