The Leadership Academy

The Jones Project runs a free eight-week leadership program for Shawnee County high school students. They needed one place that does three jobs: a public, video-forward site that recruits applicants and explains the program to parents and schools; an application pipeline that collects structured answers, a photo, and an optional short video into private storage; and a role-gated portal where the selected class works through weekly lessons and submits assignments while the director runs selection and the board reviews.

It is a small-N system on purpose: forty to fifty applications, sixteen to twenty students, eight admins, eight lessons. Every design decision favors correctness and safety over scale — a declined fifteen-year-old must never find out by absence, and nothing leaves the building that the director didn't approve.

Three phases shipped in dependency order: the recruitment funnel, then selection, then course delivery. The portal is role-blind on the surface and role-aware underneath — students, board members, and the builder each get a different app behind the same sign-in, with row-level security on every table. Lessons carry assignments with photo and short-answer submissions, and student video goes straight to Cloudflare Stream. The whole thing runs on the organization's own Supabase and Vercel accounts, so they own it outright.

It launched in July 2026 and has kept moving since: a navy interior theme, the first lesson live in production, and a second design pass to strip anything that read as generic. The gate before every push is typecheck, lint, 400+ unit tests, and a production build; a Playwright suite of 230+ end-to-end specs runs against a production server before anything ships.

This is my process applied to someone else's organization, with someone else's money on the line. The spec came out of working sessions with the director and his actual documents; the three phase plans were written before any code; and Claude executed under review with a hard gate script that never reports a deferred test as passed. Separate audit passes covered accessibility, security, functionality, and UX before launch.

The part that made it a business and not a project: pricing the work, invoicing it, training the staff to run the site themselves, and setting it up under their accounts instead of mine. Flanery Solutions LLC exists because of this build.