We know what you're up against because we deal with it every day too. We've been in the 5AM crisis meeting, the gas leak that led to an evacuation - we've voted on school budgets and agonized over student safety plans. We've sat across from crying parents and kids — we know how important the work you do truly is.
That experience is what ARLO was built on.
As Administrators and MTSS Data Team Coordinators know, the tools available are: built by people who have never done the work, too expensive for what they actually did, and woefully incomplete.
Data is scattered across too many platforms and stacks of paper. As a result, decisions are too slow. And unfortunately some students slip through the cracks — not because educators aren't trying, but because we can't "see" the whole picture.
We've got a little car on Mars taking pictures and sending them back to Earth. Why can't we see all of our students' data in one place? Why can't we drag and drop a student into a class and make sure it's a good mix?
The answer to those questions became ARLO. What started as a prototype to solve one district's scheduling and MTSS intervention workflow has grown into a full-featured K-12 MTSS scheduling and operations platform. ARLO is what we always wished existed — and what we built because it didn't.
Jake brings over 18 years in K-12 public education to ARLO — not as a consultant or observer, but as a classroom teacher, union leader, data coordinator, school administrator, and elected school committee member. He built the original ARLO prototype himself, driven by firsthand frustration with the tools available to MTSS teams. When educators build these tools from the ground up, they solve real-world problems the right way. For the people that use it.
Nathan is the founder of Kirschbaum Development Group (KDG), a professional software development firm that has built and shipped production-grade web applications across a range of industries. He leads the engineering of ARLO's commercial platform — built on Laravel with a security-first architecture designed for the rigorous data privacy and compliance demands of K-12 institutions. Nathan brings the technical maturity that EdTech requires: not just the ability to build software, but the discipline to build it safely, responsibly, and at scale.
Every feature we build starts with the same question: does this help get the right support to the right student faster? Because we know that the longer a student waits the further they slip behind.
Every click and login that we eliminate buys back minutes that belong with students doing the work that matters.
The hardest part of this job isn't the work — it's remembering everything, for everyone, all at once. ARLO nudges you when it matters, so you're not carrying that alone. And when you're not carrying it you can focus on the students right in front of you.
ARLO surfaces the right information at the right moment so your team can make confident, defensible, data-driven decisions about student needs and supports.
Student data is sacred. FERPA and COPPA compliance is baked into ARLO's architecture from day one — not bolted on as an afterthought. Districts should never have to wonder whether their data is safe.
MTSS is not a one-time fix and neither is our software. We build in cycles, release with intention, and stay close to the schools we serve — listening more than talking.
Schedule a personalized demo with one of our founders — not a sales rep — and see how ARLO fits your school's MTSS workflow.
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