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IGNIFY

The one calm system class-based studios run on: scheduling, billing, family messaging, and AI-drafted lesson reports. We designed and built all of it.

ClientIGNIFY
Year2025 to 2026
RoleStrategy, Product design, Engineering
BuildiOS and Android, Web console, Cloud (AWS), AI (IGNI), Payments
StageZero to live
A teacher reviewing an AI-drafted lesson report in the IGNIFY app
01

Class-based studios run on a patchwork.

Music schools, dance studios, and martial arts academies run the whole business by hand, across five apps and a spreadsheet. Teachers write parent updates late at night, or skip them. Families feel out of the loop. The owner becomes the human glue between disconnected tools.

A group class in session at a real studio
Built for studios that teach classes
02

Start with the one moment that happens every day.

Inside every studio is a quiet loop: a class is booked, a lesson is taught, a report lands at home, and the family stays. That weekly report is the clearest reason a family re-enrolls. Make it effortless, IGNI drafts it and the teacher approves in a tap, and you earn the right to run everything else in the same place.

An instructor tying a student's new belt at a studio
03The daily loop
A teacher reviewing the AI-drafted lesson report
The finished lesson report a family receives
01

The draft is ready.

Every completed lesson becomes a four-part record, drafted by IGNI in the teacher's voice.

02

Approve in a tap.

The teacher is the author, IGNI is the editor. Read it, change a word, tap send.

03

The family receives it.

A clear, warm report the family actually opens, building a history lesson over lesson.

A teacher reviewing the AI-drafted lesson report
01 The draft is ready
02 Approve in a tap
The finished lesson report a family receives
03 The family receives it
04

One connected loop, not five tools.

Scheduling and makeups, term billing, roster, staff, and family messaging, all in the same place the reports come from.

The IGNIFY owner dashboard
Dashboard

The whole studio at a glance, the moment you open it.

The class-shaped week, not a column of one-off appointments.

The IGNIFY scheduling calendar
Scheduling
The IGNIFY student roster
Roster
IGNIFY team management
Team
IGNIFY billing and transactions
Billing
A family's lesson-report history
Family
The family account screen
Account
05
The Music Academy of Kansas City

Live in a real studio today.

The Music Academy of Kansas City, IGNIFY's first design-partner studio, went live in 2025 and runs day to day on the platform.

A piano room at the Music Academy of Kansas City
Music Academy of Kansas City
“We stopped juggling four tools the week IGNIFY drafted our first report, and parents started writing back. That changed how we re-enroll.”
Maya Music Academy of Kansas CityIGNIFY's first design-partner studio
Per lesson report, with IGNI
<3 min
for IGNI to draft a report
~1 min
for a teacher to review and send
~1¢
in IGNI cost per report
06

Garagol designed and built all of it.

01Strategy and product definition
02Product and brand design
03iOS and Android apps
04Web console
05Serverless AWS backend
06AI lesson-report pipeline (IGNI)
07Payments
08Security

One senior team, from the first sketch to the live platform.