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Sessionproof

Verification API that releases ESA and scholarship payments to coaches per delivered session

Sessionproof is the session-level trust layer for approved-provider platforms: it holds each coach's identity, background-check status and safeguarding certification, collects attendance attestation and progress evidence per session, and returns a release-or-hold signal before the platform pays the provider.

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similar startups, last 2 years (2 all-time)

yes

1 matching federal grants and programs

Direction supported by government programs and grants

Test it before you build it

$800 · 6 weeks · 21 prospects

For $800 and 6 weeks, prove an ESA payment platform or SGO will pay $2,500 up front for per-session release-or-hold verification rather than build it in-house.

Riskiest assumption · ESA payment platforms and SGOs, who carry the audit liability, will pay an outside vendor to gate per-session payouts before the first Texas audit instead of building attestation in-house.

1Focus group: who and where

Two buyers: the product or compliance lead at an ESA payment platform or SGO that pays providers directly and eats the audit risk - ClassWallet, Odyssey, Student First Technologies, Merit, Step Up For Students - and owners of Texas tutoring and coaching businesses on the 2026-27 approved-provider list whose invoices those platforms can hold.

where to find 21 · The Texas Comptroller's approved education service provider directory published for the 2026-27 ESA launch (list); warm introductions to product and compliance leads at ClassWallet, Odyssey, Student First Technologies and Merit through edtech investors and former state-program staff (channel); Texas Home School Coalition and National Microschooling Center networks where Texas providers compare payout experiences (community); the ExcelinEd National Summit on Education attendee network for SGO and state-program contacts (event).

2Sell first, build later

A 6-week design-partner pilot for the 2026-27 Texas school year: Sessionproof verifies 200 sessions in one provider category, gates each invoice on coach vetting status plus session attestation, returns release-or-hold per invoice, and delivers a written fraud-flag report, run semi-manually behind an API stub with a named start date.

the ask · $5,000 per pilot, $2,500 invoiced up front; production pricing locked at $0.50 per verified session for year one

a real yes · A real yes is the signed pilot order plus the $2,500 invoice paid, or an LOI signed by the product lead with a dated start and a named provider cohort; 'interesting, circle back after launch' and unpaid data-sharing offers are not

3Small experiments

The first one attacks the riskiest assumption; each ends with a number that says whether to run the next.

  1. 1. Platform build-or-buy probe

    $400 · 15 days

    Get 6 forty-five-minute calls with platform and SGO product or compliance leads through warm intros, armed with a 2-page fraud-control brief and an API spec sketch showing release-or-hold per invoice from coach vetting plus session attestation. Ask them directly to refute the thesis: what's on your verification roadmap, who is liable at the first Texas audit, and would you buy this. One founder runs all 6 and writes up each verbatim.

    keep going if · 4 of 6 leads confirm session-level verification is not on their 12-month roadmap, and 2 of 6 book a scoping session for a paid design-partner pilot

  2. 2. Provider hold-pain calls

    $150 · 10 days

    Call 15 Texas tutoring and coaching owners from the approved-provider directory and THSC network. Ask what documentation the platform demanded, whether any payout has been held or delayed, and whether they would prepay $25 per coach per month for verified-session records that clear holds faster.

    keep going if · 8 of 15 providers report payout delays or documentation demands, and 5 of 15 say yes to prepaying $25 per coach per month

  3. 3. Paid pilot close

    $250 · 20 days

    Send the 2 scoping platforms a written 6-week design-partner pilot order: verify 200 sessions in one provider category with a coach-vetting gate and a fraud-flag report, $5,000 total, $2,500 invoiced up front, named start date. Push each to signature on a second call; offer a dated LOI as the fallback where their contract process cannot move money in 45 days.

    keep going if · 1 of 2 scoping platforms signs the pilot order and pays the $2,500 invoice, or 2 of 2 sign LOIs with start dates inside 60 days

4Collect a deposit up front

Tesla took $1,000 refundable reservations for the Model 3 and $100 for the Cybertruck before building either: the deposit is the measurement, not the revenue.

$2,500

per prospect, refundable

how · A paid design-partner pilot invoiced 50% up front: the platform's product lead signs a 2-page pilot order with scope, 200-session volume and start date, and pays a $2,500 ACH invoice; where the buyer's contract process cannot move money inside 45 days, collect instead an LOI signed by the product lead with a dated start and named provider cohort, because these platforms are private companies but their vendor onboarding can outlast the test set up: Stripe Invoicing ↗

what it reserves · The only 2026-27 design-partner slot, the buyer's choice of provider category, and the $0.50 per verified session price locked for year one

refund · Refunded in full if the pilot has not started within 30 days of the signed start date or the delivered scope misses the written pilot order

target · 1 paid pilot, or 2 dated LOIs, from 6 platform conversations within 45 days

before taking money · Background-check data is FCRA-regulated and the end payer is a state program: during the test verify only certifications a coach hands over voluntarily, run no consumer reports, and treat any state-facing contract as government procurement that waits for counsel.

