Hi, I'm Daniel.

I won the highest academic achievement award in 8th grade.

Then my high school kicked me out.

I had one semester left, and my last 3 courses left were online.

I got the opportunity of a lifetime to build my company in San Francisco for 2 months, but my high school demitted me anyway.

It wasn't the first sign. I'd spent a year convincing my district to let teachers use an AI tool I built to give students better feedback. Not one of the 78 teachers I pitched took me seriously. Not even the one I originally built it for. The district came up with a new excuse every time.

I decided to go big or go home. I spent all the money I had as a 17 year old kid on going to a conference. I found a the first few teachers who wanted to use it. A few months later, we signed our first district.

But time and time again, I saw first-hand that the system doesn't change unless the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of changing.

It's not that administrators don't see the upside. They just don't have a reason to care.

It doesn't matter if you build the 100th app to help teachers teach better.

The system is broken at a fundamental level. Incentives are backwards—schools get more funding the longer they keep a student in class.

We can—and should teach students more, faster.

We've been holding back students and killing their potential. Far too many kids have had their talent buried under a fear of stepping out of line.

So I'm dropping everything I've built over the past 3 years to prove what's possible.

Traditional education will either be forced to adapt to the real world, or find itself obsolete.

We're here to do that.

This isn't another extracurricular, study tool, or private school.

This is Units.

— Daniel