What Decision Insite does

Decision Insite is a privately-held, for-profit US K-12 education technology company founded in 2005 and headquartered in Irvine, California. With a headcount of 1-10 employees, the firm operates at the small end of the K-12 education data analytics market. Its public positioning states that it provides "the nation's school district leaders with the technology, analytics" they need, suggesting a focus on decision-support tools for district administrators. The company maintains no public disclosure of revenue, funding, pricing, customer references, or specific product modules in the aggregated source material.

The bulk of the input content accompanying the Decision Insite record, however, describes a much larger market participant — PowerSchool, a K-12 platform vendor operating a 'Connected Operating System' that unifies student information, learning management, assessment, family engagement, financial planning, and talent management, with six-plus regions of geographic presence and wholly-owned acquired brands including Schoology, SchoolMessenger, Naviance, Performance Matters, and Allovue. Whether this content constitutes a vendor-partner linkage, a competitive-snapshot inclusion, or a data-attribution gap is not stated in the source.

For Decision Insite specifically, no pricing model, go-to-market motion, contract cadence, revenue mechanics, or technology stack can be characterized from the available inputs. The company's profile as inferred — a 20-year-old, small, privately-held, apparently bootstrapped niche vendor in K-12 district analytics — is consistent with long-running independent specialists serving district administrators, but no firm-specific evidence supports deeper conclusions beyond the disclosed firmographics.

Name

Decision Insite

Legal name

PowerSchool

Website

https://decisioninsite.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Decision Insite is a privately-held K-12 education technology company founded in 2005 and based in Irvine, California, providing technology and analytics solutions to US school district leaders through a small 1-10 person team.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

K-12 Education Analytics Software

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Computer Systems Design Services (541512)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Student Enrollment, Admissions, Registration & Lottery Systems (EDAFAEAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Registration, Admissions, Zoning & Lottery Management (EDAJAHAD)

Keywords

• Education analytics software
• School district technology
• K-12 data analytics
• Student information systems
• School district reporting

Headquarters

HQ city

Irvine

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Platform Subscriptions: PowerSchool generates revenue through subscription-based SaaS licensing of its Connected OS platform, including individual modules like SIS, LMS, assessment, financial management, and talent management. The model supports multi-year contracts with annual or multi-year billing cadences typical for K-12 district procurement cycles.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels13 records

Core offering

Decision Insite provides technology and analytics products to school district leaders across the United States. The company, founded in 2005 and headquartered in Irvine, California, operates as a small private firm (1-10 employees) focused on serving K-12 education decision-makers. Specific product names, feature sets, and detailed service descriptions are not detailed in the provided source content.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Schoology: Learning Management System (LMS) for K-12 education
• SchoolMessenger
• Naviance
• Performance Matters
• Allovue
• PowerSchool Connected OS

Quantifiable outcome

• Teachers reclaiming at least 10 hours per week previously spent on administrative tasks

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Strategic PartnerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPowerSchool maintains a dedicated Strategic Partners program and page highlighting key partnerships in the K-12 education technology ecosystem. The company also offers a broader 'Our Partners' program with both strategic and channel partners.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• PowerSchool: PowerSchool is the dominant K-12 edtech platform with a 'Predictive Enrollment' module under its Operational Excellence product family, directly addressing the same enrollment forecasting use case as Decision Insite. As a much larger multi-product Connected OS vendor, it serves the same district buyers but bundles enrollment analytics with SIS, LMS, finance, and HR — making it the most consequential competitive and benchmark reference for Decision Insite.

Others

• RAND Corporation Education Division: RAND is a nonprofit research organization that produces K-12 enrollment, demographic, and education policy analyses used by district planners and state agencies. It is not a commercial software vendor but competes for thought leadership and influence over district forecasting methodology, indirectly shaping buyer preferences in the same niche as Decision Insite.
• American Institutes for Research (AIR): AIR is a major education research organization providing demographic studies and enrollment analyses that inform district planning. While not a software peer, AIR engages with the same district stakeholders and shapes the analytical frameworks Decision Insite must address in its products and marketing.

Direct peers

• Davis Demographics: Davis Demographics specializes in enrollment forecasting and demographic studies for school districts nationwide. It addresses the same core use case (district-level enrollment projection) and competes with Decision Insite for similar planning-oriented district customers.
• Forecast5 Analytics: Forecast5 Analytics provides K-12 decision support software including enrollment projection, financial forecasting, and demographic analytics for school districts. It competes head-to-head with Decision Insite for the same district planning buyers and serves a comparable mid-sized district segment, making it the closest functionally comparable peer.

Emerging players

• MGT of America Consulting Group: MGT provides demographic and enrollment projection services to K-12 districts, sometimes embedded in broader financial and facilities planning engagements. While broader in scope than Decision Insite, it is frequently evaluated alongside specialized enrollment analytics vendors on the same district RFPs and represents an emerging alternative in the same category.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/DecisionInsite
• Facebookfacebook.com/DecisionInsite
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/10114126

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries5 records

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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