Custom Image already does the hard part — it teaches real trades to youth, young adults, and under-skilled, financially-challenged Angelenos, and turns them into credentialed workers. DRGx builds the system that lets it run at scale, prove its outcomes, and grow — a multi-tenant platform you unlock one gate at a time, funded the way your tuition is.
The teaching is real. The infrastructure underneath it isn't yet — and that ceiling caps how many people Custom Image can serve and how well it can prove the impact funders pay for.
Students, instructors, and funders see the school — the trades, the people, the outcomes. The infrastructure that runs it stays out of their way, built on a backend that scales.
A public site, a student experience, an instructor toolkit, and a staff back office — all built from Custom Image's real trades and mission.
A multi-tenant Supabase backend: secure access, one source of truth, automated workflows, and the evidence layer accreditation needs.
Each gate is a working slice of the infrastructure — drafted as a real screen you can show a board first, then made live. You review it, sign off, and that capability unlocks. Nothing is rebuilt; it just turns on.
The right door for staff, instructors, and students — and the control panel that decides what's unlocked.
Sign people in safely, by role, fully isolated.
The core: real enrollment into real cohorts, with online-theory and hands-on-lab progress tracked to completion.
Run live enrollment and see who's progressing.
A public site and an application pipeline — interest, info sessions, intake, review, and a waitlist that auto-offers scarce lab seats.
Recruit and convert applicants, with referral partners tracked.
Onboarding, lessons, lab sessions, a personal schedule, project submissions, and the certificate at the end.
Move students from day one to a credential.
Attendance, in-line project review, and a builder that lets working tradespeople author courses without a developer.
Let instructors teach, not wrangle paperwork.
Term planning that treats your equipment — presses, machines, the sandblast booth — as the real constraint it is.
Schedule six trades on finite equipment, safely.
Learner outcomes, a standards crosswalk, an evidence repository, a self-study workspace, and annual reports built from live data.
Generate accreditation & grant evidence on demand.
Donations and tuition credits, publicly verifiable certificates, and onboarding for a second campus or partner program.
Close the funding loop and replicate the model.
Workforce boards, grant-makers, and WASC all ask for the same evidence. Once the infrastructure is unlocked, Custom Image stops assembling it by hand and starts generating it from live data.
Who started, who finished, and where they dropped — by trade and by cohort.
Verifiable certificates issued, the workforce credential funders count.
Demographics and referral sources — the equity story, documented.
Industry & partner connections that turn a credential into a job.
A foundation to start, a flat retainer to run it, and gates you unlock on your own timeline — sized to map onto grant cycles.
DRGx stands up the foundation and the live enrollment core. Custom Image keeps doing what it does best — turning people into skilled, credentialed workers.