Why this software is better

Trained by a human behavior scientist.

Most software is built by engineers guessing at how people work. DRAGEN is built and trained by a Board Certified Behavior Analyst: someone whose profession is the science of human behavior. It is the bridge between the two. The future is here.

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Lose the burnout.

The paperwork side of school and clinical work, handled on your own computer. DRAGEN sorts the email and drafts the replies, checks the billing, and is being built to suggest grades from your own rubric. A person approves every word.

Built by a practicing BCBA who writes the software himself. Nothing sends itself, and student and client information is never handed to an outside AI.

New: DRAGENGrade, rubric grading help for teachers. Pilot schools wanted.

Why DRAGEN, why now

Teachers are running on empty.

Year after year, national surveys find teachers more stressed and more burned out than other working adults. Much of what fills their evenings is paperwork a computer could draft.

Frequent job-related stress, 2026

Teachers
55%
Similar workers
34%

RAND, State of the American Teacher, 2026

Burned out “always” or “very often”

K–12 teachers
39%
Other workers
26%

Gallup, 2023 data, published 2024

# a teacher's week, RAND 2024 survey hours worked 53 outside contract 15 similar workers 44

Roughly one hour in four is outside the contract: grading, planning and the email that follows a teacher home.

Burnout is the problem

More than half of teachers report frequent job-related stress, and the paperwork does not stop at the bell. DRAGEN takes the first draft off their plate, and a person still approves every word.

Futureproof

The AI runs on the computer you already own, so there is no per-message AI bill that grows with every email. It is built from as few moving parts as possible, it checks itself every day, and a new kind of work is a settings file, not a rebuild.

One person, no overhead

DRAGEN is one practitioner who builds, working from home. No sales team, no intake queue, no office to pay for. The person on the demo wrote the software, and he answers his own email.

Sources: RAND, June 2026 · Gallup, February 2024 · RAND, June 2024

The rule

Client information never leaves your computer.

A tool that saves a clinician time by sending the clinical record somewhere else makes a trade the client never sees: a note about a child goes to a server owned by a company that has made no promises about it, and nobody asked the client.

DRAGEN does not make that trade. The software runs on your own computer. Before any task is sent anywhere, it is inspected. If it carries anything that could identify a person — a name beside a pronoun, a date of birth, an authorization number, a description of a behavior — it is handled by a model running on that same machine and goes no further.

There is no setting to turn this off. It is checked by a test suite that has to pass before any change ships.

# every task is checked before it is routed local private model, this machine cloud only if an AI account you installed yourself is on the computer (Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's Codex); never for ABA, school or family setups; never health information or personal identifiers # three independent checks 1 identifiers dates of birth, record numbers, authorizations, contact details 2 clinical assessment and intervention vocabulary, supervision notes 3 name + context a likely first name sitting beside a pronoun or a family word

The third check is the one that matters. “Tommy had a rough day, he hit his sister twice” contains no formal identifier and trips no pattern — and it is still a clinical record about a child. The gate is built to fail toward caution: when it is unsure, it keeps the work local.

Where things stand

What works today, and what is still being built.

Each card below says where it stands. Anything still being built is labeled as such, here and everywhere else on this site.

In testing

Mail sorting and drafting

Each afternoon, new mail in your own Outlook is read, a copy of each message is filed under a category on your computer, and replies are written into your Drafts folder. Nothing is sent. A person reads each one and clicks Send.

Running

Private device access

Phone and smart glasses reach the machine over a private network only those devices can see. Nothing is exposed to the open internet.

Built

DRAGENAudit

Checks a practice's billing export against its session notes with arithmetic, not AI, and with no network connection at all. How it works →

No software here sends email. The drafting tools stage a reply and stop. There is no send command, no approval prompt, and no code path that reaches a send button — because a prompt is something a machine can satisfy by accident, and one misdirected reply in a clinical mailbox is a breach involving a child.

Always improving

Today is the worst it will ever be.

And it is only the beginning. DRAGEN gets better every week.

Every update makes it sharper: new jobs it knows, new checks it catches, fewer clicks to get the work done. Each lesson from real practice goes back into the tools, and every customer gets the improvement.

The AI underneath is improving faster every year. Each time it takes a step forward, DRAGEN brings that step to your desk.

What does not change: your information stays on your computer. DRAGEN improves from what we build and learn, not from your data.

Who

A practitioner who builds.

DRAGEN is the work of Chase Alexander Hought, M.S., BCBA — a Board Certified Behavior Analyst in active practice who writes the software himself.

That matters more than it sounds. Software built from outside a field tends to assume a clinician has time to click through nine screens after a session. The things built here are designed to remove exactly that friction.

Let us build something better.

Consultation for families and case teams, systems work for schools and organizations, or a conversation about the software — start anywhere.