Our story

Named for Ruby and Louise.

Two women — a mother and a mother-in-law — who between them raised a family on patience, good books, and long afternoons outdoors.

Ruby and Louise — a teacher and a librarian.

Ruby, my mother, went to school to become a teacher. Louise — Missy, to everyone who loves her — spent more than thirty years as a librarian and a preschool teacher, and then became the kind of 'Mimi' her grandbabies will tell their own children about.

Between the two of them: a classroom, a library, and a family. Which is, if you think about it, exactly what a homeschool is.

How RubyLou came to be

My husband and I are not parents yet, but hoping to be in the very near future. I am a "planner" and as we plan for parenthood, started looking closely at how we'd want to educate. Homeschool continues to be the path that resonates most. 

Throughout my research, I found very few options that felt cohesive - often fragmented across different solutions. Curriculum here. Planner there. Enrichment & activities often missing entirely. Faith layer? All or nothing. 

I have focused my career in innovation for families at the most tender moments of their lives - in the fertility & women's health technology space, including building an employer fertility-benefits product that companies use to help their own people pursue parenthood. This work taught me two central things to what RubyLou is made of: building technology worthy of a family's trust, and how to work carefully in sensitive, deeply personal territory where family data security is pinnacle.

Home education is one of the fastest-growing choices in American family life, and it has been almost completely passed over by the innovation wave that transformed health tech, fertility care, and family benefits. Millions of parents doing the most important teaching in the world — supported by boxed curricula, spreadsheets, and Facebook groups.

RubyLou is built alongside real homeschooling families on one conviction: the parent is the teacher, and the parent deserves tools to teach with confidence.

The name is our compass.
A teacher and a librarian — the women who shaped our family.
A platform built to help yours flourish.

For Ruby. For Louise. For our future family — and for yours.