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ScaleU Intelligence v2.2.0
ScaleU Intelligence 2.2.0 adds a field note from ScaleU's Q1 FY27 update (July–September 2026): where higher-ed startups are crowding along the student journey, and what the funding, consolidation, and policy climate means for them.
What's new
- Field note: Where higher-ed startups are crowding. The 88 higher-ed and workforce companies ScaleU sourced in the quarter, by stage: 46 build for students taking classes, 29 for graduation and careers, and 13 for the four stages before classes start. Also higher-ed venture funding, the Keypath and Watermark deals, the federal earnings rule, news from ScaleU portfolio companies, and four reports for further reading.
- Higher-ed jobs atlas: pipeline counts beside the Course Experience estimate. Graduate & Beyond is now described as filling with skills and job-search tools while outcome data stays thin.
- Competitive landscape: Risepoint's acquisition of Keypath's North American operations, Main Capital's announced acquisition of Watermark, and crowding in AI grading and tutoring.
- Funding landscape: a higher-ed venture funding figure for July–September 2026.
- Higher-ed landscape: the earnings accountability rule (91 FR 40136), effective July 1, 2027, checked at the Federal Register.
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Limits
The pipeline reflects where ScaleU looked in one quarter, not the market. The higher-ed funding figures come from ScaleU's analysis of Harmonic, a paid database, and were not independently checked. Portfolio news was selected by ScaleU. The Watermark sale had not been confirmed closed.
ScaleU Intelligence v2.1.0
ScaleU Intelligence 2.1.0 adds the library's first field note: K-12 state findings from SETDA's 2026 State EdTech Trends Report, released October 29, 2026.
What's new
- Field note: State edtech offices want evidence they can check. The survey drew 73 responses from state agency leaders in 45 states and one territory. It covers how states write AI buying guidance, how they weigh privacy against evidence, and where they turn when vendor claims are hard to verify. Figures are shares of respondents, with page numbers.
- Procurement guide: what state edtech offices told SETDA, including the role of purchasing cooperatives and multi-state bids.
- K-12 regulation: a new section on state AI requirements in Ohio, North Carolina, and Tennessee, each checked against the statute or the legislature's bill page.
- Evidence tiers: what state buyers are starting to check about usage and outcome data.
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Limits
The survey reflects state officials' self-reports, not district buying decisions. Quotes from agency staff are speaker claims. The secondary studies the report cites were not checked against their sources.
ScaleU Intelligence v2.0.0
ScaleU Intelligence 2.0.0 reorganizes the library so founders can point an AI assistant at it, and reviews every founder guide against primary sources. The library is now Markdown only.
Start reading
- Use it with your AI assistant: start in
guides/, follow links intosources/for detail. AGENTS.md gives assistants the same instructions. - Guides: 19 guides grouped by founder question: demand, selling, evidence, product, and market. The EdTech pilot playbook now lives in
guides/selling/. - Sources: 376 paper entries across 19 research topics, 74 ASU+GSV 2026 transcripts with the summit report and deliverables, the SXSW EDU 2026 framework, and field notes.
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What changed
- New layout.
guides/,sources/, andabout/replace the top-levelguides/,research/,conferences/,notes/,provenance/,licenses/, andtemplates/folders. Contributor files moved to.github/. Links to old paths no longer resolve onmain; v1.0.0 keeps them. - Markdown only. Removed scripts, tests, CI, data files, the SXSW slide deck and preview image, and the citation file. The ASU+GSV JTBD analyses are now Markdown pages with the original YAML kept verbatim. Removed files remain in v1.0.0 and at the pinned source commits.
- Every guide reviewed. Regulations, statistics, funding, and company claims were checked against primary sources such as statutes, eCFR, the Federal Register, NCES, and official announcements. Research claims were checked against the papers, with DOIs. Figures without a source are labeled as ScaleU or practitioner estimates. Each guide's dated note says what was rechecked.
- Fewer contradictions. Pilot guidance has one canonical home in the playbook, and a duplicate SXSW diagnostic page was removed. Each guide states its audience: K-12, higher ed, or workforce.
Provenance and reuse
Provenance records the source repositories, pinned commits, exclusions, and this reorganization. Cite this snapshot as shown in the README, and cite original papers, authors, and speakers for their work. Licenses vary by collection, including MIT and CC BY 4.0.
Review and limits
Changes were reviewed by hand against the review checklist. An offline check found no broken relative links across 152 Markdown files. No automated checks run on the repository, and review does not establish external link availability or the accuracy of every speaker claim. Paper entries are not a count of unique papers. The ASU+GSV schedule retains 36 unverified title/transcript associations.
ScaleU Intelligence v1.0.0
The first stable snapshot of ScaleU Intelligence brings three ScaleU knowledge collections into one library for edtech founders.
Start reading
- Founder decision guide
- Founder guides: 18 guides on demand, buyers, pilots, procurement, and market context.
- Learning research: 376 paper entries across 19 topics.
- Conference intelligence: 74 ASU+GSV 2026 transcripts with synthesis and reports, plus the SXSW EDU 2026 framework and slide deck.
Download Source code (zip) or Source code (tar.gz) under Assets for the complete library. Both archives include the documents and slide files. No installation or package manager is required.
Provenance and reuse
The migration record accounts for all 175 source files: 143 imported and 32 excluded. Original authorship and license terms are retained. Restricted operator-lessons content is excluded.
Use the library citation for this snapshot and cite the original papers, authors, and speakers for their work. Licenses vary by collection, including MIT and CC BY 4.0.
Validation and limits
make check passed all eight checker tests plus local Markdown file-link, research-count, migration-coverage, restricted-file, and Python syntax checks. These checks do not establish the accuracy of every source claim or external link.
Imported material has not received a new comprehensive fact check. Research entries are not a count of unique papers. The ASU+GSV schedule retains 36 unverified title/transcript associations, marked with the actual linked transcript titles. Field notes are an empty section for future contributions.