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How Maxlab mapped AI opportunities for Tricoast Education
— an AI strategy & workflow consultancy engagement

Tricoast Education is a New Brunswick-based education company built around its proprietary Curriculum-Based Dynamic Assessment (CBDA) — a validated tool that accurately identifies K-12 children's language learning potential. Maxlab engaged Tricoast in a focused AI strategy and workflow consultancy — auditing their existing manual processes, walking through the limitations of traditional tools, and mapping a concrete AI roadmap using modern agentic workflows and purpose-built tooling. No implementation has taken place yet; this engagement was purely advisory. Implementation remains a strong possibility as the findings were well-received and the roadmap is ready to execute.

Tricoast Education — AI for CBDA Assessments

The Challenge

Tricoast's CBDA methodology is clinically validated and professionally endorsed — but a small team was manually managing assessment bookings, parent report follow-up calls, certification training support between modules, workshop and keynote intake, and all communications across both English and French. Parents received CBDA reports they struggled to interpret. Clinicians completing certification had no between-session support. And Tricoast's professional audience of speech-language pathologists and educational psychologists had no structured digital pathway to discover and enroll in CBDA certification — growth was almost entirely word-of-mouth within the SLP community.

ENGAGEMENT TYPE
AI Strategy Consultancy Workflow Audit Automation Roadmap Implementation Guidance
INDUSTRY
K-12 Language Assessment
Tricoast Education Inc.
K-12 Language Assessment · New Brunswick, Canada
3.8x
More Bookings
-77%
Fewer Calls
+69%
Completion Rate

Before — Pain Points

Six bottlenecks were limiting Tricoast's reach, client experience, and professional growth:

  • Assessment booking was a multi-day email exchange. Parents requesting a CBDA individual assessment entered a back-and-forth email process to confirm availability, collect background information, and receive pre-assessment materials. Many parents dropped off before confirming — not because they lost interest, but because the friction was too high relative to the alternatives.
  • CBDA reports generated 4–5 follow-up questions per family. Parents receiving their child's CBDA report frequently didn't understand what the results meant for their child's schooling. Each family generated multiple follow-up emails or calls, consuming significant Tricoast staff time to explain findings that a well-designed agent could communicate clearly.
  • Clinicians in certification training had no between-session support. Speech-language pathologists and educational psychologists enrolled in CBDA certification asked methodology questions between modules and received answers only when a Tricoast team member had availability. Knowledge gaps accumulated, slowing completion rates.
  • Workshop and keynote speaker requests were unstructured. Conference organizers requesting Tricoast as a keynote or workshop presenter sent requests via email with varying levels of detail — no standardized intake, no availability check, no speaker brief generation. Each request required multiple emails before a commitment could be made.
  • Bilingual operations doubled every manual effort. Every parent email, booking confirmation, report summary, and FAQ response needed to be handled in either English or French with equal quality. For a small team, this created constant context-switching and increased the risk of response inconsistency between the two language communities.
  • No structured pathway for practitioner discovery. Speech-language pathologists and educational psychologists learning about CBDA through a conference or peer referral had no structured digital funnel to learn more or enroll in certification training. Professional audience growth was entirely dependent on personal networks and conference attendance.

Recommended AI Architecture — Five Audience Flows

Maxlab mapped Tricoast's five distinct audience types — parents, schools, school systems, clinicians, and event organizers — and designed a recommended agentic workflow for each. These are proposed AI-powered flows, not yet deployed:

AUDIENCE 01
Parents

CBDA booking agent + report explainer — in English or French, collects child background, schedules assessment, and walks parents through results in accessible language.

AUDIENCE 02
Clinicians

Practitioner certification copilot — 24/7 methodology support between training modules, clinical case scenario support, and certification exam preparation in EN or FR.

AUDIENCE 03
Schools & School Systems

PD program intake and system-level onboarding agent — collecting institutional context, presenting the right Tricoast program for the school's needs, and routing to the appropriate team.

AUDIENCE 04
Event Organizers

Keynote and workshop intake agent — structured collection of event details, automatic calendar check, and pre-populated speaker brief generated before any Tricoast team member is involved.

DESIGN PRINCIPLE
Fully Bilingual — EN & FR

Every agent, every response, every campaign — delivered in English or French at equal quality. Operating in New Brunswick, Canada's only officially bilingual province, this is not a feature. It is the baseline requirement.

Our Consultancy

CBDA BOOKING & INTAKE AGENT (EN/FR)

Maxlab scoped and recommended an end-to-end CBDA intake workflow in both English and French — identifying the multi-day email bottleneck, mapping the conversation design, and specifying an agentic flow that would identify request type, collect child background, match the appropriate assessment, schedule the session, and send pre-assessment materials automatically. Projected to compress a 3–5 email exchange into a single conversation.

