The Prep Playbook
from Annie Crangle & Colton Hess

What we do

Our approach

Beyond the chatbot. We bring school leaders and teachers the same advanced AI capabilities CEOs already benefit from... real efficiency, and more time for higher-order thinking.

Operations focused. We focus squarely on AI for administrative and compliance support... the repeatable, tedious tasks that have been piling up for years and pulling leaders and teachers away from the human parts of the role.

Clear expectations, strong culture. We help leaders set governance and expectations for AI use that go beyond state-required tech policies... aligned to your mission and your values.

Sustainable schools. As we build automated systems, we document standard operating procedures along the way... protecting the institutional knowledge that too often walks out the door with turnover.

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Our services

Module 1 AI Foundations for School Leaders

4 weeks · 90 minutes per week · your admin team (5-8 people)

We start where your team actually is: current AI use, real concerns, honest questions. Together we map your school's most time-consuming, repeatable compliance and administrative work, train hands-on in your preferred tools, and set clear norms for equitable, responsible use. Your team leaves with shared fluency, documented quick wins, a clear acceptable use policy you wrote together, a roadmap for the builds worth doing next... and a leadership team modeling the growth mindset you ask of everyone else.

Module 2 AI Professional Learning Community for Teachers

4 weeks · 90 minutes per week · 10-15 teachers, breakouts by grade and subject

Your teachers decide what to use AI for... and what NOT to use it for in their classrooms. Then hands-on professional development, customized to the software and curriculum your school already runs, aimed at the administrative, data-tracking, and communication tasks stealing time from teaching. Teachers leave with real fluency, clear expectations, and documented processes they actually keep using.

Module 3 Advanced Builds: Your School's Command Centers

Small groups of leaders or teachers · individualized coaching and technical support

We shadow your team to understand your processes end to end (you get documented SOPs out of it), then build customized workflows and command centers with Claude Code... your data, your processes, your hands on the keyboard. One system at a time, built to be run by your team, not rented from a vendor. Your school keeps agency over its tools, and you leave with working systems your people built and can run without us. That's the point.

Every engagement is scoped to your school after a conversation... team size, systems, and goals all shape it. No two schools run the same plays.

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Why now

Schools run on people. Somewhere along the way, administration and compliance took over the calendar:

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asked in every first call

Questions school leaders ask us

Where should a school even start with AI?+

With the people who run it. Policy, culture, and guardrails come before tools... that's why every school starts with Module 1, leaders first. Starting with students is the riskiest place to begin. Starting with the adults is the safest.

Do we need an AI policy?+

Yes... and sooner than most schools think. A growing number of states now expect districts to have one, and teachers consistently say the missing piece is clear guidance from leadership. We write yours together in Module 1, so it fits your school instead of a template.

Does bringing in AI lower the bar?+

The opposite is the goal. High expectations stay high: AI takes the tedious work, and deciding what AI is NOT for... where reading, writing, and reasoning must keep growing in people, especially students... gets written into your policy from day one. Protecting critical thinking is the whole point.

What about student data privacy and FERPA?+

We teach with sample data. When your team builds for real, your data stays inside your school's own accounts and tools, with education data protections. Helping your team protect student data is part of what we teach, not a fine-print promise.

How is this different from generic AI training?+

Most AI professional development stops at chatbots and prompts. We teach your team to actually build with these tools... command centers for enrollment, compliance, and communication... so your people leave empowered to build the next solution themselves, long after we're gone.

What does it cost?+

Every engagement is scoped to your school after a conversation... team size, systems, and goals all shape it. The first 30-minute call is free, and honest about what AI can take off your plate and what it shouldn't touch.

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Let's huddle up

A 30-minute call is the whole first step. Bring your most time-consuming week... we'll tell you honestly what advanced AI can take off your plate, and we'll decide together what it shouldn't touch.

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