Frequently asked questions

Blueprint is free for Founding Families, every family that joins during the current closed beta period. Pricing details will be shared before the founding period ends, well before anything changes for you. No family will be turned away for inability to pay. If you're in the founding cohort, that status stays on your account permanently when pricing launches. It's a recognition of what you contributed by being early, not a discount that expires.

Two reasons. One, there's no buyer. Blueprint is pre-revenue, with no outside investors and no data brokers in the stack. Two, the architecture is visible to anyone. Every piece of data a family exports is the exact data the system has on them. There are no hidden inferences, no shadow profiles. If you ever want to leave, you export in one click, delete in one click, done. The full list of third-party services is on the transparency page, along with what data flows where. If we ever add a new third-party service, it shows up there first.

Accessibility is central, not a feature. Our typography defaults (Lexend font, generous line spacing, reading-friendly line lengths) ship on for every family, no disclosure required. You can tell the system how your student learns in your own words, and the AI uses that verbatim when generating lessons. We don't offer "condition modes" or label children in the UI. There's also a weekly audit we publish of our own compliance with accessibility standards. If we drift on WCAG 2.2 AA, we say so in the next audit, same as any other principle we miss.

You can. Full data export in both human-readable and portable formats. Complete delete of everything we have on you. Same day, no customer-service call, no retention email trying to talk you out of it. Leaving should feel as dignified as joining. You keep the work you created (lessons, student responses, notes, exports) forever. What you lose is ongoing access to the AI generation pipeline and the live shared directories. Principle 07 (Free Will and Do No Harm) demands this shape.

Blueprint is a planning and recommendation platform, not a curriculum. It sits alongside the curriculum you already use. If you love Saxon, keep Saxon. If you love Memoria Press or Sonlight or Abeka or Ambleside, keep them. Blueprint handles the scheduling, the record-keeping, the teaching-style-aware supplementation, the field trip and socialization directories, the compliance documentation. The AI generation is meant to supplement, not replace, the curriculum you trust. Some families will use the generator lightly; some will use it as a full lesson-plan drafter. Both are fine.

Minnesota is the first state live. Blueprint knows Minnesota's annual notification requirements under state statute and can help you understand what they ask for and organize your documentation. Document drafting (the actual letter of intent and annual report) is in active build and will land in the next release. For other states, the architecture is ready but the state-specific rules aren't seeded yet. Use the Talk to Ryan button to tell us which state you're in and we'll prioritize it. Blueprint's role is always supportive: we help you understand and prepare, but you remain responsible for filing.

Yes, and those concerns shape how it's used. The AI works inside your child's learning sessions within the framework you configure. Every lesson the AI generates is reviewed and approved by you before your child encounters it. The platform is designed so the AI scaffolds your child's thinking rather than replacing it. We watch for that actively. The AI does not operate outside the parameters you set, and there's no hidden profile: everything the system infers about how your student learns is visible to you and correctable by you. The current AI provider (Anthropic) is listed on the transparency page, along with what data gets sent and why. If the AI ever makes a mistake, you see it before your child does.

You shouldn't yet. Trust is earned, not promised. What I can offer is architecture, not assurance. The principles are public. The weekly audits against those principles are public. The third-party list is public. Every commitment I make is written down where you can check it. If Blueprint ever breaks a commitment, the next audit says so. And there's a button in the product called "Talk to Ryan" that goes to my inbox. I read every message. If that's not enough, walk away. That's a first-class action, not a failure.

Classroom tools are built for a teacher managing 20 to 30 students on a single schedule. Blueprint is built for a family managing 1 to 8 children across many disciplines, 29 possible teaching philosophies, multiple co-op contexts, and state-specific compliance. The shape is different, so the tool is different. Classroom tools optimize for homework submission and gradebook. Blueprint optimizes for the parent who is planning a custom year for each child, and needs a system that adapts to them rather than forcing them into a classroom shape.

Blueprint is primarily for you, not your child. You use the platform to plan and document; the lessons happen the way they always have (books, paper, walks, conversation, co-op, whatever fits). If you want a screen-light homeschool, Blueprint can sit quietly in the background, help with compliance documentation, surface field trip ideas, and otherwise stay out of your day. Waldorf families, unschooling families, and Charlotte Mason families commonly use it this way.

You review AI-generated lessons before your child encounters them. That review step is central to how Blueprint handles AI: you see it first, you decide what reaches your student. The parent approval workflow for AI-generated content is part of the student surface currently in active build. The generation itself is grounded in your family profile (teaching philosophy, values, the child's learning notes, state standards), so it's not generic. If you don't like what you see, say so in the feedback and the next generation shifts.

Ryan was raised in a Christian homeschool family and still holds those roots. Blueprint is not a Christian product. It is a principle-led product that treats every family's worldview as sacred, whether that's Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, secular humanist, unschooling-agnostic, or something else. The system asks you what your family believes, records it as your sacred filter, and applies it to recommendations. If a resource conflicts with your declared worldview, it won't surface (or it will surface with a flag). No default worldview is assumed.

No. A Founding Family is a family who joined during the free beta period, before pricing launches. The status is permanent: it stays on your account and reflects your contribution to shaping the platform in its earliest form. It's a recognition, not a discount. When the button says "Become a Founding Family" we mean exactly that and nothing else.

Blueprint is building a teacher network designed to make it easy for educators to offer their knowledge to homeschool families, and simple for families to fold that knowledge into their planning. The first teacher cohort will launch at MACHE (May 2026). Every first class is reviewed before it becomes visible to families. If the subject you need isn't covered yet, tell us and we will prioritize finding it. The full teacher model lives on the teachers page.

Blueprint covers 29 distinct teaching philosophies with real depth. The teaching styles page lays them out in 7 cluster families. A 90-second quiz shows you where your instincts draw from. Eleven anchor philosophies have full-depth support (Classical, Charlotte Mason, Montessori, Waldorf, Unschooling, Unit Studies, Project-Based, Mastery-Based, Spiral, Traditional, and Eclectic-as-a-shape). Eighteen others have compact entries that relate back to their anchor. If your family blends several, that's the most common pattern; the system models blends as compositions, not as a single label.