Retrayce was created from over a decade of firsthand experience working with students, schools, and the real challenges educators face every single day.
Raphael Tillman is an educator, mentor, coach, and youth development professional with over a decade of experience working with students, families, and school communities. He holds a Master's Degree in Applied Sport Psychology and has spent his career coaching and mentoring hundreds of young people — from elementary school students to college students — with a focus on confidence, resilience, and positive decision-making.
Early in his career as an educator, Raphael noticed a gap that stayed with him. When something happened during the school day — whether an accident or a behavioral incident — the response varied widely. There was no shared framework, no consistent documentation, and minimal reliable resources for educators to turn to in the moment.
That observation became Retrayce. Combining his background in education, youth development, and behavioral support with emerging technology, Raphael built a platform that gives schools a simple system to document anything that happens during the school day — and respond thoughtfully when the situation calls for it.
His mission is to make schools more effective and educators more productive — creating meaningful student growth.
Retrayce exists because schools deal with things every single day — a kid gets hurt at recess, a conflict breaks out in the hallway, a student is struggling — and too often there is no clear, consistent system for documenting what happened, notifying the right people, and figuring out what comes next. That gap is real and fixable — not through more training or more meetings, but through a better tool.
When educators have a simple system for documenting everything — accidents, incidents, behavioral events — and responding when it matters, everything changes. Parents stay informed. Patterns surface before they become crises. And every student gets the same quality of care regardless of which adult happened to be in the room.
That is what Retrayce is built to do. Not to replace the judgment, the care, or the relationships that make great educators great — but to give those educators a system that matches the standard they already hold themselves to.
"I built Retrayce because I lived on the inside of this problem for years. I knew what it felt like to want to do right by a student and not have the tools to do it consistently. That feeling is what drives everything we build."
— Raphael Tillman, Founder & CEOJoin schools already on the waitlist for early access. Free for founding schools.