The Founding Opportunity
Human infrastructure. Built for people. Wired to learn.
The opportunity
We're entering a period when machine intelligence will change how people learn, earn and work. Capital is moving quickly to build the infrastructure for AI. We believe there is an equally important opportunity to build the institutions people will need to live and work beside it.
Standard Loop is being formed to pursue that opportunity.
Our first move is acquiring and operating established career schools, beginning with allied health. We want to preserve what good schools already do well, give capable local leaders the resources to improve them and help more students finish their training, find work in their field and earn more.
That's the standard.
We intend to build an organization that learns from each institution it owns. What graduates encounter at work should inform what schools teach. What employers need should inform how training changes. What works in one school should be available to the next.
We intend to build a global operation, with Nairobi as a hub, so the loop learns across markets as well as across campuses, and that breadth is part of how we maintain our advantage.
That's the loop.
Why this could become a substantial business
We see an opportunity at the intersection of four developments.
Human work remains valuable. Healthcare and many skilled occupations still require people with practical ability, sound judgment and responsibility for other people. AI will change these jobs, but our working belief is that demand for strong training pathways will remain substantial.
Many schools are small operating businesses. Career schools often have local employer relationships, established programs and founders who have spent years building them. Some will eventually need succession. We want to be a capable long-term successor for the right institutions.
Access to training is changing. Workforce Pell, effective July 1, 2026, creates a potential new federal funding pathway for qualifying short-term training programs. Program approvals and outcomes requirements remain substantial. We will never assume eligibility or additional revenue without verifying it for a specific school.
Better tools can improve the work. Admissions administration, student support, scheduling and placement involve recurring tasks that may benefit from modern software and AI. We intend to test improvements with qualified people responsible for the decisions that matter.
The first test is economic and local. Can we buy a sound school at a sensible price, maintain its standards and improve both student outcomes and operating performance?
How we're building
The school acquisition business comes first and is intended to become the economic foundation.
Each school would have experienced local leadership. Jason's role would be at the parent-company level, focused on capital, leadership, strategy, partnerships and governance.
Over time, Standard Loop also intends to support a small number of proven builders with capital, technical help and a strong network. That fellowship would be separately funded and led. It will launch only after receiving a two-year anchor commitment.
A small applied-technology lab may support the schools and test useful tools. It will have its own leadership and financial discipline. Neither the fellowship nor the lab is a condition for acquiring the first school.
The investment opportunity
We are exploring two complementary sources of capital.
Formation capital would establish the parent company, fund the core team, support acquisition sourcing, retain specialized advisers and cover the work required to reach a first transaction.
Deal capital would be raised for specific acquisitions, with equity investors, lenders and potentially selling owners participating under transaction-specific agreements.
A preliminary 24-month formation budget is approximately $2.8 million, potentially financed in stages. Acquisition purchase capital would be separate. This is a planning budget, not an announced offering.
We are evaluating smaller single-school acquisitions and larger established school groups. The financing, governance and ownership terms will depend on the assets we can actually find and underwrite.
Why Jason
Jason Towns has spent his career working with founders, building companies and helping capable people gain access to resources.
His background includes co-founding Broadband.com, leading the Techstars Future of Longevity Accelerator as Managing Director and work with Groundwork Ventures and CODE2040.
Standard Loop brings that experience into a different form of institution-building: ownership of operating businesses with measurable financial and human outcomes.
Jason will assemble the capital and leadership. Experienced education operators will run the schools.
Where we stand
Standard Loop is in formation.
We have a developed thesis, an initial acquisition screen, preliminary financing scenarios and research into publicly listed school opportunities.
We do not yet have an acquired school, a verified proprietary acquisition pipeline or committed institutional capital. We have not represented prospective leaders as appointed.
The immediate work is to validate the market, recruit experienced operating leadership, establish the appropriate legal and financial structure and qualify the first acquisition.
What we're looking for
We're beginning conversations with a small group of people who could help build the foundation.
The best early partners understand that strong financial results and better outcomes for people can reinforce each other. They also understand that buying regulated schools requires patience, capable management and disciplined capital.
We'd value partners who can help assess the acquisition thesis, provide formation or transaction capital, introduce school owners and education operators, or help us see the risks we're missing.
We intend to build something that earns its place in the world and produces meaningful wealth for the people who make it work.
Keep your heart. Build something that lasts.
Discussion material only. Financing terms, entity structure and financial projections remain preliminary. This is not an offer to sell securities.
Discussion material only. Financing terms, entity structure, and financial projections remain preliminary. This is not an offer to sell securities.