Parsec Education
Creating a culture of innovation.
Aligned didn't just improve Parsec's architecture — we completely rebuilt it from the ground up. Every line of code. Every system. Every integration.
This new foundation didn't just improve technical performance, it transformed the culture. Parsec shifted from a team operating in maintenance mode to an organization driven by innovation.
- Business ModelB2B
- IndustryEd-tech, Data
- StageEarly Stage
- DeliverablesReplatform
“Aligned has been a catalyst for growth across our squads. By helping us transition to a more scalable product, they've directly increased our shipping speed and overall productivity. The team's technical maturity has leveled up across the board, and the modernized approach they brought to our core work has made a massive difference in how effectively we can iterate.”
Scaling Impact
How Consolidation Opened a Pathway to Increased Team Velocity
This wasn't just a technical win — it was an organizational unlock that freed Parsec to innovate, compete, and scale in ways their old system couldn't support.
Before partnering with Aligned, shipping a simple feature required developers to coordinate changes across multiple repos, leaving room for manual error and eating away at engineering bandwidth.
The team managed just 10 deployments a month, spending more time debugging than building.
This meant that Parsec couldn't test new ideas, respond to customer feedback quickly, or explore new revenue opportunities. The team simply didn't have the capacity to lead with innovation. Leadership felt constricted, unable to make meaningful bets.
The Aligned Way
After partnering with Aligned, deployments jumped from 10 per month to 20 per day. On the surface, we rebuilt the technical foundation of Parsec's product offering. In practice, we provided Parsec with a sustainable system to build efficiently, increase velocity, and better serve customers.
Innovation Unlocked
With engineering bandwidth freed up, Parsec could finally experiment and iterate on their mission to humanize data through community voices. They shipped AI-powered translations so Spanish-speaking families could provide feedback in their preferred language. They built engagement features that boosted active users. They integrated their core products to help schools tell richer stories with both quantitative and qualitative data.
Elevating User Experience.
Before Core, customers managed three separate logins across disconnected tools — a fragmented experience that complicated onboarding, created support burden, and made it harder for schools to get value from the platform quickly. The unified platform replaced all of that with a single entry point to everything Parsec offers.
Onboarding dropped from weeks to hours, meaning new customers reach value faster and the team spends less time hand-holding and more time growing the business.
Building Systems You Can Trust.
Rapid iteration only works if what you ship is reliable. Before Core, the team had no real-time visibility into issues — bugs surfaced through customer complaints, sometimes days later. Aligned introduced observability across the entire stack, giving engineers the ability to catch and resolve problems in minutes instead of days. Bugs per feature dropped 72%, with the majority now discovered internally before customers are ever affected. The result is a product schools can depend on and an engineering team that ships with confidence.
“Aligned has been instrumental in the development of our core platform. By architecting a modernized version using a highly integrated technology stack, they have provided a fresh perspective on our infrastructure. Furthermore, their mentorship has significantly enhanced our team's technical proficiency and broader engineering expertise.”
People-first Development
We don't just align to your mission, we amplify your people.
Partnering with Aligned means access to experts invested in upleveling your team. As you build and scale, your talent grows with you — we mentor junior developers to increase ownership, accelerate growth, and deepen technical expertise.
