ElevateOS
Investor briefing · 2026
Pre-seed · raising up to US$500k

Weekly proof your child's
tutoring is working.

The execution layer beneath tutoring and admissions agencies — the senior counsellor signs, the parent sees the proof, the student record compounds.

Howard Chan · Founder

howard@elevateos.org · elevateos.org · +852 9344 2294

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The problem

A family pays ¥/$1,500 a month —
and the work disappears.

The family sees nothing

Sessions happen, money leaves the account, and no one can answer the only question a parent has: is my child on track?

Counselling stays locked

Senior-counsellor-grade admissions support sits behind a $30k door, out of reach for the families paying for weekly tutoring.

The counsellor types

A senior counsellor spends $80k–$200k/yr of her own time hand-writing parent emails that should carry her judgement, not her keystrokes.

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How it works

A tutor's note becomes a counsellor-approved parent report.

Step 01

60-second note

The tutor logs what happened — voice or text — right after the session.

Step 02

AI draft

AI turns the note into a clear, parent-ready weekly summary in seconds.

Step 03

Senior approves

Nothing reaches a parent without a senior counsellor's signature.

Step 04

Parent report

The agency-branded report lands with the family, every week.

Every approved week adds to the student's longitudinal record. The record compounds — and that is the moat.

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Live product

It runs today.

Tutors, senior counsellors and parents are using ElevateOS now — not a prototype, a working product on a real URL.

~20s from tutor note to parent-ready report
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Execution layer Live · Wk 22
78
Sora Tanaka
IB Year 1 · Math HL
Sent
64
Mei Wong
IB Year 2 · Physics HL
On track
41
Daniel Cruz
IB Year 1 · Chem HL
Needs review
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Market

A large market that already bills the parent.

25,000
tutoring & admissions agencies

already billing families directly — our distribution is their existing book of business.

$250B
global tutoring market

growing from roughly US$130B today, led by Asia and international-school demand.

50
agencies to US$1M ARR

a focused beachhead, not a land-grab — depth inside each practice before breadth.

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Business model

We earn on the flow that already exists.

Families

pay the agency for tutoring & admissions

The agency

runs the whole practice on ElevateOS

ElevateOS

earns on every active student

$19–39

per active student, per month — priced by the family, not the seat

80–90%

gross margin — software economics on an existing cash flow

Sticky by design

the student record lives in ElevateOS, so switching means leaving the proof behind

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Traction

The manual loop already moved real money.

¥8M

family fees through the manual loop

20

active students today

40+

students served to date

30+

tutors on the platform

Pilot secured
EDUBAL
Tokyo IB tutoring group

Secured, not started — a free 90-day pilot across roughly 4,000 tutors and 1,000+ IB students. The cohort is being finalised now.

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Market position

Alone in affordable + a record that compounds.

What it leaves behind →
ElevateOS
TutorCruncher
Granola
Comiru
ManageBac
Crimson
Cost to the family →
The empty lane

Affordable to the family, and a record that compounds week over week. No one else is here.

Comiru runs an approval gate — by hand. ElevateOS pairs the AI draft with the gate, on a record that grows every approved week.

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Founder
HC

Chak Hang "Howard" Chan

Founder · Cambridge HSPS, Peterhouse

I grew up inside this system — an IB student in Tokyo, watching families pay for tutoring with no way to see whether it was working. ElevateOS is the tool I wish we had had.

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Financial projection

A clear line to US$1.2M ARR at 50 agencies.

$0.3M
Year 1 · 12 agencies
$0.7M
Year 2 · 30 agencies
$1.2M
Year 3 · 50 agencies
Assumptions
Active students / agency~20
Price / student / mo$39
Monthly churn2%
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The ask
Raising up to
$500k
pre-seed
Intro request: agencies running on tutor notes and counsellor goodwill
1
Convert EDUBAL to paid

turn the secured 90-day pilot into a paying design partner

2
Sign 5 design partners

a focused cohort to harden the product against real practices

3
Open the path to US$1.2M ARR & hire

prove the unit economics and make the first technical hire

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Vision

Make counsellor-grade proof the default for every family who pays for tutoring.

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Appendix · risk register

What we watch — and what we are doing about it.

Risk #1

Tutor adoption

If tutors do not leave the note, the loop stalls. We keep the note to 60 seconds, voice-first, and tied to getting paid.

Risk #2

Underage-data consent

Student data needs careful handling. Consent is captured up front; the system is FERPA & PDPA-ready by default.

Risk #3

EDUBAL dependency

One pilot is concentration risk. The five design partners exist to diversify before EDUBAL converts.

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