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.
Six in ten alumni are in college or hold a degree — click any bar to see the students behind it.
See the live dashboardWorking examples of the kind of software I build for education non-profits. Almost all of them are live, so go ahead and click around.
One student's path from high school to a paycheck, drawn from seven files Indiana and the federal government already publish.
Replacing a nonprofit's fragile tracker sheets with one shared program database.
Helping students and families compare colleges on admissions, graduation rates, and net price by family income.
AI reads a stack of 59 made-up transcripts and aid award letters, pulling out every GPA, grant, and loan — for $1.18.
AI feedback on a real recorded lecture — scored against a public rubric, with every claim linked to the moment in the video.
Tracking graduates through college, down to the students behind every bar.
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.
Interactive analysis of charter school results from North Carolina's public School Report Card data.
Application, review, and award systems purpose-built for how a scholarship program actually runs.
Replacing spreadsheets and manual processes with software that fits how staff actually work.
Turning messy administrative data into charts and reports people actually use.
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
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.