Built by someone who still runs the evaluations.
I’m Zac Crane. I’m a school psychologist in a Washington district, and I was a special-education director before that. CetusEd is the system I kept wishing we had.
The migration is what started this. We moved our district from one special-education system to another over about two years — vendor evaluation, data transition, training, keeping compliance intact the whole time the ground was moving. I was on the leadership team for it. What I mostly remember is watching what that costs the people who don’t get to stop doing their actual jobs while it happens.
I still run evaluations and sit in eligibility meetings. The paperwork this platform documents is paperwork I do on Tuesdays. CetusEd is the thing I kept wishing existed: one record that follows a kid from a first-grade teacher’s concern to the transition plan, every deadline it counts carrying the authority behind it, each document type keeping its own role list and its own retention period, and the data sitting on our own machines.
It’s built around the shapes Washington schools already use — CEDARS, the IDEA and WAC state model forms — so a student’s record keeps its shape when it crosses a system boundary. If the state adopts a statewide IEP platform under E2SSB 5263, the work a district does here should still be worth something.
I’m seeking initial-phase pilot schools: one school, one semester. If you run this work in a Washington building, the thing I most need to know is where it breaks.
A disclosure, before you have to ask
I am employed as a school psychologist by a Washington district. I am not seeking a pilot in my own district, and I do not approach districts through my professional role — recruitment goes through the company. If a conflict ever looks possible to you, say so and I will step back from it rather than argue the point.
What this company is
One person. No employees, no outside investment, no sales team, and no completed pilot yet — I am recruiting the first. The SOC 2 readiness artifacts are prepared and the audit is not yet booked, and there has been no penetration test; what does protect a district today is on the privacy page, in three things a reviewer can check for themselves. Those are real limits and they are on this page rather than at the bottom of a security questionnaire.
Cetus (SEE-tus) — the whale constellation. Mariners navigated by it. The assistant is named for Mira, the variable star in its neck.