Custom software for higher education

Solutions
for higher education
and mission-driven work.

REDTech Solutions builds the platforms, learning experiences, and strategy higher education and mission-driven organizations actually run their work on. Built for higher ed by the people who lead higher ed, designed around how your team actually works, not how a vendor imagines you do.

A note on process — We work in weeks, not quarters. You see working software inside the first month, and your team ships production workflows inside the first three.
I.Web applications
II.Cloud infrastructure
III.Data & analytics
IV.AI integration
V.Automation
VI.Strategy & learning
Platforms running at
Southeastern University / LiFT Institute / SEU Network Partners / Mission-driven orgs nationwide

Three years of real, shipped work — no pitch decks, no vaporware.

Every number below represents software in production today, serving institutions that depend on it. Built, deployed, and operated by us end to end, with no junior team behind the scenes and no hand-off after launch.

Platforms live
5+
Production systems, each serving a distinct institutional need.
Annual SaaS fees
$0
No seat licenses, no per-user uplift, no annual renewal that bites. Clients save thousands per year compared to off-the-shelf alternatives.
Programs analyzed
269
Academic programs tracked across 62 peer institutions in the Portfolio Engine.
Off-the-shelf
0%
Everything custom. If it doesn't fit your workflow, we don't ship it.
Capabilities

What we build.

Strategy, design, engineering, and infrastructure as a single continuous loop. Every platform ships with CI/CD, monitoring, and documentation.

I · Web Applications

The platform you wish you'd had three years ago.

Custom systems designed around how your team actually works, not how a vendor imagines you do. From a blank discovery doc to working software in your hands in weeks, not quarters.

II · Cloud Infrastructure

Infrastructure your IT director can sleep through.

Secure cloud foundations, modern identity, and deploy pipelines that move code safely from idea to production. Built so your team always knows who changed what, when, and so audit season isn't a fire drill.

III · Data & Analytics

Dashboards people actually use.

Interactive decision-support, data pipelines, and benchmarking against the data sources your sector trusts. Numbers your cabinet can defend, not BI tools no one opens.

IV · AI Integration

AI that does the work your team has been dreading.

Credentialing reviews, program analysis, document workflows, all augmented by AI that knows your domain. Not chatbots that pretend; systems that replace hours of manual review with results your accreditors can audit.

V · Workflow Automation

The manual work disappears.

Automated reporting, document pipelines, and system-to-system bridges that quietly eliminate the copy-paste tax your team has been paying for years.

VI · Strategy & Learning Design

Senior partnership, not a deck.

Higher-ed strategic consulting, instructional design, and online course development. Accreditation support, vendor evaluation, and digital transformation. Senior counsel from people who've made these calls inside an institution. Thinking with you, not selling at you.

Portfolio

Selected work.

Five platforms, live in production today. Each one started as an institutional problem no off-the-shelf vendor was solving, and shipped, scaled, and stayed.

Case 01 / Faculty credentialing / LIVE

Faculty Flow. — weeks of review, compressed to seconds.

An AI-powered credentialing engine that automates credential analysis, qualification mapping, and compliance reporting. Replaced weeks of manual review with instant, auditable results — and a paper trail accreditors actually like.

98%time saved
400+faculty
5savg. analysis
facultyflow.app
Faculty Flow credentialing dashboard
shipped — 2024
Case 02 / Strategic assessment / LIVE

LiFT Assessment. — a 10-year plan, visible every Monday morning.

Progress tracking across K–Adult educational bands aligned with 10-year strategic goals. Multi-stakeholder dashboards with real-time visualization and institutional impact metrics — leadership finally sees the system as a system.

10yrhorizon
K–Adultbands
Real-timereporting
lift.assessment
LiFT Assessment Portal dashboard
shipped — 2025
Case 03 / Program analytics / LIVE

Portfolio Engine. — 269 programs, one decision surface.

A decision-support platform analyzing academic programs against DFW rates, labor market demand, peer benchmarking, and competitive landscape intelligence across 62 institutions. Program review decisions that used to take months now take a meeting.

269programs
62peer inst.
BLS+IPEDSsources
portfolio-engine
Program Portfolio Decision Engine
shipped — 2025
Case 04 / Partner CRM / LIVE

Network Partner Hub. — relationships, not rows in a spreadsheet.

Relationship management for a national network of partner sites. Tracks site agreements, faculty assignments, student placements, and automates Letter of Intent workflows end-to-end — from first contact through fully-executed agreement.

40+partner sites
AutoLOI flow
Real-timesync
network-crm
Network Partner Hub CRM
shipped — 2026
Case 05 / Student feedback analytics / LIVE

Course Evaluations. — eight years of anonymous student feedback, finally legible.

Faculty self-service plus institutional analytics over every course evaluation in MyFire since 2018. Two instruments — legacy IDEA-style and the current 16-item teaching-practice block — harmonized into one stable concept layer so career trends survive the instrument transition. Per-course PDF reports, bulk export across an entire teaching career, anonymity-preserving thresholds baked in.

218Kresponses
17Kcourses
1.4Kfaculty
course-eval
SEU Course Evaluation analytics dashboard
shipped — 2026
“I don't just build software for institutions. I use it every day. That dual perspective — builder and end-user — is the whole point.”
J
Justin Rose Founder · Vice Provost of Digital Strategy, SEU
Method

How we work.

