For ski & snowboard instructors
Launch your own Ride With [Name].
A clean client-support system for the off-snow side of your work. Private rider notes, recaps families keep, and a season timeline, all presented under your own name. The boundaries that keep you safe with your resort are built in, not bolted on.
- Instructor-owned notes
- Guardrails built in
- Run on Ride With Jay first
How it works
Four simple steps across a season
Ride With Spark sits behind the lesson, not during it. You add a few notes after you ride, and the family gets something clear to keep.
Set up your space
Pick your name and colors so the product reads as Ride With your name. Spark is the engine behind it.
Add notes after a lesson
A short note on what you worked on, a win, and a next step. No long forms. A minute or two is plenty.
Share a recap
Send the family a clean recap they can keep. They choose what to save and what to pass on later.
Pick up next time
Your season timeline reminds you where each rider left off, so the next lesson starts on solid ground.
Your product cockpit
A calm workspace that reads as your own
This is an illustrative preview of the instructor workspace. It is a still picture, not a working app, and it collects nothing. Booking, billing, scheduling, and assignment stay with your resort. Ride With Spark holds the notes around the lesson.
Static preview for layout only. Nothing here saves, sends, or signs anyone up. Real rider details would only ever live in an instructor's own approved space.
Instructor dashboard
Everything for one rider, in one place
Your dashboard keeps each rider organized so you spend less time remembering and more time teaching.
Rider notes
PrivateKeep simple notes for each rider. What worked, what to try next, and the small things that help them have a good day.
Family recap
ShareableTurn a note into a clean recap the family can read and keep. They decide what to save and what to share with a future instructor.
Handoff note
OptionalWhen a family wants continuity, you can prepare a short handoff so the next lesson starts from where this one ended.
Season timeline
At a glanceSee each rider's progress across the season in one view, so a returning student never feels like a blank page.
Your branding
Ride With your nameYour name and colors sit on the front. Spark stays the quiet engine that keeps it all running and backed up.
Privacy controls
GatedYou hold the notes. Families approve what they keep. No child accounts, and no messages sent to a child.
Templates and guardrails
A safer operating system for the off-snow side
You already know how to teach. Ride With Spark gives you a tested way to run everything around the lesson: what to ask, how to recap, how to write to a parent, and where the lines are. Templates and guardrails, not a curriculum and not a certification. The same shapes Jay uses on Ride With Jay right now.
Intake prompts
Ready to useThe first questions that actually matter: goals, past experience, confidence, what helps this rider settle, and what a good day looks like to the family.
Recap templates
ConsistentWorked on, win of the day, one next focus. A shape you can fill in two minutes that reads the same way for every rider, every week.
Parent note language
Plain wordsWording that describes effort and progress in language a non-riding parent understands, without labels, rankings, or judgment calls.
Boundary language
Built inEvery template carries the lines that keep you safe with your resort: no booking, no lesson sales, no affiliation claims, no safety or terrain calls in writing.
Review workflow
RepeatableA short weekly rhythm for going through your riders: what changed, what to remember, what to carry into the next session. Less scrambling, better notes.
Cue memory
Per riderA place to note which explanation style clicked for each rider, so your next session starts from what already works instead of starting over.
Ride With your name
One product, many instructors
Every instructor runs the same dependable engine and presents it as their own. These are illustrative examples, not real accounts.
Our own example. Spark colors, calm and plain. The notes read like Jay wrote them, because the engine stays out of the way.
Dogfood exampleA different name and palette on the same product. Mara keeps short recaps for returning families and a timeline per rider.
IllustrativeSame notes, same recaps, his own front door. Theo points families to a recap they keep after each session.
IllustrativeRide With Jay
We run it ourselves first
Running its first season now
Ride With Jay is the working example of Ride With Spark, built and run on the same system. Before we ask any instructor to rely on it, Jay uses it for real lessons. That is how we find the rough edges and keep the product honest. You get the same shell with your name on it.
- Notes taken after real lessons, not invented for a demo.
