Matt Niksch

I build technology and data systems for education non-profits — scholarship platforms, program operations, dashboards and reports, and AI analysis that replaces hundreds of hours of manual work.

Demos

Working examples of the kind of software I build for education non-profits. Almost all of them are live, so go ahead and click around.

built for: education-to-career advisors

Indiana Pathways Advisor

One student's path from high school to a paycheck, drawn from seven files Indiana and the federal government already publish.

built for: a fellowship program

From Spreadsheet to System of Record

Replacing a nonprofit's fragile tracker sheets with one shared program database.

built for: students & families

College Explorer

Helping students and families compare colleges on admissions, graduation rates, and net price by family income.

built for: scholarship providers

Reading Documents with AI

AI reads a stack of 59 made-up transcripts and aid award letters, pulling out every GPA, grant, and loan — for $1.18.

built for: instructional coaching

AI Lecture Coach

AI feedback on a real recorded lecture — scored against a public rubric, with every claim linked to the moment in the video.

built for: a charter network

Alumni Outcomes Dashboard

Tracking graduates through college, down to the students behind every bar.

built with: 1.6m rows of state data

Government Data, Decoded

North Carolina publishes a file explaining what's in its data. This demo reads that file and builds the whole database from it — nobody typed the fields in by hand.

built with: nc report card data

NC Charter School Performance

Interactive analysis of charter school results from North Carolina's public School Report Card data.

What I build

Custom software for schools, scholarship programs, and education nonprofits

Scholarship platforms

Application, review, and award systems purpose-built for how a scholarship program actually runs.

Program operations

Replacing spreadsheets and manual processes with software that fits how staff actually work.

Dashboards and reports

Turning messy administrative data into charts and reports people actually use.

AI-powered workflows

Applying AI to work that used to take hundreds of staff hours — like reviewing written answers against a rubric or pulling details out of documents.

Matt Niksch is an independent consultant working with education non-profits. More about Matt

Let's talk about what's eating your team's time

Teachers now have free, FERPA-covered AI tools. Whether AI helps your organization depends on the data underneath it — and for most education non-profits, that data still lives in spreadsheets.

Every project starts as a free 30-minute conversation, with no sales pitch at the end of it.

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