About Alta Council

Independent charter leaders do not lack information. Financial statements, enrollment counts, authorizer requirements, board requests, back-office providers, audit fieldwork, and renewal calendars all land on the same desk. The executive job is to know what needs attention today, who owes what and by when, what was decided and why, and what the renewal actually requires.

A district has a chief of staff for that. An independent charter answers the same questions with a leadership team already carrying a full load, on the Tuesday the decision is in front of them.

Alta Council is a digital chief of staff for that leader. It reads what you add, briefs you each week, prepares the work, and keeps the record. You decide.

One cycle, every week. You file what reached your desk: a document uploaded, a provider’s note pasted in, a figure typed in, a board request. Alta reads it and proposes what it found, and nothing becomes a record until you keep it. Each Monday it briefs you on up to three items, with why now, what each relates to, and where the evidence came from. Each Friday it compares the week with Monday’s plan. On request it prepares a leadership pre-read, a decision brief, or a follow-up message, drafted from your own records, naming its sources and saying what it could not establish.

You edit, approve, or discard. An approved decision goes into the record with its rationale, sources, and approver; the commitments that follow carry an owner and a date, including people who work for you without an account. Alta tracks what is due and marks what it hears. A deadline stays unverified until a person reads the official text and says so. Every date and requirement Alta shows carries its source and its standing, verified or not.

Behind the chief of staff is a Council of six seats: strategy, finance, academics, enrollment, people & leadership, and governance & accountability. Each is a way of looking at a decision, not a person. 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, because the seats run on one model and can share its blind spots. Alta then sets out where they agree, where they conflict, what is missing, and what it recommends, and flags a question that belongs with your attorney, auditor, or a special education expert. You record the decision.

It is AI, not a person. The drafts, the readings of what came in, and the advisors’ counsel are generated by current AI models working from your records. Nobody reads your workspace and writes back.

What it gives you is preparation and counsel, not legal, financial, or compliance advice. It labels what a person reported apart from what it inferred, it proposes rather than decides, and it never sends, records, or verifies anything on its own. Every consequential action waits for your approval, and the approval is recorded.

You can, and for plenty of work you should. Alta Council runs on one of the general assistants, so their improvements arrive here too. The difference is who does the work around the model. At a blank box, the structure is your job every time: describing your school again, remembering who owes you what, checking whether the deadline it just quoted is real, and writing down where you landed.

Alta starts further in. It already holds your priorities, your obligations, your decisions, and the people who owe you updates. It reads what came in this morning against all of that. It keeps a reported fact apart from its own reading, and it will not mark a deadline verified. The week ends with a record instead of a conversation you have to remember.

Martez Hill is a sitting independent charter-school superintendent in North Carolina, a former state education executive, and the founder of Alta Council. He and his wife are the founding team.

It is not a product designed for schools from the outside. It is being developed around the work charter leaders carry, by somebody who sits in the chair it is meant to help.

Alta Council is in a private release. A small number of independent charter schools are joining a founding pilot and shaping what comes next. If you lead a charter school and there is an issue you wish you had seen earlier, or one you are working through now, apply below and tell Martez what is in front of you.

Or write to martez@altacouncil.com.

Leaders are asked to type real numbers about their schools into this product, so what happens to those numbers is written down rather than left to trust. See security and data, which names every company that receives anything and says plainly what Alta Council does not yet have.