Pricing
The method is free. The hours are what you buy.
The method is published in full under an open licence and always will be — you can run it tomorrow with paper. What a school pays for is the two-minute plan instead of the hour, and the record of how a class changes across terms.
The method
Free, in full, forever.
$0 CC BY-SA 4.0
- The whole protocol: the round, the safety rules, how the questions are written.
- Run it tomorrow with four coloured cards and a printed sheet.
- Adapt it, translate it, teach it, build your own. No permission needed.
The software · schools and districts
The hours, and the record.
$1 per student per month
- Questions written for this week’s topic — connection and academic — ready to approve in two minutes.
- The Stage, the pairing, the languages, the private check-out.
- Class cohesion across terms and years, per class and per competency.
- A separate database per school, CSV or OneRoster rostering, exports and deletion on request.
- A quote on request, invoicing against a signed service agreement with a data-privacy clause, and your state’s student-data privacy agreement signed where one exists.
- Updates and support from the founder, not a queue.
Plain answers
So what exactly is free?
The method. The Connection Protocol is the whole thing — the round, the timing, the safety rules that are not optional, how to write the questions, how to measure it, and how to run it with four coloured cards and a printed sheet. It is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, so you may use it, adapt it, translate it, teach it and build software from it, including commercially. You do not need our permission and you do not need to tell us.
Then what am I paying for?
Time, and memory. The software writes the questions for the subject and topic you are teaching this week — connection questions and academic ones, with the answers — so planning is two minutes instead of an evening. It runs the Stage, handles the pairing and the languages, and keeps the private record of how the class changes across terms and years. Plus a separate database for your school, rostering, exports, updates, and the founder answering the email.
Can we try it before we buy it?
Yes. Write and say what you teach; we set up a pilot class and you run it for a few weeks. You will know inside three weeks whether the room has changed, and you will not need us to tell you.
How is a school billed?
Annually, by invoice, against a signed service agreement, for the number of active students. Students who leave stop counting at the next renewal.
Is there a setup or training fee?
No. The method is published in full and the app explains itself. A fifteen-minute call with the founder is free and usually enough.
Can a district buy for many schools?
Yes, on one agreement at the same price. Each school still gets its own separate database.
Take the method. Or take the evening back.
The protocol is published in full and costs nothing — run it tomorrow with four coloured cards. The software writes the questions, runs the screen and keeps the record, for $1 per student per month.