About
Who we are and what we're building.
Tool For School is a school operations platform built to solve the daily operational challenges that Student Information Systems were never designed to handle. Founded in 2025, we focus exclusively on real-time workflows during the school day: dismissal, custody, communication, and student movement.
We serve schools across Texas, helping districts eliminate operational chaos, reduce legal liability, and give parents the real-time visibility they expect. Unlike traditional EdTech vendors, we don't try to replace existing systems – we integrate with them and handle what they can't.
Based in The Woodlands, Tool For School is an independently funded startup. We're focused on building sustainable, essential infrastructure for K-12 operations rather than chasing hypergrowth or trying to 'disrupt' education.
Simple, factual, clear.
Our Team
The people building Tool For School.
Alex Stanin
CEO & Founder
I spent two years in education before spending nearly two decades building software at S&P Global, Waste Management, Accenture, and a string of AI startups in healthcare and linguistics. In 2018, my kids started school — and I started watching dismissal happen from the parking lot, staff make custody calls from memory, and parents deal with systems that were never built for how schools actually run. I knew exactly what was broken and exactly how to fix it. Tool For School is the result.
Andrew Mash
Designer
- — Paper hall passes (when teachers remembered to use them)
- — Bathroom overcrowding causing incidents
- — No data on student movement patterns
- — Students gone 20+ minutes without teacher awareness
Our Journey
Key milestones since founding.
The idea and the first draft were created.
The MVP was launched.
The MVP has been expanded to 7 modules.
What Drives Us
The principles that guide our work.
Safety First
We build tools that reduce legal liability and protect students through automatic enforcement, not staff discretion.
Operational Focus
We solve daily operational problems, not long-term strategic ones. Dismissal, custody, communication—the urgent, visible, chaotic parts of running a school.
SIS Partnership
We complement existing Student Information Systems, never compete with them. Integration over replacement.
Modular by Design
Schools pay for what they use. No forced bundles, no bloatware, no vendor lock-in.
Partnerships & Recognition