Built by someone who has done the job.
EduCents builds the automations that take the manual work out of month-end close at small charter schools, and takes on the finance projects a one-person team never gets to. The automation does the grind. The judgment stays human.
Who builds this
Why I built EduCents
I'm Dominican, born and raised in the Bronx. College could have buried me in debt. A full academic scholarship to the University of Dayton meant it didn't, and that one break changed everything for me.
I've wanted to pay it back ever since. Charter schools serve a lot of kids like me, and when a school's finances are strong, more of its money reaches them.
I studied finance and started inside a three-school charter network, running payroll, budgeting, month-end close, board reports, grants, and audits. I know what a 15-hour close feels like, because I did them. Then I spent time in investment banking accounting, supporting entities across six countries, where I got good at one thing in particular: taking work that ate a week and getting it down to hours.
One project back in charter finance made it click. A food program was losing money and nobody could see why. I built the per-meal cost analysis from scratch, campus by campus. Same vendor, same contract, same menus, and the cost per meal still varied by more than 30 percent between campuses. It traced back to ordering patterns, not pricing. Within a year the program's annual loss had dropped by $300,000.
Most schools can't justify a full-time analyst to chase problems like that. So I started EduCents to be that analyst, now that the tools to build this are finally affordable for a single school.
The work is simple to say. I build the tools that take the manual work out of a charter school's month, so the finance team buys back hours instead of spending them on cleanup. That is what keeps a school compliant on time, and it is what frees the team to work on the projects that actually move the school forward. The automation does the grind. Nothing reaches your board without a named sign-off. Your data stays yours.
Same goal I started with: help these schools run stronger, so more of what they have reaches the students counting on it.
Most schools already have the tools to fix their hardest finance problems. What they have not had is someone who understands both the finance and the technology, and can put the two together. That is the bridge EduCents is built on.
Automation drafts. People decide.
The engines we build draft the work and stop. Your team reviews the judgment calls and signs off on what reaches your board, with a log behind every number.
Your numbers stay yours.
We work within FERPA and New York Education Law 2-d, with clear boundaries on what automation touches and what stays human. Sensitive student and financial data is handled with the controls a charter school board expects.