Research

Blueprint is built on published research, not intuition. The family-facing version of that research is in active preparation; here's what we can point at today.

Theory papers

Blueprint draws on published cognitive-science, teaching philosophy, and homeschooling research. Ryan has written original synthesis work across 31 internal architecture documents, and is preparing four family-facing theory papers that distill the key claims:

Why the platform avoids gamification mechanics that the attention economy has normalized
How teaching-philosophy inference treats the parent as the principal educator, not the student
What “ethical personalization” means when the recommendation engine meets homeschool families
How the Wider Circle of belonging addresses the social concerns real homeschool alumni have named

In preparation. The full texts are being written for the family audience. Each paper cites its sources in full and will land here when ready. Until then, the principles page and the founder story carry the most complete public argument.

GLM architecture

The matching engine is a generalized linear model that combines family profile inputs (values, teaching philosophy, sacred filters, budget, constraints) against resource and teacher features (content, delivery, pacing, environment). The composite score is visible to the family as a match explanation on every Idea card. The full feature engineering, interaction terms, and multi-task outputs are documented internally and audited weekly against the principles.

A parent-readable architecture doc (inputs, weights, guardrails, what the model refuses to optimize for) is in preparation. Meanwhile the how-it-works page and each Idea's in-product match explanation carry the user-visible version.

Market analysis

Homeschooling has been the fastest-growing education category in the United States for the past decade, accelerated by 2020 and not reverting. The families who stayed after 2022 are increasingly principled about the tools they let into their lives. Blueprint's business model is subscription-funded by families, not advertiser- funded or investor-subsidized, because the pressures that shape an advertiser-funded product are exactly the ones this audience is reacting against.

The full market analysis + pricing-strategy document is internal and will be summarized here when the public version is ready. The pricing structure is already fully public.

Bibliography

Every teaching philosophy cited on the teaching styles page lists its philosophical root and a canonical source (Dorothy Sayers, Charlotte Mason, Maria Montessori, Rudolf Steiner, John Holt, Benjamin Bloom, Jerome Bruner, John Dewey, Ruth Beechick, and others). The 29 teaching philosophies are traced to primary sources; the platform does not invent teaching philosophy — it maps what families actually do.

A consolidated bibliography across all the theory work is in preparation alongside the papers above.

Questions about a specific claim? Want to see the underlying doc? Email Ryan. Research we can defend, we will share.