April 26, 2026
Building in Public
Our Story
I Hardened an Entire Platform in a Weekend. Nobody Asked Me To.
There's no investor. There's no revenue yet. No board meeting where someone asked about security posture. It was a Saturday night and I was thinking about whose data would eventually flow through these functions. Parents. Parents who've already been failed by systems they trusted. 9 edge functions patched. 37 database tables locked down. 1 vulnerability killed. Because the parents who will use this tool have already been let down by enough systems that promised to keep their kids safe.
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April 23, 2026
Know Your Rights
Our Story
He's Not "Possessive." He Learned That If He Doesn't Hold On, Someone Will Take It.
34 CFR §300.324(a)(1)
In Alabama, Antonio's IEP team used his comfort stuffies to help him learn. They understood that for a child with autism and sensory processing differences, those items weren't distractions — they were bridges. When he transferred to Connecticut, they locked his stuffies in his locker on Day 1. No conversation. No transition plan. No Prior Written Notice. The law says the IEP team MUST consider the strengths of the child and the concerns of the parents. They didn't consider either.
April 20, 2026
Know Your Rights
LRE Doesn't Mean What They Told You It Means
34 CFR §300.114 — Least Restrictive Environment
The law doesn't say "general education classroom." The law says the placement where your child can actually make meaningful progress. For some kids, that's gen ed with supports. For my son, it was the self-contained classroom his IEP already said he needed — with a 1:1 aide, a bus harness for safety, and a team that knew how to meet him where he was. LRE covers BOTH sides. Parents fighting to get IN. Parents fighting to get OUT. Parents fighting to make the school follow the IEP they already signed. All three fights are real. All three are legal. All three are about YOUR child.
April 16, 2026
Building in Public
Why I Built a Free Legal Search Tool for IEP Parents
I sat in IEP meetings in four different states. In every single one, I was the only person in the room who knew the law — and I only knew it because I had to teach myself. The Know Your Rights AI exists because no parent should have to become a lawyer to protect their child. It has 26+ federal citations, it's free, and it gives you the law — not an opinion.
April 16, 2026
Perfectly Possible
Spotlight No. 01: Ana Victoria Espino de Santiago
The world's first lawyer with Down syndrome didn't just pass the bar — she rewrote the definition of who gets to. Ana Victoria graduated from law school in Mexico and passed the same exam as everyone else. No modified version. No special track. The same exam. This is what "perfectly possible" looks like when the world gets out of the way.
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