How Attuned Education Partners Delivered Enterprise Dashboards on a Tight Timeline

TL;DR

Problem: A marquee school system asked Attuned Education Partners for dashboards well beyond what its existing tooling could support, on a timeline that left almost no room for error.

Solution: Two senior engineers evaluated eight BI tools and hands-on tested three (Luzmo, Qrvey, Metabase) before choosing Luzmo for its pricing model and its implementation support.

Results: Production dashboards shipped on a compressed timeline · a second Luzmo integration is already in development · Luzmo is now a candidate to become the visualization layer across Attuned's whole product suite.

Why Luzmo: A monthly-active-user pricing model that matched Attuned's actual usage pattern, backed by a dedicated Slack channel with the Luzmo team from day one of implementation.

Impact snapshot

Metric	Before	After
Tooling fit	No existing tool matched the sophistication a marquee client required	8 tools evaluated, 3 tested hands-on, Luzmo selected
Pricing model	Seat-based licensing bills for the full user base regardless of activity	Monthly-active-user pricing — Attuned pays only for engaged users
Vendor support	Standard sales-to-support handoff	Dedicated shared Slack channel with Luzmo from day one of implementation
Delivery	Project scope grew mid-build	Full dashboard suite shipped and live despite the added scope
Roadmap	One analytics use case	A second Luzmo integration already in development, with a long-term path to becoming Attuned's broader visualization layer

About Attuned Education Partners

Attuned Education Partners helps school systems across the United States improve student outcomes, combining consulting services with software products that support classroom instruction, staff experience, and strategic planning. Attuned has been expanding beyond consulting into software, and today operates several products alongside its consulting work: CARE, an instructional coaching and classroom walkthrough platform, and the Spark survey suite, a bundle of tools spanning staff satisfaction, family and student, and pulse surveys, plus a 360 leadership evaluation tool.

Sam Falk, Chief Software Officer at Attuned, was tasked with finding an embedded analytics platform that could support a landmark new client relationship, fast.

The challenge: landing a marquee client with no time to spare

When a large and prominent school system approached Attuned needing sophisticated dashboards, the stakes were immediately clear. This was the kind of partner whose impact on students is significant.

The requirements were well beyond what Attuned's existing tooling could support. Two senior engineers, working across time zones, were put on the problem with a single directive: find something that works, and find it fast.

Eight tools were assessed in total. Three were installed and tested hands-on: Luzmo, Qrvey, and Metabase. Luzmo came out on top.

Why Luzmo won a head-to-head against eight competitors

Visualization quality alone didn't decide it. Sam acknowledged that at the higher end of the market, most tools clear the bar on visuals. As he put it: "The technology is not quite a commodity, there are technological differentiators in these tools. But the visual features were well above the bar from everybody."

The real differentiators came down to two things: how Luzmo priced its product, and how its team showed up during implementation.

Tool	Evaluated	Visuals	Embedding	Support	Pricing
Luzmo (chosen)	Installed	Excellent	Strong	Outstanding	Flexible MAU
Qrvey	Installed	Strong	Good	Moderate	More expensive
Metabase	Installed	Adequate	Adequate	Concerns	Moderate
Jaspersoft, Looker, Exploratory, Bert	Research only	—	—	—	—

Pricing that fits the usage pattern

Attuned's end-user base runs into the thousands, but only a portion of those users interact with dashboards in any given month. A seat-based licensing model would mean paying for the full user base regardless of activity. Luzmo's monthly-active-user model meant Attuned only pays for the users actually engaging with the product.

"The pricing structure worked rather nicely for us. It's based on how many people are using it each month. That works well for us, and it also means that as we add Luzmo to more and more places in our software, we'll pay Luzmo more money. But that's okay. We're getting more value from it at that point."

— Sam Falk, Chief Software Officer, Attuned Education Partners

Support that went beyond the sales call

Speed required trust. From the moment implementation began, the Luzmo team set up a shared Slack channel giving Attuned's engineers a direct line for questions and issues. On a tight timeline with a small team, that kind of access matters.

"The way Luzmo worked with us, I don't know if it was as important as the capabilities of their software, but it was very important. And they lived up to that."

— Sam Falk, Chief Software Officer, Attuned Education Partners

Sam's verdict on the sales experience was equally clear: "Replicate him" was a reference to the sales rep who led the process — attentive, outcome-focused, and consistently responsive from first conversation through go-live.

The results: bigger than expected, delivered anyway

The project turned out larger than anyone had scoped going in. Despite on-the-fly additions, everything was eventually shipped and working. For a three-engineer team taking on an enterprise-grade analytics build under pressure, that outcome represented a genuine win.

• Shipped on a compressed timeline: Attuned moved from evaluation to production dashboards using Luzmo's embedded analytics, despite scope growing mid-build.
• A second integration already underway: A new Luzmo integration is in active development.
• A long-term path to a single visualization layer: Luzmo is now a candidate to power visualization across other Attuned products.

What's next for Attuned and Luzmo

Attuned is already building out its next Luzmo use case. The broader goal is to consolidate all visualization across the product suite under a single platform. Sam is also working on upstream data infrastructure improvements, standardizing how data is formatted so that performance gains apply across all tools, not just Luzmo.

"The way Luzmo worked with us from the beginning, a portal with all the information, then a Slack channel during implementation, they really set themselves apart with that."

— Sam Falk, Chief Software Officer, Attuned Education Partners

Take the next step

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