Olivier

I used to start every morning the same way. Scrolling through a wall of emails trying to figure out what I had missed overnight.

A grade update from PowerSchool buried under a Canvas assignment alert. A dentist reminder lost between two soccer practice schedules. A teacher note I never saw until my son mentioned it three days later. Two boys, two schools, two of everything and zero system to hold it together.

I am a French-born Bay Area dad, and I will be honest: the American high school system was already a mystery to me. The GPA calculations, the AP course weighting, the college application timeline that apparently starts in 9th grade. Nobody hands you a manual. You are just supposed to figure it out while also managing a career, a household, and yes, the endless inbox.

So I built Solyo. First for my own family. Then I realized other parents were drowning in the exact same way. I started sharing what I was learning, listening to families going through the same thing, and kept building until it clicked.

Now I write about what actually works: grade tracking, college planning, financial aid, all the things I had to learn from scratch. No expert credentials, no academic background in education. Just a parent who got obsessed with solving the problem and refused to stop until it made sense.

If you are a parent of a high schooler feeling behind, you are not. You just need a better system.