- Recaps written the way a family actually wants to read them.
- Boundaries tested against what a resort would reasonably allow.
- Anything confusing for Jay gets fixed before it reaches you.
Guardrails
Built to keep you safe with your resort
Most instructors work for a resort or a school, and that relationship matters more than any tool. Ride With Spark is built to fit inside those rules, not around them. The guardrails are the product, not the fine print.
What you can do
- Keep your own private notes on riders you teach.
- Share a recap with a family who wants to keep it.
- Present the product under your own name and colors.
- Use it for private or approved lessons within your employer's rules.
- Ask your resort or employer what is allowed before you start.
What this is not
- It does not let you sell resort lessons or bypass your employer.
- It does not capture or resell a resort's guest data.
- It does not use resort names or logos as your own.
- It does not guarantee mountain access, terrain, or bookings.
- It does not provide on-snow support unless your employer approves it.
What your resort or employer owns
- Booking and billing for lessons
- Scheduling and instructor assignment
- Program governance and safety policy
- Official instruction and certification
What Ride With Spark supports
- Private notes you keep on riders you teach
- A clear recap a family can keep
- Continuity from one lesson to the next
- Your own name and colors on the front
Setup path
From interest to a ready space
This is the planned order of steps. None of it is live yet, and each step that touches a resort waits on approval.
Tell us you are interested
Use the request module below. It opens a draft email. Nothing is submitted to a server and no account is created.
Confirm your rules
Check with your employer or resort about what you are allowed to do off the clock. We will share plain language to help that conversation.
Set your name and colors
When the product opens, you choose how Ride With your name looks before you add a single rider.
Add your first rider
Start with one rider and one recap. Grow from there at your own pace across the season.
Order shown for planning only. We will not turn on any step that depends on a resort or employer until that resort or employer has approved it.
Pricing
Announced with the founding cohort
The first small group of instructors will set the shape of this product, and pricing is announced with that cohort, not before. The tiers below show structure only. Every price is gated until reviewed and approved, and nothing here is for sale today.
- Rider notes and recaps
- Ride With your name branding
- One instructor space
- Season timeline per rider
- Everything in Solo
- More riders and recaps
- Handoff notes
- Priority help when you set up
- Everything in Season
- Multiple instructor spaces
- Shared setup support
- Group billing, once approved
FAQ
Common questions
Spark is the platform engine. Ride With Spark is the product an instructor buys and runs. You present it under your own name, and Spark keeps it running in the background.
Check with your employer first. Ride With Spark is built to fit inside resort and employer rules. It does not let you sell resort lessons, bypass your employer, or use a resort's name or logo as your own.
You hold your instructor notes. Families keep the recaps you share with them and decide what to save or pass on. There are no child accounts, and Spark does not message a child.
Ride With Jay is our working example, running its first season now. We use it for real lessons so we can test the product on ourselves before any other instructor relies on it.
No. The templates shape communication and continuity: what to ask at intake, how to recap, how to write to a parent, and where the lines are. Your teaching comes from your own training and your school or resort's standards. It is not a curriculum, a training course, or a certification.
No. This is a prelaunch preview. There is no checkout and no signup. Prices are draft placeholders held for approval. You can register early interest, which opens a draft email you choose to send.
No. Ride With Spark organizes notes and recaps. It is not instruction and gives no safety, terrain, weather, medical, or equipment advice. Always rely on your training and the resort's official guidance.
Privacy and trust
Plain promises, written down
- You hold your instructor notes. We do not sell them.
- Families approve what they keep and what they share.
- No child accounts. Spark never messages a child.
- We do not capture or resell a resort's guest data.
- No live data is collected on this prelaunch page.
- Early interest opens a draft email you choose to send.
- Branding stays yours. Spark stays the quiet engine.
- Questions about your resort go to your resort, first.
Join the instructor interest list
No signup. No checkout. Just a draft email.
This module does not submit anything to a server. The fields are disabled on purpose. Use the button to open a draft email in your own mail app, which you can edit and send if you choose.