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AI-powered executive functioning for college students.
College is complicated. Tanglio helps you organize your coursework, decide what to do next, break down overwhelming assignments, plan your day, and follow through.
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Built for college
College is complicated. Tanglio helps.
Practical support for the moments when planning, prioritizing, and getting started feel harder than they should.
Know what to do next
Prioritize competing responsibilities and build a realistic plan for your day.
Break it down
Turn large, overwhelming assignments into smaller, manageable steps.
AI notetaker
Capture class content and turn it into organized notes so you can focus more on listening and learning.
Plan your day
Bring assignments, goals, calendar events, and priorities together in one place.
Get support when you're stuck
Use Tanglio’s AI-powered executive functioning support to help figure out your next step.
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One platform for staying on track.
Tanglio is an online executive-functioning platform that helps college students organize coursework, manage assignments, plan their schedules, set goals, and decide what to do next.
Students can access their Tanglio account online to manage their academic plans, tasks, calendar, assignments, and goals in one place.
Created by a team of practitioners, students, clinical psychologists, and education researchers — led by Dr. Perry LaRoque — in collaboration with the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.
How it works
Designed for the moments
students get stuck.
Not just tracking work — but actually getting started, staying organized, and following through.
Learn about executive functioning in collegeSyllabus Upload & Assignment Extraction
College students upload a syllabus and Tanglio automatically pulls out assignments, deadlines, and key details — no manual entry required.
Lecture Capture → Task Creation
Tanglio can record lectures, listen for upcoming assignments, and automatically add them to the student's task list.
Task Breakdown into Manageable Steps
Assignments are broken into smaller, concrete steps — helping college students get started instead of staring at a blank page.
Guided Support for Planning & Completing
College students get AI-guided support for planning, starting, and completing work — in real time, in a natural conversational flow.
Check-ins & Nudges That Adapt
Tanglio sends prompts and check-ins based on what college students actually do — not fixed schedules that get ignored.
Why it works.
Most college students don't struggle because they don't know what to do.
They struggle with when to start, how to organize, and how to follow through.
Executive Functioning Skill Development
Tanglio is built around the actual skills college students need: planning, initiation, organization, and follow-through.
Motivational Interviewing-Informed Interaction
Interactions are not demanding or rigid. They use clinical techniques to help college students find their own reasons to move forward.
Real-World Coaching Strategies
The same approaches used by expert coaches — translated into an always-available, always-consistent tool.
Behavioral Feedback Over Time
Instead of static reminders, Tanglio adapts based on what students actually do — building a picture of each student's real patterns.
Platform Capabilities
Six capabilities.
Proven in the field.
Each one addresses a specific moment where college students get stuck — and where Tanglio actually helps them move forward.
Executive Functioning Support
Tanglio supports planning, time management, organization, initiation, and follow-through — not just task tracking.
Syllabus & Assignment Intelligence
College students upload syllabi and Tanglio automatically pulls out assignments, deadlines, and key details.
Lecture Capture → Task Creation
Tanglio can record lectures, listen for upcoming assignments, and add them to the student's task list automatically.
Task Breakdown & Planning
Assignments are broken into manageable steps, helping college students get started instead of avoiding the work.
Adaptive Check-ins & Nudges
College students receive prompts and check-ins based on their actual behavior — not fixed schedules that get ignored.
Conversational AI Support
Students interact with Tanglio naturally, getting guidance, structure, and real-time support exactly when they need it.
Built for the whole ecosystem.
Executive functioning isn't just a college student challenge; it's a systemic one. Tanglio connects the dots.
For College Students
Turn overwhelm into clear next steps. Keep track of what's due, break down impossible tasks, and build the habits you need to succeed without feeling judged.
For Colleges & Programs
Scale your support systems. Increase retention and follow-through across your student body with a platform that integrates smoothly into your existing resources.
For Researchers
Partner with us. We're actively collaborating on pilot studies, outcome exploration, and ed-tech research to push the boundaries of postsecondary support.
For Families & Coaches
Gain peace of mind knowing your college student has structured, reliable scaffolding. Empower them toward independence while ensuring they have the safety net they need.
Pilot Participants
Representative of feedback from early pilot participants — names withheld by request.
Showing testimonial 1 of 3: Director of Learning Support, Liberal Arts College (Early Pilot)
"Our students with ADHD and anxiety were falling through the cracks despite all the support we had in place. Tanglio has become the layer that bridges the gap — it's there at 11pm when no one else is."
