The Impact of AI Optimization on the Use of Time, Space, and Resources in Schools

What is different about this moment where you could use this AI optimization that wasn't possible, say five, 10 years earlier, that you're able to take a process that's hundreds of hours to, you know, a 30 minute of output and then I imagine some iteration?

Well, I would say there are two things happening here. Certainly the technology, as we all know, has gotten better over time and even in the last two to three years, significantly so. But I would also add that because we are a focused solution, and when you think about the status quo and in what ways we're disrupting people, for the most part they're using these clunky tools because the solution that they purchase to solve their master schedule is the student information system. And for the student information system, the scheduling module is one of many, many different things it does. And so if you talk to any superintendent, assistant superintendent, head of a charter school about their student information system, usually they tell you it's clunky, it's hard to use, it's a necessary evil. It's the repository of data, it's the source of truth. And then it has an attendance tracker and a great book tool and a master scheduler. And what we've learned through lived experience. A former superintendent, my co founder, was a teacher in Boston Public Schools, who's our chief technology officer. Pretty much everyone on our team has had school based experience experience. We know that that status quo has not allowed folks to build schedules that one, are easy to build and two, are strategic and connect at the systems level. And so it's about creating a dedicated systemic solution that frankly could have been built sooner. But now with better technology and a more dedicated approach to solving the problem, I think it's allowed us to gain some traction.