Employer-funded family education benefit
The employee benefit that reaches their family.
Working parents are your workforce. LearnSpark gives every parent on your team the ability to personally educate their own children — enrichment after school, closing a gap, or homeschooling full-time — in minutes a day, without becoming a teacher.
15 minutes. No prep. No pitch deck.
The idea
Benefits reach the employee. This one reaches the family.
Employers already fund backup care, tutoring and parenting support — a fast-growing category with one thing in common: every one of those benefits pays someone else to help your employees' children. LearnSpark is the first that gives the parent the ability to do it themselves.
US families with children had at least one employed parent in 2025.
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2026
Large employers prioritizing child care benefits in 2024 — up from 46% the year before.
Mercer, 2024
Employees who'd use employer-subsidized tutoring — that's the demand for help with kids' learning. LearnSpark delivers it without taking the parent's place.
Care.com survey, 2022
Across 260,604 employees, benefit availability alone predicted stronger commitment, satisfaction and well-being.
Journal of Applied Psychology, 2024
Almost no company can say “we help your kids get ahead.” You can — and it's true. It's the one line item people bring up at dinner.
LearnSpark slots alongside what you already offer, it doesn't replace it — backup care covers the emergency; LearnSpark covers the everyday. And it reaches the families that standard programs quietly miss: parents of children with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyscalculia and other learning differences, who rarely find a benefit built to adapt to their child.
The product
Not another app for the child. A teacher's brain for the parent.
Nearly every parent wants a hand in their child's education. What stops them isn't desire — it's time, training, and never knowing whether it's working. LearnSpark removes all three. It's built on micro lessons — short, focused lessons that teach one skill at a time, matched to how young kids actually learn — and everything a teacher would do around them happens automatically in the background.
Choose a goal
The parent picks the subject and what the child is working toward, anchored to their chosen state or national standard.
Get the micro lesson
LearnSpark builds a micro lesson — one skill, at the child's exact level, wrapped in what they love. Dinosaurs, basketball, anything.
Teach it
The parent teaches it — a few focused minutes. Kids learn in short, powerful bursts, not long blocks. No second school day at the table.
It adapts by itself
How it went updates the child's profile, and the next micro lesson is aimed at the exact next skill. Skills stack, one on the last — no planning, ever.
ChatGPT gives you a lesson. LearnSpark gives you the right one.
The child never touches the AI
This is not a screen-time product. The parent or caregiver teaches; LearnSpark does the planning, sequencing and gap analysis in the background. AI that works for the parent — never instead of them.
Anchored to a real standard
Families pick their state or national curriculum as the benchmark. Behind? LearnSpark closes the gap. At standard? It pushes the child as far beyond it as they can go. The standard is the floor, not the ceiling. Ages 4–14+.
Who it serves
Every family uses it differently. That's the design.
The same benefit flexes to wherever a family actually is — from twenty minutes after school to full homeschooling — and changes with them as their children grow. One seat covers a parent's whole approach, not a single use case.
Supplementing school
Strengthen classwork, explore interests, and build confidence — a micro lesson after school instead of a fight over worksheets.
Catch-up and learning gaps
Rebuild missing foundations one skill at a time. LearnSpark finds what the child quietly doesn't understand yet — and the parent gets to be the one who fixes it.
Homeschooling
Homeschool with certainty instead of guesswork: every lesson aligned to the family's chosen standard, with a clear read on where each child stands.
Children who don't fit the average
Ahead, behind, or wired differently — ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyscalculia and more. LearnSpark runs on how this child responds, so the difference isn't an obstacle. It's the input.
A static curriculum demands an average child. LearnSpark adapts to the child you have.
of public-school students began 2024–25 behind grade level in at least one subject, per school leaders. NCES School Pulse Panel
US school-age children were homeschooled in 2022–23 — some of them your employees' kids. NCES, 2023
The employee experience
From wanting to help to actually being able to.
Employees sign up with one invite link — no card, no cost to them, minutes to start. From then on, the planning is done before they open the app.
- A micro lesson ready to teach every day, for ages 4–14+ — no planning, no research, no curriculum shopping
- Confidence the child is on track, measured against the national or state standard the family selects
- Certainty instead of guesswork: a plain-language read of where each child is solid, and exactly where the gaps are
- Every lesson automatically adapts from how the last one went — so it keeps fitting the child, week after week
The lessons can be about basketball, dinosaurs, whatever they love — with real-time feedback. The kids love it.
I no longer have to figure out what to do next. I can see clearly where each child's progress is heading and what they're struggling with.
Privacy, both directions
Private for families. Effortless for HR.
A benefit that touches employees' children has to clear a higher bar. LearnSpark is built to clear it twice — once for the employer, once for the family.
What the employer never sees
You receive a simple dashboard — seats activated and program spend — plus agreed aggregate feedback reporting. You never see a child's name, lessons, learning profile, gaps or progress. A child's learning stays with the family.
No screen for the child
The child never uses the platform — the parent teaches, in person. And lesson feedback is anonymized before it's processed, so LearnSpark learns from how lessons went, never from who the child is.
The three questions HR always asks
- What's the admin load? Near zero. You choose the eligible group and share one invite link. LearnSpark handles enrollment, onboarding and all participant support.
- What happens when an employee leaves? The family keeps their account and every child's learning profile, and can continue at standard family pricing. The benefit ends; the child's progress doesn't.
- How is it treated for tax and eligibility? Most employers run it as a perk-style fringe benefit alongside their existing lifestyle offerings. We provide plan language and work with your benefits team on the details during setup.
You fund it and share a link. Everything else is ours.
The 5% commitment
Every contract funds access for children who'd never see it otherwise.
5% of every LearnSpark for Teams contract goes directly to our Education Access Programs — bringing personalized education to children in shelter homes, orphanages, at-risk groups, community programs, and underserved schools and regions — locally and internationally.
Proposed starting point
50 seats. 3 months. Then decide.
A real pilot with a real decision at the end — expand, revise, or stop, against success criteria we agree before launch.
- 1
Agree the terms
Cohort, pricing, support, data handling, reporting and what success looks like — settled before anything launches.
- 2
Launch the benefit
You share the invite link; LearnSpark runs onboarding and supports every participating family directly.
- 3
Review aggregate results
Activation, repeat usage, parent confidence, perceived value and satisfaction — program-level only.
- 4
Make a rollout decision
Expand company-wide, adjust the cohort, or stop. If you expand, the pilot fee is credited to your first year.
Pricing, for context
- Every seat is LearnSpark's unlimited tier — normally $97/month for a family buying direct.
- Committing to a block of licenses earns a deep per-seat discount — larger blocks, lower rates. Seats beyond your block bill at the standard Teams rate until you lock in the next block.
- You size the block to your parent population, not your headcount.
- Billed monthly or annually on a single, PO-friendly invoice. Exact numbers depend on headcount and rollout — that's the 15-minute conversation, not a rate card.
What we'll cover on the call
Fifteen minutes: your headcount and parent population, what a pilot would look like for your team, seat pricing, and the invite-to-launch timeline. No prep. No deck. No obligation.
FAQ
The five questions HR always asks.
A benefit their kids will remember.
Fifteen minutes to see what a rollout looks like for your team — seats, invite link, pilot timing, and the 5% impact reporting.
James Neilson-Watt & Delsey Daruwalla, Co-founders · [email protected]