About Blacklink
Technology that belongs in the classroom.
Blacklink builds education technology around the people who actually use it. Students. Teachers. Administrators. Schools.
2024
Founded
Kâ12
Built for education
Free
At the core of our work
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Ideas worth building
Our mission
Learning should feel human.
Too much education technology is designed around systems instead of people. Interfaces become complicated, essential workflows become buried, and schools end up adapting themselves to software instead of the other way around.
Blacklink exists to challenge that model.
We build software that is understandable, approachable, accessible, and respectful of the people using it. Our goal is not to put more technology in classrooms. It is to make the technology already there genuinely useful.
Our philosophy is simple: build things that make learning better, not merely more digital.
What we believe
Build with purpose.
Our products are guided by a few principles that matter more than trends.
Education first
Technology should serve education, not distract from it. Every feature should have a reason to exist.
People over systems
Students and educators are people first. Software should adapt to them, not demand that they adapt to it.
Privacy by default
Student information deserves protection. We minimize collection and treat data as a responsibility, not a resource.
Accessible to everyone
Good technology should not exclude people. Accessibility belongs in the design process from the beginning.
Honest technology
We believe schools deserve transparency about what software does, what it collects, and how it works.
Keep building
We are willing to rethink our own work. Products should evolve when we learn something better.
The Blacklink ecosystem
More than one app.
Blacklink is building a connected ecosystem of tools that work together without making schools replace everything they already use.
BellRinger
01A classroom scheduling and bell management platform designed around the real-world complexity of schools.
Stickies
02Simple digital notes without turning a basic idea into a complicated workflow.
Blocks
03A place for educators to create, organize, and share reusable educational resources.
Stratus
04Weather awareness and alerting technology designed to help schools respond to severe weather.
Our story
Start small. Think bigger.
SEPTEMBER 2024
Blacklink begins
Blacklink begins with a simple idea: education software can be dramatically better when it is built around the people using it.
THE NEXT CHAPTER
Building the ecosystem
What starts as individual tools grows into a broader ecosystem for schools, educators, and students.
TODAY
Learning today. Leading tomorrow.
We are continuing to build, experiment, listen, and improve with the goal of making education technology worthy of the classrooms it serves.
Built independently
Our mission comes before our business.
We want Blacklink to remain accountable to the students, educators, and communities our products serve. Partnerships can help us grow, but they should never determine what we build or what we believe is right for education.
Read our Partnership & Sponsorship Policy âBlacklink
Learning today.
Leading tomorrow.
We're building the tools we wish existed, one classroom at a time.