Transparency
Ten things a family deserves to know about a platform they are trusting with their children's education. If you find a gap, tell us. We will publish the fix in the next audit.
PrinciplesThe eight sacred design principles Blueprint is built on. Public, audited weekly.
Every decision Blueprint makes starts from a principle, not a feature. The eight principles are published in full with plain-English summaries and the concrete product surfaces where each one lives. When principles conflict, there is a documented precedence order the platform follows.
The AlgorithmIn preparationThe matching engine, its weights, and its version history.
Blueprint runs a generalized linear model against your family profile to rank curriculum, lessons, teachers, and activities. The full architecture (feature engineering, interaction terms, multi-task outputs) is documented, versioned, and open to audit. We are preparing a parent-facing writeup that explains the inputs, weights, and guardrails without requiring statistics background; until then, the honest inputs live inside the product as match explanations on every Idea card.
PricingBlueprint is free for Founding Families. Pricing details will be published before the founding period ends.
The platform is currently in closed beta. Every Founding Family has free access for the duration of the founding period. Pricing will be published before that period ends, and will reflect the value Blueprint provides to families. No family will be turned away for inability to pay. When pricing is announced, a full breakdown of where every dollar goes will be published here.
TeachersHow teachers will participate in Blueprint, and our compensation commitment.
Blueprint's teacher network is launching at MACHE (May 2026) with a small founding cohort. Teachers will have two ways to contribute: publishing curriculum families can use on their own schedule, and offering live tutoring or classes. Every first class is reviewed before it becomes visible to families. The compensation model is being designed with the founding teacher cohort and will be published before the network launches. Our commitment: what teachers earn will reflect the value they create for families, not engagement metrics or session length.
What Blueprint Does Not DoArchitectural commitments enforced in the data model, not marketing promises.
No streaks. No leaderboards. No variable rewards. No engagement metrics we optimize against. No social comparison. No retention dark patterns. No behavioral tracking pixels. No data sold to third parties. No hidden profile of your child. The list is architectural, not rhetorical: these choices are enforced by what the codebase does and does not build.
The AuditsIn preparationWeekly sacred-principles audit + accessibility audit.
Every Friday Blueprint runs an internal audit against the eight principles, including a check against every architectural anti-commitment. The first public audit lands here when we have four weeks of post-ship data to examine. If the platform drifts from a principle between audits, the next audit says so. Same cadence for accessibility: WCAG 2.2 AA checks run weekly, the drift is reported.
The ResearchIn preparationThe theory papers, the GLM architecture, and the market analysis grounding the product.
Blueprint is built on published cognitive-science, teaching-philosophy, and homeschooling research, plus original synthesis work across dozens of internal architecture documents. The public research surface is being prepared for the family-facing audience; until then, the principles page is the most complete public document and the founder story traces the intellectual roots.
Third-Party ServicesThe full list of external services and what data flows where.
Anthropic (AI generation; lesson plans, match explanations, tagging). Vercel (hosting + edge runtime). Vercel Postgres / Neon (database). Stripe (billing, when billing activates). Resend (transactional email). Leaflet / OpenStreetMap (field-trip maps). Every third party is listed because families deserve to know which outside systems see their data and why. If we add a new third party, it appears here before it ships.
Regulatory StatusPrivacy, accessibility, and compliance positioning.
COPPA: Blueprint is parent-administered; children do not create accounts independently. FERPA: Blueprint stores educational records under the family's control with one-click export and delete. WCAG 2.2 AA: target compliance level, audited weekly. State homeschool compliance: Minnesota launched in April 2026, covering annual notification requirements under Minn. Stat. §§ 120A.22 and 120A.24. Other states are in active build. If your state is not yet live, use the contact page to request it and we will prioritize it.
ContactDirect line to Ryan. No chatbot. No ticket system.
Email ryan@myblueprintlearning.com for anything: questions, concerns, corrections, feedback, complaints, state requests. Response time: a few days, honestly. Ryan reads every message personally at this stage. Inside the product, the Talk to Ryan button routes to the same inbox.
Missing something? Email Ryan directly. The next audit will address it.