IEP Ally (Hermes edition)

A free, local-first planning ally for parents navigating an IEP (Individual Education Plan). Built on Hermes Agent, it walks beside a parent through onboarding, keeps the child’s goals, notes and support team in one place, and gets them ready for every meeting.

No accounts. No subscriptions. Everything lives in your own folder, on your own machine. Telephone or chat optional, via Telegram.

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Licence: free to use, share and build on for noncommercial purposes with credit (PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0, see LICENSE). The IEP Ally, OneToEight and Afterschool names and marks stay ours; bundled third-party parts keep their own licences.

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What this is

IEP Ally is the IEP Companion Generator app reborn as a personal agent you own. The app’s best ideas stay: a guided intake, a clear About Me picture of the child, one big goal, short-term goals with strategies, a support team, and running notes. What changes is who does the thinking: instead of a web form and a cloud AI key, you talk with an agent on your own computer, and it keeps everything in plain files you can read, back up and take with you.

• Onboarding, as a conversation. The agent asks the same questions the app asks (child’s name, year level, existing IEP, Functional Capacity Assessment, other context, term dates, country) and builds the plan with you.
• The workspace. About Me (strengths, challenges, what helps learning, how communication works best), My Big Goal, Daily Wins (short-term goals with strategies), Support Team, My Notes and Teacher Notes.
• Meeting prep. Before any planning meeting it builds a one-page brief: your points, your questions, the goals you are pushing for, and the red flags to watch.
• Exports that work elsewhere. A printable plan page for the meeting table, and a JSON export that matches the app’s data model.
• Telegram, if you want it. Run the agent in a Telegram chat so a note can be captured the moment it happens.

The team