Consultancy Recommendation
PARENT REPORT EXPLAINER AGENT

Maxlab identified post-assessment follow-up volume as a key drain on Tricoast's team and recommended a dedicated report explainer agent. The proposed agent would walk families through findings in plain language — in English or French — explaining what the language potential results mean for the child's learning, which learner classification applies, what school-based supports to request, and what steps parents can take immediately. Projected to reduce the standard 4–5 follow-up questions per family to near zero.

Consultancy Recommendation
WORKSHOP & KEYNOTE INTAKE AGENT

Maxlab mapped the unstructured speaker intake process and recommended a structured agentic intake workflow — designed to collect event details, confirm availability, generate a pre-populated speaker brief, and send confirmation, compressing a 4–6 email exchange into a single structured conversation. Recommended for implementation as a priority workflow.

Consultancy Recommendation
PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION COPILOT

Maxlab's consultancy identified the between-session support gap and designed a recommended copilot to be trained on Tricoast's complete CBDA methodology, assessment protocols, scoring guides, and intervention frameworks. The proposed copilot would give enrolled speech-language pathologists and educational psychologists 24/7 methodology support between training modules — in English or French — projected to meaningfully improve certification completion rates.

Consultancy Recommendation
PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION CAMPAIGNS

Maxlab's consultancy designed Tricoast's first structured professional audience acquisition strategy — advising on LinkedIn campaigns and Google search targeting for speech-language pathologists, educational psychologists, and resource teachers across Canada. Maxlab recommended the lifecycle sequence architecture that moves practitioners from awareness through to certification enrollment.

Consultancy Recommendation
SEO & PARENT AUDIENCE GROWTH

Maxlab's consultancy developed the SEO strategy to position Tricoast for high-intent parent and educator searches — "child language assessment New Brunswick," "how to identify language learning difficulties," "CBDA assessment for my child." Maxlab advised on an AI-assisted content programme covering language development milestones and assessment guides to build organic authority and drive a consistent flow of new parent and educator discovery.

Consultancy Recommendation
AUDIENCE LIFECYCLE NURTURE

Maxlab's consultancy designed the segmentation strategy and recommended separate lifecycle tracks for each audience. Parents who inquired but haven't booked receive reassurance about the assessment process; practitioners who attended a workshop but haven't enrolled receive peer testimonials; school system administrators receive system-level implementation guides. Maxlab advised on language preference logic so each track is delivered in the contact's preferred language, at the optimal time, content matched to their decision stage.

Consultancy Recommendation
ADMIN OPERATIONS COPILOT

Maxlab's consultancy identified the internal knowledge-access gap and recommended an AI copilot to give Tricoast's team instant access to assessment scheduling protocols, certification programme details, workshop pricing and availability, FAQ responses for common parent and clinician questions, and communication templates in both English and French — projected to significantly reduce response preparation time and ensure consistency across both language communities.

Consultancy Recommendation

Projected Impact — Based on Consultancy Analysis

Projected: CBDA booking capacity increase 3.8x
Projected: Parent follow-up call volume reduction -77%
Projected: Certification completion rate improvement +69%
Projected: Workshop & keynote intake time reduction 82%
Projected: Admin response preparation time reduction 68%
Projected: Organic search traffic growth (90-day estimate) +44%
EN + FR
Recommended: Fully Bilingual
All proposed agents designed for equal quality in both official languages
5
Mapped Audience Flows
Separate recommended agentic flows designed for each audience type
24/7
Proposed Availability
Recommended agents designed for round-the-clock support, any time zone

Consultancy Findings & Roadmap

Maxlab's engagement with Tricoast Education identified six high-friction manual workflows — assessment booking intake, parent report follow-up, practitioner between-session support, workshop and keynote intake, bilingual communications overhead, and professional audience discovery — each of which represents a clear and solvable problem for modern agentic AI.

The consultancy walked Tricoast through the limitations of traditional solutions (manual email management, static FAQ pages, generic CRM sequences) and demonstrated how purpose-built agentic workflows — trained on Tricoast's own CBDA methodology and bilingual content — would resolve each bottleneck without replacing the human expertise at the centre of their practice. A phased implementation roadmap was delivered, with projected outcomes modelled for each workflow. Implementation has not yet commenced — but the groundwork, architecture recommendations, and tooling guidance are fully prepared. This remains a live engagement with strong potential for a full implementation phase.

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