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Running a school lean: automation instead of headcount

Every hour the team spends on admin is an hour not spent with students.

2025 to present

The problem

A small team running four certification programs with cohorts, live faculty sessions, and state reporting. Every manual step was an hour not spent with students.

What we did

We automated the unglamorous parts: enrollment and unenrollment flows, webinar attendee segments, blog-to-email, cohort welcome emails from a template, a live-sessions page that admins update by editing a sheet, calendar feeds per program, and audit packs on demand.

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The outcome

Enrollment, cohort communications, live-session publishing, and state reporting now run on repeatable workflows, so a small team keeps four certification programs and their cohorts moving.

Thinkific · HubSpot · Zapier · Google apps script · addevent · Vimeo · Zoom

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Enrollment and unenrollment flows, webinar attendee segments, blog-to-email, cohort welcome emails from a template, a live-sessions page that admins update by editing a sheet, calendar feeds per program, and audit packs on demand. None of it is glamorous. All of it is why a small team can run four certification programs.