Independent technology studio

Good technology.
Greater impact.

Give your people more time for the work that matters. We build custom software, connected systems, and learning experiences for higher education and organizations with a mission.

Find your starting point Explore our work

Your workflows. Your software. A direct line to the builder.

Built for the real worldIn production

01 / A simpler workflow

From credentials
to a clear decision.

Supporting 400+ facultyFaculty Flow

Technology supporting
people and institutions like

Southeastern
UniversityLiFTInstituteSEU NetworkEducation partners

Higher education.
Real-world impact.

Start with your challenge

A useful first step

What’s getting
in your team’s way?

You don’t need a technical brief to get started. Find a challenge that feels familiar, and explore what a better way could look like.

What better could look like

Less chasing.
More moving forward.

Bring the people, documents, and decisions into one workflow, with automation for the repetitive parts and people in control of the important ones.

Start by making this clear

Where work gets stuck, who needs to act, and which steps can happen automatically.

See it in practiceFaculty Flow →Credential review in one workspace Let’s untangle your workflow

Something different in mind? Tell us what you’re working on →

Selected work

01 / In practice

Real challenges.
Working solutions.

Explore the challenge, the approach, and the everyday experience behind five working platforms.

01 / AI · Faculty credentialing

Faculty Flow

A clearer path from faculty credentials to confident qualification decisions, with AI-assisted review and an auditable record.

400+faculty supported

AIcredential analysis

Onereview workflow

Inside the project

The challenge: Credential review depends on documents, qualification rules, and decisions that need to hold up under scrutiny.
The approach: Bring credential analysis, qualification mapping, and compliance reporting into one workspace, with AI assisting the review.
In everyday use: Faculty and reviewers can follow each decision. Leadership gets a consistent view of institutional readiness.

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02 / Data · Academic strategy

Portfolio Engine

Academic performance, labor-market demand, and peer benchmarks in one decision-making workspace.

269programs analyzed

62peer institutions

BLS + IPEDSdata sources

Inside the project

The challenge: Program review brings together academic performance, market demand, and peer comparisons that usually live in different places.
The approach: Connect institutional performance with labor-market and competitive evidence in a shared decision workspace.
In everyday use: Leaders can examine one program or compare the whole portfolio using the same evidence.

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03 / Platform · Strategic assessment

LiFT Assessment

A living view of educational progress, connecting day-to-day work to a ten-year strategic vision.

10-yearplanning horizon

K–Adulteducational bands

Liveprogress reporting

Inside the project

The challenge: A ten-year vision needs a practical way to connect progress across educational bands and stakeholders.
The approach: Organize strategic goals and educational bands into connected dashboards that show each team’s contribution.
In everyday use: Teams can follow their part of the plan while leadership sees progress across the institution.

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04 / Platform · Partner relationships

Network Partner Hub

Relationships, site agreements, and automated workflows for a national network of education partners.

40+partner sites

Automatedagreement workflows

Connectedrelationship history

Inside the project

The challenge: Partner relationships span site contacts, faculty assignments, and agreements with many handoffs.
The approach: Connect relationship history and the agreement lifecycle, with automated Letter of Intent workflows.
In everyday use: A shared record follows the relationship from first contact through a fully executed agreement.

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05 / Data · Teaching & learning

Course Evaluations

Years of student feedback made useful, with faculty self-service and a consistent view across changing instruments.

218Kresponses

17Kcourses

1.4Kfaculty

Inside the project

The challenge: Changes to evaluation instruments make years of feedback hard to compare and use in faculty review.
The approach: Connect legacy and current instruments through a common concept layer, with anonymity thresholds built in.
In everyday use: Faculty can explore trends over time and generate individual or bulk PDF reports for review.

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Selected work from Justin’s institutional and consulting portfolio. All platforms remain owned by their respective organizations.

What we do

02 / Our capabilities

The thinking. The building.
The follow-through.

One connected partnership, from the first strategic question to the systems your team relies on every day.

Custom applications

Software shaped around your people, your processes, and the way your institution works.

Explore a custom platform

Data & decision tools

Bring scattered data into focus with dashboards, analytics, and evidence your team can act on.

See a decision tool

AI & automation

Put AI to work in credential reviews, document workflows, and the repetitive tasks that slow your team down.

