Three of you. Twelve buildings.
Ten thousand people who need something.

SoftwareStudioK12 is a family of studios for running a school district: Support Studio for the help desk, and studios for security, finance, professional development, projects and your software catalog. Pick the ones your district needs and pay for those, scaled to the size of your district and never per technician. Pick enough of them and you get everything, including whatever we build next.

SupportStudioK12 is now Support Studio, one of the studios in SoftwareStudioK12. Same help desk, same team, built by the same working K-12 IT staff.
Built by working K12 IT
Buy whole studios and apps, never half a feature
No per-agent pricing
Free for districts that need it
Export your data anytime

One family. Choose your studios.

Every studio and app stands on its own and works better next to the others. Buy Support Studio, or just the software catalog, or all of it. Prices shown are for a district of 5–12 schools; see your size.

Studios

$2,500 a year each

The big ones: each solves a whole job on its own.

Support Studio

The help desk: tickets from web, email, SMS, kiosk and QR room tags, auto-assigned by school.

  • Tickets, SLAs and auto-assignment
  • Walk-up kiosk and QR room tags
  • Runbooks, escalations and oversight
  • Time tracking, surveys and reports
  • AI ticket assistance
  • Wall display and tech leaderboard
$2,500 /yr
Knowledge

Self-service articles for staff and internal docs for the team, written faster.

  • Knowledge base with synonym-aware search
  • Internal tech docs
  • Docs from screenshots, with redaction
  • AI drafts from resolved tickets
$2,500 /yr
Software Catalog

Every application your district runs, with its owner, vendor, approval and privacy status.

  • Application records staff can look up
  • Privacy and DPA review
  • Vendor contacts and notes, shared with Finance Studio
  • Rostering details
$2,500 /yr
Security Studio
Growing

Incidents, alerts, availability and a NIST CSF 2.0 self-assessment, with plans you can hand to a board.

  • Incident log with response playbooks
  • Signals: inbound alert feed
  • Service monitors
  • IRP and DR plan exports
  • Security assessment against NIST CSF 2.0, with 114 K12 controls
  • A POA&M Lumen can draft, with milestones on your calendar
  • A board-ready report, year over year
$2,500 /yr
Finance Studio

Budgets and purchasing for the departments that own a budget.

  • Budgets by department and fiscal year
  • Board-approved budget amendments
  • Purchases with receipts
  • Approval limits by amount
  • Vendors and contracts, linked to the Software Catalog
  • A renewals list with notice deadlines
  • A receipt inbox that turns emailed receipts into purchases
  • Submit to finance by email, with signed receipts
  • Purchase orders with approval and a printable PDF
  • Sales-tax exemption certificates
  • Reports: budget vs actual, spend by vendor, PO aging, renewals
  • Access only for the people you choose
$2,500 /yr
Project Studio
Growing

Guided projects for every department, and a calendar of what that work closes for everyone else.

  • Phases with exit checklists that teach as you go
  • K12 templates that explain why each step exists
  • Tasks, a project calendar and weekly status
  • An impact calendar every staff member can read
  • Confidential projects stay confidential
$2,500 /yr
PD Studio

Professional development: staff log PD and take courses; districts track requirements.

  • Log PD in under 30 seconds, certificates attached
  • Transcripts as PDF or CSV
  • PD requirements and a compliance report
  • Pre-approval requests
  • Teacher Challenges
  • Self-paced courses with a quiz and certificate
  • School and district views for PD admins
$2,500 /yr
Apps

$1,250 a year each

Focused tools for one part of running a tech team.

Operations

The daily running of a tech team: triage mail, track changes and hours.

  • Radar: pinned-email triage
  • Change tracking with AI risk assessment
  • Time clock and lieu time
$1,250 /yr
Assets

Devices from purchase to repair, synced with your MDM.

  • Asset inventory and loaners
  • Intune and Mosyle sync
  • Parts stock
  • Parent repair invoicing
  • Config warehouse
$1,250 /yr

Included with any studio or app

The foundation everything stands on. It is never sold separately, so buying one studio or app never means buying a platform fee on top.

  • Microsoft and Google sign-in, with directory sync
  • Users, eight roles and school scopes
  • Schools and rooms
  • Email, SMS and Teams notifications
  • Your branding and your own domain
  • Quick Links, Policies and the status page
  • Calendar, secure notes and the audit log
  • Backups and full data export
  • Lumen, the assistant that answers across every module you own

When you own two modules that connect (Radar alerts that become tickets, assets shown on a ticket), the connection simply appears. Nothing inside a module is held back.

New this season

Four new studios, built the way districts asked.

Each one replaces a spreadsheet, a binder or a separate subscription.

Security assessment and POA&M

Score your district against the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0, category by category, with 114 concrete K12 checks: MFA on the SIS and payroll, ransomware-proof backups, cameras and HVAC on their own network.

