Software for the people who actually run the school year.
We're a two-person team in Ashland, Oregon building focused tools for K–12 school leadership.
Schools are run by a handful of people doing dozens of jobs. Every spring they re-create the same calendar from last spring's emails, hand-build the same back-to-school checklist from last year's PDFs, and brief the same new staff on the same missing institutional memory.
We started synthEd because the software schools actually need for this work doesn't exist yet — and the software they're handed instead is built for everything but the daily reality of leading a school.
What we ship today
School Planner is the operating system for your school year. Every recurring event, every department, every deadline — in one place, mobile-first, and rolling forward automatically so next year builds itself from this one.
How we work
We ship in days, not quarters. Our customers are on a text-message basis with us. Every line of product is built with a specific school administrator on the other side of the keyboard — not a persona, not a focus group, a real person whose week we are trying to make less miserable.
Founders
Jeremy Hamasu, co-founder & CEO, spent his career inside schools — most recently with District 6 in southern Oregon. He's the one who knows what's broken because he's the one who's been working around it for years.
Alex Black, co-founder & CTO, has been building software products for two decades. He turns Jeremy's "this would help" into shipped product, usually that same week.
What's next
School Planner is the first of a planned suite of focused tools for K–12 operations. We're not in a hurry to build the second one until the first one is unmistakably good — and our customers are the ones who tell us when that bar is met.