Business performance for classical schools

Your mission is worth protecting.

Growth shouldn't erode what you've built. Tabor Technologies drives revenue growth, reduces costs, and improves operations — building the systems that let your school scale without losing its soul.

Where we create value
Increase RevenueFrom enrollment to tuition modeling — we find and unlock revenue your school is leaving on the table
Reduce CostsFrom vendor rationalization to workflow design — we cut waste without cutting what matters
Improve OperationsFrom technology systems to org design — we build infrastructure that scales without adding chaos

The tension every classical school leader knows.

Classical schools are mission-driven organizations that also have to function as sustainable businesses. Most consultants serve one side of that equation. We serve both.

Growth without systems erodes culture. Systems without mission produce institutions nobody wants.

Most classical schools don't have an operations problem — they have a systems problem.

The mission is clear. The educators are exceptional. The community is loyal. But the infrastructure wasn't built to scale.

One practice. Two lenses.

Product-led growth meets operational systems design.

We distribute systems thinking across every business function of the school — driving revenue, cutting costs, and improving operations while keeping mission and culture intact.

01
Increase Revenue

From enrollment systems to tuition modeling and development funnels — we find and unlock every revenue opportunity available to your school.

02
Sustain Revenue

From re-enrollment infrastructure to family engagement systems — we build the retention mechanisms that keep your community intact year over year.

03
Reduce Costs

From vendor audits to workflow redesign — we eliminate waste, right-size tooling, and free up resources for what actually serves the mission.

04
Improve Operations

From org structure to technology strategy — we build the operational infrastructure that lets your team perform at its best.

Service Areas

Every function of your school, systematized.

Each area below represents a practice, not a fixed menu. Engagements are scoped around your school's specific needs.

Product-led Growth
Acquisition & Enrollment

Funnel design, CRM strategy, conversion optimization, family journey mapping, and more.

Product-led Growth
Retention & Renewal

Re-enrollment systems, satisfaction measurement, churn analysis, and community infrastructure.

Operational Systems
Systems Design

Process audits, org structure, accountability mapping, KPI frameworks, and scalability planning.

Operational Systems
Technology & Vendors

From SIS and LMS selection to website development, social media strategy, and AI readiness — we build your technology foundation.

Strategic Leadership
Fractional Leadership

Embedded strategic and operational expertise on a schedule that fits your stage and budget.

Strategic Leadership
Revenue Optimization

Tuition modeling, financial aid design, ancillary revenue, and development funnel strategy.

Markets We Serve

Built for the classical community.

I
Named Market
ACCS Member Schools

Accredited classical Christian schools hitting performance and growth ceilings. Our deepest roots — nearly 20 years inside the ACCS community.

II
Named Market
SCL Member Schools

Schools already investing in leadership and professional formation. Tabor Technologies provides the business performance layer SCL doesn't touch.

III
Named Market
Chesterton Schools Network

Catholic classical schools sharing the same performance gaps — enrollment systems, retention infrastructure, technology strategy.

IV
Named Market
Private Christian Schools

Faith-based independent schools that need product-led growth and operational discipline to sustain their mission and grow.

Leadership

Insider credibility. Enterprise execution.

DO
Devin O'Donnell
Classical Education & Leadership

Nearly 20 years inside classical Christian education — as a school founder, head of school, editor, writer, and most recently VP of Membership at the ACCS. Devin doesn't need a primer on classical education culture, philosophy, or the pressures school leaders face. He has lived every role in the institution.

JT
Jordan Tucker
Product, Technology & Operations

Ten years as a CCE educator and administrator, followed by nearly a decade in product and technology — including work at Microsoft and leadership of $200M multi-brand product portfolios. Jordan translates strategy into business outcomes. The rare combination of classical school insider and enterprise product executive.

Ready to build the systems
your school deserves?

Start with a no-cost discovery conversation. We'll assess where your school is leaving performance on the table and what's most worth solving first.

Services

Systems for every function of your school.

Each practice area below represents a discipline, not a fixed menu. Every engagement is scoped around your school's specific challenges and goals — the examples below are illustrative, not exhaustive.

How We Engage
Two ways to work together.

Every engagement begins with a no-cost scoping conversation. We build around your school's specific situation — not a fixed package.

