A Cultural Technology Studio Product

Educational notebooks for the movements doing the work.

The Companion is a productized educational notebook engine. Same architecture, swappable corpus, swappable brand, swappable language pack. Built once. Deployable per client in four weeks.

From $8,000
Pilot tier
4 weeks
Standard build
4 languages
EN · ES · HT · AR baseline
CC-BY 4.0
Open methodology
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Case Studies

Built once.
Cloned per client.

01
Live · Built on the engine
Shipped · 2026-04-21

Take Sides Companion

For The People's Forum · 6-week course series

Deep-dive study companion for The Artist Must Take Sides — Florence Reece, Gramsci, Cabral, Hughes, Brecht, Emory Douglas, OSPAAAL, the Black Power Mixtape, Cradle Will Rock. 14 sources. Constellation viz mapping shared arguments. Quote cards generator. Reflection notes that export to markdown.

Constellation viz Quote cards (1080×1350 PNG) Highlight + share Reflection export
Open the live Companion →
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Engine-swap proof · Same code, different brand
In motion · Vol 02 candidate

We Charge Genocide

For CPUSA NYC Education Office · scoping in progress

A study companion for the 1951 petition to the United Nations led by William L. Patterson and the Civil Rights Congress, charging the U.S. government with genocide under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention. Same engine as Take Sides. Different corpus. Different brand. Different theme. Built in the same four-week cycle.

Black-red-gold palette Patterson + CRC + Genocide Convention Constellation viz Multilingual-ready
Engine-swap proof · scoping with educational officer
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Your Companion
Movement edtech · cultural heritage education · political education · labor education
Open · Vol 03+

Yours, next.

For your org · scope a 30-min call

If your organization runs an educational program — political education, cultural heritage, labor education, anti-racist training, immigrant rights, climate justice — and you want a study companion designed in your brand, your language(s), with your constituency in mind: that's what the Companion engine is for.

4-week standard build 1-day Validator pass Hosted on your subdomain You retain full content rights
Start a Companion intake →
What it is

An engine, not an app.

  1. 01

    Corpus

    Primary sources. Validated. Multilingual where original. The foundation.

  2. 02

    Engine

    Sessions · sources · annotations · provenance · cross-volume index. Reused across deployments.

  3. 03

    Brand layer

    Per-client typography, color, motion vocabulary. The visible difference.

  4. 04

    Language pack

    EN · ES · HT · AR baseline. RTL support. Linguist-pass workflow. Languages are first-class.

Built once. Wrapped per client. The work compounds.

A Companion is a deep-dive study notebook built around a specific curriculum or topic. It's not a slide deck. It's not an LMS module. It's not a course platform.

It's a reference work — every primary source treated as its own deep page. Biography. Historical context. Key passages with commentary. What the work opposes and what it proposes. Reflection prompts that save to the learner's browser and export to markdown.

The engine is reusable code. Each Companion is a deployment instance — same engine, swapped corpus, swapped brand, swapped language. The work compounds.

The five differentiators

  1. Cultural Validator built in. Automated cultural-integrity check at publish time. No other edtech has this — most are content-neutral by design, which IS a politics.
  2. Multilingual-first. English / Spanish / Haitian Creole / Arabic baseline, RTL support, linguist-pass workflow. Languages are first-class, not bolted on.
  3. Constellation visualization. Network view of source relationships. Learners see how arguments connect, not just consume linearly.
  4. Hampton-lens design vocabulary. Content tagged with the four political questions: whose interests? what politics? what proposes? who makes it, who sees it?
  5. Source-first pedagogy. The corpus comes first. Content emerges from sources. Differentiates from "make a deck about X" tools.
Pricing

Five tiers.
Movement-org budgets respected.

Pilot
$8K–12K
  • Single Companion
  • RI subdomain hosting
  • RI brand + light client customization
  • 1 revision round
First-time orgs proving the model
Most movement orgs
Standard
$18K–25K
  • Single Companion
  • Client subdomain
  • Full client branding
  • 2 revision rounds
  • 1 training session
Established orgs running real curricula
Premium
$30K–45K
  • Single Companion
  • Client domain (white-label)
  • Deep custom integration
  • 3 revision rounds + 2 training sessions
Foundation-funded movement infrastructure
Series
$50K–65K
  • 3 Companions bundled
  • Shared infrastructure + brand system
  • 6-month support included
  • ~$17K–22K per Companion
Multi-topic curriculum programs
License
$75K + $500/mo
  • Engine license — build your own going forward
  • Self-hosted
  • Full white-label
  • 4 training sessions + onboarding
Large orgs with internal capacity

Add-ons

+$1.5K–3K per additional language beyond English
+$5K–10K curriculum development if no existing curriculum
+$1.5K–3K per 10 sources beyond the 14 baseline
+$750–1.5K extra training session
+$2K–8K custom feature beyond the 4 baseline
+25% rush delivery (<30 days from corpus-lock)
Hosting + maintenance: $200/mo or $2,500/year (Pilot through Series tiers). Covers hosting, security updates, framework updates, minor content updates. License tier carries $500/mo support.
Positioning

We work with the movements doing the work.

Radical Imagination is a Cultural Technology Studio. We work with PSL, with CPUSA, with DSA, with Working Families Party, with labor unions, with cultural institutions, with foundation-funded movement infrastructure — anyone whose mission overlaps with cultural and political education and who pays.

We don't take party positions. We serve the work.

This is the Fred Hampton frame. Recognize the work over the label. Find the principled common position. Build coalition through shared material struggle. Decline anything that contradicts the mission, regardless of pay.

— and yes, the tagline is Claudia Jones: "A people's art is a weapon of their liberation."

Start a Companion

Tell us what you're trying to teach.

Thirteen questions. About fifteen minutes. We respond within three business days.

Intake form is being wired up via Tally.

Until it's live, send a note to create@radicalimagination.xyz with the answers below.

The 13 questions →
  1. Org name + your role
  2. Org website + 1–2 sentence description of who you serve
  3. Topic / curriculum focus for the proposed Companion
  4. Existing curriculum, or starting from scratch?
  5. Source materials: have a list ready / need to compile / starting fresh
  6. Target audience: members / broader constituency / public / educators
  7. Languages needed: English / Spanish / Haitian Creole / Arabic / French / Other
  8. Brand assets you can provide: logo / colors / typography / style guide
  9. Hosting preference: RI subdomain / your subdomain / your server
  10. Timeline: urgent (<30 days) / standard (4–8 weeks) / flexible
  11. Budget range: $5–15K / $15–30K / $30–75K / $75K+ / discuss
  12. How did you hear about us?
  13. Anything else we should know?