New in 2026: Say hello to BrainDash 1.0

As we enter 2026, I’m marking a milestone: the start of year four building Ceresant Solutions, and the moment when BrainDash 1.0 begins entering schools.

That matters more to me than any press release or product milestone.

Because BrainDash™ didn’t start as a product. It began as a question I couldn’t shake:

Why do we wait until readiness is already slipping before we act?

What We Mean by “Readiness”

When we talk about readiness, we’re not talking about test scores or performance labels.

Readiness is a student’s day-to-day capacity to learn, engage, and participate fully in school life.
It’s cognitive availability. Emotional steadiness. The ability to show up, regulate, and connect.

When readiness is protected, learning follows.
When readiness quietly erodes, everything else gets harder, often before anyone can name why.

Schools already understand this instinctively. What’s been missing is earlier visibility.

From Seismic to Ceresant 

Ceresant Solutions was founded in 2023, shaped by my professional background and lived experience, and by the absence of systems designed to detect early signs of stress and strain before they become real disruption.

We originally started as Seismic Wellness Labs, inspired by a simple idea: the brain sends signals before disruption, much like a seismograph detects tremors before an earthquake.

That name reflected the challenge.

Ceresant reflects the future.

It’s a word you probably haven’t heard before and might not pronounce correctly the first time. It’s SARE-uh-sant. The name blends two Latin roots: cerebrum (brain) and santus (health).

It reflects what we’re building at the deepest level: systems designed to protect and strengthen the brain through proactive, lifelong care.

We're beginning in schools because that’s where educators and students already are, and where readiness becomes visible long before anyone names it.

Students spend roughly 1,000 hours a year in school.
They may spend one with their pediatrician.

If we care about early support, schools are where it has to start.

A Shared Mission With Schools

Yes, we care deeply about mental health.

But we care even more about protecting readiness, because that’s the mission schools already carry every day.

Over the past year, through countless hours of collaboration with counselors, heads of school, teachers, administrators, and our product advisory board, we learned something important:

Our early messaging positioned BrainDash as an early warning system for mental health. Over time, we learned that the work itself supported something broader, rooted in learning, engagement, and day-to-day readiness.

That language worked in some settings.
In schools, it didn’t and shouldn’t have to.

School leaders aren’t trying to run early warning systems for mental health.
They’re trying to support learners now, with limited time, staff, and margin for error.

We made a deliberate shift in messaging from prediction to readiness.

Not a change in the science.
But a change in the platform we're building and how we speak to the people doing the work.

That shift clarified everything.

Meet BrainDash

BrainDash 1.0 is our first Alpha release entering real school environments.

It reflects a year of focused listening, iteration, and restraint, building with schools rather than around them.

BrainDash is not diagnostic.
It doesn’t label students.
It doesn’t mandate action.

It provides earlier, discretion-preserving visibility into patterns that affect readiness, so educators can:

• Notice emerging change sooner

• Prioritize support more calmly

• Act proportionately, before pressure forces reaction

This isn’t about replacing judgment.
It’s about enhancing it.

When insight arrives earlier, conversations change. Interventions are lighter. Students stay engaged longer. Counselors get time back.

That’s the work.

The Bigger Picture

Our vision extends beyond schools, but schools are where it begins.

We envision a world of unshakable minds and unstoppable lives, where mental resilience and cognitive vitality are actively protected, not reactively repaired.

This is not just the absence of illness.
It is the presence of strength.

Students who learn boldly.
Educators who lead resiliently.
People who move through life with clarity and confidence.

Our mission is simple and demanding:

Identify. Inform. Inspire.

• Identify early signals others can’t see

• Inform decisions when timing matters most

• Inspire stronger systems that value readiness, resilience, and human potential

BrainDash is one expression of that mission and the first to reach schools.

A Moment Worth Marking

As we begin this new year, I’m grateful to the schools that engaged early, the counselors who pushed us to be clearer, and the partners who helped keep us honest.

BrainDash 1.0 isn’t a finish line.

It’s a beginning, shaped by humility, trust, and a shared belief that students deserve systems that see them sooner, not when it’s already hard.

Thank you for being part of this next chapter.

-Todd