Tailrd

Tailrd is a platform for special education teachers. Upload your students' Individual Education Plans and your curriculum. Get personalized, IEP-aligned worksheets for each student in seconds.

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TABLE 13 - TAILRD

California just lost $1.5 billion in federal education funding. Special ed programs are being cut, teachers are being laid off, and the students who need the most support are paying the price. A student with moderate autism and a student with severe ADHD need completely different materials, and adapting a single worksheet to a student's IEP can take a teacher an hour. Per student. Per assignment. That's time they don't have anymore.

We built Tailrd a web platform that parses IEP and curriculum PDFs, matches worksheets to student needs using semantic search, and generates adapted materials through OpenAPI. Tailrd parses each IEP for goals, accommodations, and present levels, then surfaces the most relevant worksheets already in their curriculum. One click generates a fully adapted version with simplified language, chunked steps, and visual supports baked in, taking seconds instead of an hour per student. Visual supports are automatically inserted alongside key vocabulary so the output looks like something a special ed teacher would actually hand to a student.

The most prominent problem we came across were IEPs being written differently in every school district, which makes reliable parsing and prompt engineering genuinely hard. Getting the adapted worksheet to maintain curriculum parity while still meaningfully changing language and structure took a lot of iteration.

We are most proud of the full loop working end to end. When you see a generated worksheet come out looking like a real special ed resource, with icons next to vocabulary and chunked steps, it looks visually stunning and more importantly implementable.

Through this project, we came to appreciate how much detail and nuance simultaneously lives inside a single IEP, developing much deeper respect for what special ed teachers do every day.

Currently, Tailrd is a fraction of our dream. We want Tailrd embedded directly into the tools districts already use, Google Classroom, Frontline, PowerSchool, so there's zero friction between the IEP and the adapted material. Beyond that, a full subscription model for districts and schools where every special ed teacher has access, usage is tracked for compliance reporting, and administrators can see coverage across their entire student population. Long term, we hope Tailrd becomes the tool that sits between any curriculum and any learner, not just special ed, and not just worksheets. If a student has a need, Tailrd adapts to it automatically.

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