Compass Educational Partners — Empowering Families to Navigate Special Education with Confidence
Digital & App Innovation Data & AI
Every year, thousands of Florida families discover their child qualifies for special education services — and have no idea what to do next.
The world of IEPs, 504 plans, and the FES-UA scholarship is dense, high-stakes, and overwhelming. Parents find themselves buried in jargon, unsure of their rights, and outmatched at the table by school district teams who do this every day.
They’re left asking:
- What is my child actually entitled to?
- Am I reading this evaluation correctly?
- Is the school offering what my child truly needs — or what’s easiest for them?
- How do I apply for the FES-UA scholarship, and how do I keep it year after year?
- Where do I even start?
Most families don’t need an attorney. They need an expert guide — someone who speaks the language, knows the system, and stands beside them with a plan.
That’s what Compass Educational Partners delivers: expertise without the legal price tag.
The Solution
Maxim Cloud Solutions partnered with Erin Barker, M.Ed., Certified Educational Diagnostician, to build a full-service SaaS platform that transforms her decade of classroom and assessment expertise into a scalable digital business.
Rather than a simple brochure site, we built a multi-stream consulting platform that combines one-on-one services, digital products, membership access, and B2B school partnerships — all under one roof.
What We Built
A modern SaaS application powered by Next.js 15, Supabase, and Turborepo, deployed on Vercel with automatic preview environments for every branch.
Core capabilities include:
- Consulting Services Portal — Online booking and management for one-on-one consulting engagements
- Digital Product Storefront — E-commerce platform for downloadable toolkits, courses, and guides
- Membership Community — Subscription-based access to live training, resource libraries, and member benefits
- Client & Admin Dashboards — Authenticated portals for families and back-office management with role-based access control
- B2B School Partnerships — Service packages for private schools needing compliance and ESE support
Security-First Architecture
Education data demands the highest standards of protection. Every database table is locked down with Supabase Row Level Security (RLS) — no exceptions, no shortcuts. Authentication is enforced on every protected route and API endpoint. Service credentials never touch client-side code.
AI-Powered Development Workflow
To maintain quality and velocity across a platform of this scope, we implemented an 18-agent AI development system — specialized agents for architecture, backend, frontend, security auditing, testing, code review, documentation, and more. Every pull request goes through a 5-agent voting consensus before merge, covering correctness, minimalism, edge cases, and security.
Technology Stack
| Layer | Technology |
|---|---|
| Framework | Next.js 15 (App Router) |
| Database | Supabase PostgreSQL |
| Auth | Supabase Auth (email, Google OAuth, magic links) |
| Payments | Lemon Squeezy |
| Hosting | Vercel |
| Resend | |
| CMS | Keystatic |
| Monorepo | Turborepo + pnpm |
| UI | Tailwind CSS + Shadcn UI |
The Impact
Compass Educational Partners gives Florida families something that didn’t exist before: direct access to Educational Diagnostician-level expertise through a modern digital platform. From a parent’s first search about FES-UA to ongoing annual support, the platform provides a clear path forward at every stage.
The platform positions CEP to scale from a solo practice into a multi-stream digital business — consulting, products, membership, and school partnerships — without losing the personal expertise that makes the service invaluable.