Michael Gilsinan
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Praxis Stack

Studio-management software shaped by a decade of running a music school, with AI that reads every lesson note.

Role
Solo designer and developer
Platform
Web
Built for
Fort Lee School of Music
Status
Live
The Praxis Stack website hero, reading 'Run the studio. Not the spreadsheets.', beside a dashboard window showing lessons this week, payments collected, attendance, and today's schedule. (open larger image)
praxisstack.com

Overview

Praxis Stack grew out of a decade of scheduling lessons, billing families, and paying teachers. It brings those jobs into one system that supports Fort Lee School of Music's continuing students and day-to-day operations.

The core idea is that attendance is the source of truth. Mark a lesson attended and the family's ledger, the teacher's pay, and the studio's reports all update from that single action.

Screens are from Praxis Stack's public demo, which uses a fictional sample studio. No real student, family, or staff data appears on this page.

My role

  • Designed, developed, and launched the platform independently
  • Built around real workflows from running the school: scheduling, cancellations, family billing, and payroll
  • Created an AI feature that analyzes instructor lesson notes to produce individual student insights and studio-wide trends
  • Launched with a public website and a hands-on interactive demo

Highlights

Attendance drives billing, payroll, and reports
1 action
Read by AI for student and studio-wide insight
Every note
Supporting the school's continuing students
Live

Home

Start with the studio's day

The home screen answers what an owner asks first: how many lessons are on this week, what has been collected, how attendance is trending, and who is coming in today.

Praxis Stack home dashboard with cards for lessons this week, amount collected, and attendance rate, above today's lesson schedule with attended and scheduled statuses. (open larger image)
Home dashboard.

Scheduling and billing

Attendance is the source of truth

Marking a lesson attended posts the charge to the family's ledger automatically — no double entry. Cancellation rules are a single choice, and families pay from a link by card or bank.

Praxis Stack weekly calendar of color-coded lessons; a selected lesson is marked attended and the charge appears in the family ledger panel. (open larger image)
Weekly calendar: one click posts the charge.
Praxis Stack family billing ledger with invoices, payments, and a book purchase, beside a preview of the family's online pay page. (open larger image)
Family ledger and the pay page families see.

Applied AI

AI that reads every lesson note

Teachers write notes the way they always have. The AI reads them across every student and surfaces what matters — recurring themes, students who need attention, and concrete action items — then pulls each student's repertoire, scales, and progress into structured practice tables.

A teacher's lesson note for a piano student beside AI-generated studio insights grouped into themes, students needing attention, and action items. (open larger image)
Studio-wide insights generated from lesson notes.
A lesson note beside an AI-built practice table listing the student's repertoire status, scales with tempos, and chords in progress. (open larger image)
Practice tables pulled from a student's notes.

Payroll and reporting

Teachers paid from lessons taught

Pay is calculated from attended lessons at each teacher's rate, and revenue, payroll, and profit roll up into a twelve-month view.

Praxis Stack payroll table showing lessons, rates, and earnings per teacher for a pay period, beside a twelve-month revenue, payroll, and profit chart. (open larger image)
Payroll and twelve-month profit.
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Contact

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