UpSlope Solutions

What UpSlope Solutions does

UpSlope Solutions, LLC is a privately held K-12 education risk-management company founded in 2004 and headquartered in Glendale, Arizona. The company provides research-backed, web-delivered compliance and decision-support solutions to over 1,250 school systems across 24 U.S. states, targeting front-line school administrators, supervisors, HR directors, pupil personnel directors, special education directors, and school board members. Its core offerings address employee discipline, employee code of conduct, student behavior, and special education service delivery, with state-specific editions (EDSR-STATE, ECOC-STATE, SCOC-STATE, SEG-STATE) aligned to federal laws, state statutes, professional ethics standards, and board policies.

The company operates the RME Online web platform, which hosts its subscription products, searchable administrator guides, user-level disciplinary event logging, and school-system-level event surveillance. In 2024, UpSlope added a Virtual Documentation Assistant (VDA) with integrated AI support to the EDSR-STATE product for disciplinary documentation. The platform is accessible on any web-enabled device and supports Douglas Factor-style case assessments adapted to the public education environment. Additional offerings include research-backed staff development workshops (BPMB and EDEE) delivered live or virtually over one to three days.

UpSlope generates revenue primarily through annual subscription licenses for its state-specific compliance solutions, supplemented by optional customization and team facilitation services and paid training workshops. Pricing is quote-based with no public disclosure of tiers. The company operates with 1–10 employees, has no disclosed institutional investors or external funding, and functions as an independent LLC. Its claims include reducing average case documentation time by up to 75% and improving inter-rater reliability in disciplinary decisions across subscribing school systems.

Name

UpSlope Solutions

Legal name

UpSlope Solutions, LLC

Website

https://upslopesolutions.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

UpSlope Solutions provides web-based, research-backed compliance and decision-support tools to K-12 school administrators across 24 U.S. states. It sells subscription products covering employee discipline, conduct, student behavior, and special education, supplemented by training workshops.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

K-12 Education Compliance Software

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), All Other Schools and Instruction (61169)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Behavior, Discipline, PBIS/MTSS & Intervention Tracking (EDAFAEAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

K–12 SIS & District Administration Platforms (EDAFAEAA)

Keywords

• K-12 risk management
• Education compliance software
• Disciplinary decision support
• Special education compliance
• School employee conduct

Headquarters

HQ city

Glendale

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Web-based Subscription Solutions: Core revenue from web-delivered subscription solutions including EDSR-STATE, ECOC-STATE, SCOC-STATE, and SEG-STATE editions. Delivered via RME Online platform with state-specific editions.
2. Customization Services: Optional team facilitation and customization services available for products like ECOC-STATE, allowing school systems to tailor solutions to their specific needs.
3. Training Workshops: Live or virtual training workshops (BPMB and EDEE programs) delivered over one to three days, providing staff development opportunities for administrators and supervisors.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

UpSlope Solutions provides web-based, state-specific compliance and decision-support products (EDSR-STATE, ECOC-STATE, SEG-STATE, SCOC-STATE) plus staff development workshops (BPMB, EDEE) to help K-12 school administrators and supervisors conduct defensible disciplinary case assessments and documentation. The offerings are delivered via the RME Online platform on a subscription basis, with optional customization and training services.

Product overview

UpSlope Solutions offers a portfolio of research-backed web-based solutions for K-12 school systems focused on risk management and compliance. The core products include: Employee Decision Support Rubric-State (EDSR-STATE) for disciplinary case assessment and documentation; Employee Code of Conduct-State (ECOC-STATE) for employee conduct management; BPMB/EDEE workshops for staff development training; Special Education Guidelines-State (SEG-STATE) for special education compliance; and Student Code of Conduct-State (SCOC-STATE) for student behavior management. The company has recently enhanced the EDSR-STATE product with a Virtual Documentation Assistant (VDA) featuring integrated AI capabilities. All products are delivered via the company's web-based RME Online platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• EDSR-STATE (Employee Decision Support Rubric): Research-backed quality assurance solutions for supervisors, HR departments, and school systems to ensure disciplinary actions comply with established guidelines.
• ECOC-STATE (Employee Code of Conduct)
• EDEE (Employee Discipline in an Education Environment)
• BPMB (Best Practices for Modifying Employee Behavior)
• SEG-STATE (Special Education Guidelines)
• SCOC-STATE (Student Code of Conduct)
• VDA (Virtual Documentation Assistant)

Products and services

• Employee Decision Support Rubric-State (EDSR-STATE)

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduces average case documentation time by up to 75%
• +2 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature7 records

Scale indicators3 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• PowerSchool: PowerSchool is the dominant K-12 student information system (SIS) provider and is increasingly bundling behavior, discipline, and compliance modules into its platform, representing the broadest incumbent threat to UpSlope's standalone niche.
• Aeries Software (Eagle Software): Aeries is a long-established K-12 SIS platform with parent-student communication and behavior/discipline features, serving the same California and Western U.S. districts where UpSlope is headquartered and competes for compliance and student behavior tooling budget.
• Tyler Technologies (Tyler School Solutions): Tyler Technologies provides K-12 SIS and administrative platforms; while broader than UpSlope, it competes for the same district-level compliance and administration budget at the state-edition level.

Direct peers

• Frontline Education: Frontline Education provides K-12 human capital management, employee evaluation, and professional development software targeting the same K-12 administrator and HR director buyer personas as UpSlope, making it a direct competitor for the same compliance and employee management wallet share.
• PublicSchoolWORKS: PublicSchoolWORKS delivers K-12 staff training, compliance, and policy management solutions for school districts, overlapping directly with UpSlope's employee code of conduct, staff training workshops, and compliance documentation capabilities.
• Gaggle: Gaggle focuses on K-12 student safety, behavior monitoring, and misconduct prevention, sharing UpSlope's discipline documentation and student code of conduct workflows on the pupil services side.
• Navigate360: Navigate360 offers a K-12 safety, behavior management, and compliance platform including PBIS-aligned student behavior tools and employee misconduct reporting, directly competing with UpSlope's SCOC-STATE and EDSR-STATE offerings.
• Vector Solutions (Vector K-12): Vector Solutions provides online training and compliance management for K-12 schools, including staff professional development comparable to UpSlope's BPMB/EDEE training workshops, targeting the same HR and supervisor buyer.

Regional players

• K12 Insight: K12 Insight provides school community engagement, surveys, and communication tools for K-12 districts, sharing the 'district-level operational risk management' framing with UpSlope but focusing on community-side rather than compliance documentation.

Emerging players

• ClassDojo: ClassDojo is a widely adopted K-12 classroom behavior management and school culture platform with PBIS-aligned features; while broader and consumer-grade, it overlaps meaningfully with UpSlope's student behavior and PBIS components in SCOC-STATE.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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