For parents

You walked in feeling lost. You walk out with a plan.

The IEP, the 504, the eval, the letters, the meetings, the rights — every piece of your child's special-education life, organized into one workspace built for the seat you're sitting in.

What you get

  • Plain-English IEP & 504 summaries
  • Auto-detected deadline reminders
  • Letter drafts in Nicole's voice
  • The seven rights, as a workspace
  • Document vault with audit log
  • Meeting prep folder you walk in with
“The IEP is yours. The records are yours. The voice is yours.”

The vault

Every record. One place. Yours forever.

Upload IEPs, 504s, evaluations, work samples, discipline notices, correspondence — Gardenia keeps them encrypted, searchable, and exportable. Soft-delete with a 30-day grace period. Audit log every read.

  • AES-256 encryption at rest
  • Sign-in-required signed download URLs (60-second TTL)
  • Tag by document type — IEP, 504, IEE, psych eval, medical, work sample, more
  • Bulk export your entire vault as a ZIP — any time, no permission needed

2026-27 IEP — Lila R.

Uploaded Tuesday · 14 pages · IEP · ai_summary: complete

  • #1Goals (4)
  • #2Services (3)
  • #3Accommodations (8)
  • #4Concerns flagged (2)

Plain-English summaries

The IEP, translated.

Upload the IEP and Gardenia walks the document end-to-end — extracts goals, services, accommodations, modifications, the next meeting date, and the questions you should bring. Every line is grounded in the source text. No fabrication.

  • Goals tagged measurable / vague / unclear
  • Services with frequency, setting, provider
  • Auto-detected annual review deadline
  • Three sharp questions for the next meeting — anchored to your specific document

Coming-soon AI · Manual mode today

While AI summaries are paused for the public beta, you can fill in the same fields yourself in 10 minutes — and Gardenia uses them for every downstream feature.

Deadlines

The clocks the school keeps. Now you have them too.

Annual review. Triennial reevaluation. Consent response. Prior Written Notice response. State complaint timelines. Manifestation determination. Every legal clock is a deadline tile with reminders that land 60, 30, 14, 7, 3, and 1 days out.

  • Auto-create from uploaded IEPs
  • Manual entry for non-IEP clocks (state complaint, mediation, due process)
  • Email reminders (when you turn them on)
  • Calendar export — every deadline as an .ics

Annual IEP review

Lila's annual review — due May 20, 2027 · 60 days out

  • #160-day reminder: prep folder + records request
  • #214-day reminder: questions + concerns
  • #31-day reminder: bring the folder

Letters

The letter you should have sent — already drafted.

Thirty Nicole-voice templates: records request, IEP review request, evaluation consent, decline, IEE request, prior written notice response, state complaint, due process, mediation, and more. Each one is Zod-typed and state-aware.

  • One-click drafts that pull your child's data automatically
  • PDF export with your letterhead
  • Send tracking — sent at, read at, responded at
  • Linked to the right being exercised + the deadline it answers

Records request — FERPA

Drafted in Nicole's voice with your district address. Citing 34 CFR § 300.613. 45-day response clock auto-starts.

Meeting prep

Walk in with a folder. Walk out with a plan.

The meeting prep packet pulls your IEP summary, your concerns, the questions you've added, Nicole's standard issue questions for that meeting type, and a talking-points scaffold. Print it, bring it, mark it up.

  • Per-meeting packet with attendees + agenda
  • Pre-loaded questions tied to your child's vague goals
  • Outcome + next-action capture afterward
  • Auto-link to the deadline that triggered the meeting

Annual review · May 23, 9:30 AM

8 attendees · 3 talking points · 5 questions · 2 concerns to raise · Linked: 2026-27 IEP

Reminders that respect your evening

We send a nudge. Not a notification storm.

Email reminders only when something has actually moved. We do not send streak emails, engagement emails, or marketing emails. The unsubscribe link works on the first click.

  • Deadline reminders at 60 / 30 / 14 / 7 / 3 / 1 days
  • Letter response-overdue nudges
  • Meeting prep nudge 7 days before
  • One weekly digest if you opt in — that's it

Tonight's only nudge

Annual review prep is 14 days out. Want to add three questions tonight? It takes ~6 minutes.

The seven rights

One bloom for every right you have.

IDEA gives you seven specific procedural rights. Most parents never learn them. In Gardenia, each is a workspace tile with a plain-English summary, the legal citation, and a button to draft the letter that exercises it.

1

Prior Written Notice

34 CFR § 300.503

Before the school changes anything in your child's plan, they tell you — in writing.

2

Informed Consent

34 CFR § 300.9

No evaluation, placement, or record-sharing without your signed, informed okay.

3

Access Records

34 CFR § 300.613

Every record, every eval, every email about your child. Yours within 45 days — by law.

4

Due Process

34 CFR § 300.507

The formal legal clock. For when mediation and state complaints didn't resolve it.

5

Stay Put

34 CFR § 300.518

While a dispute is being resolved, your child stays in their current placement. Period.

6

Mediation

34 CFR § 300.506

Free, voluntary, confidential. A neutral mediator helps you and the school find common ground.

7

Discipline Information

34 CFR § 300.530

Your child's disability cannot be the reason for the discipline. The manifestation meeting protects that.

The next meeting is closer than you think.

Free forever for the first child, the first three documents, and one letter a month. Upgrade only when the work gets bigger.