2025 in Review: A Year of Impact, Innovation, and Real Results

2025 was a breakout year for Nexus. From major product milestones to meaningful district impact, the past year was about turning vision into tools that actually help educators do their jobs better.

As we close the year, here are a few highlights that defined 2025 for Nexus.

Product and Feature Highlights

This year, we shipped features that made it easier for districts to move from questions to answers without friction.

Key highlights included:

• Sharing Threads, built from direct district feedback, making it easier to collaborate and share insights across teams.
• Nexify, a smarter query experience that improves how questions are interpreted so users get clearer, more relevant answers.
• Snapshot, which brought critical student level data into a single, unified view to support faster and more informed decisions.
• Profiles and Teams, giving districts better ways to organize context, priorities, and collaboration across roles.

Each of these features was driven by real usage patterns and real pain points, not theoretical use cases.

Real District Impact

The most important progress in 2025 came from how districts used Nexus in practice.

Across the country, teams used Nexus to:

• Reduce reporting timelines from months to minutes by replacing manual workflows with a single source of truth.
• Improve attendance and student support outcomes by identifying patterns earlier and acting with confidence.
• Strengthen program evaluation by connecting academic, attendance, and behavior data in one place.
• Bring consistency and clarity to special education and intervention conversations through shared, data grounded insights.

What stood out was not just speed, but confidence. Meetings shifted from debating numbers to deciding next steps.

Events and Community Engagement

Throughout the year, we spent time learning alongside district leaders, data teams, and educators.

We participated in conferences, regional events, and working sessions focused on interoperability, governance, and the responsible use of AI in K 12. These conversations continue to shape how Nexus is built and how we think about the future of data in education.

Just as importantly, we saw districts sharing workflows, dashboards, and best practices with one another, building a community around practical, real world data use.

Content and Knowledge Sharing

In 2025, our content focused on solving real problems districts face every day.

We published resources on topics like:

• How MTSS teams can use data more effectively in day to day decision making.
• Why fragmented systems slow down districts and how unified access changes that.
• Practical examples of using AI to support, not replace, human judgment.

Through blogs, newsletters, and conversations with districts, our goal was always the same: make complex ideas usable.

Looking Ahead

As we move into 2026, our focus remains clear.

We will continue building tools that turn district data into confident decisions, expand how educators safely use AI, and reduce the friction between questions and answers.

Thank you to every district, partner, and educator who helped shape Nexus this year. If you worked with us in 2025, you helped define what comes next.

We are excited for what is ahead.

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