Yearbook · Newspaper · Lit-mag · Online editions — one tool
Build every student publication in one platform — with a privacy story no bundler can match.
Homeroom is the only multi-publication scholastic-journalism platform: your yearbook, newspaper, literary magazine, and public online edition in one tool, taught by a standards-honest curriculum as you build. Picture day runs inside the school’s walls — no face uploaded to an AI cloud, no biometric template ever created — and parents still find and buy their own child’s portraits.
No contract. No minimum order. No overprint — print-on-demand means zero leftover-inventory risk.
Three reasons schools and studios switch
The best book
A desktop-class editor
Undo/redo, version history, layers, masking, auto-layout, brand-locking, and full keyboard parity — plus fail-closed print preflight that guarantees font embedding (a missing font fails the job, never a silent substitution). Shipped
Publishing breadth
One platform, every publication
Yearbook, newspaper, lit-mag, and a public online edition share one roster and one identity — with a real newsroom assignment-to-EIC-approval workflow and a teach-as-you-build curriculum the incumbents fragment across separate tools. Shipped
The moat
Privacy-first picture day — and you keep the revenue
“Find my child” is a roster lookup, not a face match; the portrait never leaves the school’s VPC, and a photo is sellable only when consent says so. Studios keep the larger leg of the portrait sale. Pipeline & consent gate shipped Parent storefront in early access
Built for the people who own picture day
For photography studios
Free best-in-class software, the portrait revenue you keep, an on-platform commission engine for your reps, and a privacy moat you can take to a district’s procurement office. One studio brings its whole roster of schools.
For advisers & schools
The daily-driver book builder, a real newsroom workflow, an ad-sales engine, the fundraising lane, a teach-as-you-build curriculum, and a single-school FERPA wall enforced at the database — an adviser at one school can never see another’s students.
The privacy moat
Picture day never leaves the building
Every other bundler egresses a child’s portrait to a studio or an AI cloud to make “find my child” work. Homeroom does not. The portrait stays inside the school’s VPC, no biometric template is ever created, and the match is a consent-gated roster lookup — not a face match. A sale is possible only when consent says so. It is a sentence a bundler structurally cannot say.
The whole picture day stays inside the school’s walls — no face uploaded to any AI cloud, no biometric template ever created — and parents still find and buy their own child’s portraits.
The promise, in one sentenceSee how we compare
Fair, model-level comparisons — we credit what the incumbents genuinely ship and mark our own features Shipped or Early access.
Homeroom vs Jostens
The rep-sold market leader’s book + grad bundle vs one multi-publication tool with a no-egress privacy moat and no-contract pricing.
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vs Pictavo & TreeRing
The modern challengers’ free-to-studio model and per-student pages vs Homeroom’s parity pages, breadth, and the studio channel.
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Pricing
An honest take-rate, in public
Print-on-demand book tiers with a code-enforced cost floor (nothing sells below cost), a platform take-rate deliberately below the bundlers’, and the larger leg of the portrait sale left with the studio. No contract, no minimum order, no overprint.
The model, plainly
- Print-on-demand books — zero overprint risk.
- A code-enforced cost floor — never below cost.
- A take-rate below the bundlers’.
- The studio keeps the larger portrait leg.
Proof we’re building toward
Homeroom is pre-launch: the platform is built and the first paid pilots are landing now with regional studios that own picture day. We’d rather show you the product than quote a testimonial we don’t have yet — so the demo is the proof.
Pilot references will appear here as our first studios go live.
We’re honest about what’s shipped
The book builder, the newsroom, ad sales, the 100%-to-school fundraising lane, the no-egress picture-day pipeline, and the consent gate are live today. The parent-portrait storefront and the four-way studio/photographer/school/platform split are in early access — building now on the pipeline and consent gate you can already run. We never sell a roadmap as if it shipped.
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