About TeamTeacher
TeamTeacher is a founder-led edtech company built by a teacher and a software developer. AI agents built for the actual tasks teachers do every day.
TeamTeacher is a founder-led edtech company built by a teacher and a software developer. Maggie brings 14 years of international classroom experience across 6 countries and deep expertise in curriculum frameworks including IB, WIDA, and UDL. Joe brings a decade of building secure, scalable products at companies like Zendesk, Apollo GraphQL, and Skyflow, with a focus on API design, data privacy, and security. We're small by design — every user's feedback reaches the people building the product.
We started TeamTeacher because we believe teachers deserve tools built by people who understand the work — the classroom, the curriculum, and the craft. Our AI agents aren't generalists. They're specialists, trained on specific curricular frameworks and designed for the actual tasks teachers do every day: planning units, writing report card comments, aligning to standards, building assessments. The kind of work that eats your evenings and weekends when it doesn't have to.
Why We Started TeamTeacher
Maggie: The 2023-2024 school year was one of the toughest in my teaching career. Burnout loomed large, and I found myself questioning whether I could continue in the profession I love. That's when I discovered how AI could transform teachers' workloads — and I started building custom GPTs that my colleagues actually wanted to use. What began as survival became a company.
Joe: Watching my sister struggle was hard. I'd spent years building secure, scalable platforms, and I knew the technology existed to make teachers' lives easier. When Maggie's custom GPTs started amazing her colleagues, I realized we had something real — not just an idea, but proof it worked.
Together, we channeled that into TeamTeacher: AI tools built by someone who's lived the job, developed by someone who's built systems trusted by enterprises.
Maggie McCarron, Co-Founder & CEO
14 years of classroom experience teaching across the United States, Japan, Qatar, India, Spain, and the Netherlands — specializing in language acquisition, Universal Design for Learning, and IB Theory of Knowledge. Holds a Máster Universitario en Educación para la Justicia Social from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Built custom GPTs for teachers before co-founding TeamTeacher, and brings firsthand knowledge of what teachers actually need from their tools — because she's been the teacher asking for better ones.
Plant enthusiast, cat mom to Picasso and Eleven, reality TV aficionado. At 6ft tall, Amsterdam is the first place she doesn't stand out in a crowd.
Joe McCarron, Co-Founder & CTO
10+ years in software development and product management, with deep expertise in API design, data privacy, security, and distributed systems. Previously built and scaled products at Zendesk, Apollo GraphQL, and Skyflow — companies where data handling and enterprise reliability are essential. At TeamTeacher, Joe leads the technical architecture with the same standards: EU-hosted infrastructure, encryption at every layer, and a platform designed to earn the trust of institutions, not just individuals.
Car enthusiast, pie baker, outdoor adventurer, and dog dad to Nardo. Can fix both bugs in code and creaky floorboards in old houses.
Our Vision
We see education as a fundamental driver of social justice, with teachers on the front lines. We're building toward a world where teachers have professional autonomy, empowerment through technology, and tools that let them excel without sacrificing their wellbeing.
TeamTeacher exists because teachers deserve tools built by people who understand the work — the classroom, the curriculum, and the craft.