Four phases. Weeks, not months. Working software inside the first month — not wireframes and promises.

01. Discovery Week 1

Map the workflows, the constraints, and the goals — before anyone touches a keyboard.

We sit with your team, walk through real workflows, and ask the uncomfortable questions early. No assumptions. No pitch deck. Just listening, documenting, and turning institutional knowledge into something actionable.

Delivers Workflow map Success criteria Constraints memo
02. Architecture Weeks 2–3

Data models, integrations, user flows, infrastructure — planned upfront, validated with you.

We plan before we build. Architecture decisions, integration points, security model, and the migration path, all reviewed with your team before code is written. This is where six-month rewrites get prevented.

Delivers Data model Infra plan Review doc
03. Build Weeks 3–8

Rapid development with continuous feedback — working software, early and often.

You see real screens in a real environment within weeks of kickoff. Feedback loops measured in days, not in "next sprint, we'll circle back." You stay in the loop; we stay in the code.

Delivers Staging builds Weekly reviews CI/CD pipeline
04. Launch & Support Ongoing

Live deployment with monitoring, documentation, and an actual human who answers the phone.

Launching is the middle, not the end. Monitoring, alerts, on-call, scheduled maintenance, and documentation your team can actually read. The platforms we've shipped are still the ones we maintain — that's the model.

Delivers Monitoring Runbooks Maintenance SLA
Engagement

How we take on work.

Three ways in — discovery, build, or ongoing. Fixed-scope proposals, no seat licenses, no surprise invoices.

A 1–2 weeks

Discovery Sprint

A short, fixed-fee engagement to map workflows, interview stakeholders, and draft the architecture memo. The best way in if the scope isn't settled yet.

  • Stakeholder interviews
  • Workflow & constraint map
  • Architecture memo
  • Scoped build proposal
Fixed fee · Credited against build
C Monthly

Ongoing Partnership

Retainer for monitoring, maintenance, and continuous improvement. The platforms we shipped in 2023 are still on this plan — we don't hand off and vanish.

  • Monitoring & uptime
  • Scheduled maintenance
  • Priority feature work
  • On-call escalation
Retainer · Sized to platform
Principles

What we do — and don't.

A small shop with a short list. The clarity is the point.

We do ✓ Yes

  • 01Build custom platforms around real workflows — not templates, not themes.
  • 02Ship software in weeks, then maintain it for years.
  • 03Sit with your team — faculty, staff, leadership — before architecture is written.
  • 04Write documentation humans can read. Monitoring humans can trust.
  • 05Own what we ship. The platforms we build, we run, for as long as you want us to.
  • 06Partner long-term. The platforms we built in 2023 are still the ones we run.

We don't ✗ No

  • 01Sell SaaS licenses that expire the day you need a new feature.
  • 02Write 80-page decks before showing working software.
  • 03Pretend a one-size-fits-all vendor platform will fit your institution.
  • 04Hand off to an offshore team the day the statement of work clears.
  • 05Charge for roadmaps we never planned to build.
  • 06Take on work we can't ship with the quality our name's on.
The team

The studio.

One operator, a deliberate scope — and real skin in the game.

Founder / Lead Engineer
JR
Justin Rose Lakeland, FL
—j.

Built by someone who understands your world — because he lives in it.

REDTech Solutions is led by Justin Rose — a technologist who has spent his entire career inside higher education. As Vice Provost of Digital Strategy at Southeastern University, he doesn't just build software for institutions: he uses it, maintains it, and depends on it every day.

That dual perspective — builder and end-user — means every platform we create is designed around how institutions actually work, not how a vendor imagines they do. The result: systems that stick, teams that trust them, and outcomes you can measure.

10+ yrsIn higher education leadership
Vice ProvostDigital Strategy, SEU
Five platformsIn production today

“The goal isn't to ship software. The goal is to ship outcomes — the software is just the vehicle.”

FAQ

Questions we get on every call.

Short answers to the ones that always come up before a scope lands.

01 How do engagements typically start?
A 30-minute intro call, followed by a short Discovery Sprint to map workflows and draft the architecture memo. Nothing gets built until the scope is clear and the success criteria are on paper.
02 Who owns the code and the infrastructure?
You do. Source code lives in your organization's repositories; infrastructure runs in your cloud account; domains and data are yours. There are no REDTech licenses, no shared tenancy, and nothing held hostage.
03 Do you work with our internal team?
Usually, yes. Most engagements pair with an internal developer, IT staff, or data team. The goal is to leave your organization better equipped to maintain the platform — not dependent on us forever.
04 What about privacy, security, and FERPA?
Platforms are designed for higher-ed and regulated environments from day one: SSO through your identity provider, least-privilege IAM, audit logging, and data residency in your cloud. FERPA and compliance specifics are scoped explicitly in the architecture memo.
05 How is pricing structured?
Discovery sprints are fixed-fee and credited against the build. Platform builds are project-based with fixed scope and fixed price. Ongoing partnerships are a monthly retainer sized to the platform. No hourly billing, no seat licenses, no per-user uplift.
06 What happens after launch?
The platforms we ship are the ones we run. Most clients stay on an ongoing partnership for monitoring, feature work, and the occasional late-night incident — the ones that don't still get 30 days of launch warranty and full documentation on the way out.

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