Investment
Future1 is a service engagement, not a per-seat software licence. We do not publish a price grid because the honest answer depends on scope. What we can publish is exactly how the number is built, so you can plan a budget before you talk to us.
Engagement models
Same methodology, different amount of the work carried by Future1.
We operate as your external partnership team on a multi-year engagement. The highest investment and the highest transfer of work away from your staff.
You keep delivery in-house and use the system, structure, and reporting layer. Lower investment, higher internal staffing requirement.
Strategy, design, and standing review while your team executes. The smallest engagement and the right one when you already have staff capacity.
Not sure which applies? Compare all solutions.
Cost drivers
One pathway in one high school is a different operation from nine pathways across five campuses. This is the single largest driver.
Whether Future1 owns employer recruitment and placement coordination, or supports a team that already does it.
Tours and speakers scale cheaply. Internships and apprenticeships require per-student coordination and follow-up.
Standard outcome reporting is included. Custom board formats, state submissions, or data integrations add scope.
A multi-district or chamber-coordinated region needs a coordination layer a single district does not.
Longer commitments cost less per year because relationship work compounds instead of restarting.
Funding
We are not your compliance authority. Confirm allowability with your business office and state CTE contact; we will supply the scope documentation they ask for.
Work-based learning coordination and employer engagement are common local uses of funds where the state plan and your needs assessment support it.
Where the engagement replaces or postpones a full-time coordinator position, districts often compare the two directly.
Many states fund regional work-based learning expansion. These vary widely and are worth checking before you assume a budget source.
Chambers, economic development organizations, and local foundations sometimes co-fund the regional coordination layer.
Pilot
We pick a single pathway or school where employer coverage is thin and leadership attention is real.
Before start
Employers recruited, opportunities delivered, placements coordinated, follow-up completion. Named numbers, agreed before we begin.
Week 1
A semester or school year with the full system in place: mapping, outreach, coordination, confirmed handoffs, follow-up.
One term
An honest read against the criteria. Expand, adjust, or stop. A pilot that did not work should end, and we will say so first.
End of term
Proposal
Questions
Straight answers, including where the honest answer is 'it depends'.
One conversation about your pathways and staffing is enough for us to put a written figure in front of you.