Go: build it if

1 platform pays the $2,500 up-front invoice (or 2 sign dated LOIs) and 5 or more of 15 Texas providers commit to prepay $25 per coach per month: build the pilot API

Kill: stop if

0 pilots and 0 dated LOIs after 6 platform conversations, or 3 or more of 6 platforms say in-house session verification ships in the 2026-27 school year: the API is a feature of the rails, stop

5 Scripts to run itoutreach message, landing copy, deposit terms · click to open

outreach message

Texas starts paying providers directly this school year, and your platform is the one releasing the money; the first audit will ask which sessions behind those invoices actually happened, with a background-checked adult in the room. I'm building Sessionproof, an API that returns release-or-hold per invoice from coach vetting status plus session attestation, and I'm choosing one design partner for 2026-27. Do you have 20 minutes this week so I can walk you through the fraud-control brief?

landing page

Release-or-hold per session, before your platform pays the provider $5,000 six-week design-partner pilot: 200 sessions verified in one provider category, coach-vetting gate, fraud-flag report, $2,500 up front Book a scoping session and sign the pilot order

deposit terms

The $2,500 up-front invoice, half of the $5,000 pilot, reserves the only 2026-27 design-partner slot, your chosen provider category, and a $0.50 per verified session price locked for year one. It is refunded in full if the pilot has not started within 30 days of the signed start date or we miss the written scope. The $2,500 balance is invoiced at pilot completion.

Would you run this test?

One tap. The yes-share feeds the Demand pillar of this idea's score; nobody sees who answered.

Budgets are out-of-pocket estimates for a team of one to three, US market. Size the deposit to the deal, and check the terms before taking money in a regulated line.

Scorecard

Ranked against every idea in the catalog: trend, demand and 100x potential from the corpus, competition relative to the other ideas. A generated concept has no judges or swipes yet, so its pillars use the data signals only.

59

Idea Score, 0-100 (partial) · raw 36.7 x 1.61

Warm

competition: more crowded than 32% of ideas · headwind x0.84

+1.4

government priorities, secondary (1 matching grants)

Trend

39

Is the wave forming now? 2025-26 entrants vs 2023-24, rounds since 2025, the sector's live-batch direction, the 2026 trend analyst.

  • Entrants 2025-26 vs 2023-24 (similar companies)74
  • Rounds announced 2025+ in the sector44
  • Sector direction (live batch)0

Demand

38

Does anyone want it? YC's current RFS, companies already paid for something similar, the operator judge, founders' yes-rate in decks, readers who would run the test.

  • YC asks for it (current RFS: idea / sector)60
  • Someone already pays (similar companies, recent / all-time)17

100x potential

50

Can it return a fund? The venture judge (double weight), market-size and moat axes, neighbours still alive, the technologist judge.

  • no signal yet, taken as 50

Score = 100 x cbrt(Trend x Demand x 100x) x (1 - 0.5 x crowding) + government bonus (max 5), calibrated so the 95th-percentile idea scores 90 (order never changes). A geometric mean: a weak pillar cannot be papered over. Percentiles are among the 382 ideas in the catalog; the terms matched were verification, releases, esa, scholarship, payments, coaches, per, session-level.

The concept in full

What
Sessionproof is the session-level trust layer for approved-provider platforms: it holds each coach's identity, background-check status and safeguarding certification, collects attendance attestation and progress evidence per session, and returns a release-or-hold signal before the platform pays the provider. State ESA operators and SGOs plug it in so a tutoring or coaching invoice cannot pay out without a verified, checked adult and a real session behind it. Kids and parents see their own attendance and milestone record; the state sees fraud drop.
Grounded in (2025-2026 signals)
Texas SB 2 (signed May 3, 2025) created ESAs worth about $10,330 per student, $1 billion in year one, over 150,000 applicants; on October 6, 2025 the Comptroller chose Odyssey, built on ClassWallet, to run every payment, with Arizona, North Carolina, Utah and Nevada on the same rails.
What it rides
'Texas: a billion dollars of education accounts, paid to approved providers': Sessionproof sits between Odyssey-style wallets and enrichment providers, gating every coaching payment on verified delivery.
Why now
The Texas program pays providers, not parents, starting with the 2026-27 school year that begins now; a billion dollars flowing to loosely vetted enrichment providers is a fraud story waiting to happen, and platforms need per-session verification before the first audit.
Wedge: first customer and entry point
Enrichment and tutoring providers on the Texas approved list: a 1-3 person team ships the coach-vetting and attestation API for one provider category, then sells the compliance layer up to the platform.
Closest real companies, as the generator saw them
Harbera and Arctic Health do AI credentialing for healthcare providers; Blerify issues ID credentials. None gate per-session youth-coaching payments on background checks plus delivery evidence.
Main risk
Odyssey or ClassWallet builds session verification in-house and the API layer never gets a contract.

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Public money in this direction

US federal grants and open opportunities matched to the concept's terms.

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