You shouldn't need a law degree to read your child's IEP.
TripFlare turns special-education paperwork into plain language and a concrete next step - free, for every family, from people who have sat on your side of the table.
What is an IEP, in plain words?
An Individualized Education Program is a legal document that spells out the help your child receives at school. It is created with your family, not handed to you - federal law gives you a seat at that table.
A written commitment
Services, goals, and supports your child is entitled to - in writing. If it isn't in the document, it isn't promised.
A team you belong to
Parents are required members of the IEP team under federal law. Your observations count as data, and your consent matters.
A process with deadlines
Evaluations, meetings, and changes all run on legal timelines. Knowing the clock is half the battle - we help you keep it.
Not magic. Not guesswork. Math.
School districts use compliance software that checks their own IEP paperwork. Families have never had the same tooling. TripFlare is that check, built for your side of the table.
Every determination it makes is deterministic - computed by an engine, not generated by a model. Identifiers, day-counts, service minutes, whether a signature's valid, boxes left blank, notice missing - all of it binary: find it or it isn't there, in your own doc's own ink.
Is your child actually getting the services the IEP promised?
Start with the question
Is your child actually getting the services the IEP promised? That's where every family's case starts.
Hand over the paperwork
The IEP and the district's own service logs. That is all the engine needs to get to work.
The engine does the math
Mandated minutes against delivered minutes, reconciled line by line - every gap attributed, nothing skipped.
Proof, not opinion
A shortfall you can see and check, with the legal citation validated behind it. Same facts, same answer, every time.
Your move
The finding explained in plain words, your next step, and a filing-ready record if you need to escalate.
Computed, not guessed
Every conclusion links directly to a specific rule, goal, timeline, or federal law - tied to word/line evidence so nothing is subject to opinion or bias.
An honest mirror
TripFlare does not interpret, exaggerate, or add spin to data and findings - it reflects what's in your district's own words and lets you draw your own conclusion.
Provably accurate, forever
Every TripFlare output is time-stamped. Flagged items are sourced back to a line, date, and page in the original document. A machine has no motivation to lie or fabricate - it has to be accurate or it doesn't work.
What a finding looks like
Not a paragraph of maybes - the gap, the math, and the citation behind it. You can check every line yourself.
Your child's records belong to you.
Everything TripFlare does starts with paperwork you already have a legal right to hold. Here is exactly how we treat it.
FERPA is your leverage
Federal law gives you the right to inspect your child's education records, ask for corrections, and consent before the school shares them. Most of what TripFlare helps you do begins with records you are already entitled to see.
Built for parents, not children
TripFlare is a tool for adults handling their own child's case. We do not market to children or collect anything from them directly, and records about your child reach us only from you, under your control.
Never sold, never bartered
Your documents are not a product. We do not sell them or trade them, and nothing leaves your account without your say-so.
A vault only you can open
Your documents are locked with a key created on your own device, which never leaves it and which TripFlare never sees. The vault holds copies, so your originals stay where they are, and you can export everything at any time.
And what we haven't done yet. TripFlare is pre-launch and carries no third-party security certification today. We intend to pursue one once real cases are running. When it is earned, it will be named here, and not a day before.
Support for every step, from first referral to next review.
Wherever you are in the process, there is a concrete next step. These are the ways TripFlare walks it with you.
IEP guidance
We go through your child's IEP section by section and explain what each part actually commits the school to do.
Meeting preparation
Checklists, the questions worth asking, and a calm plan - so you walk in prepared instead of outnumbered.
Parent advocacy
How to put requests in writing, what the school's responses mean, and when it's time to bring in more help.
Plain-language resources
Guides and glossaries that translate special-education law into everyday words, free to read and download.
Your vault and your log
Keep every document, letter, and missed session in one place, locked with a key only you hold. Log a cancelled session the week it happens instead of reconstructing the year from memory, and those same records become the evidence the engine runs on.
A judgment-free corner
This process is exhausting. You get encouragement here too, on the hard days as much as the meeting days.
Free for families.
Permanent, not promotional.
Every family deserves clear guidance regardless of budget - and a family in an IEP meeting shouldn't be the one paying for fairness.
Free means free.
No catch, no clock,
no fine print.
TRIPFLARE - FOR FAMILIESBuilt by a parent, in the open.
TripFlare started at a kitchen table, with a stack of school paperwork and the slow realization that the process only works if you know the rules - and nobody hands parents the rules.
So we're building the thing we needed: a place where a family can bring an IEP, a letter, or a bad feeling about a meeting, and leave with a plain-language explanation and a concrete next step.
We'd rather tell you what's true than what's polished: TripFlare is in development now and opens to families in October 2026. What you see here is the real plan, published as we build it.
Guides, checklists & tools - free to use.
Written in plain language, ready to download, yours to keep. First editions arrive with the October launch.
The Parent's Guide to IEPs
A step-by-step walkthrough of the whole process, from first referral to annual review.
GET NOTIFIEDIEP Meeting Checklist
What to bring, what to ask, and what to write down - so meeting day feels prepared, not ambushed.
GET NOTIFIEDSpecial Education FAQs
Straight answers on rights, services, evaluations, and timelines - the questions families ask most.
GET NOTIFIEDDownloadable tools
Printable goal trackers, question sheets, and note templates that keep the paper trail organized.
GET NOTIFIEDThe first families through the door shape what this becomes. We'll earn the testimonials - we won't invent them.- THE TRIPFLARE TEAM
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Tell us where you're stuck.
One email is enough to start. You don't need to know the right words, attach the right documents, or have it all figured out - that's our job.
Email hello@tripflare.appWe read everything. Until launch, replies may take a few days - we'll always tell you where you stand.
You write to us.
A sentence or two about your child and what's going on is plenty.
We write back with a first step.
In plain language: what your situation usually means and what to do next.
You decide the pace.
Take the resources and run, or keep us beside you through the next meeting.