See AI in the workflow

Cloud & integrations

Connect the systems you already use with secure infrastructure, reliable deployments, and modern identity.

Connect your systems

Strategy & partnership

A senior thinking partner for technology decisions, vendor evaluation, and your next stage of digital growth.

Find your starting point

Learning experiences

Thoughtful instructional design and online course development, grounded in how people actually learn.

Discuss a learning experience

A specific challenge in mind? That’s a good place to start.

Talk it through with us

Our approach

03 / From idea to everyday

A clear path forward.
A partner at every step.

Small teams. Short feedback loops. Working software early, with a shared understanding of what comes next.

01Week 1
Discover
Start with the people doing the work. Map the real problem, constraints, and what success should look like.
Workflow map + shared goals
02Weeks 2–3
Design
Shape the experience, data, and integrations together. Make the important decisions before the build.
User flows + architecture
03Weeks 3–8
Build
Get working software into your hands early. Refine it through regular reviews and real-world feedback.
Working software + weekly reviews
04Ongoing
Launch & evolve
Launch with documentation and monitoring, then keep improving as your needs grow.
Deployment + ongoing support

Start where you are.

Whether you’re finding the problem, ready to build, or improving what’s already live.

01 / Find clarity1–2 weeks

Discovery sprint

Turn an open question into a clear, actionable plan for what to build and why.

Stakeholder conversations
Workflow & constraint mapping
Architecture & scoped proposal

Explore a discovery sprint

02 / Make it real8–16 weeks

Platform build

A custom platform, designed around your team and delivered from first concept to launch.

Design, engineering & integrations
Regular demos & feedback
Deployment, documentation & warranty

Discuss your platform

03 / Keep growingMonthly

Ongoing partnership

Reliable support and thoughtful improvements as your platform and your organization evolve.

Monitoring & maintenance
Priority feature development
Technical guidance & incident support

Find your support plan

Clear scope. Transparent proposals. No per-seat REDTech licenses. Timelines are tailored to your project.

Independent by designLakeland, FL

Justin Rose

Founder & principal · REDTech Solutions

The studio

Built by someone
who knows your world.

REDTech is led by Justin Rose, a technologist and higher education leader who builds the kinds of systems he uses every day. That perspective connects institutional strategy with the details that make software useful.

You work directly with the person designing and building your platform. A deliberate scope keeps the work personal, the communication clear, and the focus on your team.

“I don’t just build software for institutions. I use it every day.”

Meet Justin

A few practical things

Good questions.
Straight answers.

Some things you may be wondering before we get started.

Ask us something else

How do we get started?

Start with a 30-minute conversation about your goals and what is getting in the way. If the scope needs more definition, a short discovery sprint produces a workflow map, an architecture memo, and a scoped build proposal.

Who owns the code, data, and infrastructure?

You do. Code lives in your repositories, infrastructure runs in your cloud account, and your organization owns the data and domains. There are no REDTech seat licenses or shared tenancy.

Can you work with our existing team and systems?

Yes. Engagements can pair with your developers, IT staff, data team, and the people who will use the software. Integrations are scoped around your existing systems, with documentation to help your team maintain the result.

How do you approach privacy and security?

Security is part of the architecture: SSO through your identity provider, least-privilege access, audit logging, and data in your cloud environment. Privacy and compliance requirements, including FERPA where applicable, are scoped explicitly with your team.

How are projects priced?

Discovery is fixed-fee and credited toward the build. Platform builds use a project-based proposal with a defined scope and price. Ongoing support is a monthly retainer sized to the platform. Hosting and third-party services are separate from REDTech fees.

What happens after launch?

Launch includes documentation and a 30-day warranty. An ongoing partnership can cover monitoring, maintenance, priority improvements, and incident support. The scope and support expectations are agreed on together.

Let’s make something useful

A better way
starts with
a conversation.

Tell Justin what’s getting in the way. We’ll talk through the problem, what a useful first step looks like, and whether REDTech is the right fit.

Book a 30-minute call

A conversation with the person who will build it.

justin.edw.rose@gmail.com

A few useful things to bring.

The challenge your team is facing, who it affects, and what you’d like to work better. A few sentences by email are enough to start.

Good technology.
Greater impact.

From credentials
to a clear decision.