Allied-health & CTE workforce training · An Ascendant Road Holdings platform

The training platform regulators actually want to inspect.

AscendantCare is the compliance backbone for every allied-health credential — CNA today, with phlebotomy, medical assistant, pharmacy tech, EMT and more on the same rails. Skills checklists, clinical-hour ledgers, RN & preceptor sign-off, and a one-click state-inspection export. White-label your brand. Keep your students. Own your data.

Sandbox tenant with seed data within 24 hours of signing the MSA. No card required.

Spring 2026 Day Cohort
On track
Classroom
87/100 hrs
Clinical
12/16 hrs
22-skill mastery18 / 22
Inspection packet ready · hash-chain verified
12programs

On one compliance backbone

1login

Your brand · your tenant · your data

7roles

Superadmin → guardian, all audited

1-click

State inspection export

The platform

One backbone. Every credential runs on it.

Every CTE platform claims it "does compliance." Most bolt it onto a generic LMS. AscendantCare is built compliance-first — the skills checklist, the clinical-hour ledger, the preceptor sign-off, and the state-inspection export are one data model. Build it once, and every allied-health program becomes a configuration, not a rewrite.

01

Real program structure, per state

Programs → Cohorts → Sections, the way agencies inspect them. Mixed-age cohorts apply COPPA / FERPA / HIPAA flows automatically from each student's consent profile. Multi-state regulatory profiles; cohort-based or rolling delivery.
02

Compliance, modeled per credential

The exact requirement for each program — NATCEP's 22 skills for CNA, 30 + 10 live draws for phlebotomy, recurring USP <797> checks for sterile compounding — with licensed sign-off, document vault, six-gate enrollment, and one-click state export.
03

AI grading you can defend

Essays, reflections, and clinical journals reviewed by AI in seconds. Every score is a suggestion — your instructor approves or overrides. Both paths land in the hash-chained audit log. Retake-cap enforced server-side.

The program catalog

Twelve credentials. One set of rails.

CNA is live in production. Eleven more allied-health verticals are sequenced behind it on the same compliance backbone — each with its own skills model, hour-or-procedure requirement, and state or national export. Pick the one you run; we'll show you the one already built.

1 available3 in development8 on the roadmap

See it working

Not a slide deck — the actual screens your staff will use.

Every panel below is a real AscendantCare surface — the same command center, skill sign-off, AI grading, clinical ledger, and inspection export your program runs on. The screens show CNA, our first live tenant; every credential runs on the identical rails — enrollment to state inspection, on one platform.

care.ascendantroadholdings.com/admin/dashboard

Good morning, Sheila · CompassRN

Program command center

Inspection-ready

Active students

58

3 cohorts

Clinical hrs

742

logged · term

Docs pending

4

review queue

Skills signed

91%

cohort avg

Cohort progress

Spring 2026 DayOn track · 87%
Spring 2026 EveningOn track · 64%
HS Dual-EnrollWatch · 41%

6-gate enrollment compliance

Consents
Background
Immunizations
BLS
Documents
Payment
Hash-chain verified

The command center

One screen: every cohort, every enrollment gate, every clinical hour — color-coded for inspection readiness the moment you sign in.

care.ascendantroadholdings.com/admin/skills
22-skill checklist · Maria G.
High school

CMS NATCEP · 18/22 mastered

Handwashing
Vital signs
Bed bath
Oral care
Transfer w/ gait belt
Ambulation
Range of motion
Position & turn
Assist with feeding
Catheter care
Perineal care
Denture care
Apply elastic stocking
Measure I&O
Radial pulse
Count respirations
Weigh & measure
Foot care
Mouth care · unconscious
PPE donning
Collect specimen
Isolation precautions
Electronic RN attestation · R. Okafor, RN · 2026-06-14

NATCEP 22-skill checklist

The federal CMS checklist with electronic RN attestation — sign-off is locked to a licensed RN and written straight to the audit chain.

care.ascendantroadholdings.com/admin/grade
AI grade review
Awaiting instructor

Clinical journal · Week 6 reflection · Andre P.

“The resident was reluctant to ambulate. I applied the gait belt, explained each step, kept within arm’s reach, and documented the refusal of the first attempt before we tried again slowly…”

AI suggests

92/100

Safety ✓ · communication ✓ · dignity ✓ · documentation partial. Suggestion only — the instructor’s score is final.

Approve 92
Override…
Allow retake

Defensible AI grading

AI suggests a score in seconds; your instructor approves, overrides, or allows a retake. Every path is logged with actor and reason.

care.ascendantroadholdings.com/admin/clinical
Clinical hour ledger
742 / 960 cohort hrs

Preceptor co-signature required · 16 hrs / student

StudentSiteHrsSign-off
Maria G.Bayou Manor SNF8.0Co-signed
Andre P.Bayou Manor SNF8.0Co-signed
Tyra W.Heights Rehab6.5Pending
Devon L.Heights Rehab8.0Co-signed
Keisha M.Bayou Manor SNF4.0Returned
Each co-sign writes a hash-linked entry to the audit log.

Clinical hour ledger

16 clinical hours per student, preceptor co-signed, totaled against the cohort requirement automatically — no spreadsheet.

care.ascendantroadholdings.com/admin/audit
HHSC inspection export
1-click

Student training file · Maria G. · assembled in 1.2s

Enrollment & 6-gate compliancePASS
22-skill checklist + RN sign-offPASS
Clinical hours (preceptor co-signed)PASS
Assessment grades + AI audit trailPASS
Consent profile · COPPA/FERPA/HIPAAPASS
Hash-chain integrityVERIFIED
Download inspection packet (PDF)

One-click HHSC export

The entire student training file — hash-verified — as a single packet an inspector can read top to bottom.

