About the founder

"I didn't set out to build software. I set out to fix a drill."

ERA didn't start at a desk. It started standing in a drill, holding a roster in one hand and a phone in the other, trying to account for a whole class — and knowing that nobody at the other end of the building could see what I was seeing.

I designed, built and deployed all of it — the app, the database, the alerts, the reporting. It has run through real drills in a working school, which is a different test from a demo.

I've spent my career in international schools, leading educational technology and teaching ICT.

Our procedures lived on paper checklists and group chats. Slips came back after it was over. The report was typed up the next morning from memory, with the times reconstructed. Neither one survives a real incident, and everybody in the building knows it.

So I built the tool I wanted to have that day: staff report their own status from wherever they are, leadership watches every room resolve live, the clinic knows who's in it, and the report writes itself when it's over.

Every feature in it exists because something in a real drill didn't work.

ERA is now available to other schools. If your emergency plan lives in a binder, I'd like to hear from you.

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