Weekly writing from the workshop.
One short piece a week from Dr. Johnathan G. Harris — a working school founder using AI to help other founders build faster, cleaner, and more professionally. The blog is where Dr. Harris works out the day-to-day thinking — the part that doesn’t fit into a service page.
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Five threads the blog keeps returning to.
No listicles, no news roundups. Practical writing on the parts of a launch founders most often get wrong.
- Thread 01
Tuition and the financial model
Where the pricing math breaks, what parents actually compare you to, and why almost every first-year budget under-plans for enrollment ramp.
- Thread 02
Admissions as a real funnel
How to think about tours, deposits, and the first week of school as one system — not four disconnected inboxes.
- Thread 03
Parent-facing credibility
What a website, handbook, and welcome sequence signal to a family reading you at 10 p.m. after a bad day at the district school.
- Thread 04
Founder capacity
The unglamorous operations work — insurance, compliance calendars, payroll — that quietly decides whether a school makes it to year two.
- Thread 05
AI in a small school
Where AI accelerates the work under expert human judgment, and where it should not touch the family relationship at all.
From the workshop.
Short pieces on what founders most often get wrong in the first ninety days.
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