Tesera didn't come out of a software lab. It came out of fifteen-plus years of founding and operating K-12 schools — sitting with the real cost of a master schedule built by hand: the weeks it consumes, the students who fall through the cracks, the trade-offs no one can quite explain later.
Most scheduling tools are built by technologists who've read about schools. Tessera is built by an operator who's lived the problem, and paired that experience with genuine optimization technology.
The result is a tool built to do what school leaders actually need: place every student it can, explain every choice it makes, and hand the final decision back to the people accountable for it.
Graham Salzer
Founder, Tessera Schedules
Built by someone who's actually run schools.
Our Belief
The master schedule is the single most powerful lever a school has over how students spend their time — and for most schools it's still built with tools that make it harder than it needs to be. We think that's backwards. Scheduling should be fast, precise, and completely transparent. That's what we build.