Company

Why us

One founder knows the schools and students. The other knows the systems.

Eric Wolfson

Eric Wolfson

Co-founder and CEO

  • PhD in organic chemistry, The Ohio State University, 2021.
  • A decade of experience teaching and coaching university STEM students.
  • Former senior R&D chemist (DuPont, Adhesives Research).
Josh Standiford

Josh Standiford

Co-founder and technical lead

  • Backend and AI engineer.
  • Startups from first funding through more than one acquisition.
  • Owns the stack and all production code.

Critical Point Software is a Delaware corporation.

Where we are

Five phases. Each one unlocks the next inflection point.

  1. Phase 0

    Is this worth building?

    Done
    • Ideation, scoping, and positioning
    • Market research & preliminary customer discussions

  2. Phase 1

    Does anyone want it?

    Under way
    • Interest and a warm referral at a university academic support office
    • More university and employer conversations
    • Raising a first round

  3. Phase 2

    Build it

    Next
    • Student, admin, and employer front-end
    • Stand up backend

  4. Phase 3

    Pilot it

    Planned
    • One university, real students, a full term

  5. Phase 4

    Launch

    Planned
    • Scale team as needed
    • Partner with more universities

Universities already buy campus-wide software per student.

What a school pays per student, per year.

Resume tool (one CUNY college)

$1.80

Learning system (D2L price list)

$12–$14

ChatGPT (Cal State system)

$19

Advising and data bundle (University of Hawaii)

$29

What verified-record companies sold for

$833M

Parchment, academic records. Bought by Instructure, 2024.

$200M

Credly, digital credentials. Bought by Pearson, 2022.

Instructure: $530.2M revenue, fiscal 2023, its last full year as a public company. Taken private for about $4.8B, 2024.

Per-student figures computed from public records: John Jay College technology fee record, 2024; D2L and E&I cooperative price list, 2019; Cal State and OpenAI renewal as reported, 2026; University of Hawaii, 2025 (two products across ten campuses, seven of them two-year). Acquisitions: Instructure 10-Q, 2024; Pearson, 2022. Instructure 10-K and company release.

Why this is hard to copy

  1. The app is the easy part.

    Software is cheap to build now. The content, the data and the working detail behind it aren’t, and that’s what any copy would be missing.

  2. Verification is a relationship.

    Getting a university to agree to stand behind a record takes months to earn. You can’t ship that in a release.

  3. It will get better with every hire.

    Every hire made through it will show a program what employers valued, and that knowledge will build up with the universities that use it.

  4. For a large vendor, this is one more segment.

    For us, it’s the whole company. A specialist that does one thing keeps doing it better than a side project does.

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