Jupiter vs. Clever

Jupiter is an all-in-one gradebook, LMS, and SIS built for K-12 schools - from small charter schools to districts with hundreds of thousands of students. Teachers love the gradebook. Administrators trust the data. Parents stay connected. It just works. Unlike platforms built by acquisition, Jupiter was developed entirely in-house from the ground up - which means everything is genuinely integrated, not bolted together. No per-module fees, no surprise add-ons. One platform, one price.

Clever was born of co-founder Dan Carroll’s frustration as a school tech director in Denver. His plans to use technology to save teachers time and personalize learning were stymied by countless CSV files and forgotten passwords. Dan recalls, “I wanted to be an innovator, but I got stuck being a human API.” Software has the potential to empower teachers and create new ways to learn. But one thing must happen first. Everyone must be able to log in—quickly and securely. To solve Dan’s problem, we built a single sign-on portal that now helps 95,000 of U.S.