If you’ve ever found yourself building next week’s plan on a Sunday night, crossing your fingers that staff will “figure it out,” or watching every site run a little differently… you’re not alone.
AB Studios was built for afterschool leaders who are tired of:
We give you the structure, content, and tools to run a program that feels intentional, engaging, and actually manageable.
Program directors, site coordinators, and multi-site leaders who are doing a lot… often without a lot of time, staff, or budget.
Whether you’re running one site or overseeing dozens, AB Studios helps you create consistency without adding more to your plate.
If you’ve ever thought, “There has to be an easier way to do this,” this was designed for you.
Think of AB Studios as your program’s built-in support system.
Inside, you’ll find:
Everything works together so your team isn’t piecing things together across different tools.
Short, highly-produced videos covering STEM, language, and culture, built for a range of age groups and designed to hook a room full of kids in the first 60 seconds. Each one comes with a facilitation guide, materials list, discussion questions, and extension activities so your staff knows exactly what to do before, during, and after. They are made for non-certified staff, which in afterschool is most of your team, and they work in the kinds of spaces afterschool programs actually have access to.
Tell the AI what you want your students to learn and watch it do the work. It takes your goals and builds a full lesson around them, complete with step-by-step session scripts, timing, low-budget materials, and everything your staff needs to walk in ready.
The calendar is built directly into the platform so your planning and your content live in the same place. You can map sessions across the week, month, or full program year, assign content by site or staff, and see what is coming up without jumping between tools. For multi-site programs, it is especially useful because everyone is working from a shared view rather than coordinating over email or a shared spreadsheet that is always one version behind.
Directly. Generate a session with the AI planner and it lands in your content library. From there, schedule it onto any day, week, or site. No copy-pasting, no separate documents, no version control headaches. The plan you scheduled is the plan your staff runs.
Your content library is the source of truth for what your program offers. The calendar pulls directly from it. Anything in your library can be scheduled. Anything scheduled is linked back to its source plan, so if you update the plan, you update the session.
Fast! Most programs are running their first session within a week of signing on. There is no lengthy certification or training required before you can use the content. Your account gets set up, your team gets access, and you walk through the platform with someone from our team who helps you build your initial calendar. The materials are designed to be ready when you are.
You won’t be left figuring this out on your own.
Programs get a guided onboarding session with a dedicated AB Studios team member who walks you through the platform and helps you build your first programming calendar. After that you have ongoing access to our customer success team for questions and support as your needs change. We also have resources for onboarding new staff mid-year, because turnover does not wait for a convenient moment.
Yes. Multi-site coordinators can manage calendars, content assignments, and team access from a single account. Whether you have two sites or twenty, you are not manually recreating the wheel at each location. The quality stays consistent without you having to be everywhere at once.
AB Studios is built around that reality. Every session comes with a complete facilitation guide so a staff member who just started can walk in and run something great on day one. The platform gives your program a stable foundation that does not depend on any single person already knowing how things work.
Absolutely. The platform supports year-round programming, including summer camps. The AI planning tool can help you build out a summer calendar quickly, and the session library has enough depth that you will not be repeating the same content three weeks in.
Most curriculum products hand you a folder of lessons and walk away. AB Studios gives you the content and the system to actually use it, consistently, across your whole program. The video starters are produced in our own studio, which means production quality your staff could never replicate on their own. The AI planning tool and calendar mean your content is connected to a real schedule, not sitting in a binder no one opens. And everything is designed for afterschool specifically, not adapted from something built for a classroom.
Most AI tools are general-purpose. You ask a question, get an answer, and then have to figure out how to turn it into something your staff can actually use.
Our AI is built specifically for afterschool, with safety and privacy in mind from the start. It does not collect or rely on student data. There is no need to input student information, and nothing is tracked or stored about the children in your program.
Everything it generates is age-appropriate, structured, and designed for real afterschool environments. It understands mixed age groups, limited prep time, and the need for plans that are clear and ready to run.
Yes! We do personalized demos where you can see the platform in action, ask questions specific to your program, and explore the content library. Head here abstudios.com to schedule one.
Our pricing typically ranges from $125–$300 per site, depending on your program’s size and needs.
We’re a mission-driven team and believe every program should have access to meaningful, easy-to-run experiences for students. If budget is a concern, we still want to connect and see what’s possible.