We are the team behind fair, fast teacher evaluations
Upraiser brings together veteran superintendents, award-winning product leaders, and a top-notch engineering team to take the friction out of evaluation season. We build with districts, stand shoulder to shoulder with coaches, and obsess over helping teachers and administrators grow.
Our mission
Our mission is to make every evaluation cycle equitable, actionable, and inspiring. We blend AI precision with the insight of experienced educators so districts can meet requirements while highlighting the growth moments that create lasting change in classrooms.
That focus drives every decision—from secure audio capture in the field, to rubric engines that adapt to any framework, to dashboards that surface the next best action for leaders. We co-design with administrators, superintendents, and teachers because their real-world challenges are the roadmap that keeps Upraiser relentlessly relevant.
Our values
These principles guide how we build, support, and scale Upraiser. They ensure every district we partner with experiences the same dedication to instructional excellence, rapid delivery, and trusted partnership.
- Champion instructional growth
- We come from classrooms and central offices. Every feature is built to honor teachers, elevate student outcomes, and give leaders the clarity they need to coach with confidence.
- Simplify the evaluation workflow
- Upraiser reduces the complexity of educator evaluations by automating evidence collection and keeping professional judgment where it belongs—with you.
- Deliver the features that districts rely on
- We build in partnership with our districts. We prioritize what matters, release updates frequently, and refine continuously so evaluators have the tools they need and teachers receive timely and meaningful feedback.
- Guard every ounce of trust
- Educator data deserves the highest standard of protection—secure, compliant, and always under your control.
- Stay relentlessly responsive
- District needs guide our roadmap. We listen closely, act quickly, and communicate clearly so issues are resolved and improvements arrive when they’re needed most.
- Invest in continuous improvement
- We learn from every coaching cycle, data review, and teacher debrief. Those insights guide our AI models and our product so they get sharper with every observation.
Our team
Meet the leaders steering Upraiser—from a former deputy superintendent who lived the evaluation grind, to a product veteran who has shipped beloved edtech platforms for two decades, to the business and operations expert who has successfully guided numerous organizations through formation, compliance, and scalable growth, to the Engineering lead - building out a secure, resilient SaaS platform.
Kris Perkins
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Brandon Perkins
Co-Founder & Platform Architect
Reuben James
Director of Growth
Daniel Perkins
Organizational Strategy and Operations