The Georgia FLEX (Foundational Leadership & Entrepreneur X-perience) program teaches high school students how to start and launch a business. Participants in the FLEX program—which involves not only the student-entrepreneurs but also teacher-advisors and local business mentors—must follow a 30-week process with detailed steps and hard deadlines.

When limited to a small group of participants, this process could be memorized by a few key individuals who walked them through each step. But expanding the program statewide, even nationwide, meant developing solutions that could function at scale without additional labor from the core FLEX team.

The Polymath team developed an e-course-style digital checklist for each key participant role, which we called “journeys.” These journeys break down the whole 30-week process into simple milestones, then further into bite-sized tasks. All of the necessary steps—including video walkthroughs we produced, written tips we helped write, and downloadable resources we designed—is presented in a user-friendly web app, right when and where it is needed. The completed journeys help busy FLEX participants focus on manageable short-term progress, without information bottlenecks and unnecessary handholding.

Now in its fourth year, the Georgia FLEX program and its Shark Tank-inspired championship tournament is primed for exponential growth powered by our new learning platform.