How is the Hub priced?

The Hub is an annual agreement for your district, priced by the number of schools and programs using it, with staff seats included rather than charged per user. Pricing is discussed on a call because district scale varies too much for a menu to be honest.

How is this different from the Employer Partnership Office?

The Hub is the same system without Future1 doing the daily work. Your staff run outreach, coordination, and follow-up; the Hub gives them the structure, tracking, and reporting to do it well. Districts often start with the Office and move to the Hub once their internal capacity is real, or run both.

Do we replace our existing systems?

No. The Hub owns the employer partnership layer, which is usually the layer with no system at all. Your SIS remains the student record of truth, and we work alongside your existing CTE data tools.

How long does implementation take?

Most districts are live in two to four weeks: workspace configuration, staff accounts and permissions, importing whatever employer records you have today, and two training sessions. The longest step is usually deciding who owns what internally, and we help with that conversation.

Can we start with one pathway or one school?

Yes. Starting narrow is usually smarter. Prove the workflow with one pathway and one committed staff owner, then expand across schools once the habits are real.

How does this work with Perkins?

Participation, placements, and follow-up are captured as work happens, with evidence attached, so Perkins reporting draws on records instead of recollection. Your district remains the reporting entity; the Hub supplies the underlying data.

Can employers work with more than one district in the Hub?

Yes. Employer organizations can hold relationships with multiple districts, and each district sees only its own partnership data. Employers get one coordinated relationship instead of duplicate asks.

How does Pathway Connects fit?

Pathway Connects is the separate opportunity platform where employer commitments become postings students can see and apply to. The Hub includes the integration; the two products stay deliberately distinct.

What if our team does not have capacity to run it?

Then the Hub alone will disappoint you, and we would rather say that before you buy. If nobody owns the daily work, the Office is the honest recommendation.

Platform

The platform for districts managing employer partnerships internally.

Your team runs the daily work. The Hub gives them the system to run it in.

For districts that already have people doing this work, the Hub replaces scattered spreadsheets, inboxes, and memory with one shared partnership system: employer CRM, pipeline, pathway coverage, placements, handoffs, follow-ups, reporting, and Pathway Connects.

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Model: Annual agreement
Live in: Two to four weeks
Includes: Pathway Connects

The problem

Your team is capable. Their tools are a spreadsheet and a good memory.

Districts running partnerships in-house rarely lack effort. They lack a shared system, so the work cannot be seen, split, or handed over.

The record lives in one inbox

Employer history, commitments, and contacts sit in email threads only one person can search. Nobody else can pick up the relationship.

Nobody knows which pathways are covered

Coverage is a feeling, not a number. The pathway with no employer backing is usually discovered when a student needs a placement.

Handoffs happen by hope

A student is referred and nobody confirms arrival. The gap is invisible until follow-up season finds it.

Reporting is a manual rebuild

Every report requires an all-hands data hunt because nothing was captured in a reportable shape as it happened.

Why traditional approaches fail

Generic tools were built for a different job.

Sales CRMs assume deals close

Employer partnerships never close. They need renewal cycles, pathway coverage, and handoff confirmation — concepts no sales pipeline has a field for.

Spreadsheets do not have owners

A shared sheet records what happened but never assigns who is next. Accountability lives outside the file, which means it does not live anywhere.

Forms collect, they do not coordinate

A submission tool captures interest and stops. The twelve steps between interest and a student's first day still belong to nobody.

Student information systems track students

They are the right record of truth for enrollment and outcomes, and the wrong place to manage an employer relationship over three years.

The Future1 solution

One partnership system your whole team works inside.

Employer CRM and partnership pipeline

Every partner, every conversation, visible to the whole team.

Shared employer directory with named owners and full history
Pipeline from first contact through signed commitment
Activity and commitment logging
Partnership health signals and renewal flags

Pathway coverage

Turn coverage from a feeling into a number.

Coverage by pathway, school, and program
Gap flags where students have no employer option
Seat and capacity planning per term
Regional targeting for the gaps that matter most

Placements, handoffs, and follow-ups

The operational spine of work-based learning.

Placement records with status and owner
Two-sided handoff confirmation
Scheduled follow-up with completion tracking
Evidence capture for compliance and reporting

Reports, roles, and Pathway Connects

Built for districts, not adapted from a generic CRM.