Renders reflect the live CompassRN tenant UI. Your sandbox is white-labeled to your brand and domain.

Compliance & integrity

Built so you can sleep through inspection week.

Texas HHS can pull a student's entire training file in one click. Every grade override, every preceptor sign-off, every consent change is hash-linked to the previous entry. Tampering breaks the chain — visibly, automatically.

  • Hash-chained audit log (SHA-256 with previousHash linkage)
  • Six-gate enrollment compliance: consents · background · immunizations · BLS · docs · payment
  • Reverse-alias HIPAA architecture — patient PHI never enters the platform
  • COPPA verifiable parental consent for under-13 students
  • Server-side retake-cap enforcement — no DevTools bypass
  • Texas SB 820 honored: no targeted advertising, deletion-on-request, data minimization
audit_log · RETAKE_APPROVEDchain verified
{
  "tenantId":   "compassrn",
  "actorRole":  "instructor",
  "action":     "RETAKE_APPROVED",
  "reason":     "instructor_initiated",
  "resourceId": "sub_8sl2a91",
  "after":      { "retakeApproved": true, "attemptNumber": 1 },
  "previousHash": "f7c9…3a2b",
  "hash":         "1d4e…91c0"
}

Who runs on AscendantCare

For operators who run more than one credential.

If you train people for state-regulated healthcare work — one program or ten — you stop stitching an LMS, a hours tracker, and a background-check vendor together.

Allied-health schools

Several credentials, one brand.

Run CNA, phlebotomy, and medical assistant as separate branded programs on a single tenant — each with its own skills model, hour requirement, and state export. CompassRN (Houston) runs mixed-age cohorts across a high-school pipeline and adult learners today.

CTE & high-school pipelines

Dual-enrollment without the spreadsheet.

Pull HS dual-enrolled students into the same cohort as adults. Each student's consent profile decides which COPPA / FERPA / HIPAA flow applies. ISD reports run on the same data.

Workforce nonprofits & 501(c)(3)s

Funder reports built in.

Completion, certification pass rates, and placement export to your grant-narrative format. Built for the organizations that have to prove impact to stay funded.

Healthcare employers & systems

Train your own pipeline.

Hospitals, SNFs, and dialysis chains that grow their own techs get audit-clean, inspection-ready proof for every role they hire — on the same compliance rails.

Pricing

Flat. Predictable. Yours.

Per-tenant licensing. No per-seat surprises. Infrastructure passed through at cost with a monthly transparency report.

Founders tier

$1,200/ mo
A single credential program. Up to 100 active students. White-label domain. Manual payment gates.
  • One allied-health program template
  • 100 active students
  • AI grading included (capped)
  • Email + SMS notifications
  • Audit log + inspection export

Program tier

Most chosen
$2,400/ mo
Multi-cohort operations on any credential. Up to 400 active students. Mixed-age cohorts. State submission templates.
  • Any allied-health credential
  • 400 active students
  • AI grading uncapped
  • Mentor portal + compliance
  • Multi-state policy switching

Network tier

Custom
Multi-site networks, ISDs, statewide rollouts across credentials. Buyout option at month 18+ with source escrow release.
  • Unlimited credentials, cohorts & students
  • Multi-tenant federation
  • Source escrow + buyout pathway
  • Quarterly compliance review w/ counsel
  • Dedicated CSM

All tiers include white-label domain, manual payment gates for v1, and a 30-day no-questions exit clause for the first 90 days.

Reliability & assurance

Boring where it counts. Built to be relied on.

Your program's records have to survive an audit years from now. We engineer for that — proven, managed infrastructure on the data that matters, and a relentless focus on speed and instructor experience everywhere else.

Always available

Installable, offline-tolerant web app — fast on any device, dependable on a clinic's weak Wi-Fi.

Resilient & scalable

Enterprise managed-cloud infrastructure that auto-scales, with U.S. data residency and automated backups.

Tamper-evident

Append-only audit trail — every record cryptographically linked to the one before it. Tampering is visible, instantly.

Secure by default

Encrypted in transit and at rest. Access is enforced on our servers and never trusted to the browser.

Accountable AI

AI accelerates grading; a licensed instructor approves every result. No black-box auto-grading.

The integrity loop

From submission to final grade — verified at every step.

  1. 1

    Student submits

    Every submission is checked on our servers — identity, enrollment, deadline, and attempt limits — before anything is saved. It can't be bypassed from the browser.

  2. 2

    AI drafts a score in seconds

    The moment a written response lands, AI drafts a suggested score with rationale — no grading backlog.

  3. 3

    Instructor decides

    Approve as-is, override with their own score, or grant a retake. Every action is recorded with who did it and why.

  4. 4

    Student sees the result

    A clearly-labeled preliminary score appears immediately; the final grade is released only after the instructor signs off.

  5. 5

    Inspector pulls the file

    One export assembles every grade, decision, clinical hour, and skill sign-off in order — and proves none of it was altered.

The platform you wished existed when you started your program.

Run a 30-minute call. Tell us about your program. We'll show you a sandbox tenant that already works.