50 spots · Phase 0 alpha · Fall 2026
Build L1fe Academy with us. For your child first.
The first 50 families don't get a discount. They get a relationship — a price locked for the duration of K–5, the founder's phone number, and a real seat at the table for what we build next.
A note from the founder
Why we chose 50.
We could have launched with five hundred families and a press release. We have funding for it; we have the team for it. We chose fifty for one reason.
A school for your child is not a feature you can A/B test. The kind of attention we want to pay to each family — the kind of adjustment we want to make when something doesn’t work for your specific child — is incompatible with operating at scale during an alpha. So we kept it small.
The fifty families who join us this fall will shape what L1fe Academy looks like for the next thousand. That is a real statement, not a pitch. The product council meets quarterly. The founder reads every Friday review you flag. The features that ship in 2027 will be the ones your child needed in 2026.
If you’ve been waiting for someone to build this — for the specific child you have, with the patience and the attention they deserve — that is what we’re trying to do. We’d love to do it with you.
— Founder, L1fe Academy
What founding families get
Six commitments. All locked, in writing.
Price-locked for life of K–5
$150 per child per month, billed annually as $1,800, for as long as your child is enrolled K through 5. Sibling discounts: 25% off the second child, 40% off the third, no cap on additional children. Subsequent cohorts will price separately. If a child you have today is in 1st grade, this rate is locked through their 5th-grade year.
The founder's cell number
On enrollment you get the founder's personal cell. Text any time. We will not pretend to be available 24/7, but we will respond within hours during waking hours and will not put you through a support tier.
A standing seat in our quarterly product council
Four times a year, the founding families meet (virtually, 90 minutes) with the team. We share what's coming, what we're stuck on, and what we need from you. Your child's experience shapes what ships next, in a literal sense.
First access to every new feature
Anything that ships outside of the daily teaching loop — new subjects, new accommodations, new parent surfaces — lands first in founding-family accounts, with two weeks of feedback time before broader rollout.
A 14-day no-questions refund
If after two weeks of real use the academy isn't a fit, email us and we refund in full. We mean it; we have done it.
Sibling discount applies retroactively
If you enroll a second child later in the alpha or in any subsequent cohort, you get the founding-family sibling discount (25% off second, 40% off third) on the alpha rate, not on the higher subsequent-cohort rate.
What this looks like
A school in the room your family already lives in.
No campus. No carpool. The kind of quiet domestic learning the wealthy have always paid for, designed to scale.
What we ask in return
Four small things, asked specifically.
Tell us when something isn't working
Not at the end of the year — when it happens. We will be deliberately responsive to founding-family feedback, in part because the alpha exists to surface what we got wrong.
Take 15 minutes to read the weekly mastery review
Most of what shapes the academy is data; the rest is parent judgment. The Friday review is 15 minutes; doing it consistently is how the academy actually adapts to your family.
Say yes to one structured interview per quarter
30 minutes, recorded with your consent, focused on your child's last 90 days. We use these to shape the next quarter's roadmap.
Be patient with rough edges
We are a small team building a school in public. Some interactions will be unpolished. We will fix them faster because you told us — and we will not pretend they were intentional.
Apply
Application closes when the cohort fills.
Five-minute form, 30-minute call, decision within five business days. We onboard one family at a time.