Board, leadership, and Perkins-ready reporting
Staff roles and school-level permissions
Support Intelligence analysis built in
Pathway Connects integration for publishing opportunities

Outcomes

What your team gets back

Shared visibility: Any staff member can see the full history with a partner without emailing the one person who knows.
Coverage you can act on: Pathway gaps surface before a student needs the placement that does not exist.
Fewer dropped handoffs: Unconfirmed handoffs are flagged rather than discovered months later.
Reporting in hours: Leadership and Perkins reporting draws on captured records instead of a data hunt.
Continuity through turnover: When a staff member leaves, the relationships stay because the record is the district's.
Opportunities students see: Commitments become live Pathway Connects postings instead of a promise in a meeting.

Fit

Who this is for, and who it is not for

This is a fit if

You have at least one staff member whose actual job includes employer partnerships.
The work is real but scattered across spreadsheets, inboxes, and memory.
You want to build internal capacity rather than outsource the relationships.
Multiple schools or programs need to see the same partner information.
Leadership wants reporting that does not require a spring scramble.

This is not a fit if

Nobody currently owns employer partnership work. Software will not create the owner.
You want Future1 to do the outreach and coordination. That is the Office.
You only need strategy, reviews, and a second opinion. That is Advisory.
You are looking for a free tool or a one-time employer list.
Your team has no capacity for two short training sessions.

How it works

From signature to live in weeks, not terms

Configure the workspace
Schools, programs, and pathways set up to match how your district is actually organized, not a generic template.
Week 1
Import and assign ownership
Existing employer records come in and every partner gets a named owner. This is the step that changes behavior more than any feature.
Weeks 1 to 2
Train the team
Two working sessions on the daily workflow: logging activity, moving the pipeline, confirming handoffs, scheduling follow-up.
Weeks 2 to 3
Run, review, expand
Your team runs the work. Coverage and health data accumulate, and you extend from the first pathway to the rest.
Ongoing

Workspace preview

What your staff use every week

Six surfaces, each built around a decision rather than a feature list.

Employer Directory

You accomplish: Find any partner and their full history in seconds.
You see: Contacts, owner, commitments, activity log, health signal.
You decide: Who to call this week and who is ready to expand.

Partnership Pipeline

You accomplish: Move employers from first contact to signed commitment.
You see: Every prospect by stage, with the next action and its owner.
You decide: Which conversations are stalled and need escalation.

Pathway Coverage

You accomplish: See which programs have real employer backing.
You see: Coverage and seat capacity by pathway, school, and term.
You decide: Where to aim recruitment before next semester.

Placements and Handoffs

You accomplish: Get students from match to confirmed start.
You see: Placement status and two-sided confirmation, with stalls flagged.
You decide: Which handoff needs a phone call today.

Follow-Ups and Reports

You accomplish: Capture what happened and report it without a rebuild.
You see: Follow-up completion, feedback, participation and outcome trends.
You decide: What to bring to leadership and what to fix first.

Pathway Connects

You accomplish: Publish real opportunities to students.
You see: Live postings tied to actual employer commitments.
You decide: Which openings to publish and to which pathways.

The method underneath every Future1 solution.

The Hub is not a neutral database. Support Intelligence is wired into it, so the system continuously surfaces where ownership is missing, where coordination is breaking, and where evidence is thin, instead of waiting for someone to notice.

Support gaps: Where students or staff need help nobody is providing.
Ownership gaps: Work that matters with no name attached to it.
Coordination gaps: Two groups doing adjacent work without a shared plan.
Communication gaps: Information that stops before it reaches the person who needs it.
Handoff failures: The moment someone is passed along and quietly disappears.
Measurement gaps: Outcomes you believe in but cannot yet evidence.

How Support Intelligence works

Proof

What we will publish here

Future1 is early and says so. Rather than borrow someone else's numbers, these slots stay labeled until real partner results exist.

Metrics we will report

Districts using the HubTracked
Employer records managedTracked
Pathway coverage rateTracked
Handoff confirmation rateTracked
Follow-up completionTracked
Annual renewalTracked

Stories we are collecting

Reserved for a named quote from a district CTE coordinator.
Awaiting partner approval
Reserved for a named quote from a work-based learning specialist.
Awaiting partner approval
Reserved for a named quote from a school principal.
Awaiting partner approval

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Questions

The questions districts actually ask

Straight answers, including where the honest answer is 'it depends'.

See whether the Hub fits how your team already works.

Twenty minutes to walk through your current workflow and where the system would carry it. If your team lacks capacity to run it, we will tell you and recommend the Office.

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