PrepIEP helps parents walk into IEP meetings prepared.
What we do
Every year, families sit down across the table from school teams to write or revise an Individualized Education Program (IEP). Most parents arrive without the time, terminology, or back-channel knowledge that the school's side of the table has spent years accumulating. The result is meetings where critical decisions get made and parents don't realize until afterward what they could have asked.
PrepIEP closes that gap. Upload your child's IEP and the app pulls out goals, services, accommodations, and progress data, then surfaces what is vague, missing, or worth a second look. An AI advisor — grounded in Massachusetts special-education practice and your child's specific document — answers your questions in plain language and helps you draft requests for the meeting.
The point isn't to replace an advocate or a special-education attorney. The point is to give every parent the same level of preparation that a paid advocate would bring to a single meeting, at a price that doesn't require choosing between an advocate and groceries.
Where we work
Starting in Massachusetts. Rolling out nationwide soon.
Massachusetts was first because the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) maintains a well-documented set of rules — Chapter 766, the Notice of Procedural Safeguards, the BSEA hearing process, the revised 2023–24 IEP form — and because our pilot families are local. The product extends to federal IDEA out of the box for families in other states, with state-specific overlays rolling out as our content pipeline grows.
If you're outside Massachusetts today, the advisor will fall back to federal IDEA defaults and remind you to verify state-specific timelines and forms with your district or local Parent Training and Information (PTI) center.
About the team
Vik (founder) is an engineer building PrepIEP after seeing the gap in tools parents have at IEP meetings. The team's background is technical — software, AI, secure data infrastructure — and the work is shaped by ongoing conversations with parent advocates and special-education practitioners in Massachusetts. We are not attorneys. PrepIEP is an educational reference, not legal advice.
Methodology & trust
We are deliberate about what the AI does and doesn't do, what data we collect, and what authority we will (and won't) claim. Two pages spell that out:
- Methodology — what the AI extracts, what it flags, and what it explicitly won't do.
- Privacy Policy — FERPA-aligned data practices, retention, and the binding no-AI-training commitment.
Educational reference, not legal advice. PrepIEP surfaces patterns and questions for you to raise with your IEP team. Educational reference, not legal advice.
Get in touch
Questions, feedback, or a story to share? Reach us at contact@prepiep.com, or visit the Contact page.