Identify priorities
Each Monday, up to three items chosen by rule from what is on file: a figure short of its target, a deadline that nears, a commitment gone quiet. Each names why now, its sources, and what is missing.
The AI chief of staff for charter leaders
Your week prepared. Your priorities on track. Your commitments kept.
Alta prepares your meetings, tracks your plan and charter goals, and convenes a council of advisors before hard calls. You approve everything.
The chief of staff is software: AI drafts, you decide.
Your team is strong. It is also stretched.
In an independent charter, a few people carry the work of a district office.
- Commitments made on Tuesday drift by Friday, and you find out late.
- Board prep and required reports crowd out the work that moves results.
- The strategic plan gets attention at review time, not in between.
- Hard calls arrive without the perspectives a larger team would bring.
Alta works in the space between meetings. It prepares your week, tracks what was promised, and brings advisors to the hard calls. You decide.
Three jobs
Identify priorities. Prepare for meetings. Follow through.
Prepare for meetings
Enter a meeting with its purpose, and Alta drafts the briefing from your record: what it rests on, the question, the options, a recommendation marked as Alta’s, and what it could not establish. Correct a line, and the list of what it rests on changes at once.
Follow through
Record a next step with an owner and a date from the briefing itself. A commitment keeps its original date, its history, and “No update received” until someone reports. Friday’s review compares the week with Monday’s plan.
Setup
One sitting, then your first briefing.
Add a document or a note. Confirm what Alta read from it: your school, your role, your priorities. Say what worries you this week. Alta writes your first briefing from that and says what it rests on. People, obligations, and email delivery can wait until you want them.
What Alta reads
What you add.
Word, Excel, PDF, text, and CSV files you upload, and the notes, figures, and meetings you enter. A document you add stays yours until you share it, and each one says when Alta read it and what period it describes. Keep student records out: Alta is not built for them.
Your control
Three kinds of statement, kept apart.
What a document said. What you typed or confirmed. What Alta inferred, marked as its reading until you confirm or correct it. Saving work and recording a decision are separate acts, and each says what it does before you do it. Alta sends no message on your behalf.
Trust
What Alta keeps.
- No student records.
- Each school’s records are visible only to that school, and an automated check holds it.
- An approval ledger names who approved what, and when.
- No analytics or tracking.
- Deletion on request.
How each one works is on the security page.
The Council
Six seats behind the chief of staff.
When a decision is risky or reaches more than one part of your school, Alta proposes the seats and you add or remove them. Each seat writes alone. It cites what you gave it, adds what it knows of its field and labels that as general practice, states its assumptions, weighs an alternative, and says what would change its view. One seat always argues against the leading option. Alta then sets out where the seats agree, where they conflict, and what is missing, and recommends a course. You record the decision. A routine question gets a direct answer.
- Strategy
- Finance
- Academics
- Enrollment
- People & Leadership
- Governance & Accountability
Next step
If it fits your week, apply for the founding pilot.
Alta was founded by Martez Hill, a sitting independent charter-school superintendent; the About page says how it is built and by whom.