CenterIQ — Decision Intelligence for Childcare Leaders
See the impact before you make the decision.
CenterIQ gives childcare leaders practical decision intelligence for staffing, enrollment, classroom economics, overhead, leadership, and growth.
What Is CenterIQ?
CenterIQ is decision intelligence built for childcare. Most systems tell leaders what already happened. CenterIQ helps leaders ask a different question: what happens if I do this?
It gives childcare owners, directors, and leadership teams a structured way to explore the financial, staffing, enrollment, operational, and organizational implications of a decision before making it in the real world.
A Decision Starts With a Question
- What enrollment does this classroom need to break even?
- Can enrollment support another staff member?
- What happens if wages increase?
- What happens if tuition changes?
- How much overhead is each room carrying?
- Where is margin being created — or lost?
- How dependent is the organization on the owner?
- Where are leadership and operations out of alignment?
Decisions CenterIQ Helps Leaders Think Through
Financial decisions
Classroom break-even, tuition, overhead allocation, margin, and scenario comparisons.
Staffing and operations
Staffing levels, enrollment capacity, classroom economics, labor impact, and location health.
Leadership and organizational decisions
Owner dependence, leadership alignment, organizational vulnerability, and growth readiness.
A growing suite of decision intelligence tools designed around real childcare decisions.
Who Created CenterIQ
CenterIQ was created by Kate Woodward Young, M.Ed., PCC, an author, keynote speaker, decision support coach, former SBA Business Analyst, and founder and host of Childcare Conversations.
Where the Tools Live
centeriq.io is the official public CenterIQ website. The CenterIQ application is at di.centeriq.io.
CenterIQ does not make the decision for you. It gives you clearer information so you can make it. The math is opinionated. The choice is yours.