  • Every "no" becomes a plan item in one click, or let Lumen draft the whole Plan of Action and Milestones for you to approve
  • Attach evidence: your policies, your IR plan, a screenshot
  • A board-ready report that shows this year against last
Part of Security Studio
Finance Studio

Budgets and purchasing for every department that owns a budget, with approval limits that route a large purchase to the right person instead of hoping someone notices.

  • Forward a receipt to a mailbox and it's waiting for you, details read off, ready to become a purchase
  • Send it to your business office with your signature stamped on every receipt
  • Purchase orders, tax-exemption certificates, and budget vs actual
$2,500 /yr
PD Studio

Staff log professional development in under 30 seconds, certificate attached, and keep a transcript that follows them. Your PD office sees who is on track before the deadline, not after.

  • Requirements and a compliance report by school
  • Pre-approval, Teacher Challenges and self-paced courses with a certificate
  • Transcripts as PDF or CSV
$2,500 /yr
Project Studio
Growing

Guided projects with phases and exit checklists that teach as you go. And when summer floor waxing closes B hallway for three days, every staff member can see it, without seeing the project behind it.

  • K12 templates for device refreshes, 1:1 rollouts, network upgrades and E-rate
  • An impact calendar for all staff: their own sites first, the whole district on request
  • Confidential projects show only "Unavailable", the place and the dates
$2,500 /yr

Better together, never required.

Each studio works alone. Own two that connect, and the connection is already there.

One vendor list

Finance Studio and the Software Catalog share vendors, so a contract renewal and the app it pays for are the same record.

One calendar

Closed hallways, POA&M milestones, plan reviews and breach-notice deadlines land on the same calendar, and in Outlook or Google.

One assistant

Lumen answers questions about every studio you own, and drafts the documents you'd rather not start from a blank page.

One directory

Sign in with Microsoft or Google once. Staff and schools come from your directory, not from a spreadsheet per tool.

One list of spaces

Your rooms and hallways are entered once and used by every studio that needs a place.

Access you choose

Budgets, projects and security work are seen only by the people you grant, help-desk admins included.

How we operate

Vendor ethics, in specifics.

"We're the good guys" is easy to say. Here's how we make it real.

We count pages, not people

This site has no analytics vendor. None.

  • No Google Analytics, no Meta pixel, no session recorder
  • No tracking cookies; the only cookie is your login
  • We store a daily tally per page and nothing else: no IP, no device, no referrer, no visitor identity
No pricing games

What you see is what you pay.

  • Every price on the website, not behind a "contact sales" wall
  • We sell whole modules. We never lock half of a feature behind an upgrade.
  • No per-seat creep as your team grows
  • Pay by purchase order with a Net-30 invoice
  • Free for small districts that qualify
No hostage exports

Your data is always one click from leaving.

  • Full JSON backup of every table, anytime
  • Per-module CSV exports
  • No "export fee", and no ticket to support required
No opaque AI

Every AI feature is explicit, toggleable, and explainable.

  • One-page AI policy in plain language
  • AI included on paid plans; bring your own key if you'd rather
  • Every AI feature can be switched off
  • Your data is not used to train any model

Build your bundle. Pay for your size.

Studios are $2,500 a year and apps $1,250 for a district of 5–12 schools, less for smaller districts. Reach $12,500 and you get every module. Try any module free for 90 business days.

See pricing and build a bundle

Frequently asked questions

The questions K-12 IT directors actually ask before they switch.

A family of studios for running a K-12 district: Support Studio (the help desk), a knowledge base, a software catalog, Security Studio, Finance Studio, PD Studio and Project Studio, plus focused apps for assets and day-to-day operations. Built by working K-12 IT staff.

It is now Support Studio, the help desk studio in SoftwareStudioK12. Same product and same team; the new name makes room for the other studios districts asked us for.

Each module has a published annual price, scaled by how many schools you run: studios are $2,500 and apps $1,250 for a district of 5–12 schools. Once your bundle reaches the all-access price you get every module, including new ones released during your contract. No per-agent or per-seat fees.

No. Buy one studio or app, or several. Each works on its own, and the sign-in, directory sync, notifications and the Lumen assistant come with any of them.

Yes. Small districts (1–4 schools) participating district-wide in the Community Eligibility Provision get the help desk and knowledge base free, and half price on everything else.

Every module has a free trial of 90 business days, with one renewal if you need longer. Pause it over a school break and those weekdays don't count.

Yes, and that is the normal way. We invoice your business office annually with Net-30 terms and a W-9 on file.

As a staff help desk it collects very little student data. We never sell data or use it to train AI models, we will sign the standard National Data Privacy Agreement, and we publish our full subprocessor list.

Microsoft Entra ID and Google Workspace, with directory sync. Your admin registers the sign-in app in your own tenant; our setup help walks them through it.

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