Monthly Retainer
Fractional Support

Ongoing embedded partnership. Dedicated advisor on weekly or bi-weekly cadence. Scales with your school's needs.

Custom Package
Project-Based

Scoped around a specific challenge or initiative. Fixed deliverables, clear outcomes. Single or multi-track.

Product-led Growth
Acquisition — Bring more of the right families in the door.

Your enrollment funnel is the front door to your school's future. We audit, redesign, and systematize the path from first inquiry to enrolled student — and we go well beyond the funnel itself to find every lever available.

Common engagements include:
  • Enrollment funnel audit & redesign
  • CRM selection, setup & workflow automation
  • Inquiry-to-application conversion optimization
  • Family journey mapping & touchpoint design
  • Paid & organic channel strategy

Engagements are custom-scoped. If your challenge isn't listed, start a conversation.

Product-led Growth
Activation — Turn enrollment into genuine belonging.

The moment a family enrolls is the beginning of their story with your school. Activation systems ensure that first year builds loyalty that lasts — and they extend well beyond orientation.

Common engagements include:
  • New family onboarding experience design
  • First-year engagement sequence build-out
  • Welcome communications & orientation systems
  • Early warning signals for at-risk families

Engagements are custom-scoped. If your challenge isn't listed, start a conversation.

Product-led Growth
Retention — Keep your community intact year over year.

Re-enrollment is the most cost-effective growth lever available to classical schools. We build the infrastructure that makes staying the obvious choice — across every dimension of the family relationship.

Common engagements include:
  • Re-enrollment infrastructure & timing strategy
  • Family satisfaction measurement systems
  • Re-enrollment campaign design & execution
  • Churn analysis & intervention playbooks

Engagements are custom-scoped. If your challenge isn't listed, start a conversation.

Product-led Growth
Revenue Optimization — Strengthen the business without compromising mission.

Classical schools leave significant revenue on the table across tuition, ancillary programs, and development. We identify and build every revenue stream available to a school at your stage.

Common engagements include:
  • Tuition modeling & pricing strategy
  • Financial aid system design
  • Ancillary revenue identification & build-out
  • Donation & development funnel design

Engagements are custom-scoped. If your challenge isn't listed, start a conversation.

Product-led Growth
Referral Engine — Turn your best families into your best marketers.

Word-of-mouth is already your most powerful growth channel. We build the systems that make it intentional, measurable, and repeatable — and connect it to your broader growth infrastructure.

Common engagements include:
  • Word-of-mouth system design
  • Family ambassador program build-out
  • Referral tracking & incentive structure
  • Community-driven growth infrastructure

Engagements are custom-scoped. If your challenge isn't listed, start a conversation.

Operational Systems
Operational Systems Design — Build the infrastructure your growth requires.

Before you can scale, you need to see what you're working with. We map your entire operational landscape, identify the constraints, and build a prioritized path forward — across every business function.

Common engagements include:
  • End-to-end process & workflow audit
  • Org structure review & accountability mapping
  • Systems & tooling inventory
  • KPI & metrics gap analysis
  • Scalability roadmap with prioritized initiatives

Engagements are custom-scoped. If your challenge isn't listed, start a conversation.

Operational Systems
Leadership & Organizational Design — Connect vision to execution across every function.

Strategy that doesn't reach the front line isn't strategy — it's aspiration. We design the organizational systems that translate your vision into accountable, measurable execution at every level.

Common engagements include:
  • Value chain design: vision to strategy to goals to execution
  • Business function mapping across all departments
  • Role clarity & delegation systems
  • Decision frameworks & accountability structures
  • Onboarding & institutional documentation

Engagements are custom-scoped. If your challenge isn't listed, start a conversation.

Operational Systems
Technology & Vendor Strategy — Right tools, right fit, right integration.

Most classical schools are over-tooled in some areas and critically under-tooled in others — and many leaders have no idea where to start. From student information systems and learning management platforms to community tools, social media strategy, and website development, we rationalize your entire technology landscape, evaluate vendors, and design integrations that actually serve the school. We also identify where modern technology — including AI — can reduce cost and administrative burden.