Director of Learning Support
Liberal Arts College (Early Pilot)
"I've worked in executive function coaching for over a decade, and the visibility Tanglio gives me is unlike anything I've had before. I can finally see behavioral patterns instead of guessing."
Executive Function Coach
University Disability Services (Early Pilot)
"I went from missing deadlines every week to actually staying on top of my coursework. Having something that captures assignments from lectures automatically changed everything for me."
Undergraduate Student
State University (Early Pilot)
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Coach Dashboard
Tanglio is not just for college students.
Coaches and program staff have their own dedicated view — with the information they actually need to help.
- View student engagement and activity patterns
- Send direct messages to college students
- See where college students are getting stuck
- Receive AI-generated insights based on each student's profile
- Get student-specific strategy suggestions
This allows staff to intervene earlier, more effectively, and with better information — without dramatically increasing workload.
Tanglio gives programs something they've never had before.
Real visibility into college student follow-through.
Most programs can see whether college students show up. Tanglio shows whether they're actually working — and where they're getting stuck.
This is not replacing support. It's making it more effective.
Programs can:
- See Daily EngagementSee how college students are engaging day to day — not just at midterms or finals.
- Identify Gaps EarlyIdentify gaps before they become failures — and act before a student disengages entirely.
- Support EF at ScaleSupport executive functioning across an entire student body without proportionally increasing staff workload.
- Integrate with Existing ModelsIntegrate Tanglio into existing coaching models — it amplifies what your staff already does.
Currently in Pilot
Partner with us on research.
Tanglio is currently being piloted with select programs and researchers. We are actively exploring the data that comes from real student use.
We are exploring
- Student engagement patterns
- Executive functioning development
- Follow-through and completion
- Behavior over time
We are seeking
- Research collaborators
- Pilot partners
- Ed tech faculty
About
Built by people who've spent their careers doing this work.
Not designed around a product hypothesis. Tanglio came from decades of direct experience supporting neurodivergent college students — and was built with neurodivergent contributors on the team, not just designed for them from the outside.
Researchers & Professors
Faculty and academic researchers with deep backgrounds in neurodiversity, executive function, and postsecondary learning — people who have studied and published on these challenges for decades.
Coaches & Practitioners
Professionals who have spent years working one-on-one with neurodivergent college students — not studying them, but coaching them through the day-to-day realities of college life.
Neurodivergent Contributors
Tanglio was built with neurodivergent people on the team — not just tested on them. Autistic and neurodivergent contributors shaped the platform from the inside, grounding every decision in lived experience.
Developed in collaboration with the MIAD Lubar Innovation Center
The Lubar Innovation Center fosters innovative and entrepreneurial thinking to challenge students' individual interests, support academic programming, and collaborate with corporate and nonprofit partners. Their creative development program brought design thinking, user research, and real student experience to Tanglio — shaping how it behaves, communicates, and supports students in real moments of difficulty.
The Team
The Team Behind Tanglio.
Researchers, clinicians, coaches, and neurodivergent advocates — people who have spent their careers doing this work.
Leadership
Perry LaRoque, Ed.D.
CEO & Founder
A former associate professor of special education and founder of Mansfield Hall — one of the nation's leading college support programs for neurodivergent students — Dr. LaRoque has spent more than 25 years working directly with students to understand why talented people struggle: not for lack of ability, but for lack of the right executive functioning support. That experience inspired Tanglio. He is also the author of Taking Flight and Paving the Runway and an internationally recognized speaker on executive functioning, neurodiversity, and student success.
Nate Washington
Chief Technology Officer
A tech entrepreneur and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Nate co-founded Qoins — an award-winning fintech platform that uses automated micro-savings to help everyday people pay off debt faster. A pioneer of the no-code movement, he launched Qoins' first working prototype in a single week without writing a line of code, then founded Codeless Academy to make software development accessible to aspiring entrepreneurs everywhere. He brings that same conviction — that powerful technology should be frictionless and available to all — to his role as Tanglio's CTO.
