01 — Statement

AI for education that works.

For higher education and K-12. AI that takes specific work off your team's plate — a real tool in their hands by the second cycle, on a defined scope and a defined price.

Let's talk → Principal-led · federal research pedigree · defined-scope engagements

$13M+

in federal research funding

across NOAA, the Department of Defense, and other agencies — work led by JHG's principals.

15+ yrs

production AI for federal customers

the systems built for federal customers where reliability was non-negotiable.

PhD principals on every engagement

no account managers between you and the people doing the work.

02 — What you get

Operational AI, applied to the work your team actually does.

Not a platform. Not a chatbot. A focused tool that fits into your workflow and takes a specific piece of work off your team's workload. Some of these we've built directly. Some we'd build for you, applying the same methodology applied through fifteen years of federal research.

K-12

Substitute teacher provisioning.

Coverage filled before first bell.

A teacher calls out at 6 a.m. The system has already started reaching the right subs — matched by certification, grade band, and prior fit — and a lesson plan is drafted from the teacher's recent materials. By first bell, coverage is filled and the front office stops chasing.

6am → 1st bell

coverage filled · lesson plan drafted

Higher Education

Applicant communications.

Every applicant gets a personalized response — every day, around the clock.

Proactive answers to inquiries. Application help. Financial-aid questions. Status updates without admissions having to scale headcount. The treatment your highest-touch students get — for everyone in the funnel.

<$1/applicant/day

approximate cost · per applicant

K-12

IEP drafting support.

The first draft, ready before the meeting.

Pulls from the team's notes, prior goals, and observation logs. Drafts the next round before the meeting. The case manager edits — doesn't draft from scratch. Hours back, every cycle.

8h → 30m

case manager time per IEP

K-12

Parent communications, in any language.

Daily summaries. Translated. Sent home.

What happened in class today, what the homework is, what's coming up — drafted from the teacher's notes and the day's schedule, translated into each family's preferred language, sent home automatically. Teachers stay focused on teaching.

12+ languages

translated daily · per family

Higher Education

Institutional knowledge capture.

Workflows and judgment, made queryable.

Your senior people retire. Their judgment goes with them. Capture the workflow, the why, and the edge cases — make it queryable for the next hire on day one. Institutional memory, made permanent.

Day 1

productive · for the next hire

If one of these sounds like your institution, that's a conversation we'd like to have.

03 — How we work

Defined scope. Defined price. No surprise change orders.

We do a short fixed-price discovery to find what's worth building. Then a defined-scope build at a price you can take to procurement. The number in the SOW is the number you pay.

Pricing

Fixed-price discovery up front, then a defined-scope SOW for the build. What we quote is what we deliver.

↳ 01

Discover.

2 weeks · fixed price

We sit with your team. Map the workflow, the data, the decision the tool has to support, the policy and privacy posture. You walk away with a plan, a scope, and a price — even if you don't hire us.

↳ 02

Build in cycles.

every 2 weeks · the thinnest slice that ships

Each cycle ends with a working tool your team can use, not a slide deck. Production-grade from day one. The smallest thing that's actually useful, before we add the next thing.

↳ 03

Stay through go-live.

every 2 weeks · iterate against the metric

We don't disappear after launch. The product gets better every cycle while we're with you. You see the change in the metric — or we adjust scope.

↳ 04

Defined scope, every step.

no open-ended billing

Every cycle has a clear deliverable, a clear price, and a clear way to know whether it worked. Take it to procurement; the SOW says what we'll do, what it costs, and when it's done.

04 — Posture

Compliance, data, and the way we work with your existing systems.

If a vendor's slide deck doesn't tell you where your data lives during their pilot, ask. Then ask us — we have an answer.

Compliance

FERPA, HIPAA, and state student data privacy laws.

Engagements are designed around the data privacy regimes your institution actually operates under. The discovery phase names the applicable standards explicitly, and the build is scoped to meet them — not retrofitted afterward.

Data residency

Your data stays in your environment.

We deploy onto your infrastructure or one you control. No JHG-hosted cloud holding your records, no outbound data feeds to third parties. The data doesn't move unless you say so.

05 — Integrations

Built to work with the tools you already use.

We don't replace your existing systems — your SIS, your LMS, your CRM, your case-management. The AI tooling fits into what you already run, from PowerSchool, Banner, Slate, and Schoology on the institutional side to the everyday productivity tools your team uses every day:

Don't see what your team uses? Day one of discovery is asking what's in your tools and what we'd integrate with.

06 — Why this works

Built for customers who needed it to work.

Fifteen years of production AI for federal customers — NOAA, the Department of Defense, and the agencies that hold work to evidentiary standards. Over $13 million in federal research funding led by the principals across that span. The same engineering rigor — methodology, data discipline, decision-support delivery — applied to the institutions our communities depend on.

Operational AI is what happens after the model works in the lab. It's the integration, the workflow fit, the end-user trust, the part you can't write a paper about.

— a JHG principle

Track record

2000s

Research foundations: machine learning methodology in security, decision support, and data systems for federal customers.
2010s

Production AI at federal scale.

Defense R&D · homeland-security analytics · mobile and embedded systems for first responders · the systems agencies bet on.
2010s — early 2020s

Federal research portfolio: $5M+ from NOAA, $13M+ across federal agencies — led by the principals.

Methodology and delivery, in the domains where evidence is graded and the work has to hold up under review.
2025

Jones Hill Group founded.

Principal-led, defined-scope engagements bringing the engineering rigor of federal research to the institutions that need it.
now

Institutions in higher education and K-12.

07 — Principals

Direct accountability. The people who build it stay on the project.

What an institution gets when it hires JHG: the people who've built production AI for federal customers, sitting in your conference room, writing the discovery report, shipping the code, and staying through go-live. No hand-off.

Henry Jones, PhD

Chief Executive

Henry leads commercial strategy and the shape of every engagement at JHG. Two decades of building and shipping software systems — turning research into deployed products for federal customers and the private sector.

He founded Kopis Mobile, building mobile and embedded systems for public-safety and federal customers. Before that he was Chief Technology Officer at Mav6, providing R&D services to the U.S. military, and Director of the Center for Battlefield Innovation at Mississippi State University.

Doctorate in Aeronautics & Astronautics, Stanford. At JHG, Henry runs the early conversations, sets engagement scope, and stays in through delivery — not just the kickoff.

"The right answer is almost never 'a platform.' It's a focused tool that fits how the team already works."

At JHG: early conversations · engagement scope · the work after the kickoff.

Joshua B. Hill, PhD

Chief Technology Officer

Josh designs and ships the operational AI behind every JHG engagement. The past seven years he's run AI and software projects end-to-end — discovery, architecture, build, integration, go-live.

He's led federally funded research projects across NOAA, the Department of Defense, and other agencies. Methodology, data discipline, and the work of getting a model to fit the workflow it's meant to support.

Doctorate, Sam Houston State University. At JHG, Josh architects every engagement and is accountable for delivery week to week. The team stays small on purpose: there's no account manager between you and the person who built it.

"The model has to be right. Then it has to fit the workflow. Then it has to be on the end-user's screen at the moment they need it. Most projects stop at the first one."

At JHG: architecture · delivery · the parts that have to keep working at 3 a.m.