Common engagements include:
  • Tech stack audit & rationalization
  • SIS, LMS & communication platform selection and setup
  • Website strategy, development oversight & cost reduction
  • Community platform & social media strategy
  • Vendor evaluation & contract negotiation support
  • Integration architecture design
  • AI readiness & implementation roadmap

Engagements are custom-scoped. If your challenge isn't listed, start a conversation.

Strategic Leadership
Fractional Strategic Leadership — Embedded expertise without the full-time cost.

Not every school needs a full-time COO. Every school needs someone who thinks like one. Our fractional model gives you senior operational and strategic leadership across any or all of the disciplines above — on a schedule that fits your stage and budget.

Common engagements include:
  • Weekly strategy & ops advisory
  • Cross-functional alignment facilitation
  • Vendor & technology oversight
  • Board-level reporting & strategic planning support
  • Interim ops leadership during transitions

Engagements are custom-scoped. If your challenge isn't listed, start a conversation.

About

Insiders who built what you need.

Two practitioners with complementary depth — one rooted in the classical movement, one in product and technology. Together they cover the full range of what classical schools need to perform without losing what makes them worth building.

Who We Are

The formation layer is well served. We own the business performance layer.

Every major player in the classical school space serves the formation layer — pedagogy, teacher training, leadership coaching, curriculum, accreditation. They do it well. That work is essential and irreplaceable.

But there is a layer beneath the formation layer that almost no one touches: the business systems that determine whether the school can sustain itself, grow with integrity, and serve families for the long term. That's where Tabor Technologies operates.

We apply product-led growth thinking and operational systems design to the business functions that classical school leaders find most difficult — not because they aren't capable, but because those disciplines weren't developed inside classical education.

What makes Tabor Technologies different isn't just that we know both worlds. It's that we've lived inside classical schools long enough to know what can be borrowed from enterprise practice — and what must be adapted to protect the mission.

DO
Devin O'Donnell
Classical Education & Leadership

Nearly 20 years inside classical Christian education — as a school founder, head of school, editor, writer, and most recently VP of Membership at the ACCS. Devin doesn't need a primer on classical education culture, philosophy, or the pressures school leaders face. He has lived every role in the institution.

JT
Jordan Tucker
Product, Technology & Operations

Ten years as a CCE educator and administrator, followed by nearly a decade in product and technology — including work at Microsoft and leadership of $200M multi-brand product portfolios. Jordan translates strategy into business outcomes and leverages technology for operational optimization.

"You're not looking for another curriculum consultant or leadership workshop."

You need a business performance partner who understands classical education from the inside — and can build the systems that let it thrive.

This is for you if
  • Families are slipping through the enrollment funnel
  • Your team is stretched thin without a clear path forward
  • Financial decisions are made on instinct, not data
  • Growth is creating chaos instead of capacity
  • You have a compelling mission but under-built systems
The Landscape

How we're different from others in the space.

ACCS
Standards, accreditation & advocacy.
We operate downstream of accreditation.
SCL
Professional association — coaching, cohorts & conferences.
We handle the business performance layer they don't touch.
CiRCE
Pedagogical institute — teacher training & philosophy.
We focus on systems that support the institution.
Classical Academic Press
Curriculum, publishing & pedagogy consulting.
We build the operational infrastructure around them.
Concordis
Full-service admin & academic support — launch phase.
They get schools standing. We get established schools scaling.
Chesterton Network
Turn-key Catholic classical school launch model.
Launch-focused. We serve established schools within the network.

Start with a conversation.

Every engagement begins with a no-cost discovery call. No pitch, no pressure — just an honest assessment of where your school is leaving performance on the table.

Contact

Let's start a conversation.

Every engagement begins at no cost. Tell us about your school and what you're working through — we'll give you an honest picture of where we can help.

Two ways to engage.

Monthly Retainer
Fractional Support

Ongoing embedded partnership on a monthly retainer. Best for schools that need consistent strategic and operational support without hiring a full-time role.

Custom Package
Project-Based Engagement

Scoped engagements built entirely around a specific challenge. Fixed-scope deliverables with clear outcomes. Single service or multi-track combinations available.

Prefer to book directly?

Jump straight to a discovery call on our calendar. No forms, no friction.

Send us an inquiry.
We'll follow up within one business day.

All inquiries are reviewed personally. Discovery conversations are always at no cost. Engagements are custom-scoped — no pricing is published because no two schools have the same needs.