Brilliant Sector

Education technology · Porto, Portugal

We build edtech for the people
who actually use the edtech.

From private schools to homeschool families, from state-run programs to the students themselves, we build for the best and the brightest.

Students
Co-Ops
Teachers
Families
Schools
Providers
Districts
Why schools call us

You have been sold edtech before.

You know the platform with four hundred seats and thirty weekly users. You know the pilot that finished the same week the grant did, the dashboard a superintendent saw once in a demo in April, and the teacher holding eleven logins who has run out of room for a twelfth.

That happens when a product is designed around the person signing the contract. We design around the person opening it at 7:40 on a Tuesday.

01 It works on the oldest browser your district supports, over school wifi.
02 We map student data against FERPA and COPPA in writing before the first commit.
03 We test to WCAG 2.2 AA with a keyboard and a screen reader on everything we ship.
04 Failures announce themselves loudly, so you hear about them from us first.
Our platform

Encontra is the operating system for school choice.

More than 30 states now put public education money directly in families' hands and give them a static list to spend it from. Picture a mother of three at the kitchen table with a tab open on her phone, trying to find a speech therapist who takes the program. Encontra is what that moment should feel like instead: search that works, providers who have been verified, and the tools to spend the money and have the invoice accepted the first time.

See it running in Alabama →
See it in action

Live in Alabama as CHOOSEActAL, earning from families and providers alike.

Built to spread

Multi-tenant from the first line of code, so the next state is a configuration file.

The scale of it

30+ states. 70+ programs. 1.5M+ students, and climbing every legislative session.

Wherever you are with it, start here.

Send a few sentences about where things stand and you will hear back from someone who would do the work, usually within a day.

What is this about?

We reply to everything, usually within one business day.