The Engine
The Science
For Builders
Live Demo
60 seconds. A complete competency portrait.
Watch the engine score a real student response — live signal, no black box.
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The Solutions
How We Measure
By Audience
Live Portrait
A community school, fully seen.
SMFCSD's Portrait — multilingual evidence, three schools, full transparency.
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The Case
The Evidence
Who Validates It
From the Field
"The data changed how we see our students."
How SDUSD surfaced hidden potential across 44,000 student voices.
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The Arc
The People
The Principles
From the Founders
We built this because the tools didn't exist.
A note on why two educators left the classroom to build a measurement company.
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Voice Intelligence Platform

Every Voice Carries Measurable Skills.

The unconscious choices in how we speak reveal the architecture of who we're becoming. IMPACTER identifies these growth signals and validates them against expert human raters, at scale.

Tyler
CALIFORNIA · GRADE 10
ERS 90/100
Evidence Richness
"Showing up for others taught me how to show up for myself — every single day."
COMPASSION & RELATIONAL FRAMING
Purpose
TOP 13%
Compassion
TOP 7%
Growth Mindset
TOP 21%
1ST SEMESTER · COHORT 5
IMPACTER PATHWAY· 31,469 RESPONSES ANALYZED· ERS 88/100· COHORT POSITION TOP 12%· COSINE SIMILARITY 0.847· SIGNAL DENSITY 4.2/100W· NLP PROCESS ASR·NLP·TAG·VALIDATE· ✓ VALIDATED· ADJACENT ACCURACY 97%· CFI=.962· IMPACTER PATHWAY· 31,469 RESPONSES ANALYZED· ERS 88/100· COHORT POSITION TOP 12%· COSINE SIMILARITY 0.847· SIGNAL DENSITY 4.2/100W· NLP PROCESS ASR·NLP·TAG·VALIDATE· ✓ VALIDATED· ADJACENT ACCURACY 97%· CFI=.962·
The Quantification Gap

What Matters Most
Goes Unmeasured.

Durable skills are 2× more predictive of adult outcomes than cognitive metrics. Yet every tool the field has ever built to measure them has been incomplete. Until authentic voice.

Surveys.
An unreliable pulse. While five choices can measure a moment in time, they often miss the patterns that produce it.
Reflections.
A small window into learning. Written responses show the answer, but not the deep and critical thinking it took to get there.
Voice.
The architecture of becoming. Two minutes of authentic language. Rubric-aligned scoring, validated by expert human raters at scale.
Methodology · 18 meta-analyses, 2006–2023 · n > 500,000 students
HeckmanDuckworthMoffitt WeissbourdDweckvon Stumm
Predictive Power for Adult Life Outcomes
Cognitive Metrics Durable Skills
Hover bars for research citations
Spotlight Student · Deep Dive

One Response. Five Attributes.

This is what 2 minutes of authentic student voice reveals that 5 survey questions cannot.

CHRISTOPHER
Grade 11 · Baker High · SDUSD
2:08 audio response
Watch Response
Annotated Transcript · 2:08 Audio Response
"I think what drives me is I've always had this immense fear of like being a failure in life. And I know failure is defined in many different ways — people have their own definitions. But to me, I come from a background of a family who has no people who have graduated college, and when you grow up in that environment, it forces you to become a better version of yourself. So every morning I wake up and one of my main motivators is definitely my auntie. She drives me to push myself — she graduated with honors, and she told me if she can do it, I can do it. Sometimes I even take on tests that I know are too big for me, but I end up doing it anyways because I just want to accomplish something bigger than myself. My main goal in life is to be successful and make my family proud. I've wanted to make a name for myself — someone my family could point to and say, he's that person you could look up to."
"Voice data reveals a student building purpose from adversity — with a named trusted adult the system may not have known existed."
5 of 8 Attributes Detected
Purpose Strong
Grit Strong
Growth Mindset Strong
Perspective-Taking Present
Gratitude Present
Trusted Adult Named
Auntie (off-campus)
First-generation college graduate · Financial hardship · Family challenges named
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Our Measurement Core

Eight Durable Skills.
Identified By Harvard.
Predictive Of Success.

From Harvard's Making Caring Common project. Dr. Richard Weissbourd identified these eight skills as the strongest predictors of success in college, career, and relationships. Every student already carries evidence of them. Click any skill to see its definition.

Curiosity Perspective-Taking Purpose Self-Control Grit Growth Mindset Compassion Gratitude
Definition
Click any skill above to see its definition.
↗ Definitions of Key Character and Non-Cognitive Terms and Skills Harvard
↗ Anchor Attributes — Wheel and Definitions Impacter Pathway
Prompt Science

What You Ask Determines
What You Can Measure.

Open-ended and linguistically calibrated, each prompt is engineered to elicit language patterns that map directly to the Anchor Attributes.

Perspective-Taking

The Origins Of Your Style

Where students trace the influences that shaped them — a direct signal of relational awareness and identity formation.

6 SIGNALS
Growth Mindset

When You Bounced Back

How students narrate failure and recovery — whether they frame setback as a ceiling, or just a step in the process.

5 SIGNALS
Compassion

Someone Who Cares

The people students name when they feel truly seen, and what that language reveals about their capacity to connect.

5 SIGNALS
Grit

Something You're Working On

The effort students own when no one's watching, and the language that tells you they actually mean it.

6 SIGNALS
The Difference

What Surveys Miss.
What Voice Reveals.

A Likert scale compresses a student's entire motivational architecture into a single number. Authentic voice preserves the human signals that make that motivation real and actionable.

✕ Traditional Survey
Rate your feelings 1 to 5.
Q1. I am motivated to succeed in school.
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Q2. I feel connected to people at my school.
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Q3. I have access to support when I need it.
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A score of "3" doesn't tell you why a student is motivated — or whether they're one tough week away from disengaging entirely.
↗ Authentic Voice
Tell us what drives you.
Voice prompt · Belonging Composite · 1 of 6 domains
"Every day I'm trying to expand the barriers of my comfort zone. I push myself because if I don't, I know I'll stay stuck. And staying stuck feels like failing everyone who believed in me."
What the Model Heard
"Every day I'm trying to expand the barriers of my comfort zone."
Reflective Growth · High Signal
Trusted across 5 states and 200+ schools
What's Next

What Skills Can We
Measure For You?

Bring us your students, your framework, or your district. We'll build the portrait.

Path 01
Bring Your Portrait
We capture authentic student voice against your Portrait of a Graduate framework — whatever durable skills your community has already defined.
Start with a pilot →
Path 02
Bring Your Framework
Run your district's existing framework — LCAP, MTSS, behavioral health — through the Crosswalk Engine to see exactly where voice maps to what you already track.
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