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Equity By Design

Hermes Intelligence

A guide through the EBD ecosystem

Hermes is the guided intelligence layer of Equity By Design. Not a generic chat window — a way to understand your options, find what is relevant, and begin the right workflow.

Hermes assists. Humans decide.

Guided experiences

Where Hermes supports visitors and partners

Guided Navigation

Hermes can ask about your role, challenge, and goal, then recommend the EBD services, resources, programs, frameworks, and next steps that fit.

Explore the Institute

Resource Discovery

Recommendations across EBD articles, books, guides, toolkits, courses, certification pathways, FAM+PACT information, and consulting services.

Browse the Resource Center

ULRL Contributor Support

Help selecting and refining a topic, drafting a short video outline, reviewing submission guidelines, preparing a title and description, confirming required materials, and continuing to the EditMate recording workflow.

Become a Contributor

Learn. Be. Do. Support

Reading-path recommendations, chapter reflections, discussion questions, action steps, and links to related EBD resources.

Join Learn. Be. Do.

Certification Guidance

Understanding certification options, completing readiness assessments, following checklists, identifying evidence requirements, and preparing improvement plans. Hermes cannot award certification — final review and approval remain with an authorized human evaluator.

See certification pathways

Consulting Intake

Collecting preliminary information from prospective partners and preparing an organized summary for the EBD team before a discovery call.

Start a consulting conversation

Publishing Support

Manuscript intake, project organization, editorial preparation, author guidance, companion-resource development, progress tracking, and marketing drafts. All substantive editorial and publishing decisions remain under human control.

Visit the Publishing Studio

Self-paced coaching

From learning to action, at your own pace

An EBD self-paced coaching experience with Hermes as a personalized coaching companion — structured enough to make progress, flexible enough to fit a school year.

How the experience works

  • Conduct an initial goals and needs assessment
  • Recommend a personalized pathway
  • Guide you through modules
  • Ask reflection questions
  • Help complete exercises
  • Create action steps
  • Build weekly implementation plans
  • Track progress
  • Recommend approved EBD resources
  • Summarize completed work
  • Prepare questions for optional human coaching
  • Produce a final action plan

Potential coaching pathways

  • Educational leadership
  • Family engagement
  • Inclusive practice
  • School improvement
  • Program development
  • Educational entrepreneurship
  • Implementation planning
  • Professional growth

Built in

  • Progress indicators
  • Saved work
  • Milestone check-ins
  • Downloadable action plans
  • An option to request human coaching when additional support is needed

Hermes governance

Clear limits, human authority

  • Hermes operates only within approved EBD content, role-based permissions, and defined workflows.
  • Hermes does not provide clinical, legal, financial, or other regulated professional advice.
  • Sensitive, high-stakes, or unclear requests are directed to an appropriate human.
  • AI-assisted drafts, edits, and translations are reviewed and approved by qualified people before use.
  • Hermes never replaces the expertise, judgment, or relationships provided by people.

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