KulaCompass didn't start as a business idea. It started with a kid, two parents, and a question they had no idea how to answer.

Vaughan and Angela weren't homeschoolers. Both grew up in regular classrooms — public school, Catholic school, private school — and had no plan to do anything different. Then their son Bassil started at Coco Plum Nature School in South Florida.

Bassil was one of Coco Plum's founding students, and for the next three to four years he and the school grew up together. Nature, place, and play. Child-led learning. A tribe of parents who saw education differently. It was the first proof that school could be something other than what they'd always known.

Then the mountains of Asheville came calling — and with them, some big decisions. The family chose to homeschool full-time.

Angela charted the course, navigating the research and the path forward. Vaughan sat down to search "how to start homeschooling" — and felt more lost than before he started.

The instinct to build something better runs in the family: Vaughan's mom gave her whole career to other people's children, which is why KulaCares.org was created to support underfunded teachers — the nonprofit roots KulaCompass still grows from.

KulaCompass is the resource they wish had existed.