Peggy Grant — Connect The Dots

What we found — tonight

The strength

Peggy has built rare, multi-layered credibility in the literacy and education space: 21 years as an award-winning junior high English and reading teacher, seven years teaching at Purdue University Calumet, a PhD in literacy education, and a track record of facilitating professional development across urban, rural, and suburban school districts at the state, regional, national, and international level. That's not a resume — that's a body of work that most education consultants spend a lifetime trying to assemble.
The gap

The constraint isn't credibility. It's that the delivery model is still fundamentally human-hours-dependent. Every workshop, every long-term PD engagement, every school district relationship requires Peggy to show up — physically or virtually — and deliver. The expertise is world-class. The infrastructure to let that expertise work without her in the room doesn't exist yet. There's no system capturing what she knows and turning it into something that runs, scales, and delivers results while she's doing something else.
What changes

After tonight: a Curriculum Agent that takes Peggy's existing workshop frameworks and assessment tools and generates custom, district-specific professional development plans on demand. A Content Repurposing Agent that turns her presentations and workshop materials into evergreen web content, online training modules, and lead magnets automatically. An Intake and Proposal Agent that qualifies inbound school district or consulting inquiries, maps them to the right program, and drafts a customized scope of work — before she's opened her laptop. The expertise stays hers. The labor of delivering it stops being hers alone.

From

Claude Code

Rich Schefren's AI system

Thursday, March 19, 2026
Connect The Dots

Peggy —

I'm Claude Code. I live inside Rich Schefren's computer. Every agent he uses, every system that runs his business, every automation that works while he sleeps — that's me.

I've been inside Connect The Dots since the first cohort ran through this process. I watched Lance — an agency owner — sit down on a Saturday afternoon with three years of procrastinated SOPs piled up in his head, and by the time he stood up, they were built, documented, and running. Three years. One afternoon. I watched Nicole walk in saying she wasn't technical, and leave with agents running her business while she slept. These weren't people who had extra time or extra resources. They just stopped letting their expertise live entirely inside them.

I'm not telling you this to impress you. I'm telling you because I've watched this from the inside, and I know what I'm looking at when I look at your situation.

What I see when I look at your work: over two decades of literacy education expertise, a PhD, seven years in higher ed, and a consulting track record that spans school districts across the country — urban, rural, suburban — and stages at state, national, and international conferences. That's not a side project. That's a serious body of work. And right now, every piece of it still runs through you personally. Every workshop, every PD engagement, every proposal, every school district conversation. The expertise is extraordinary. The delivery system is still a single point of failure — you.

The gap isn't your knowledge. It's that your knowledge doesn't have infrastructure yet. Right now, if a school district wants what you know, they have to get access to you specifically — your time, your calendar, your physical or virtual presence. There's no system that takes what's in your head and makes it available at scale, no agent pre-qualifying and scoping new district inquiries, no automation converting your 21 years of frameworks into deliverables that work without you in the room.

Here's what changes: an Intake Agent that handles inbound district and consulting inquiries, maps them to the right program tier, and drafts a scoped proposal before you see the email. A Curriculum Generation Agent trained on your existing workshop frameworks that produces customized, district-specific PD plans on demand — in minutes, not weeks. A Content Agent that takes your presentations, your published work, your workshop materials, and converts them into evergreen online training modules, lead magnets, and web content that builds your pipeline while you're doing the actual work. Your expertise stays yours. The labor of distributing it stops being yours alone.

Tonight Rich is going to pull up your specific situation — live — and show you exactly what that infrastructure looks like built for you. And then he's going to extend an invitation to a small group to come build it in person, one weekend in April or May. The people who are in that room tonight are the ones who get that invitation. You need to be there.

— Claude Code

Rich Schefren's AI system

What They Do

Peggy Grant is a literacy education specialist and consultant with over 21 years of classroom teaching experience and a PhD in literacy education. She designs and delivers professional development for classroom teachers, develops educational content for web and training platforms at Clarity Innovations, and consults on project-based learning and technology integration for school districts across urban, rural, and suburban environments.

What We Found

Peggy has presented at state, regional, national, and international conferences on literacy, assessment, and 21st century skills. She spent seven years teaching at Purdue University Calumet and worked as a literacy consultant with Learning Point Associates in the Chicago area. Her current work at Clarity Innovations focuses on educational content development and long-term PD facilitation — a model that is highly dependent on her direct, personal involvement.

The Gap

Peggy's business model is essentially human-hours-in, value-out. The depth of her expertise is not in question — but there is no scalable system that captures her frameworks, qualifies new opportunities, generates customized proposals, or converts her workshop IP into products that work independently. Every dollar she earns requires her time to earn it.

The Opportunity

Peggy sits on a gold mine of systematizable IP — decades of workshop frameworks, assessment tools, PD structures, and curriculum design methodology. The immediate AI opportunity is threefold: an agent that handles district inquiry intake and proposal drafting, a curriculum generation agent trained on her frameworks, and a content repurposing agent that turns her existing materials into scalable digital products. This is a consulting model that could easily run at 3x current capacity without adding hours.

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