Spencer Newman
Chief Financial Officer
A strategic finance executive and Kellogg School of Management graduate, Spencer serves as Chair of EastRise Credit Union — Vermont's largest financial institution with over $3 billion in assets — and as President of Green Mountain Insight, where he advises growth-stage companies across fintech, SaaS, and renewable energy on capital formation, M&A, and operational strategy. His career spans major transactions involving companies acquired by Qualcomm and Fortune 500 entities, and he helped oversee Burlington's landmark transition to 100% renewable energy. He brings that same discipline for mission-aligned growth to his role as Tanglio's CFO.
Emily Mazzulla, Ph.D.
Chief Clinical Officer
A clinical psychologist specializing in trauma, resilience, and ADHD, Dr. Mazzulla earned her Ph.D. from the University of Vermont and served as Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology at Marquette University, where she also directed both the Graduate Clinical Training Program and the SWIM Collaboration and Innovation. Her research and clinical experience informed how Tanglio approaches student wellbeing — ensuring the platform supports students through difficulty, not just around it.
Advisory Board
Kyle Reardon, Ph.D.
Advisor, Research & Evaluation
Kyle Reardon, Ph.D., is a special education researcher whose work focuses on secondary transition, postsecondary preparedness, employment, and improving outcomes for individuals with disabilities. Prior to earning his doctorate, Kyle worked as a special education teacher, behavior interventionist, customized employment coordinator, and Executive Director of a residential college support program for students with disabilities. His combination of research expertise and direct experience supporting college students informs his advisory work with Tanglio on design, measurement, and evaluating outcomes. Kyle advises Tanglio in a personal capacity, independent of his professional affiliations.
Rick Bryck, Ph.D.
Advisor, Executive Function Research
Dr. Bryck is a researcher and educator at Landmark College whose work centers on executive function, including disparities in EF and the effectiveness of interventions, programs, and strategies that support learning. He has investigated cognitive training, resilience and well-being for neurodivergent college students, metacognitive and executive-function supports in math, and STEM mentoring for students with disabilities. He also teaches and leads professional learning on executive function, student engagement, and educational technology for diverse learners. His expertise informs his advisory work with Tanglio on study design, measurement, and evaluating outcomes. Rick advises Tanglio in a personal capacity, independent of his professional affiliations.
Meghan Tomb, Ph.D.
Clinical Child Neuropsychologist · Columbia University Irving Medical Center
A clinical child neuropsychologist, Associate Professor, and Clinical Director at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Dr. Tomb earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Vermont. She leads Columbia's Promise Program, delivering neuropsychological care to underserved youth with learning disabilities, and specializes in diagnosing ADHD, dyslexia, executive functioning deficits, and neurodevelopmental disorders across all ages — translating assessments into actionable educational plans that open doors for students who learn differently.
Sean LaRoque, Ph.D.
Child & Adolescent Psychologist · ADHD Specialist
A psychologist specializing in ADHD and adolescent development, Dr. LaRoque holds a doctorate from the University of Arizona and has worked across private practice, academic, and research settings. A published researcher and former adjunct professor at UW–Whitewater, he developed the Pathway to Independence Inventory and oversees ongoing research at Mansfield Hall, Canopy College Coaching, and Tanglio.
Jake Weld, M.Ed.
Co-Founder, Canopy College Coaching · Educational Leader
Co-founder of Canopy College Coaching and a Commissioner and Vice Chair of the American Institute of Certified Educational Planners, Jake holds a Master's in Educational Leadership & Innovation. He has spent his career building organizations that empower students to take active roles in their own success — and brings that practitioner's perspective to how Tanglio is designed and developed.
Brian Digate
AV Technician, UW School of Medicine & Public Health
A former public school technology instructor and current AV Technician at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, Brian brings a frontline educator's perspective on what genuinely supports learners in real environments. As the father of two future college students, he approaches Tanglio's mission with both professional experience and a personal stake in getting it right.
Danny Raede
Founder, Autism Experts & Offmap · Neurodivergent Advocate
Diagnosed with autism and ADHD at 15, Danny built Autism Experts (formerly Asperger Experts) into the world's largest autism support and coaching platform. He is the founder of Offmap, a UK-based neurodivergent consultancy, and founder of WanderRock, which supports neurodivergent young adults through international travel. Danny's lived experience and entrepreneurial track record make him a foundational voice in how Tanglio is built.
If you work with college students, you've seen where they struggle.
Tanglio is built for those moments.
Whether you're looking for a demo, want to join a pilot, or are interested in a research partnership, we'd love to talk.