Custom Educational Software
Purpose-built tools, dashboards, trackers, and student-facing experiences designed around your workflow instead of forcing you into someone else’s platform.
Educational software • AI training • Classroom simulations
Custom AI and simulation tools built for real classrooms
Treetown AI helps schools and educators move beyond generic tech. I design classroom-tested software, immersive history simulations, teacher dashboards, and practical professional development that makes AI useful, understandable, and safe in day-to-day teaching.
15+
featured builds ready to showcase with screenshots and demo clips
Teacher-led
designed by someone who actually teaches and runs simulations
Built to ship
from rapid prototypes to usable dashboards and deployable apps
What Treetown AI offers
Consulting grounded in real classroom experience, with a focus on tools that teachers and students will actually use.
Classroom Simulations
Interactive, game-based learning experiences that turn history, economics, and civic concepts into memorable, hands-on participation.
AI Professional Development
Training for teachers and administrators on practical AI use, classroom guardrails, workflow support, and student AI literacy.
Implementation Strategy
Help evaluating tools, writing usage norms, identifying high-impact pilot ideas, and turning AI curiosity into a realistic school plan.
Featured builds and simulations
Not mockups. Not side projects collecting dust. Every build here is real — designed around actual classroom friction, tested with real students, and deployed.
Interactive simulations
Teacher dashboards
AI-enhanced workflows
Browser tools
Monitoring apps
Real classroom problems that didn't have good software solutions — until there were. Built, tested, and deployed by a teacher who got tired of waiting for someone else to build them.
Wolverine Grader Pro
A powerful AI grading tool for written work. Integrates with Canvas LMS to pull assignments directly, or accepts batch uploads. Grade with Claude, OpenAI, or Gemini using your own API key — no monthly subscription, fully customizable rubrics and feedback.
Choppelganger Review Game
A social-deduction-style classroom review game that blends academic questions with high-engagement play.
WW2 Homefront Simulator
An interactive simulation that helps students experience tradeoffs, scarcity, propaganda, and homefront decisions during World War II.
Detroit Prohibition Bureau Game Simulation
A role-driven learning experience centered on Prohibition-era Detroit, enforcement, corruption, and historical inquiry.
Historical Stock Market Game
A market simulation that lets students explore investing decisions, historical context, and economic cause-and-effect through play.
Kilauea Volcano Monitor
A monitoring interface that turns live geologic data into readable updates, visuals, and alert-ready information.
Shopify Monitor Browser Extension
A browser-based monitoring tool built to surface important product changes, alerts, and backend activity more efficiently.
The Bridge App
A mentor hour tracking system that helps schools manage support workflows, accountability, and visibility for coaching relationships.
504 Plan Accommodation Tracker Teacher Dashboard
A teacher-facing dashboard that makes accommodations easier to understand, track, and use consistently in daily instruction.
Vietnam War Simulation
An immersive decision-making simulation that puts students inside the Vietnam War era — navigating the political, military, and human stakes of one of America's most contested conflicts.
Cuban Missile Crisis Simulation
Students step into the roles of key decision-makers during the most dangerous 13 days of the Cold War — weighing intelligence, diplomacy, and the consequences of nuclear brinkmanship.
JFK Simulation
An interactive exploration of the Kennedy presidency, the Cold War pressures he faced, and the decisions that defined an era — built to spark historical thinking and informed debate.
Freedom Ride Simulation
Students experience the courage and danger of the 1961 Freedom Rides firsthand — navigating the Civil Rights Movement through choices, consequences, and the voices of those who were there.
World War I Simulation
A classroom simulation that immerses students in the alliances, escalating tensions, and catastrophic decisions that turned a regional conflict into a world war.
Infographic Prompt Generator
A free browser-based tool that builds structured prompts for Gemini's image generation. Fill in topic, audience, layout, and style — get a ready-to-paste prompt that produces clean infographics, posters, diagrams, and visual explainers with legible text.
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Classroom Code Prompt Builder
A free browser-based tool for teachers to build clear, structured prompts for AI coding assistants. Fill in six sections — your role, the task, the app you need, where it lives, classroom context, and must-haves — and get a ready-to-paste prompt that produces better classroom tools.
Try it live → Download free →
STR Feasibility Calculator
A free, single-file calculator for modeling short-term rental investments. Enter purchase price, financing terms, revenue projections, operating expenses, and tax strategy — get instant cash-on-cash return, cap rate, and monthly cash flow. No subscription, no account, runs entirely in your browser.
How projects come together
The site positions you as both a strategist and a builder: someone who understands classroom problems and can turn them into working software.
Identify the classroom friction
Start with the pain point: engagement, workflow inefficiency, lack of visibility, weak implementation, or a missing student experience.
Prototype fast
Design a usable proof of concept with the right balance of speed, polish, and real-world teacher practicality.
Test in authentic settings
Use classroom feedback and educator workflows to refine the product until it actually works where it matters.
Train and implement
Pair the software with professional development, onboarding, and support so adoption lasts beyond the first demo.
Let’s build something useful
Treetown AI is a fit for schools, districts, and organizations that want thoughtful AI integration, custom educational software, or engaging simulation-based learning experiences.
- Custom tools for teachers, students, and school systems
- Professional development workshops and strategic planning
- Portfolio-ready examples of classroom-tested builds
Start the conversation
Email a quick description of your goal, the audience, and what is not working with your current setup.
About Me
Ryan Baese is the founder of Treetown AI, where he creates custom software, AI-powered tools, classroom simulations, and educational games designed specifically for educators. With 23 years of teaching experience at Dexter High School and degrees from the University of Michigan in Secondary Education and Public Administration, Ryan combines deep classroom knowledge with strong technical problem-solving skills. His mission is to help schools and teachers use technology in practical, creative, and powerful ways.
As seen in The Sun Times News — "Dexter Community Schools Take on Artificial Intelligence"